#tenseiposting

[fightinggamegirlfriend]

booted up persona 5 royale for the first time and it’s nice to play good ol dungeon crawler, but I feel like. Half of the dialogue prompt decisions are very terrible or worse don’t explain each dialogue’s actual tonal intention. Like I don’t expect the developers to read my mind in what I’m thinking in that situation, and technically the protag is already a character with an established personality and that I should be roleplaying as them and not myself. But I still think a small window that explains the tone of the dialogue tree would have helped? That’s just a small criticism that really isn’t criticism, I def. Should have paid closer reading attention. I think I may have pissed off Morgana by not helping them find their original body, but only because I picked the dialogue prompt of ‘What plan?’ And my brain thought “Oh! Morgana is going to tell me their plan!” NOPE. I felt like such a fool, like yes I know I should ‘read’, but like. Having a descriptor of what kind of tone the dialogue prompts are (are they mean/cruel? Are they scarastic? Serious? Etc).

basically tldr: dialogue options could be a little more clearer in their tone/intention + I have fear i have trigged a “Morgana will remember that” moment and locked myself to a bad end or downer ending :|

[fightinggamegirlfriend]

how to tell people that shin megami tensei is that series that unapologetically features demons that have… more phallic designs than you would expect.

NOT that it’s a bad thing, but just when you first find out about it, it gives you a lot of whiplash and makes you double take a few times because you can’t believe this is real.

[fightinggamegirlfriend]

I don’t think I’m going to ship with anyone from the SMT series, aside from my already existing ship with sae niijima and even that’s persona related - and well… I haven’t exactly played persona 5. Yet. (I know feel free to throw tomatoes at me!)

[fightinggamegirlfriend]

I am coming to terms with the fact that SMT is a nearly 40 year old franchise who’s whole premise starts because a teenage boy who absolutely needed therapy decided to get revenge on his school, and apparently he decided to do so by summoning demons using a goddamn computer program of all things…

[fightinggamegirlfriend]

still only on the first dungeon of SMT4 but it’s kinda encouraged to grind a few levels before progressing and I was able to recruit three new demons which is neat. I think I’m slowly learning how that part of the game works, and apparently recruiting is mostly about appeasing to a demon’s personality which does take me a while to try and analyse what a demon wants when recruiting them. Although most of the time they seem very amused when you refuse them several times, like I recruited the Griffon, and he said that he liked my ‘iron will’ which made him join my team which was so funny to me.

I’m really enjoying the turn based loop, like sure it’s no different to Pokémon, but what makes it work is when you take advantage of an opponent’s weakness, you’re able to get an extra turn to use to perform an action. It’s pretty cool but you have to take every fight seriously even if it’s a low level demon.

[fightinggamegirlfriend]

would be kinda neat if atlus made an immersive sim, but then I realise those types of games don’t really sell well and they wouldn’t make a game like that, unless they were truly in a comfortable financial spot.

what I’m saying is think of the endless possibilities of having Deus Ex’s open ended exploration where any and all solutions to get into one heavily guarded location are available to you but with turn based combat mechanics of SMT.

[fightinggamegirlfriend]

I think the reason why I’m so drawn to SMT is because the their more current games have a similar visual aesthetic to grasshopper manufacture games, specifically killer7, killer is dead and the no more heroes series.

[fightinggamegirlfriend]

the funny thing is I actually don’t mind the turn based mechanic but also as a newbie it’s going to take a while to get familiar with its system mechanics esp. with stacking turns when taking advantage of other demon’s weaknesses.

but also unfortunately I am too scared to be mean to demons, even though from what I’ve read some of them actually like being insulted it’s so weird. There isn’t really an actual strategy to it, it’s just apparently RNG based, which does kill the vibe a bit. But at least I’m learning a little of what the actual proper correct response is when recruiting demons