What Are You Playing (Fall 2012)

**bbobb** · 04 Dec 2012, 09:22 PM

I really wish they would bring the port of the second half of persona 2 to the us already. That or at least release the ps1 version of it

**Finch** · 05 Dec 2012, 06:20 AM

i am playing Hyper Dimension Neptunia Mk 2...

it's not a very good game. But it's also not terrible. And it's trying really hard to make you like it, you can just tell, and i like it because it's trying so hard.

There's an npc called "Saturn Sanshiro" and he's patiently waiting for the return of his beloved Purple CPU.

**Some Stupid Japanese Name** · 05 Dec 2012, 10:03 AM

I bought that game with the intention of playing but i couldnt find one person who ever said a nice thing about it aside from Lol People Named After Game Companies. So it sits unopened on the shelf. Unloved.

**Yoshi** · 05 Dec 2012, 10:07 AM

Originally Posted by Mzo

Yosh, when it comes to Persona 1 the flow is generally like get to a new area, find what makes every enemy type happy through trial and error or by looking it up, and get one of each of their cards. Once you have their cards combat gets easier. If you need to you can whittle down big groups by talking to the monster type you want to get rid of, they'll see you have their card, view you as friendly and run off. Then you can kill the rest for xp and whatnot. Once you're done leveling you can just go to the Velvet Room and mix up some shit. Just get a good mix of abilities in your group and you should be able to handle everything fine.

Originally Posted by No One

Yoshi, definitely follow Mzo's advice and just hang in there. The main quest is only about 20 hours long, and that's taking a fair amount of grinding into account. I played through all three games in preparation for 4 and it enhanced the experience. 3 and 4 have very tenuous ties to the preceding two games (for example, the Kirijo Group is an offshoot of the Nanjo Conglomerate), but they're there and easy to miss without comprehensive knowledge of Persona as a whole.

Thanks, guys. I'm definitely going to see it through. You might have noticed that I'm a stubborn son of a bitch. I don't own Persona 2 yet, so hopefully it'll go back on sale in 1Q some time after I am done with the original and Ni No Kuni. I have 3 already.

**Finch** · 05 Dec 2012, 08:19 PM

Originally Posted by Some Stupid Japanese Name

I bought that game with the intention of playing but i couldnt find one person who ever said a nice thing about it aside from Lol People Named After Game Companies. So it sits unopened on the shelf. Unloved.

Master Higgins opens the game by telling you to play in a well-lit room and not to sit too closely to your television and the intro is dripping with Inafune's bitterness. It's really more depressing than nice.

the dungeons are bad, the font they use for most of the text hurts my eyes, the music (except for the opening theme and the theme played when Nisa joins you) is unremarkable, the environments look like they were ripped from a Dreamcast game and the really nice looking character models move like PS2 characters, and it's really REALLY loli-tastic

but sometimes the dialogue makes me chuckle and the battles are actually kind of neat, and the characters are fun even if they're generic, and, most importantly

there are tsundere glasses for one of the characters.

Don't expect it to be a good game, but you might enjoy it anyway.