Foxy Grandpa EditionPrevious thread: >>499440835>Version 1.03(1.04 if you're on console) is out!https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2679460/view/4526772422651793108?l=english>Metaphor: ReFantazio peaks at 85k concurrent players on Steam!>Metaphor: ReFantazio surpasses 1m sales on launch day>Now available EVERYWHERE (but Nintendo Switch and Xbox One)>Metaphor: ReFantazio Special Soundtrackhttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kT8go1ScWljmvHOjpzywgsnV1fI036Ovg>MetaphorFix (adds proper ultrawide, things, etc.)https://github.com/Lyall/MetaphorFix/releases>How many hours have you played?>What day are you on?>What are your favorite classes?>Favorite BGM?>Are you having fun?>"How should I build my MC?"Realistically anything works, you won't brick yourself even on Hard or Regicide. Common consensus is a hybrid STR/MAG/AGI is best.>"What is the best team comp?"Just about everything works, do whatever you like the most and it'll work on any difficulty.>"How should I manage my time?"There's more than enough time in the game to 100%, do whatever you'd like.PLEASE MARK SPOILERS
mag build is canon
>9/10 - 9/12Absolute kino
>>499507112For Glodell, yeah, unfortunately. Despite being a Rou he's pretty weak and had to supplement his lack of strength for magic. Tragic that it drove him to be the way he is. I think it's a pretty cute parallel to Will though, who took his lack of magical affinity in stride and took up the sword under training from Hulkenberg and Strohl.
Gallica reigns supreme
>>499506806?
>>499507116Yeah 9/11 was pretty cash
>>499442898 #>this pasta is a lot less funny now that I know that Louis was one of the "gifts" at a Diddy party.Was this said somewhere or did I miss some dialogue that implied as much? Cause I could see it happening, it’d make him more like Griffith too.
>>499507346>took up the sword under training from Hulkenberg and Strohl.Yeah because he's shit at str, thanks for proving the point. He's absolutely terrible during the training and both give up on training him eventually. Glad you finally understood magic MC is the way the story is supposed to be.
Who wants the 1 turn synthesis amulet the most?
>>499507413We call the nobles by their family names.
>>499508678Putting it on the MC will give you the most options, but Junah’s Masked Dancer class has tons of really good ones so you might wanna go for her instead.
>>499508975warlord heismay with magic link
>>499507715Anon I'm sorry to say but I fear you must be mixing up your games here, because Will's canonical archetype, the Seeker, actually gives more strength than magic, +5 compared to +4, which would be rather nonsensical for a character that's meant to have a natural affinity for magic. I'm sorry to embarrass you on a public forum like this by correcting you but this misunderstanding seems to be affecting your ability to enjoy and properly engage with the game, and I certainly wouldn't want that for you. If you'd already invested in magic, as irksome as it may sound, I fear you might have to restart the game and properly invest in strength as the game clearly intends, lest you wish to continue your non-canonical playthrough, which would be a sad disservice to the developer's vision, as well as skewing your ability to engage in honest discussion on the intention behind the game. I wish you luck on correcting your playthrough!
>Island dungeons forces you out at the endWhat the fuck? I was going to grind that triple crystal room a bit...
>>499508678For general dungeon clearing will definitely. One turn soul hacker synergies are busted.I also used it on bas and hulk a lot to just recycle their weakness synergies over and over.
Isn’t it pretty obvious the MC is supposed to be MAG / STR hybrid? His signature final archetype has physical and magical moves, and the whole seeker line is mentioned to be a Jack of all Trades.
>>499509250Didn't read all but magic is canon
How to use controller with the pirated version? It doesn't detect my DS4 even with DS4windows.
>>499509524>the main character of an Atlus game is the jack of all tradesNah, never happens
>>499509597The pirated version is not real. The demo exe is missing too many vital functions that you need for later in the game.
>>499509782It'd be kino if Batlin was the drm. If you didn't have a legitimate version he would disappear from the game and the party would be run out of town by louis fanatics.
give me 3(three) reasons to replay the game in NG+?
>>499510567Regicide is canon or something I dunno
Did Forden actually believe in Sanctism or was it just a tool for power?
Does anyone know if Lucky Find affects loot from enemies you whack in the overworld?
Best archetype(s) for a mag/luck hybrid build?
>>499511083probably, I'm smacking those gay butterflies in Shinjuku with my thief MC and been getting a lot of magla pills
>>499511350Thief has an MC passive that increases item finds from overworld enemies, I just wonder if Lucky Find affects it too if you don't have a thief archetype equipped.
>Eupha can summon phys demons>they scale with her absolute shit strengthYeah i like to waste 40 mp to deal 60 damage haha.
>>499509524Nah, his royal archtype is completely str based, heavy magic doesn't mean much at that point.I think soul hacker is still better for mobbing because of trial of the seeker.
>>499511553That's for if you want to make someone else a summoner obv.
>>499511696But why would I?
>>499511553>Her one shit spell that heals a single ally by 10% of their health for three turns and cures status effects and costs way more than patra or even me patraWhat were they thinking
>>499510663I think he believed insofar as igniters good. Beyond that I think he was just chasing power to push the pro igniter agenda.
>>499510663He was completely okay with making up stories about how Mustari artifacts that have powers derived from their gods actually belonged to the church, so I doubt he was actually faithful.
So who, other than the MC, would actually have been a decent king? It seems other than him everyone was evil or profoundly stupid.
>>499512173
>>499512173Louis did nothing wrong
>>499511817>>499511960Then why was he so against an eldan prince specifically?
>>499512173Nobody. Forden would have been status quo since he was essentially leading the country in everything but name anyways, but probably with the Church having even more power than they already had.
>>499512173Catherina the queen of the people
>>499512612Because he's racist. Elda's can use magic without an igniter, so an Elda making it into high office would spoil the lie that you need an igniter to use Bot. Remember the Sanctist Church is pro-igniter to stop another magical apocalpyse from happening.Most of his ridiculously evil actions can be traced back to trying to keep magic controlled. The razing of the mage academy, killing of the prince (and framing Louis), etc.
Stop praying its evil
ETA until some madlad do a solo run challenge?
>>499514219Considering all the broken buffs tied to synthesis, I couldn't imagine what kinda bullshit you'd have to pull for a solo run.
Catherina as a party member for Metaphor:ReFantazio:Super Magnus Brothers please
>>499514617Just farm some basic enemy for 10 hours until you overlevel the dungeon then farm some more and level all the archetypes for broken shit.
>Will's press turn will save us
>>499514816She doesn't really have anything to do with the brothers aside from being Paripus.
Just went back to gran trad, how much more do i have left?
>>499518874Look at your calendar.
>>499519415I'm asking time wise
so i got to the 31 days remaining part, is going to the story place just ending it?or can i do that like the other dungeons in 1 day and have 30 left to fuck around?
>>499518874The last day of the game was told to you from when the whole thing started.
>>499520175But how many gameplay HOURS?
>>499520097You can do the dungeon, yes.
>>499520567several, quite a few actually
3 more years until I can unlock Louis's tyrant/ruler archetype
>>499522174And Catherina as a party memberAnd an actual 5th chapter that isn't cut to shitAnd maybe like an extra month of the game.Can't wait.
>>499522174FeMC
>>499522267I would say Rella too but I'm not sure what she'd get since Maria got the healer line
I haven't played for 3 days and I don't feel like continuing anymore....
dead game dead thread
>>499512173Loveless
>>499524669Go back to where you belong tranny
The whole thing was rigged from the start not even because of the church but because the king only wanted his son on the throne. Epic
>>499522834Imo, Rella should stay dead, or at least not become playable. As easy as it would be to write a way to save her from her magical demise, I don't think she has anything of value to add to the party dynamic and I don't think she'd make an interesting companion.
>>499512173Honestly, most of them could be made into something:>if the beliefs were expanded upon in detail without being strawmen (kill all x people lmao bottom text)>if there was practical implementation to settle the particulars.Like, shit, Bardon enacts a police state and gets his approach straightened out, same with Pinko who starts doubting her eat the rich program.
>>499526506And of course, You made sure it happened. You did make sure to keep him on his proper path right?
>>499513616Funny enough they don’t notice the obvious flaws with all their attempts to control. Just cause people don’t realize they can’t use magic doesn’t mean that said magla isn’t going to run rampant since it’s tied to emotions. Especially since there’s bound to be side effects of the Igniters long term when the ending reveals the Royal Scepter, which is the basis of all Igniters, is sucking the land dry and killing it. The inevitable destruction of the environment itself leading to another magical apocalypse once people’s Magla reaches a boiling point anyways.
>>499512173Rella, assuming she got out from under the Church's thumb. Catherina is stupid as hell, but if she had good counsel (like the whole party) to play tard-wrangler, I think she wouldn't be worse than the previous king.
leak metaphor 2 concept art
>>499516889>mein furher... Fegelein already wasted the turn on a fairy dust
More's final bond scene is kinda gay.
>moral of the game is that nepotism is good
just finished. did i miss a secret boss? or is it NG+ only?
>>499528207you don't want your son to become the next king?
>>499528447It's NG+ only but you can hex edit your save (9f8 to 01) to enable the NG+ flag. And the final boss has a stronger version if you go straight to him without killing any other bosses in the final dungeon.
>>499528895weh. i dunno if i can be bothered to do either of these things. i'd hoped they'd be nice and include it in the first save this time. guess i'll play some other games and see how i feel about going backwould be amazing if this is the first game where they add DLC expansions (lol)
>>499508678MC for damage, Hulk for line/magic/ulti-guard, Strohl for Dynast Formation, Junah for Masquerade Charge or fire weakness if not on royal.
>>499526758Yes.
>>499528207Even ingame NPCS think the next King being the Prince is bs.
Who balanced here?
>>499528467he also appoints all of his friends to high cabinet positions
>>499529869Why shouldn't he assign competent people who he has absolute trust in to position where they would excel?
>>499529869And? Monarchies aren't supposed to be democratic. He never promised democracy, just a good kingdom under his rule.
>>499514219As someone that did P3R Solo on Merciless, it's a lot less feasible here due to different methods of XP distribution and team composition. Synergy matters more than ever and the difficulty is more impacted by this than anything with great synergy making the game a cake walk, terrible synergy making it a challenge, and zero synergy making it a death sentence.Theres also the comparison between archetype building and persona building. The biggest difference is that strengths and weaknesses are not as easily changed around with weakness covering accessories being few and far between, typically in the late game.Theres also the XP distribution being a big factor with you getting more XP in persona for running solo, but less so in Metaphor. I'll try it on my next playthrough, but I don't make any promises.
>>499529869Why are you still whining about this?
Kill paripus. Behead paripus. Burn paripus to a crisp. Dropkick paripus off a cliff. Run over paripus. Slice paripus with a katana. Cast megidolaon targeting all paripus. Leave paripus in the car with the windows up. Take paripus for a walk on the sidewalk in 100 degree weather. Spay and neuter all paripus. Feed chocolate to paripus children. Pretend to throw a ball to paripus to make them run into the wall. Report paripus to the shadowguard.
