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    Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth

    Game » consists of 5 releases. Released Jun 05, 2014

    A dungeon crawler-RPG with chibi-versions of characters from both Persona 3 and Persona 4 for the Nintendo 3DS. It is directed by Etrian Odyssey IV director, Daisuke Kanada.

    Atlus says not to spoil Persona Q, so spoiler thread.

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    After playing for a while I thought some people would like a thread where spoilers could be freely posted.

    Here are my impressions after playing through the first Labyrinth:

    It takes a while for the player to gain access to the other Persona team.

    The way Atlus writes around not giving Igor new lines is becoming pretty annoying.

    Minato/Makoto is an asshole (yet not as much as he was in the movie).

    Yu's personality is paper-thin.

    Everyone has the wildcard ability.

    I'm pretty sure Shinjiro knows he's supposed to be dead.

    Everyone bullies Theodore.

    I'll post more as I advance in the story, but if anyone has any questions I'd be happy to answer them.

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    So far, does anything seem like need-to-know story wise?

    Overall OST good?

    What is the percentage split of Character Interaction and Etrian Odyssey gameplay so far?

    Is Ken still a fucking stupid motherfuckerNot great character?

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    It sounds like it does a poor job of upholding the best part of persona games(the writing).

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    It sounds like it does a poor job of upholding the best part of persona games(the writing).

    Makes sense, considering the Etrian Odyssey games aren't exactly marvels of story telling, but rather incredibly compelling dungeon delvers with amazing music.

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    @turambar said:
    @yi_orange said:

    It sounds like it does a poor job of upholding the best part of persona games(the writing).

    Makes sense, considering the Etrian Odyssey games aren't exactly marvels of story telling, but rather incredibly compelling dungeon delvers with amazing music.

    Yep, which leads my into my question:

    Exactly how much like Etrian Odyssey is this? Is it really EO with a Persona skin? Do you have to teleport back to town or equivalent to refill SP, buy stuff, sleep, etc, or do you just keep moving through floors?

    Also, how much story does this game have? Does it back off and let me dungeon dive without running into overly long text boxes too often or is it really story heavy? SMT Strange Journey was pretty adamant about being a story-driven first person dungeon crawler and it got pretty annoying.

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    @believer258: You have to make your own maps. There are F.O.Es. There are front and back rows and random battles with monsters you don't see on the map. There seems to be a long story segment every floor sometimes more than one.

    @viciousbearmauling: I'm not sure what you mean by "need-to-know story wise". OST is great yet seems to be a little to repetitive. While in the dungeons the characters never seem to shut up. Ken is still the fucking worst.

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    what is that girl eating ?

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    #8  Edited By Corevi

    I only have one question, is it completely non-canon or is there a reason why all these people who are dead aren't?

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    #9  Edited By Bocam
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    @bocam said:

    @believer258: You have to make your own maps. There are F.O.Es. There are front and back rows and random battles with monsters you don't see on the map. There seems to be a long story segment every floor sometimes more than one.

    Fucking sold day 1 take my money.

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    #11  Edited By Justin258

    @turambar said:

    @bocam said:

    @believer258: You have to make your own maps. There are F.O.Es. There are front and back rows and random battles with monsters you don't see on the map. There seems to be a long story segment every floor sometimes more than one.

    Fucking sold day 1 take my money.

    Same here. I'll power through the story stuff, I guess.

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    Why exactly aren't they replacing Igor if they're not gonna give him any new lines? I get that his Japanese voice actor died, and that it's disrespectful to replace the voice actor with someone else, so why not just get rid of the character and put in someone new?

    Also, everything you said has made me less likely to buy this game. I knew it was by the duders who made Etrian Odyssey, but I was hoping it was a bit more Persona-like than what you're describing.

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    #13  Edited By sawtooth

    I'm down with the idea that Shinjiro knows he's suppose to be dead. It'd be cool if Akihiko and maybe Koromaru acknowledged it too.

    Also wondering if they give any reasoning for the return of P3 protagonist.

    Dammit, this game is going to get me to buy a 2DS isn't it?

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    So it's definitely personetrian odyssey then? Sold.

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    The main characters always had paper think character traits because they were you. I'm not surprised and am fine with it.

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    What do you think of the new characters? They can't use Personas, right, so are they even good on the team or are they more there for the story?

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    #17  Edited By Bocam

    Persona X Catherine edition

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    This game is really dumb

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    #18  Edited By DeadpanCakes

    I think I already spoiled most of my interest in the game by watching the opening and listening to the P4 version of the battle theme, both of which put a huge smile on my face despite not being crazy about the dude's vocals in the latter ("something something more like panorama/something something going gorilla's bananas" is all I hear)

    Still, if I get a 3ds when Monster Hunter comes out, I'll probably just end up getting this game at some point.

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    So, what do they do as far as names go? Like, if you choose the Persona 3 protagonist do they just use a default name for the Persona 4 protagonist, or do you input a name for him?

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    So, what do they do as far as names go? Like, if you choose the Persona 3 protagonist do they just use a default name for the Persona 4 protagonist, or do you input a name for him?

    You name both

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