Satanic Pokemon Enthusiast

Where did we leave off, let's see... Beat the Emperor and Empress bosses, but when the shadows exploded it made a big chasm on the ground, splitting Riko, Yukari and Akihiko from the rest of the group. They decide to go into Meta-Tartarus the normal way through the stairs, while the rest goes through the plot convenient blue Monad door with eyes, hoping it'll warp them to the same place. No such luck, but found another of p5x's OCs, Shouki. I haven't met the guy in the main story yet, why does he talk like Mario

Upon confronting him it warps everyone to the Champs des Fleurs hotel, where after beating the hierophant boss and snapping Shouki back to his senses, the p3 crew warns the p5 underlings what is expected to happen next...

Oh no

Oh no. Who's in there. It can't be Fuuka, but if it's Mitsuru he might not survive. Could it possibly....

HAPPY PRIDE?

Shun is psychically compelled to clean the floor??

Options are: help him out/snap him out of it

He's embarrassed that he got mind controlled to clean but admits seeing things get cleaned just gives him a sense of satisfaction. Wonder can ask him to come clean his house then, to which he says stop making fun of him, but if Wonder genuinely needs help around the house he'll lend a hand.

Wonder tells Junpei the nice things SEES said about him when he wasn't here and he's very surprised. Awww guys. Yukaricchi has been localized to Yukariqin in Chinese, which is like "my bestie Yukari" awwwww guysss

Aigis and Koromaru shows up to save everyone from a swarm. P5x underlings react appropriately to a robot and a dog being Mitsuru's employees

They keep doing this!! Ominous motherfucker I know you know!!!

They find Motoha and Tomoko in a cognitive illusion again. Motoha, bless her, is secretly smarter than everybody else and already knows it's an illusion, she just doesn't know how to break it. After some discussion they conclude whoever controls Meta-Tartarus wants them to play baseball.

Joyfully, the writers did not forget that drama CD where due to Chidori's unintentional magic, Junpei keeps having dreams where he's playing baseball but Aigis is the pitcher using her grenade launcher to pitch speeds up to 300km/hr. But it made him sad ... More extremely pointed foreshadowing that maybe this DOESN'T take place pre Oct 4 2009 but maybe Jan or even Feb 2010 for the p3 crew... Was not expecting a drama cd reference, of all things.

After baseball game they got teleported to Escapade where cognitive Tomoko got hurt, which leads to Motoha losing control of her emotions and that awakened the hermit boss. They beat that, Motoha joins. Blue door teleports them to the dorm, where I had accidentally played before doing any of this in order 😂. Mitsuru establishes nap rotation schedule.

Other plot stuff, is the eyes on the blue monad door go dim when a full moon boss is defeated. They noticed two more eyes have gone dim, and they have jumped from Hierophant and Lovers to Hermit, which means Justice and Chariot must've been defeated by someone else. It wasn't Aigis, Koromaru or Motoha who did it, which means it's gotta be Riko, Yukari and Akihiko. But.... After losing contact with them, they've only reestablished very staticy contact with Riko, and can hear Yukari for a few words. Hmmmm...

Ken shows up during a tower boss, and the p5x underlings react appropriately to Kirijo group employing child labor

Because each p3 main story event is titled, I can see before playing them what they will be about. It'll be a few scenes further introducing Ken, get to the bottom of where Laufel is being held hostage and if it has anything to do with the psychic magic going on. It definitely does.

However, the segments where Shinjiro is getting introduced are labeled "SIDE" instead of "EXPLORE" or "STORY" SO................. Knowing what's established,

- p3 characters were able to resist the reality warping psychic attacks both by being in Tartarus (used to it) and by keeping themselves grounded by being near each other. Basically they reality check by seeing how the others are doing, and if their wishes manifest, it would be incongruous with being in Tartarus, snapping them back to reality pretty quickly. (Unless of course, their wish is to be in Tartarus.... Cough cough)

- if they are isolated there is a chance they would fall to the same reality warping delusions p5x characters fell under. They have mostly been found in pairs, or just got here.

- the Fortune and Strength boss is the Oct 4th boss, to be fought at the end of this chapter. I SEE IT IN THE TITLE. The p3 characters have made NO indication of not knowing which full moon boss comes next.

- Tartarus has an Adamah section. It's modeled out and playable in the side play grinding mode. Why would they know what the Adamah section look like if not in January.

- did Akihiko get fucking separated from Yukari and Riko and manifest Shinjiro

This fcking door looks too damn similar to another door with eyes on it for me to be ok with this bro

"FIVE OF THEM?!"

"There's a huge stain over there. It's probably the clean up crew here to take care of it."

Shouki... Two coffins are on top of each other on the bed....

>" the coffins are upside down?!"

> "so there are techniques like this...!"

They go on a mini tangent wondering if it's comfortable to be in a coffin like that, if the blood is pooling in the people's heads and if they should flip them around for their safety.