>>499530346>And? Monarchies aren't supposed to be democratic.anon the entire game is about a democratic process forced by the late king's magic to elect the new king
>>499529869>all his friendsYou say that like they were fraternity brothers that partied together and now are getting hired at the rich kid's dad's company purely because they had fun in the past and not companions that shared his ideals and fought side by side through thick and thin, willing to give up their lives to see him on the throne
>>499530384Louis looks like such a slut.
>>499512173I kind of think it was intentional to present the most bafflingly incompetent, unqualified people as potential runners who were just popular.dude beermuh smith shopmuh agemuh powerIf you are ugly kysIf you are rich kysGo to church and be illiteratebecome ningen.RodgerA teenage eldan who just wants to give people pocket money is a dead ringer all things considered because the kingdom would have literally fallen apart in five hours otherwise.Hell, it was falling apart when the other competitors were popular enough to start having louder supporters. I don't remember some of them and I know that they didn't ecist outside gauntlet a gauntlet runner encounter.Loveless and Lina are arguably the least offensive if they had a tard wrangler (Loveless CAN be reasoned with if you can get him to listen.)Glodell wasn't even an option
>>499530709Take it easy, uncle H
Beat the game last night. Did I miss a boss? I swear like a week ago I accidentally hovered over a spoilered image and it was two giant Tenta teeth.
>>499530716No? The entire game is rigged by the church from the start which controls the whole process until at the end the king just goes "ok fuck it, just kill each other" because Louis asks him nicely.
>>499531007They were literally right there in the final dungeon, even outside of the dental spawner.
>>499531131Damn. I have 0 clue how I missed them. I fought every repeat boss before Louis and explored the whole area
>>499529869>okay with everyone in the game>but there is one character that i actually loathe>get to end of game>same character says thisi've never actually gotten angry over shit an NPC says in a videogame but this threw me
>>499531301iirc the king and queen aren't there immediately, they spawn after you knock out a few respawned teeth. at least, thats how it worked for me
>go NG+>make all the mage characters take physical classes>and all the str characters take mage classessounds fun actually. i wanna run around with berserker junah.
>>499530709You mean eugiefs?
Kissing Eupha's third eye!Kissing Eupha's brown eye!
>>499532178With my peanus weenus
>>499529391That's a little too balanced
>>499532178Friendly reminder that you should never go ass to eye.
>>499530716There's more to democracy than just the method of selection of the one in charge.
I was deeply disappointed by the boss human designs post grand cathedral. The disgusting Hieronymus Bosch egg was absolutely the high point for how weird they got and it's the second thing in game.
>>499531743Do they give you anything good?
>>499533568Give them like 20 years and they'll reach the variety of SMT demons.
>>499530716The end of the game is you bashing Louis' face in with a rock completely divorced from your actual rankings because you had the divine right to rule due to your bloodline.
>>499533594you can steal incenses from them, they give good mag/money like all teeth. they also each drop unique (?) accessories, but i never got them to drop so no idea what they actually do.
>>499533568I feel the exact same, the baby was nice and threatening while it was a shadowy figure but the egg-man was clearly the most "charismatic" boss, in general it didn't feel like the ningen presence and their absurd designs was as important as the marketing led me to believe.
>>499533568So it wasn't just me.Dungeon bosses were so generic you could replace the title screen with Dragon Quest I. They should have adapted more from the Garden though.
>>499534373They barely had any real dungeons in the game.I'd argue the 1st, the 4th and the final dungeon are the only ones that mattered.
>>499534373Kind of feel like even the weird human designs should lose points for them just being 3d models of the garden of earthly delights goblins. Homo Gorleo is the only one (I think?) that's them taking a design from the painting and re-imagining it and even then it's to make it a less weird design.
>>499534517The final dungeon didn't matter because if you actually had balls you'd just go straight to the boss.
>>499535065I hate missing content though
>>499533980>>499533568I feel it too. I'm on my way to the final final dungeon and it feels like I've just been fighting generic dragons for the last forty hours. All of the small Humans you find in dungeons just look stupid rather than unsettling. It also seems like a waste that when the Prince is morphed into a Human, he's just a big shadowy person. If he'd become a truly disturbing abomination like any of the giant Humans from the first half of the game, and if he'd been on screen like that for more than 10 seconds, the widespread Dread might have seemed more impactful. Would it have been interesting if you had to fight the Humanized Prince with the rest of your party before he managed to change back?
>>499534517Tomb designField designTowerBut repeat three times each.Coming off of FF16 which has the most generic forests imaginable, I was very underwhelmed because at least you got to listen to this.I'm not saying this theme is better, but the entire soundtrack is so varied you end up remembering each generic fantasy forest as the one with 'this' specific theme and not the same as the other two.https://youtu.be/N3StKXNbXoc?feature=shared
For other chaotic players out there, do you agree with Louis ideal world or do you prefer some of the softer chaotic ideas like the one redux Jimenez was recommended? Because I'm sure we were all Louis in at least one SMT game besides SMT 2.
>>499535136You still miss content if you don't
>>499535578That's NG+ content
>don't hire americans>EN dub is kino
>>499535756>who is Gallica
>>499535693It can be done without the NG+ flag though.
>>499535756It would be so much better if Will and Gallica had different voices. Everyone else is great honestly.
VERY fast hulk running at incredible hihg speed
>>499535756>>EN dub is kinooxymoron
>>499535917retard>>499536218retardEN gallica is great and will is supposed to sound like a femboyJP gallica is generic moeshit squeaking bullshit
>>499535756The dub actually isn't that great. Voice direction was inadequate and a lot of lines are not delivered in the correct tone of voice for the context. That said, some actors still managed to shine in their roles, like Hulkenberg and Basilio.Though I have nothing against American voice actors in general, the worst performance in the game by far is the American-accented MC.
>>499536550>will is supposed to sound like a femboyYou have no business calling anyone else a retard.
I like Gallica's ENG voice
How the fucking hell do you beat the octopus boss?Fight seems easy at first but once he starts to do the soul shout thing and gain a bazillon turns even if its debuffed and you buffed he starts spaming aoe attacks and crits left and right and even with no one weak to his attacks people starts falling like flies.I restarted that shit 6 times already, feels impossible, and cutting all the tentacles first only seems to make the fight longer but not any easy because when he makes the soul shout thing he still gets all the turns anyway
This king's statue shit is such a drag
>>499531065I mean it's actually the king who did all this convoluted bullshit because he didn't want anyone but his son in the spot
>>499537729I visit once a month if I remember to collect the stuff
Am I supposed to do the tower before or after the ship infiltration? The enemies there are taking forever to kill even with a commander keeping my team buffed up to max and debuffing their defense. I can barely get Orgas down to half HP before I run out of MP.
>>499537562Try using AoE’s to cut the tentacles while still doing damage to the head. Use big synthesis attacks, especially ones that trigger weaknesses.
>>499537562i just spammed strohl's 2nd warrior job synthesis attack and it carried me hard. so many tentacles you are bound to at least critical hit one
>>499538545The tower quests DO have a higher difficulty rating than the ship.
>>499539173damn I guess I'm retarded, I'll just reload a prior save thenthat's annoying though because the other dungeons in the area are much easier but if you go back to do the ship in between them you spend 3 days on the runner just to get back to the tower
>>499539383I assumed you were talking about the endgame tower quests. I forgot that there is a mid-game time when you can do a tower or a ship. I don't remember what the difficulty levels are there, but infiltrating the ship is more of a puzzle than a dungeon. It doesn't offer you enough fights to grind.
Is there anything that can only be stolen and wil never drop normally?
I did the dragon trials and returned to the truth. These extra bosses haven't been all that satisfying honestly, mostly feels like a damage race and didn't have insanely good unique tracks like VV. How much easier are the final bosses?
>>499540517I think other candidates runner duels have weapons you wouldn't get otherwise so steal from them.
>>499541154Are those weapons not guaranteed drops? I would have sworn that I got a rare weapon drop after every one of those runner fights, which seems an unlikely coincidence.
>>499533568During marketing I remember thinking "it's a little uncreative to just ctrl-v bosch paintings into the game" and now i'm wishing they did that way more
jesus fucking christ I tuned outI can't follow Alonzo's story or muster the fucks to give, tgoo much fucking readingI'm sure his story is extremely interesting but this game is moving at a glacial pace...
>>499541812Holy fuck your brain must be melting out of your ears from consuming too much social media or shortform content. There is absolutely nothing slow about the pacing of this game and you would probably drop dead if you had to play older Persona or SMT games.
>>499541812If anything I felt like his story was a bit too fast-paced for me
>>499541812Alonzo's story is simple and escalates at breakneck speed. If you can't follow it, you've got a personal problem.
>>499542041>>499542156>>499542246no it has nothing to do with how fast or slow the dialogue isI was told his story was the best story in all of atlus follower stories but I just don't really give a fuck about himand the game is moving at a glacial pace because I feel like I'm just skipping days doing nothing inbetween story segments
>>499542387>I was toldWell that's your problem, you're letting other people influence your opinions on the game before you even play it
this game looks like shit compared to persona 3 reloadalso that game had fully voiced s links
Just finished Catherina's social link. Resetera/Twitter types are really going to hate that she stops being an insane communist and becomes a mostly normal person, aren't they? I give it 2 months before the anti-Hashino stuff pops up again.
>>499542387Alonzo isn't even close to the one of the best S.Links. Whoever told you that has shit taste or was taking the piss.
>>499543278Final Fantasy 7 is nearly 30 years old and people still regularly insist it's an anti-capitalist pro-terrorist game despite the text saying otherwise. They're just gonna not pay attention.Catherina will be the Barret of this game.
>>499543360what do you think is a good s linkwe're all listening
With how the marketing is so focused on the king's tournament I really thought the candidates would matter more to the story and gameplay but I almost never came across them without actively looking for them save for the pink girl who is a follower
>>499543692It's frustrating that all of the candidates are basically little more than joke characters. I hoped the game would be a little more interested in exploring different ideologies but they primarily exist as strawmans for the protagonist to dunk on with his japanese centrism.
>>499543993That's a pretty cynical way of looking at it. I just took it all as being external reflections of your MCs own struggles with how to really deal with the country's issues as he finds his path to becoming a good king.
>>499543237It's funny that Hashino & the core Persona dev team moving on from P-team meant that P3R could get actually competent 3D modelers. Meanwhile Metaphor is back to having the same wide-eyed alien character models P5 had.
>>499528207You dont know what that word means you dumbfuck
>It's good to be the king
>>499543993I wouldn't have minded if they were at least part of the main story of different regions but as it stands it feels like a waste of the designs
>>499533806Yeah it was definitely that and not necause Louis was a megalomaniacal psycho who wanted to turn every person into an AOT creature
why is the tall brown woman so popular
>>499545332cuz yjk
Reminder to all Euphafags that anal is not approved by the Dragon God, Eht, and she will thus never allow it.
