Super Happy Fun Failure time continues in my game of Persona 3:FES(on expert mode or hard mode or whichever the hell they call it in this game). Last time, our hero Him Him got frustrated with getting 2XP per fight and not having a compendenium, and committed hara-kiri with the aid of some tartarus boss or another.

-Wait it's only one night until the next full moon WHAT THE HELL...wait, this music isn't DANCE! I'M GONNA PUT YOU IN A TRANCE!...1/31? Oops, wrong save. (speaking of which, I wish P3 retained some memory of which save slot you loaded. I'm afraid I might end up accidently overwriting slot 1(which isn't the failure run) and it'll be ALL P3'S FAULT)
-ping! bam! to floor 10! TO THE DEATH WITH THE HANDS!
-Him's still looking cool in his summery MANLY DUDS
-Hey guys exploiting weaknesses helps you beat  bosses did you know that?
-Yay an entire 70 EXP for beating a floor boss. And mazio gems. And Orpheus' bitch ass finally got to level 4.
-Oh hey, the twins on the next floor have Zio and Mazio! Bye Him!
-Nekomata has no weaknesses, so equipping it is only logical. Even if it is a furry of some sort.
-I can get away with rushing enemies on a NEW FLOOR. Shameful it is.
-Holy shit the Juzumaru! I never found that fucking katana in the ENTIRETY OF MY PLAYTHROUGH the first(and only other) time around!
-WHY IS ASPARAS WEAK TO SLASH MY GOD. Scratch that bit about the Juzumaru. I can't wait to get axes/hammers so I can reliably hit shadows again. Also I should probably start paying more attention to the game than I am to my internets, but fuuuuuck Tartarus is BORING. And terrible for XP.
-Critical hit from the hands killed Him? FUCK JUST LET ME GET THROUGH FUCKING TARTARUS ALREADY I DON'T CARE ABOUT FUCKING TARTARUS ANYMORE IT IS THE WORST DUNGEON EVER AND I ALREADY WENT THROUGH IT ONCE.
-STOP KILLING ME I BEAT YOU GUYS TWICE ALREADY GO AWAY
-If I lose one more time I'm starting a NG+ and destroying EVERYTHING BY USING HELEL.
-Fuck Cadenza I am fusing Opheus and/or Asparas into something USEFUL
-OOPS HIM IS ONE LEVEL BELOW MOST OF THE GOOD STUFF ORPHEUS CAN MAKE. DID WE MENTION THAT HE'LL ONLY GET 2XP PER FIGHT IF HE'S LUCKY?
-WHAT WHY DID I DIE TO REGULAR HAND ENEMIES (it wasn't even an enemy advantage) I'M GOING TO RAPE YOUR MOTHER FOR THIS, PERSONA 3.
-You know, this game might not be so bad if you actually GAINED EXPERIENCE FROM FIGHTING. Then you could level up and fuse better personas. They call that better game "persona 4"
-Him goes solo on the lower floors in a misguided attempt to grind. Now he gets 6 xp per fight instead of 2 xp!
-Him is now tired from all that grinding. And I'm tired from Tartarus being a stupid dungeon, so let's get back to the fun part of the game, shall we?
-Oh hey Him is SICK. Yaaaay!
-Maya's online! Yaaaay! ...er, I mean, "have we met?"
-Hi small unsupervised girl at the shrine. Yeah, I'm a bad person! ...you're way too excited about meeting a bad person. Here, have an octopus ball...er, takoyaki. That always shuts the kids up reaaaaal good. Now make way for the Mad Bull! And now I have bribed a small child into wanting to be my friend. NO I CAN'T BE YOUR FRIEND...aw don't cry. :( Now she just calls me a meanie. I guess I'll hang with some old peeps instead.
-ENTER BEBE.
-Back to Tartarus. Bleh.
-Him Him leveled up to seven!  Yay!
-Fused Omoikane using Orpheus and Nekomata; fused a better Nekomata using Asparas and Pixie.
-14th floor! Time to look up what this thing's weaknesses are! Yaaaay!
-Dead. With only token help from Yukari, that elec-weak bitch.
-The blocade subtly reminds you that Tartarus is the night version of the school by being made of school desks.
-Kenji's nervous at lunchtime. Is he finally man enough to confess his love to me?
-A private lesson=sex or something. Ah, the minds of teenage boys. Maybe someday I'll have a penis and be able to understa...actually, I think I won't.
-Junpei pokes a tiny hole in the fourth wall by mentioning how ONLY PERSONA USERS can notice special effects on weapons/armor and the po-po doesn't so basically the game's trying to rationalize why you can't tell what the effects are until you buy something.
-And thus, Kenji begins his creepy habit of calling you WAY TOO DAMN MUCH.
-And he's bugging me at lunch again. I think I'm his only friend.
-It's Hitl...er, Hidetoshi. I think I'll take student council over reverse pedo.
-Hidetoshi is 100% Japan. PEOPLE NEED RULES TO CONFORM TO. ABOLISHING UNIFORMS IS FOOLISHNESS. NO EXPRESSION ALLOWED.
-Wait you can teleport back to your room from the save point WHY WAS I NOT INFORMED OF THIS?
-FIRST FULL MOON BOSS IS NOW.
-Mitsuru doesn't detect anything, which means that shit is about to go down.
-Priestess dies with ease.
-As a reward from stoping two trains of people from dying, Him gets to hang out with Reverse Pedo.
-Kenji's never kissed a girl before!
-Oooohhhh, NOW I get the goddamn Compendium. Thanks a lot for your stellar customer service, Liz.
-9,200 yen just to summon a base level orpheus is PERFECTLY reasonable! (no I didn't actually summon it)
-JACK FROST(with Dia)
-And I'm bored now. At least thing should get more interesting now that more s-links are opening up and Tartarus is getting more intere...and now that I'm learning to ignore 99% of Tartarus. It's not even legitimate hard, it's just that it varies between cheap(OHOHO YOU THOUGHT YOUR STRATEGY WOULD WIN? WE MADE YOU MISS AT A CRUCIAL MOMENT. Oh, and was that the enemy getting a critical on you?) and boring(hey look, all the shadows here are at least 5 levels below your level! Your prize for winning is 3 xp!). If Jeff and Vinny had done a P3 endurance run it'd be over already because Tartarus is THAT TERRIBLE. Did I mention that Tartarus sucks and I'm glad they included a proper variety of dungeons in P4 along with the ability to gain more than two levels a month? At least now I can get to more of what the failure run is about - failing tests and pissing off social links!

(ps. I do like P3 but god I forgot how terrible Tartarus was. Or maybe I didn't realize it since I hadn't played P4 yet.)