#tenseiposting

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).

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

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.

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.

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.