>>499544820It's funny that Roger, the guy whose political platform of all of them has the highest IRL presence & legitimacy, doesn't even get a portrait and drops out after one battle. And the best counterargument the party has is "hmmmm isn't too much freedom also a bad thing?" in a setting where like 1/3rd of the population are slaves. Very Japanese, sugoi sugoi. And yes i'm a butthurt Ron Paul voter.
>>499545332It's crazy people are calling her tall just because the mc is a femboy manlet.
>>499543237Reload is the ugliest game I've ever played in my life
>>499544409metaphor's 3d cutscenes don't look half as bad as persona 5 lol but i do agree some models are really ugly and are hard carried by their portraits. e.g. brigitte
>>499545681>It's crazy people are calling her tall just because she appears to stand two feet taller than the MC Really? It's crazy that people are using "tall" as a quick way to describe a woman that towers over the self-insert character so she's always looking down at him?
>>499544860You're the trueborn heir of the rightful ruler of the land who proves his divine right to rule by uniting the various peoples and laying low the lowborn usurper who seeks to destroy the world. The game is as explicitly monarchist as you can get.
>>499545992Junah's model also has the Ann problem where her eyes are set too far apart, it was super distracting during her awakening cutscene
>>499545523>libertarian>legitimatedid you hit your head recently or something anon
>>499546128More than "genocide the uglies" or "literally elf hitler"
>>499546076yeah it sounds all malicious when you put it like that doesnt it. but youre still skkpping over the part where the "lowborn usurpers" plan was to turn all his citizens into an egg or a walking baby head or some shit.
>>499546076
>>499545992The models are pretty bad. I wish Basilio's teeth didn't clip through his face during his big scene.
>>499543506This game is already massively falling off in every conversation there won't be a "Barret"
just finished the opera, Louis being underwhelming as fuck after all the hype about how powerful he is (Grius really would have killed him in the prologue if it weren't for the chains lmao) and the retarded twist with Zorba coming back killed the excitement I had for the story, does it get better from there ?
Do the DLC outfits work the way they did in P5 where wearing them changes the music?What songs did they pull for the EO outfits?
how do I get a brown sugar mommy in real life?
>>499547210Nope I could excuse that since he just got gored though
>>499546315It's not about maliciousness by the story itself or if Louis has legitimate views or plans (he obviously does not because he is insane and wants to kill everyone). The MC actually being the prince makes it an explicitly pro monarchist and anti democratic story. It's irrelevant whether or not that's "good" or "bad" it's just how it is. Even your parents at the end of the game go "of course he was going to be king he's our kid he's great". By being the legitimate heir to the throne all actions are re-framed from "this random nobody proves his worthiness to lead by doing good things" to "the rightful ruler of this country reaffirms his preordained right to rule by exhibiting his inherently kingly traits". By actually being the next king everything you do that's in favor of collective governance or fighting back against the current queue is then "that's just how fucking good a king he was always destined to be, to see how stupid previous kings were and be the kingiest king of them all".
>>499544757Missing the fox milf
>Nusona objectives: Stop the bad man before he hurts people!>Metaphor objectives: Kill that motherfucker!
>>499547985more like metaphor rebased
>>499547985Yeah that was good that they didn't make everyone a dindu
>>499548391DUDE CARS BAD LMAO
>>499547210The dude just got speared clean though the chest and you couldn't beat him with a whole group of people
>>499549197true
>>499533907
>>499547210I've seen a lot of people say it represents a pretty big shift in the story but at a bare minimum everything that happens between the opera and pre going back to the capital is also really fucking retarded.
>>499549662Grinding this shit seems to be the only way to beat the powered up final boss without using food or grinding for that furry's royal.Which is pretty fucking lame but then again it's not supposed to be a real superboss.
>>499550170>that furry's royalWhose royal what?
I am going to fuck those tower dragons up
>Prince + Masquerade Charge + Utilitarian's Manual + Royal SwordI didn't beat the game.
>>499550639I think he's referring to Royal Bas
>>499550771>pic relateddoes thief archetype give 2 of the rare loot after killing or what, i assume one is stolen and second is from killing a mimicry in open world
>>499550835They made it awfully easy to brick your save. I'm surprised that they let you buy four Manuals.
>>499512173Every option for king but mc is so bad or inoperable it makes the whole world feel kinda shallow in retrospect I hope the sequel isn't about another election and the mc talks more and they don't invent some reason for him to start from pseudo amnesia
>>499551085You can actually buy more from the other magic shops
>Gallica's Victory Foresight + Hero's Cry + highroll on Faker's Roguery + Hulkenberg +1/2 press turn after Royal Knight's ProclamationWhy can't I, hold all these Press Turns?
>>499547985>Zorba jumps off a building>Joanna turns herself in and Morris gets eaten>Glodell gets ackkked and Hector is miraculously completely fine>Rella kills herself>Zorba jumps off a building againuh huh
>>499551079He killed two mimics, thief gave him one item per mimic and he also got the regular drops, thief's hero passive doesn't always proc.
>>499551085How is it bricking?
>>499551423Had every intention to kill himbetter outcomebest outcomehad it comingHad every intention to kill him
>>499551419Oh you better get a hold of them before Metaphor Re;Refantazio's super boss hits
>>499551423>spear the fuck out of Louis TWICE and specially hit him right on the chest the second one with full intention to kill, to the point Louis even says "yeah I kind of died but fate was on my side"yes
Is there only one superboss?
>>499551796>no bino-style Will plushieSMTchads we can't stop winning
>>499551796>Metaphor Re;RefantazioMetaFwd:Re:Fantazio
>>499549197Yes and?She’s got a point. Cars are so overexploited as part of the system that they got government bailouts back in 2008 despite being one of the causes of said recession because they didn’t care about fuel efficiency, leading to lack of interest in the gas guzzlers since people want to get as much out of the gas they use.Of course it’s clear she wants to talk about the world in regards to number of casualties and not just Japan, unlike Takaya who focuses only on Nippon and how there’s plenty of dumb retards who get on their phones and do stupid shit without a care for the law.>>499543993I definitely felt they planned more arcs/proper sidequests that would have involved them more honestly, especially when they wasted official art on half of them.
>>499547210No, you got filtered
>An original soundtrack featuring 131 songs that illustrate the world of Metaphor: ReFantazio is here.>The 61 songs included in the Metaphor: ReFantazio Special Soundtrack have been adjusted and newly mastered for this album, and 70 additional songs have been included.The OST has more bonus tracks than tracks actually in the game?
>>499552302Meowtaphor: ReFelinetazio
Wow everyone hates this game lmao
>>499552435>filename Why is this rage bait?
Time marches on, and the age of a new king draws nearer.
>>499553054
>>499552779The 61 songs included in the Special Soundtrack probably didn't include certain categories of songs (which were included in the "70 additional songs) to make up the full 131 song OST. Usually stuff like tracks made specifically for cutscene/story moments or the more ambient songs in the game, going by their past releases.
>>499553293>story is shit>characters are shit >gameplay is busted >game is generally an unfinished mess All from this thread
>>499553082I think they saved that image for /v/ where they freak out and foam at the mouth at anything that is even the slightest bit “WOKE”. Even a brown protagonist in Will.
>>499550771AEXP is shit easy to farm, the real limiting factor is MAG
Does the game warn you before the final Dragon Trial that if you wear repel accessories the boss will auto-delete you? I must have missed it.
>>499553414getting your opinions on how good a vidya game is from 4chan is retarded. these niggers dont like anything.
>>499553406They also cut the song that plays when you perform a big stunt like the ride or die gallica bit and the bridge in the demo
>>499553436no but there's an informant saying dragon gets angry or smth if you protect against his magic. it's not spelled out but if you played a few smt games you can assume they mean repel equals wipe
>>499553435>the real limiting factor is MAGI never had to worry about MAG, even before Forsaken Tower goblin grinding.
Towers or Skybound Avatar first?
>>499552945His game.
>>499554138
>>499554025I can't imagine still playing this game at that point. This is such a massive slog
>>499554025Definitely towers, skybound avatar Humans are early 70s, while the tower bosses are 70
>>499553992Regicide doubles the MAG needed
The amount of praise this got is insane when it's a 5/10 at best and not a single person seems to be satisfied with any part of it
>>499554756What's the pot of NG+ if you need to unlock everything again?
>>499554756no it doesn't
>>499555000You don't need to NG+ on PC
>>499555079Yes It's an unfinished difficulty setting for an unfinished game
virga island music is based
>>499555079
>>499553992>grindingyou didn't beat the game
>>499555750Cope The game has an unfinished difficulty curve to go with the unfinished story and unfinished characters
>>499555362For me, it's the late-game Runner theme.
>>499549662well shit those would've been nice to have. oh well
>>499554756Ah, fair enough. Another reason I'm glad I chose normal.Although, desu, I had such fun battling the first dragon because of it being the first difficult enemy in hours, that I just may replay on Hard mode.Never gonna do Regicide though.
>>499556304>normal>he thinks he can pick regicide from the startlmao
>>499555548So, max everything before going to NG+ got it.
>>499555548regicide seems awful
>>499555548What is the point of this when the difficult is ridiculously easy?
>>499556692it's like how persona 4's very hard guts your exp gain so you have to farm golden hands endlessly
>>499556692its the atlus way. hard/extreme means more grinding, not more strategy.
>>499551725>had it comingRetardRella unironically did nothing wrong
>>499556692Because it was clearly designed for non-NG until they pussied out or some shit and locked it for NG+ only.That's why the best way to play is on PC with a hex edited save file. >>499396652
>huh, i wonder why you can make a food that gives you 100% accuracy>see merchants 'lucky slots'ohOH
What is the NG+ super boss anyway? Just spoiler it
>>499556993they're going to patch this eventually they have to
Do the girls not have laundry events? I did the laundry a bunch of times on different days of the week but I just kept getting the guys.
>>499557138level 99 dragon
>>499557162I doubt it, no one gives a shit about that.
>>499556927Gonna die anyway simp anon get over it.
>Eupha thinks its normal for boys to bath together with herWhat a slut..
>>499557286Yeah you're gonna die anyways, thankfully.
>>499557162You can't patch out hex editing the best thing they could do is change where it's stored
>>499557246They can't join you in the hot springs either.
man i just want a simple character voice comparison between ENG and JP, because i restarted for the dub and am just curious what the murdercat sounds like in JPyet zero videos on it
>>499557387didn't read a word simp
when is the first content update patch bros...
>>499557536You get a bunch of different dialogues for both activities. It's a shame that the girls don't participate.
>>499557536>can only see Basilio's experimentation scars from behind>only visible from a single outfit>clearly, obviously modeled to show the extremes of what he went throughI'm upset.
