When you’re about to level up a Social Link with someone you’re shown a little cutscene and a dialog sequence. I would say I liked the real world visual novel stuff way more than the actual fighting and exploring the dungeons. That would have been a very cool gameplay loop if only dungeons were not so tedious and boring. In order to fight stronger monsters you need stronger Personas, but you can’t fuse stronger Personas before you level up a Social Link! Considering the time limit, that means that you have to carefully manage your time and decide if you want to hang out with someone today or enter the TV world and beat the shit out of monsters. Merge the two together and you have a new persona that can do both! The thing is the new Persona inherits some skills of its ‘parents’: you can have an Ares for physical attacks and a High Pixie for healing and ice damage. Speaking of creating Personas, if in Pokemon games you have no other option but to evolve your Charmander into Charmeleon and eventually into Charizard, in Persona 4 you actually fuse two or more Personas into a new one rather than following a predetermined evolution path. Do it a few times and you level up your Social Link with them which allows you to create more powerful Personas of the respective Arcana. Personas are basically Pokemons: just like in Pokemon games, every Persona has a ‘type’ called Arcana which is in turn associated with a certain character or a group of characters in the town: every time you decide to play soccer after school, play with the school orchestra or hang out with your friends you strengthen your bond with these people. If you’re unable to save the victim before the deadline it’s game over. Plus, at key points of the story you’re shown an anime FMV scene and as a huge anime fanboy I found it really cool!īasically, Persona 4 is a mix of a Pokemon game and a romance visual novel: as the story progresses, people get kidnapped and thrown into the TV world by a mysterious culprit and you must enter a dungeon and use your Personas to fight monsters and a boss at the end to save the victim before the time runs out. Personally, I didn’t think that the story was anything special: it’s not bad, but I got an impression that it doesn’t develop too much until the later part of the game, but it’s enjoyable and has a few cool twists here and there. Figuring that the victims have been killed by the aggressive inhabitants of the TV world and they must be the only ones who can enter the other world besides the culprit, the protagonist and his friends set out to uncover the truth and find the culprit. Soon a series of mysterious murders occur and the protagonist discovers that he and his friends can enter the TV world. He goes to a local high school where he meets a company of friends and spends his time hanging out at a local shopping mall with them. The silent protagonist (I named him Shinji Mikami because I like the older Resident Evil games :D) travels to Inaba, a small town somewhere in Japan, to spend a year at his uncle’s home because his parents are sent to work abroad. How does that work? Well, I finally got to find out. I knew that the game was considered a cult classic by a lot of folks here and that it was a mix of a dating simulator and a Pokemon game at the same time. While being stuck with a laptop with integrated graphics, I figured why not check out some older games and the very first game that got my attention was Persona 4 Golden. I moved to another city recently and I still haven’t saved up enough money to buy myself a new gaming PC. The old /r/patientgamers Essential Games List Please use flair to display what games you’re currently playing, not a punch line, username, tag, URL, or signature. New, mobile-friendly spoilers can be posted using the following formatting: Want to play online in a dead gaming community? We expect you to know these rules before making a post. Please click here to see our current rules. We no longer maintain our posting rules in Old Reddit. Join our Discord Join our Steam Group Follow us on Twitter Posting Rules Whether it's price, waiting for bugs/issues to be patched, DLC to be released, don't meet the system requirements, or just haven't had the time to keep up with the latest releases. A gaming sub free from the hype and oversaturation of current releases, catering to gamers who wait at least 12 months after release to play a game.
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