>>499557680EN eupha is the best
>>499557880>first content update
>>499558476Game's only been out 12 days but I already need more of it
he's literally me
I love this dork
Can you date Maria?
>>499559231You can need it like air but you're not getting it.
>>499559854Yes. In 10 years.
>>499559854Unless Eupha doesn't make her move soon there's little chance she won't be the queen
>>499557680murdercat? Catherina?
>>499552435you mean fap bait
>>499560498Catherina is a donkey, I think he means Fidelio
>>499561127
>>499561127why don't we ever see her mom
bros in october and I need so much fucking MAG for archetypes and skill inheritanceis there a fast way to get lots or am I stuck spamming debt collection?
So who would work on the rerelease or dlc content? Same studio zero or outsource
>>499561339>am I stuck spamming debt collection?Well that's pretty fast, you get infinite mana refill in the last dungeon.
>>499561084Donkeys don't have tails like that. She and Loveless might be closer to tassel-eared squirrels.
>>499561351what is wada up to, he did persona 5 royal
>>499557953Based
>>499553082Yukari wishes she was as wife material as Gallica.
>>499561678probably P6
>>499561278The same reason why we learn literally nothing about the mother of Heismay's son.
>>499561739its a shame that every artist is gonna use his inferior form to not spoil things
>>499561945Also, all of his merch.
when are they fixing bond events being bricked if you miss them once?my strohl and hulkenberg are stuck at level 1 and i'm 20 hours in
>>499562412What do you mean "miss" them? There's no such thing.
>>499559854If you're into her her whole bond is cucking you
>>499562412try talking to them in the gauntlet runner, you speedreader
>>499562494I chose a different daily activity instead of bonding with them, and two in-game weeks later i still don't have the option of bonding with them to level 2
i really thought i would get used to the MC's outfit eventually but nope, never did. its still outright ugly and ill-fitting. i'd really hoped he would change outfits after becoming a real boy but that didn't happen eitherand then i really really coped that he'd get a new look after becoming king. lol. lmao.
when another game happens which part of the name is gonna be kept Metaphor or ReFantazio
>>499562979Meta tazio
So is the consensus that the game is massively unfinished with terrible balance?
>>499563385massively is an overstatement
>>499562979"Metaphor" would be better for branding.
>>499563385the consensus is that I had missionary sex with your mother for the purpose of procreation
>>499563385It was pretty meh unless you soiface at tired recycled content
>>499562812nope, only a virtue eventreally considering just restarting or quitting altogheter
>>499563954You should be concerned about the risks of mental illness in his mother's genetics.
Alright I'm ready to start my playthrough.
>>499564110You have to do that Imagination activity to proceed with their bonds.
>>499561945It's because the blue hair and headband is cuter
>>499564276cringe as fuck
>>499564408which one? the book?
>>499564276loser lol
How am I meant to build endgame Eupha?I just don't understand what I'm supposed to do with her. Everyone else makes sense.
>>499564276It's extremely easy to do everything in this game without a guide; you get plenty of extra time to do things sub-optimally. Even if it wasn't, following a guide for a game like this is soulless.
>>499564438he still has blue hair and the headband is cringe along with the heterochromia. he looks like some shitty oc. his true form is actually pretty though.
I finished everything in the game with just 3 days to spare desu
>>499564595Best she can offer for bosses is being able to debuff an attack at the same time. For mob clearing though she'd great
>>499564661>he looks like some shitty oche literally is
>>499564595She's mostly for juggling debuffs and healslutting
>>499564595besides getting hyper she doesn't need a lot of setup. sadly she's not great for bosses but you can still use her to clean fodder in dungeon crawling. give her the synthesis skill discount accessory so she can spam summon tyrant for severe almighty aoe with only 1 turn icon.
>>499564739I finished with fifteen. Finishing with three extra days sounds like a success to me. You played at your own pace and had a little more than just enough time to do everything, which means you could do your laundry and vacuum the runner at the end.
>>499564276please give me
>>499554721That doesn't make much sense because you're only going to be close to 70 from doing the skybound avatar. There's a reason the in game difficulty marker puts the towers ahead of the skybound avatar, because they want you to do the skybound avatar first.
>>499564276soulless
>>499562979Nobody remembers the ReFantazio part. Look at the name of this general.
>>499564276I did this with every persona game because I dont want to need to play through twice just to do everything. This game I feel like I wasted any time I tried to buff courage, and maybe wisdom, but otherwise it feels generous. I think ive maxed damned near everything each "chapter" with some days just being leveling stats and nothing else.
MC/Junah/Bas/HeismayThe canon endgame team
>>499564276Mathematically if you need a guide for this game you're a sub 70iq retard. The in game stats show that less than 1% of players weren't capable of maxing out everyone.
>Alright I'm ready to start my playthrough.
>People shocked that Metaphor is getting the praise that it is getting.Why is it shocking?It's a brand new IP that isn't utterly infected with pushing some message. It also isn't a remake/sequel/HD edition.
>>499565596That 1% is probably people that just didn't want to bother with certain characters too.
>>499564276takes me back to vanilla p3 days. printed out an entire gamefaqs guide then got beat by my dad for 'wasting printer ink'
>>499564276mfs really playing their games like doing their homework. how is that fun? i truly dont understand the common denominator
is hybrid really way to go?
>>499565731because japanese games aren't supposed to get high praise unless they're made by from software
>>499566320You have so many stats there's no reason not to go like 50 magic first and then dump everything into str in the final section.
>>499566114When I was a teenager I printed a big guide to FFX thinking this time I would do a 100% run, I never finished it, sorry for wasting paper and ink mom. I really should have printed just the start instead of the whole thing in one go.
>>499565596About the only things a guide should say are>read the books first>collect bait here so you can make use of every island travel day fishing>don't overdo courage because it's the most plentiful skillYou can do most things suboptimally and it's not even a problem, but these three are just annoying to miss.
>>499565590Part of the appeal of Persona, for me anyways, is how you can pick spend your time. If you are following a guide then you are pretty much destroying that entire aspect of the game and also taking some fun out of the game.It was the same with Metaphor. I didn't 100% my first run but I still accomplished pretty much everything I wanted to see in a run.
>>499566114P3 was like the one game that actually warranted using a guide or planning it out on a spreadsheet, maxing out everyone was borderline impossible otherwise. That legacy has somehow lasted to this day even though the games are way easier to max now. Stats like those show that pretty much everyone is maxing everything in metaphor.
>>499564595Throw Emerald Vortex and the -1 synthesis cost accessory on her and she can hit nearly every weakness. Diety has an insane damage/cost ratio.
>>499566746i have no clue why this is still so low
>>499565593Bas did some work for me on berserker but he joins so late getting him caught up is annoying on top of getting everyone else's royal archetypes finished.
>>499566980Yeah, I got that one naturally because I just sword surfed everywhere. I'm guessing most people forgot the feature existed
>>499566980idk how to unlock it
>>499565731jrpgs makes fags seethe
>>499566980>>499567071I am lazy and just map teleport
Junah is gonna get the tranny fanbase with that royal archetype colorscheme lol
I've never said this about a game before, but I actually like that in this game, your choices don't matter. Compared to Persona where you're always seeking the "right" choices in dialogue for the sake of S.Link or Skill points, this game is a lot comfier. You can give a sub-optimal response to a question and just roll with it, or you can purposely give the wrong response without it impacting your ability to finish the game 100%. I like that Will can be less than perfect.
>>499567082It happens automatically.
>>499568147You can do that in persona as well and still max every s linkno one is forcing you to sperg out over the right choices
>>499565731It's a dogshit game
Anyone else think it's weird that racial discrimination is such a big deal in this game but there are absolutely zero slurs? I'm not even memeing, they would sell the worldbuilding and themes of the game much better if there were slurs. The closest i've seen is people calling papirus "dogs" which is incredibly tame.
>>499568123>I can't even look at pastel colors without thinking about trannies!!
>>499568147My problem with Persona isn't that your choices matter is that the choices is Atlus games are always so monumentally fucking stupid that they're downright impossible to figure out on your own making a guide damn near required. If these Jap hacks actually made it possible to intuit the right solutions then I wouldn't mind but they don't.
>>499568843i'd like to see if it's a localization issue because some answers translate to a completely different reaction by characters. it's as if the answer choice wasn't properly translated or smth
>>499568843? you can intuit the correct responses based on the character and the contextlike iwai appreciates you bluntly calling him a coward to his faceit isnt going to just reward you for asskissing constantlyit rewards you for having good social intelligence
>>499568843This is true. This is what primarily sucks the fun out of it for me. I've chosen some wrong choices by accident in Metaphor too, but the way the game handles it doesn't make me feel like I ought to reload.
>>499568843I think 90% of this perception is because of cultural differences.
oh well regicide is not what i really expected, did anyone tweak hex editor and find the offsets for required mag. regicide is fine but having to pay double mag for unlocking archetypes is such a bore.
>>499568843That's literally just P3, you don't need guides to max out the others.
>>499569323>cheating Might as well just tweak your stat to the max instead of playing the game lmao
so if i put all my points into magic instead of strength, should i just inherit emerald vortex and ignore all the prince attacks?
>>499570181Sure
>>499570286someone who's not retarded please
Where's the Regicide NG patch hashino
>>499570181You should abandon Prince altogether and stick with Elemental Master and Junah as your weakness bot
>>499570181Until they release Metaphor Royal in 2 years with a FeMC that has a magic archetype, yes.
guys I don't think I want to play through thegame again in 3 years time
metaphor 2 when
REMINDER:MERCHANT EARLYTYCOON IS ALWAYS GOODAND KEEP ON STROHL GAMING
new 3D EO with metaphor combat when
>>499570556why not warlock
>>499570754Because it doesn't have a severe skill
>>499570609okNobody is forcing you to
>>499570891doesnt it have an extreme single target dark
>>499570609same, I want to play through it again literally right now
Why Cath 3D Model is more expressive than others? It also looks better than all main cast, she even \has a lott movement on her ears even Heismay's ear doesn't move that much
I totally forgot the Rhoag was a tribe until I started thinking what race Forden was supposed to beThen I started to think why we never got a Rhoag party member and oh yeaaahhh... Grius...
How are the fully covered women getting more art than the horse girl slut
>>499571238what horse girl
>>499571331>>499571174
>>499571238No one likes a soc-dem class-traitor.
>>499571174>>499571402shes a bunny
Never forget your heroThe man who carried you from the start to the end
Is catherina taking 90% of an enemy health bar and making the combat piss easy a bug or a feature.
Louis sex
>>499571402cat.png
>>499571528A feature. It's doesn't matter because you'll only have enough time to use it for like 3 dungeons
>>499571516She's a cat
>>499571516She has ears like the horse in grand trad
CATherinayou know
>>499571980nekorina?
>PC shuts off mid game due to power outage>Come back to the game>Now every single face button is mapped backwards and i can't fix itwhat the fuck is this?
>>499572124my bad
>>499570556Prince is worth it for Hero's Cry alone.
I just finished the game and now i feel empty.I will never experience travelling on Gauntlet Runner with the crew for the first time again, no more journey and no more EuphaFucking hell, i expected this as i took my time playing it but it still hits hard
>>499571516>>499571802Also a horse tail.
>>499506968Ok I am gonna try that 4th dragon tower. First two fell to my samurai combo, the 3rd one needed me to retool into destroyer for almighty but I got him on hard as well. I haven't spoiled myself hugely on the last boss but I am anticipating a similar gimmick fight to the almighty one. I am thinking of trying out 2 generals (I am not very far with Bardon) with the ice weakness abilities, the utilitarian accessory on each so one can add the weakness and one can exploit, Junah saviour, and MC Dragoon with some heals + dekaja. I want to add my dodge machine ninja but can't swap out Junah or I can't proc the ice synth move, but maybe the MC can swap to saviour and I can squeeze in Heismay, idk.
>>499573062I'm starting to think you've never seen a horse
>>499571526He didn't carry anything. I benched him when I got Junah and ended up never putting him back in the party.Sorry, Strohl, someone had to be the most boring party member.
>>499573187the ones in this game have different ears in every city
>>499571575Would Zorba stay and watch if he found Louis having sex with someone else
>>499571980It's just a Catherine reference.
>>499573446He'd go back to his room to write emo poetry under the light of a single black candle.
>>499571526Comes up with some of the most wild plans that work out in the end. One of the best bros in the series.
>>499573187I have horses in real life. The horses in-game don't all look like real horses.
This game good?
>>499573698Cute girl
>>499573698My wife (male)...
>>499573876Yes, I like it.
>>499573876It mogs fr fr
>>499573698>no trap in metaphor
Completely fair and balanced archetype. Looking forward to taking it into regicide ng+
>Rella can just telepathically communicate with every follower of SanctismYeah sure why not I guess
>>499573446Louis has a cuck chair for him
>>499574295It's not an Atlus staple. The MC is so girly though that Atlus hired a female cosplayer to represent him at a promotional event.
>>499574295How would you know?
>>499574369By the end of the game it's abundantly clear that the setting works on very similar rules to persona. It's just collective unconscious fuckery
>>499574326>taking it into NG+>he doesn't know
>>499574369Eupha also communicates telepathically with Will at one point. It's apparently just something you can do via magla.
>>499574369She is like one of a very small group of people that can use actual magic without an igniter anon
>>499574681Eupha could only talk to magla creatures like that, which is why she instantly assumes that you're a messenger of her god. One of the foreshadowings for OC donut steel
>>499574295Louis is a trap if you wanted to fuck a Clemar :^)
Kind of surprising how hard this game encourages stacking the same class. I gradually ground down Elegy with one Tycoon. Checked youtube after and one guy beat him in literally one minute with a full Tycoon party
>>499575039The fact that Masked Dancer and Summoner can both flex into whatever you need while they both offer broken synthesis skills is wild. The only real drawback is the materials you need to flesh them out is basically random. I'm surprised there's no late game mask shop that just sells each mask for absurd amounts.
I didn't play any of the EtriOd games, what happened here?
I’d been seeing all the Rella fight bitching and wondered why it felt so vaguely familiar. Then, it hit me.>Allied, seemingly innocent NPC with a fight right before the final stretch of the main story>mindhacks>oh god the afterimages/wall
I love this fucking game
I really would love to see the day to day on Louis's ship. Everyone seems to be crazy STRfags, pent up Junah/Louis fanboys or Bas. It's so fascinating.
>>499573698Tranny whose inclusion was pointless
>>499575515Reminds me of EO Untold’s Gladsheim, in which case it’s the result of humans using technology to combat pollution stemming from human overconsumption. Spoiler, but the humans didn’t “win” until a thousand years later after entire landmasses formed atop former capitals
Is the final MC archetype stronger than tycoon with that fortune god weapon and the double crit acc?
>>499576420MC's donut steel archetype does less damage but has the most busted skill in the game (FOUR TURN CRYSTALS)
>Bas don't fookin' care!>Why would Bas fookin' care?!>A'right fine, I'll fight Louis wit ya, but only to honour me bro Del!
is this leogron thing seriously just gonna spam heat riser and force me to use dekaja every turn?
>>499576562>disco elysium 2 where you play as detective cuno never
I fucking hate this place. No idea how to get to these places.
>>499575039All they'd need to do to balance it better is take the support skills that stack bonuses based on type and just have it stack based on "does your party have multiple copies of the skill"
How is the english localization?
>>499576420As Prince I wasn't that impressed with my crit rate against bosses even with almost max luck and the two passives that increase crit chance. Tycoon might have a higher average damage, but Prince has other advantages.
>>499576721I just let God guide me through this shit
What was his fucking problem
>>499576721You would not survive any of Atlus' actual dungeon crawlers
>>499576891It's fine. Comparing with the original script most changes just amount to smoothening sentences that sound stiff in a direct translation.
>>499576990he wanted hag puss
>>499574594Wait do you lose your archetype progress on ng+? How are you supposed to hit 100% archetype completion then I only got to 50%ish on most of my guys in regular NG.
>>499577120You don't lose your ranks but you have to unlock access to the archetypes again.
>>499576990We all lose ourselves in pursuit of the barren wombs, anon...
>>499577120You don’t lose progress but you lose access until you unlock the lineage again, meaning you can use Samurai, Soul Hacker and Warlock/ElemMaster as soon as the mines but your special archetype won’t be on the table until you get to that point in the story again
I didn't roll the canon Will build and I feel like I've cheated. I am end of August, should I restart?
>>499576602the one in the tower on hard? I found that if it used bullshit Soul Faggotry and got 6 turns that I was deadFor some reason, debuffing him made him not use it and so I killed him in 2 rounds
>>499576990He was born with that face so he had no chance to not be an asshole.
>>499577839It's funny, I played SMTVV right before this game and after the usual debuff and buff festival that game can be, I've found the most success in this game on hard just Grugging everything and Unga Bunga'ing as hard as ningenly possible I've lost like... 2 random battles and that's it the entire game.
>>499577925Hey c'mon anon, that's not fair, he could also be a weird yoga instructor that talks about chakras.
Finally finished the game. Clear time of 94 hours without grinding, somehow. It's not free of criticisms, but it's still a fantastic game. I don't take points away for nitpicks because I can and will nitpick even perfection to hell and back, but there were a few pitfalls, conveniences, and mild contrivances that keep it from being otherwise perfect. The biggest ones are obviously concerning Altabury and whatever content may or may not have been cut from it, but there's little reason to talk on the obvious.I think the biggest triumph of this game is the combat. The system itself, even if just a dusted-off version of DDS, allows a LOT of freedom while being restrictive enough to theoretically keep the challenge alive. It's only failing is that it really doesn't. Properly engaging with demon fusion in mainline can keep the challenge alive while exploiting it can lead to rightfully broken builds. Here on the other hand, properly engaging with the system will break the game given a reasonable amount of "effort". The synth skills are a brilliant addition to innovate on what party synergy can be, but using the system as intended will trivialize damn near any threat. That however, is also the reward for engagement and I doubt it can be ironed out without making the system feel too restrictive, thus remaining an inherent flaw in the design.The biggest flaws of the game can be addressed as such: Main characters at times felt a bit weaker than persona casts, combat felt weaker than mainline, dungeons a weaker version of EO, etc. For as solid of a game as it is, it being a mix of other Atlus titles will at times feel like a welcomed blend with an exquisite taste, and others a mere sampler of things you'd wish for the full course on.I do have to give the game props for having a relatively clean development with little in the way of constant changes like Persona 5 and the only things stuck in development hell being the mage academy and Hulkenberg's sex appeal.Eupha best girl.
wtf i just cleared the mid september climax part and now the game is telling me the final battle is on the 24th... i am not close to finishing all the follower bonds... wtf...
>>499569323What, really? Nooooo I should've grinded back in the final dungeon
>>499578592anon... surely you've played a Persona game before and can put two and two together.
>>499578128I've noticed this too, it's pretty strange, most you need is Dekunda/Dekaja in case the boss gets a bit silly. I think they wanted to make buffs/debuffs less important after moving the most important ones to synthesis, but this just results in me ignoring those synthesis spells because that's two whole press turns for a rather weak option.
>>499578592the game ends for real a month later. don't worry.
>>499578592What did you waste all of your time doing? You were told what the deadline is way back at the start.
>>499578745well i did every request and bounty and i have kind of equitably spread my time across certain followers excepting characters like maria who have a bond that's worth rushing for macro reasons. i was just concerned cuz its like i couldnt possibly have eupha or junah maxed by now and im thinking maybe i want to max them before the battle but idk i dont like such a close (faux) timer, it causes decision paralysis.
>>499578478>Main characters at times felt a bit weaker than persona castsCan you elaborate on this a little?
>>499578946You'll have enough time
>no motivational narrator party member to give the team buffs and insult the enemies to give them debuffsKusoge
Now then, do I start a NG+ run on EZ mode/regicide or so I start an entirely new game and for no good goddamn reason try to solo it?
>>499579073The game isn't made for solo runs, you can't even modify your party until you get the fifth member and KO'd teammates will always come back with 1 HP, personally I'm thinking of doing a run without taking on optional encounters.
I get that they want to have them talk like English people but isn't this a bit odd to include? I did see some npc dialogue where someone says the names for different types of weapons just kind of "exist" in their language and they don't understand where they came from, so I guess you can excuse phrases like this coming from the old world? There are other similar turns of phrase in the game like "we're on the same wavelength" which also would be anachronistic.
>>499579574Just localizer things
>>499579574The word is originally a portmanteau of "marionette" and "puppet" before the Muppets we know of today took over it as branding, so I can actually believe this would be spoken in a fantasy world like this.
>>499579574muppet post
I feel like the menu UI could use more work. I didn't realize the narcissus brooch gives 15 magic and 15 luck until NG+
>>499579574I think they probably asked the voice actors to improv to some extent. I can't believe Atlus' US-based localisation team are as accurate as the game is with British dialects
>>499580032I remember during this game's marketing cycle over on /pg/ we discovered it was a different localization studio that did this. A British one, not the typical one they use.
>>499579574>I guess you can excuse phrases like this coming from the old world?They're not actually speaking english (or japanese or any other language the game is translated into), it doesn't matter what modern expressions are used to transmit their speech to us, they're not diegetic.
Should this get an anime?
>>499579574t. muppet
>>499580258I can already see the 7.2 on MAL.
>>499580258It's getting a manga already at least.
>>499578974Yeah. There was an additional train of thought there and somehow only the engine arrived with every car it was carrying vanishing.Basically, the individual characters are very strong and probably contenders for the best, but the cast as a whole has less interaction with each other and less cohesion than some other casts. There are a few exceptions like Bas and Hiesmay, but once Hiesmay jumps on board, the characters tend to drift apart and do their own thing until it's time to slobber elda dick. While not as bad for existing in a vacuum as 4 or 5's cast was, they still fall into the pitfall of "show up, say their one line, and disappear". Bas is the best example of it with both being an example of lines that don't need to be said or aren't on track with others, and on the other end saying something so pointed that you wonder why anyone else bothered to speak in the first place.Outside of the main cast though, side characters are the best they've ever been. Bond events have actual gravity to them and non-bond characters feel like far more than just cardboard cutouts with special mentions to Gideaux, Batlin, Del, and Edeni.The antagonistic forces however are a bit lacking. While Louis often stole the show, his lackies were literal fucking whos, and Forden, who should have been a major antagonistic force to the character given their history and actions, just wasn't.I understand that it's still a vague explanation, but things like "group cohesion" aren't particularly quantifiable and would properly require comparisons compiled in a multi-hour long YT essay video, which I'm not nearly homosexual enough to produce or care about.
Metaphor: ReFantazio - Angry Video Game Nerd
>>499580258not after the P3 Aigis/Ryojiwank movies and the P4G, P5, DeSu2 animes
>>499580872four guys? no continues?
>Repeatedly stated that music is one of the oldest forms of magic>No music classBig missed opportunity
>>499581069Gallica also states that it's essentially useless outside of making you feel less anxious. Although once she's at bond level 8 she does randomly show up in battle and shoot sheet music at you to give you extra turn icons
>>499580872Look at these bosses, man! Who made this shit, Hieronymus Bosch? >pulls out a random, framed Bosch paintingHey wait a fuck!
The LEWDEST handshake
>>499581408>I love you too, and the guys!
>>499581226>it’s useless outside of making you feel less anxiousAfter playing through the whole game suddenly that sounds like a huge deal.
euphags in shambles
>>499581069If we do get a re release I’m demanding that each rank in Gallica’s bond unlocks a new battle theme, either from another Atlus game or original. Give her a music player function unlock for her rank 2.
>>499581408The sharks are gonna eat well tonight.
>>499581069Weird she doesn't unlock a bard class.
>>499581226>>499581645>final skill on the class is a passive that blocks anxietyThis would easily take up an inheritance slot on every class on every character
>>499581408You weren't supposed to post it without any form of censoring bro....
>>499581506Never fucking shit talk Rex again you secondary.
>>499576131It's a toxic discordOr a cultThey're both almost the same reallyObsessed with impressing the mods so they can be mods one day/ Everyone openly wants to fuck the owner's girlfriend while she sends uwu emojis. A dogshit group of people with bad opinions but somehow has 4000 members.Pic actually related. Talking to npcs gives mean girls tone like a ship that functions like a high school. Stohl managed to find a seat at the cool dude table at least.
Man I hate this stat, I WANT TO PROGRESS EUPHA
>>499582314Never post here again.
>>499576990he has a manbun do you really think he was going anywhere in his life?
>>499582321It was Eloquence I ended up way behind on, because I didn't notice the debates existed, and if you skip those there's barely any other sources of it. On the other hand Courage and Imagination are seemingly impossible to not go way over the cap on even if you never actively try to level them
It was also the stat that delayed my full completion of the allies ranks the most, should have played more chess with Hulk.
>>499580171Make sense. They don't have a lot of "improvements" in the script, but they made some basic mistakes here and there. Mostly mistaking the subject pronouns, such as when they're delivering that persons from chapter 2, strohl said "we're not looking to stoning you here" even though it should be "they (the church) won't publicly execute an official like you"
>>499578132>wing is both in the foreground and backgroundai is slop
>>499582530that's so fetch
>>499582282Calm down Xenokek, we know an interracial romance is normally your territory but let us have this one, ok?
>>499582667They literally added lesbian NPCs that don't exist in the JP version.
>lost his fiancé>brings up his friends leaving him>healing this autismo's debilitating loneliness>literally tells the protagonist he loves himWhy does no one talk about the actual best social link?
>>499580442I'm the one who asked. I appreciate your thoughts, thanks. I agree with you overall. I certainly would have loved to see the party do a lot more as a group and form distinct individual bonds with each other. For example, Eupha has basically no "relationship" with Strohl; I don't remember them speaking directly to each other once. Many group conversations in the second half of the game feel more like the party is simply taking turns explaining the current events to (You) rather than speaking to each other.
>>499582979No Atlus protagonist has ever come close to this so just shut your face, m'kay?
>>499583050They're not lesbos you fucking manchild jesus titty fucking christ
Gallica HOT G L U E
>>499583245It's a pitfall almost every JRPG falls into so I don't hold it too much against them, but when you're placing Eupha and Junah at the table, it wouldn't hurt to give them something to talk about. But when you consider this is the same game that has unique dialogue for every character for every archetype, there's a clearly a lot of effort put into dialogue so it makes you question why the effort wasn't there. Especially with the gauntlet runner, with everyone locked into such a confined space, them not having conversations is clearly a misstep.
>>499583050Yea but still, it feels like nobody cares about translation mistakes when it's not about a controversial subject.Those troonlators are always the first to defend their friends' fanfiction but oddly silent when it's actually shit.
>>499583257>Two for one old civilization weapon>Literal damaged goods kotAllow me to blow your baby boy out of the waterNo I will not acknowledge that Atlus is just the publisher
>island people>wear thick cloaks and huge metal buckets on head
>>499581408>handfucks you with both hands, unprotected, for the whole bond scene>confesses and doesn't accept any responses that aren't positive>wont even let go before the fade to blackwhy is this allowed
>>499583995They're not the sharpest tool in the shed, they sacrificed multiple people because of a translation mistake.
>>499583050Did you compare to jp script? And they aren't lesbians.
>>499583801Don’t forget the different attack animations for each archetype per member. Eupha’s Seeker opening volley has fantastic flow and Heismay’s normal attack on Warrior is as goofy as you expect, old man spends some 2 seconds waddling with the greatsword upright before cleaving
>>499583903Step aside.
>>499584217>mortal strike + catherine's opening volleyIt's gaming time
>>499583257Why come Morag turned into a high school girl?
>>499583245>>499583801The Hulkenberg bond scene where she trains both MC and Strohl set up terrible expectations for me, since I thought it meant more ones like it would appear later on with party members interacting. Then it turns out to be the only time it ever happens, aside from maybe a few of Neuras's where Gallica pops up.
>>499583050Where?
>>499584224I understand that you're 10 years old, but adults that aren't related don't move in together to replace an absent spouse unless they're in a relationship.
Just finished the game. Story is a bit inconsistent but at least the highlights are incredible. Eng dub was great, except for MC. Strohl in particular did a great job. I enjoyed the gameplay but I feel like the decision to tie weakness/repel/etcetera to turn loss/gain was a negative in the end.
>>499583801After Heismay's arc and great intro party dynamics go out the window.
i'm going to start treating Restless Woman in Grand Trad nicely and slowly start hitting on her
>>499584224Is the EN and JP scene different? how do they compare?
>>499584893>dub
>>499583237The curse of not being a non-playable male. I love Nueras though, and I've said as much in these threads. His bond is actually very good for being confined to chats in the Runner, and his scene on the eve of the final day is touching too. He genuinely feels like found family for the protagonist, and vice versa. His affectionate sentiments ring truer than the usual from Persona bonds.
>>499571174Her ear wobbling in combat is super cute
>no one ever notices the fucking teleportation despite us seemingly doing it from inside the confines of town
>>499584345Get that red hussy away from Serina damnit. Only way Atlus will get me to even shoot a glance at Persona 6 after Metaphor would be a bratty junior party member like her. Or better yet, they could put that in Meta2: Kant’s Space Opera
>>499584753Damn I didn't know having a roommate makes you gay.
>>499584431>The Hulkenberg bond scene where she trains both MC and Strohl set up terrible expectations for meSame here. The game would be really amazing if it had more of that. The runner is perfect for group activities but it doesn't get used for them.
>>499584753You seem autistic
>>499585273ad hominem
>>499585142>>499585273Learn subtext.
Where are the red crystals in the last month? I did 3 dungeons and there were none. I wanna grind my people.
>>499585065>Serinafag
group dynamic will never get the priority no matter how much you want it to
Eupha should have killed herself.
>>499585476Talk to Edeni
Junah should have killed herself on stage.
Is there something to this room? It has the inactive warp portals like the previous floor.
>>499584893I also thought that Strohl's performance was great until he started doing that "take a sharp breath between sentences" thing on every single line at endgame.
>>499585862>coomer party
>>499585006>His affectionate sentiments ring truer than the usual from Persona bonds.When you look around the runner, you can see he basically lives there and has had very little reason to remain in contact with people. So when he's got a full party of people who actually want to keep him company, it puts his scenes into perspective.I think his glasses collection is really cute. There's one with bunny ears too.
>>499585812>Junah should have done something that never crossed her mind. Mean while Eupha was ready to sacrifice herself to the dragon. Should have done it. She messed up the party dynamic.
>>499585862nice team, faggot
Is this game badly optimized? I noticed there are areas or even just merely looking in a particular direction in a particular zone just tanking my framerate.
>>499586058>muh party dynamicliterally the least important thing in any rpg
>>499585934These are the most anti coomer jrpg girls except maybe Hulk
I got 100 hours out of this game and yet it still felt short. Only 5 major areas feels a bit too little for a game like this
>>499585862that anon was right about spoiler usage correlating to iq
>>499585934>He doesn't know the potential of the coomer crew
>>499586138Eupha fag cope.
>>499586152There's only 3 real dungeons and one of them is literally ripped from EO
i think the eldan hottie should take a three eyed bride, preferably brown
>>499586138Soulless post.
>>499586152all the coolest areas in the game are the ones you can't do anything in
Sex with our Del
>>499586110Japanese developers completely missed the last 20 years of advances in LOD and culling techniques so as soon as you're in a large area with lots of overlapping geometry the engine falls over and dies unless you run around staring at the floor
>>499586301No, he should take a clemar bride, preferably racist.
>>499586301Mustari girl hands typed this post.
>>499586370If Paripus are degenerates do you think the brothers had to take care of themselves on their own?
>>499586401she's literally the I FUCKING HATE YOU AND HOPE YOU DIE comic
>>499586338It was a baffling decision.
Gallica sitting on the rim of my cup! It's indirect cunnilingus!
>>499586338>>499586520fully explorable in the re-release
>>499586495You just know she refantasizes about some dirty Elda sweeping her off her feet.
>>499586432How do you think Del got the money to feed his brother?
>>499586597I legit thought about drinking Gallica's piss every time I saw her sitting on a cup.
>>499585029Some NPCs do notice, but they can't believe it.
>>499586597The cups she sit on are upside down dummy
Infinitely worse than macca grinding for the cathedral of shadowsAnd this is only ONE CHARACTER
Hey you should probably heal yourself. Hey you could really use some healing. Heal yourself before it's too late. It's not a race just heal yourself.
>>499585029They already gave a handwave explanation in P5, they're not going to say it again
>>499586338This.
Are the tower revisits with new enemies or is it just a lot of jobbers and a big boss?
>>499586607They could be teases to areas for a prequel
>>499587002M8 just whack the endless respawn fishes in the last dungeon you get like 99 aexp items in 3 mins or less
So was the Gallica dub just Cassandra but under a pseudonym? Her voice sounds exactly like a certain catlike girl
>>499587002You're level 54, you're way too low level to be grinding that. The proper grind spots are later in the game
>>499587373I'll grind on you.
>>499587325Is that dungeon the avatar or the next?
>>499587292Mix of jobbers and new enemies
>>499587292both, it's mixed
>>499587464After
Just got to Virgin Island. Does my wife join as soon as I enter the dungeon or is not until after the deadline? I don't want them to miss side exp if I save the main dungeon until later.
Heismay had a child out of wedlockwhore
>>499586370How does he like it?
>>499587895She joins before the dungeon boss,
>>499587895At the end of the dungeon you definitely don't want to wait for the deadline because you have to do an optional dungeon for her almost right away
>can't just travel from the dungeon to the enemy runner Ugghhhh
>>499587895Just shotgun the dungeon. She doesn't join until after. But the dungeon goes a lot smoother if you do the side dungeons first and her level reflects that.
>>499587895Junah already joined the party at that point.
someone in here told me to switch hulkenberg to healer for the zorba fight, but healer is weak to the zombies normal attacks. anyone want to explain this retardation?
I just did the manor in the sky on Hard and I still haven't used a better healing spell than Medi.
Catherina and Brigitta are the only girls worth shit and aren't playable
>>499587942It seems more likely that he reproduced asexually because I don't recall his partner being mentioned once
Is it that obvious my shirt is wet? I'm not sure what it is either. I found Eupha tucking it back in with my other clothes. She said it was a Mustari ointment for anxiety so it might be a bit intolerant to just wash it right away.Tastes a bit salty...
>>499588623Your clothes have the forever-stink now. Throw em away.
>>499588623why are you eating your shirt
>>499588598He talks about his first love in a hot spring scene
>>499588935What does he say?
>people saying she's brown SaeIs that true?
I don't understand the line Junah gave about no longer being Louis's caged bird when she had the freedom to do whatever she wanted and he never rejected any of her requests? He doesn't seem to be possessive at all
>>499589153It fades to black when he asks mc if he'd like to know and I think his cave tent had his kid writing about "mom" but for some reason Heismay never says anything about her on screen.
>>499589347next you're going to tell me he wasn't actually the bad guy
>>499589347A gilded cage is still a cage
>>499589603The only real villain in the game is Hulkenberg. Louis was justified in everything from the moment she raided his pantry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_TYpSfpKKsWhy is this man screaming at me
>>499570694tycoon has some godlike passives
>>499589797She willingly went there and freely left when she was ready without any dramaIt makes me wonder if whatever was between them was rewritten
>>499588935First love != mother of child
Samurai class (physical in general) is busted brosPic is spoilers for a lvl 70+ sidequest boss on hard.This was the amount of damage I was able to get from a severe slash synthesis skill crit. I was only level 60, and it was also a one shot kill!
>>499589168If there was a Persona 5 character she's most similar to, it would be Sae. Keywords: most similar. She's not all that similar if you think about it.
>>499589347Yeah, I didn't get that part either. She didn't seem to be under any kind of confinement whatsoever.
>>499590080So you agree he's a whore
>>499590074You having a weird interpretation of something that's contradictory isn't an indication that something had rewrites
>>499590074She's talks about it after, but she's not really referring to physical captivity and more to the fact that she had to put on a false self the whole time, she very much was playing the sycophant and she's happy to be free of that.
>>499590315Rewrite is the cope word for this fanbaseTrannies threw it around nonstop to reconcile how Ann in p5 didn't line up with their politics
>>499590431/ourwife/ Junah is so cute
>>499588302You kill the zombies before they hit her broThe actual EZ method that people don’t talk about enough is Brawler. Get anyone on brawler, have them dab on zombies with one light synthesis skill, use the remaining turns to heal/buff the Brawler and poke at Zorba. Even if they don’t die they’ll be incredibly low, you only need the zombies dead before he enrages them when both are alive on his turn
>>499590431I forget did that long espionage achieve anything useful at all since the curse formula ended up being a massively useless lead?
>>499590792People are just very bad at understanding what goes on behind the scenes, often confusing something that was very much done with intention to something like running out of time or the budget being too tight. Like I saw a post where someone was complaining that they couldn't swap archetypes mid battle and was wondering if they ran out of time, like no you dipshit, that's just a game design decision.
Bat Man
>>499589347After playing further and doing her bond, it reads a lot better as her doing the usual Persona thing of lashing out at all her insecurities even if the current situation isn’t necessarily related to them. Being a nidia slave until she was like 8 years old, only to be adopted into the church lapdog family that lives to carry out wet work for His Eminence did something to her psyche
brigitta literaly ended racism
>>499588404and you never will, the mp ratio on the stronger heals are fucking scuffed
>I spend a month trying to break into Louis' ship>the curse is the one crime he didn't doE-epic
>>499591730MP is a complete non-issue late game you can cook as many MP items as you can hold
>>499583237racism
>>499591730>>499591798Who cares, Tycoon’s item effect doubling passive makes it the best at everything. Those MP buns you can buy from the vendor in Altabury refresh half your active party’s MP with that fucking passive
>>499592427tycoon isnt unlocked until very late in the game regardless
>>499591483That makes sense, I can't believe the slavery is just offhandedly mentioned only in her bond though
>>499591483what the fuck kind of labor is a Nidia toddler even good for
even in metaphor FOE
>>499592703You know
>game makes a big deal about the difficulty of getting to the Tyrant Star >tiny scene of Nueras in the cockpit with no BGM or animation>"I'm taking off the limiters!">cut to More's storybook narration on the map>cut back to the runner crashed on the star and everyone standing outside of it >"that was a close shave, almost too close..."Seriously? I know this game has struggled to showcase any action scenes up to this point, but we get fucking nothing?
>>499592703People don't get female slaves for labor, unless you mean the other kind
>>499592872indie company, pls understandu
PC bros is the CE table to unlock the NG+ superboss reliable?? >>499590190tfw Strohl is 4 times stronger than Armageddon
in louis's world you get monacoin william metaphor's world you detroitthis game pushes the fantasy angle hard because deep down they know who's truly right
I'm actually not too much of a fan of a lot of the main story cast bonds. It feels like a lot of them are "we don't know what to do with the characters since we've already resolved their character in the main story, so let's give them a side story" which is kind of problem I had with some of P5's as well. Then you end up with bonds that are more about Vinca, or Rhodanthe, or that other singer, or that sanctist guy. Compare it to non story bonds like Brigitta, or Alonzo or Maria and those feel a lot more substantial for the characters.
>>499593214heismay's makes sense at least
is hulkenussy good for you?
How long did it take you to figure out the secret behind Heismay's clones? Ill admit it took me a good while. At one point I was staring at their ears to see if there were discrepancies lmao
>>499593406hulkenberg isnt a gook this is not a faithful cosplay
>>499593335Yeah, that's one of the better ones, because it actually expands on stuff we knew from the main story, rather than inventing new characters and conflicts that we didn't know about before.
>>499593481It completely went over my head. I was attacking the one who had his animation out of sync, wondering why I was always wrong, and then I looked at the ground.
>>499593481It took me until the end of the second fight. I kept looking at his animation.
>>499593603>>499593720Yup, the animation threw me off as well
>>499593481It jumped in my face immediatly really, it's not my first rodeo, fucking ninjas thinking they're slick.
>>499590868ok I got it with brawler. as long as you don't end your turn with 2 zombies alive you're basically good. healer spamming either AOE heal or AOE light damage every turn whittling down zorba and giving extra actions.
>>499593481I was looking at his eyes and outfit details, then I thought “hold on this reminds me of a certain Nocturne boss” and cackled after confirming the gimmick was the same. Really wish there were more blatant reference fights worked into the game
>>499593481literally immediately, before the pre fight cutscene even ended
>>499593481I saw the shadow and recognized the gimmick from Nocturne
>>499593481Instantly because I'm not a retard.>>499593603>>499593720>>499593847Retards.
Since they ran out of interesting looking humans so quickly I guess they can't use Bosch in another game
>>499593481wait what? I thought the gimmick just attack one of them and all of the clones will disappear? did I just get lucky twice?
>>499593214I don't agree that Bas, Hulk, or Junah's bonds were more about the NPCs in them than the party members. You learn a lot of stuff about each of them that didn't come up in the main story and they deepen the trust and affection between those characters and the MC.
>>499592579While it’s an insane thing to just drop in the middle of the “we gotta help that singer!” plot, it feels realistic for an extremely internally-guarded woman to only tell you info that she “owes” an explanation for. I think 3-4 bond scenes that talk about her experience and recollection of those times would diminish her character, though it’s quite shocking that her being enslaved isn’t referenced or alluded to by some NPC/event outside of the bond
>>499594637I was being somewhat hyperbolic, I guess I just don't like feeling that a story or character exists in filler land. Like Bas will go on about how important Vinca was to him, yet he was never mentioned before that bond and he was never mentioned after, that's what gives it that side story feeling. Something like Heismay's or Strohl's bonds dig into conflicts they've had from the main story, but then you have ones like the ones listed that feel like they had to invent new ones. So I guess it's not that you don't learn about the characters, it's just that it feels so divorced from the main story. Or like Neuras's for example, his doesn't feel like a side story split into 8 parts, a lot of it is just discussions that go into his past and his way of life and thinking, and I think that feels better to me.
I got Junah and I'm dropping the game. The story is fucking retarded.
Hey can you take your faggot back>>499595539>>499595316>>499595015>>499594845>>499594238>>499594014>>499593278
>>499595743Nothing wrong with that really, it is basically a persona game.
>>499595556first fatlus game?
>>499595743stay in your containment thread
>>499595743that guy is based
>>499595824Turks are "basically" European. It's a big fucking difference.
>>499589347It's like they tried to write a storyline for Juna but forgot about it not even halfway through.
>>499564946>>499566970>synthesis skill discount accessoryTurns out her 100% Archetype reward is this Crosier with the same effect, nice.
>>499595743>insane romancefagNo thanks
>>499595743Metaphor will probably end up back in /pg/ some day, you better get used to it.
>>499595743no
>>499595743Metaphor is a persona game.
>>499596071No one wants that.
>>499586370>eternal shota>can afford literally ChanelBet those experiments were for ignighters you don't usually find in shops.
>>499596230It's sadly going to happen. We cannot sustain this thread forever.
>>499596230Get used to it
>>499595743The only Metaphor posts /pg/ doesn't complain about are the ones shitting on the game.
>>499596462Because all the sane /pg/ poster are playing metaphor
>>499596376I disagree.
Opening a restaraunt called hulkenburgers and selling bug burgers.
>fight Leogron>spams heat riser every single turn while keeping my party permanently at 3 attack debuffswhat the fuck do i even do against thisevery boss on hard mode has been a cinch but i'm unironically hard-walled hereand before you get cute, yes i have everyone in the back row, that's not the damn problem
>>499596841Dekunda, dekaja, smack him with the other two
>>499596841dumb frogposter
>>499596462yeah but like 90% of those are from the sumischizo so who cares lmao
>>499596841I honestly killed him in a couple of turns. He was so easy I don't even remember which tactics I used.
>>499596841dekunda deez nuts
>>499596376You can if you get a schizo
>>499597198>if
>>499596970>>499597159for some reason i forgot dekunda was a healer skillchrist that means this is going to be an insane slog, i'm gonna run out of MP having to dekunda/kaja every single turn before even getting halfway i thinkdoesn't help that apparently i misread the weather forecast and now i have to fight it in bad weather
>>499596841>baby's first smt gameyou ALWAYS bring dekunda and dekaja into every fight once you unlock themhell the final boss of SMTIVA is just a dekunda/dekaja check
>>499597329That one isn't dedicated enough to come here 24/7
>>499597436i've played more smt than you and dekunda checking is the worst part of this franchise
>>499597436>baby's first poorly designed game
>using dekunda or dekajayou didn't beat the game.
>>499590989Had the unintended consequence of turning Bastilio and Fidelio against Louis
Post top 3 strongest archetypes>early game>mid game>late game
>>499596376You can become the next /ddlc/ I believe in you
>>499597436Metaphor is based because there are multiple lategame damage moves that have dekaja effect built in.I used Reset Talismans everytime I needed dekunda.
>>499597002It's amazing how one (1) shitspammer can just totally destroy a general.
>>499597397dekunda and dekaja is only 12 mp, that's nothing at that point
>>499597397>level 55wow no wonder i'm doing sub-200 damage with my botrasboy it sure would be nice if the game gave a recommended level range for dungeons so you don't go into shit like this at level 32
>>499597898You just suck at the game.
>>499598024>go into level ~30 area expecting level ~30 bosses>lol jk here's a boss 20 levels higher that's going to hard stat check you>oh and it takes three days to come out here too :^)
>>499597782Early game is magic knight for me. The thunder move and magic guard shut down many bossesMidgame is soul hacker. AoE almighty that's basically free (for the main caster at least). Samurai is a second contender because of elemental coverage and extreme phys aoe.Lategame, you know who. It's not even a contest.
>>499598250your mom was playing the game and she told me you can tell the estimated level you should be for a dungeon by the rank of the quest
>>499593481I just beat Digital Devil Saga about 2 months ago and was thinking I just had to blindly guess hoping for Gallica to give a hint like the Beck fight. Then when that wasn't working, I noticed that 3 had animations in sync but so I attack the odd one out and that didn't work either. By that time I had gotten lucky to hit him enough that I never needed to figure it out.
>>499598305>by the rank of the questnigger you can't be serious right now
>>499597883they're both 18 MP actually
How good is Dragoon compared to other caster? Please help.
Do the big teeth spawn more than once? I couldn't get the accessory from either of them.
>>499598621Never post this image again.
>>499598621i would respond but you appended your pedophilia collection for no apparent reason so now i'm not going to
>>499598621good pic, ignore the schizo's
>>499595962What's the most optimal way to grind everyones 100% mastery ultimate equipment?? I only have the MCs atm
>>499596219Need Bas.
>>499598250>game shows you difficulty rank of every quest>quest is higher difficulty than the main story dungeon you are supposed to be doing>dungeon has perpetual bad weather so no press turns>waah why is this hard?
>>499599086>dungeon has perpetual bad weather so no press turnslol you can just talk to the weather chad and turn it neutral
>>499599362you didnt beat the game
My mom saw me doing Maria's social link and sent me a text saying she's concerned about my video game choices
>>499599415fake and gay
>>499599415your mom wants a grandchild and youre here playing weeaboo shit
>>499599415tell your mom to get her mind out of the gutter
>>499599362I believe you can't do that until you beat the Dragon Temple. So the anon that's complaining about getting filtered 20 levels below doesn't have access because he would not be that low of a level if he did the insanely long Dragon Temple before the tower
>>499598024>>499598250Anon I hate to say it but your builds are probably just terrible
>>499599415I literally can't imagine what age you'd have to be for this conversation to occur and make sense. if you're like 14-23 then whatever, what has she to be concerned about, if you're older, why did she even see it, and furthermore why would she think it's her place to criticize a fully fledged adults media habits?
>>499582321That like one Wisdom practice in front of Opera house
My neurons activate so damn hard whenever Eupha yells "IT IS YOUR TURN" with her cute accent.
>>499599539To be fair anon did have his dick out while playing.
>>499579574hey uh..you know...that the muppets were named after the word and didn't invent it...right?
>>499599605>if you're older, why did she even see it, and furthermore why would she think it's her place to criticize a fully fledged adults media habits?I currently reside in her basement and dont pay rent
willxlouis
>>499597084same lol
>>499599771not canonthe only canon faggot is (you)we only do canon magic builds here
>>499599587well that took fucking forever but yeah i was overthinking it, slugging it out with dekunda/kaja worked, still had to use the full party MP heal cause i was dealing so little damage>>499599587yeah my MC is fucked up, i'm building him for STR/AGI but spent way too much time in the early game dicking around with random archetypes that don't really benefit from it like mage/healeri considered restarting the game to correct my build but at this point it's probably not worth it
Eupha on the bench where she belongs! Cute!
>>499599025I don't know about optimal, but for the last 7 and a half hours I've still been hitting those two mimics in the Disgraced Ruins as a ninja with merchant skills attached while holding luck increasing items.I made everyone royal a few hours ago, but I'll soon run out of mag.>>499553435Seems you were right, I'm down to 200k mag now...
neuras really made me do all that work for nothing huh
>>4996000622 nukes wasn't enough
>>499600038why is ninja good? i completely abandoned that class line after mastering it for the royal ones
>>499599948So the next place up is probably the Eupha quest place. I would say go there without removing the heat wave for bonus exp and just park yourself in front of one of the easy ass crystals that make two skeletons like this oneI have 99 leaves on stock for when I unlock classes like the tycoon, general T3, and faker t3 I'm stuck waiting on, so I use 20, and then farm, use 20, and then farmYou'll get to 99 assuming you have 5 maxed jobs like 30 minutes or less so toss on a podcastTake MC through Samurai and/or Ninja, but Samurai should be first. Get him some STR and some good hard hitting moves. Brawler is also okay
>>499600241>why is ninja good?It's not, but any thief archetype will have a chance to steal the 3K a-exp item from mimics in quick battle.
>>499600492I unlocked classes just to see the dialogue even when I didn't intend on using them
>>499600492what does she even mean by "leaving your heart lying around"
>>499600241The mc-exclusive Pickpocket skill, as the other anon said.
>>499599764why don't you pay rent?
>>499600703she tore hers out but I'm not sure if they put any of them back in either
>>499600278you know, I bet 4 dark knights all equipped with cross class Counter would utterly dickslap this game
>>499593156How did you even find a table with it? Anyway >>499556993
Trickster is a top 3 class easily (not counting the royal classes of course because they're fill up nearly all of the top 10) There's only 1-2 bosses in the game that can keep up with vidyartha into debilitate spam. (Because none of the bosses are smart enough to use dekunda). It's easily the fastest buff/debuff upkeep in an Atlus game
>>499600814No where will hire me
>>499601137>Because none of the bosses are smart enough to use dekundaPretty sure the dragons after Eht do
>>499601623just put dekaja and dekunda on your party members and those bosses are free (the turn icon gimmick is funny though)
>>499601623having one person spam an item I have 99 of to make them waste a turn is worth it if they doGenerally I have found that have tetrakarn and the magic one equipped and just using it wins me 99% of battles
>>499601137>vidyartha into debilitate spamOh I see, you use vidyartha to put them down to minimum, then you use debilitate to so it never runs out.That's pretty good.I used Heismay with Adamant Nightblade with the turn cost accessory to defeat the first dragon. I noticed the hit/evasion never ran out because I kept using Nightblade.
I've seen people say that the reason Heismay is good is he dodges a shitload of attacks so the monster wastes iconsAnd then I saw someone say the Hulkenberg does the same thing. Anyone know what they meant by that? She can reflect magic attacks with a passive but it's 15% only
>>499602252yea hulkenberg is worse at nullifying enemy press turns than heismay but unlike heismay she is actually useful at things other than that
>>499602252counter goes off very often for me, idk if I'm just lucky but during one of the trial dragon fights she got the repel 3 times in a row (all 3 of those being on his first attacks too) which led to me winning
Does Omni-Counter stack with the other two?
>>499602438>>499602418Okay, so they are referring to the repel then. I slapped the phys one on her too (from Paladin? Don't remember). Don't know if it changes later but her taunting wins so many fights on hard. They smack her for like 30 damage
>>499602574no not to my knowledgei tried having all 3 and only omni-counter would ever go off
>>499599025>>499599025Get to the final final dungeon, master all the royal archetypes to unlock the Prince synthesis move that does 9999 damage to all. Farm the giant teeth that also drop the repel accessories.
why doesn't anyone ever consider who should serve as queen in will's new regime
>>499602252Inherited normal and Magic Counter stack with Omni Counter. She gets a spear that "increases" chance of counter. She will be repelling any non-almighty attack like 50% of the time with that setup.
>>499602791Because Gallica already fill that function.
>>499602627Aww, damn.
>>499602810Ah, good shit. Yeah man, I saw everyone saying how shit she was and I've been a little slow so I barely am at returning the spear to Louis but I feel like I am in Bizarro World because she is probably the reason I've been cruising through hard and is 100% the only reason I survive a fucked up ambush sometimes
>>499602791Gallica is Will's queen, just like Agrica was the First King's queen.
>>499602791Probably because Will is only like 19 or so in the ending. Plenty of time to worry about a queen later.
>>499603181can gallica bear an heir
>>499603338Only one way to find out
>>499601137Yeah, I agree. It's pretty funny how tough it is to make a supreme support demon in most SMT games by fusing and this game just goes "here you buddy, have it all"
>strohl starts cooking up a planYep, kino inbound.
>>499602791Maria is always close by so everyone assumes its going to be her
Fine, I'll make it yet again.>>499604390>>499604390>>499604390Migrate.
>>499599771Porn soon
>>499602710Holy shit that's great.I imagine the final final dungeon is also great for MAG?