"After some discussion, we have decided to respect other people's rights to their own fate, and will not interfere with the coffins..." P5x said no kinkshaming, we don't know their life

Takaya's scampy lil tattoo really enhancing this scene

I was joking that since the MC still hasn't gotten a silly outfit we should get to wear Shinjiro's silly outfits since he's not here to wear them anymore. But I wasn't expecting them to let you equip his regular stuff? Nothing changes cosmetically since they're different slots now but uh. Putting his shoes on Akihiko like I'm Good Witch of Oz or something. I haven't watched Wicked.

It's mind boggling how much custom assets are in this game that people wouldn't even notice. Anglophone players especially wouldn't notice because they're all in Japanese and exist as background elements. Not all of it is important like, the drinks in the vending machines are the right colors and shapes of the drinks they are parodying, and some are actually pretty pointed environmental storytelling. The Torii gates at the shrine has prayers stuck all over it for traffic safety, for example (amongst others, but the traffic safety ones are the biggest). I'm STILL trying to figure out which painting the flying babies was from the July mission (I think it's one of the variants of Triumph of Galatea??? But idk). I only started really paying attention after noticing the painting of Le Cyclops from that mission, like oh, someone on the asset creation team GETS it and is putting in easter eggs.

(also as far as I've seen p5x hasn't reused ANY of it? Not even the sports posters for use in the schools. They're straight up out here grinding custom assets most people wouldn't even notice. I'm glad the junior staff are getting paid I guess? Is this why p3r was so expensive to make?)

People have basically posted the entire art book on rednote, and unfortunately it's mostly the finished artwork you already see in the game, not much concept art or dev notes. Except on the page for drafts for the cover, the layout makes so abundantly clear the rejected concept was the one they liked more. And I agree, it's bold and creepy and it fucks. Dev notes said they tried a few things after ruminating on the themes of the story but were ultimately told to go in a more energetic, shounen direction. Presumably because marketing was going for the P5 audience 😔.

In the UI page there was a dev note on the icons for the fatigue management system that went ultimately unused and I'm crushing a glass bottle in my hands. Looking at the little bit of concept art for Tartarus too - they were much creepier. Let p3 be horror plsss it wants to be horror so bad

It really nailed the writing in the added content I think. Summed up, it's characters getting existential while doing chores. Which, big mood, but also a nice throughline of them has been appreciating that even the mundane has meaning when someone helps you out, and you can find little joys in that. There's no stupid slapstick mean spirited OOC humor which is SUCH a relief from whatever that was going on in p4 and p5's "funny" scenes. The humor in the added content is like, aw Ken fell asleep at the dining table so Aigis and mc carried him to his room. Junpei barking sadly because he'd rather be a dog than do exams, and everyone's been sad lately. Akihiko suggesting the juniors boss Shinjiro around if he's gonna keep skipping class since they'll be in the same grade. It's mostly the dormmates noticing one of them needs help, and doing something endearing to help. It's nice and enforces the story. Especially during the September month, where everything the seniors and Ken personally says are subtly but deeply concerning, while everything that's happening on the surface has a railrolling of optimism that really highlights and foreshadows what's about to happen 👌

Uh back to dumb shit. I've started playin with a 3 person party limit, AND everyone on Act Freely because merciless still wasn't hard enough. And it still isn't. I know I'm p3 Georg but at this point I need that fatigue mechanic back. Why isn't this game kicking me in the dick on the "please kick me in the dick" difficulty

The first is a French painting from 1914 by Odilon Redon called The Cyclops.

The only results are chinese image libraries, which are very unhelpful and don't even link to the image. It did come up with this full version, though.

The next is Liberty Leading the People. These specific colours comes from here.

The next is portraying the baptism of Jesus, and there are a lot. Weirdly, there are a lot very similar to this, but slightly different. The closest is this, but the colours are slightly off. It seems to be this one.

This one's by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo.

Here's another similar one.

This one's by Francesco Trevisani.

Where did we leave off, let's see... Beat the Emperor and Empress bosses, but when the shadows exploded it made a big chasm on the ground, splitting Riko, Yukari and Akihiko from the rest of the group. They decide to go into Meta-Tartarus the normal way through the stairs, while the rest goes through the plot convenient blue Monad door with eyes, hoping it'll warp them to the same place. No such luck, but found another of p5x's OCs, Shouki. I haven't met the guy in the main story yet, why does he talk like Mario

Upon confronting him it warps everyone to the Champs des Fleurs hotel, where after beating the hierophant boss and snapping Shouki back to his senses, the p3 crew warns the p5 underlings what is expected to happen next...

Oh no

Oh no. Who's in there. It can't be Fuuka, but if it's Mitsuru he might not survive. Could it possibly....

HAPPY PRIDE?

Shun is psychically compelled to clean the floor??

Options are: help him out/snap him out of it

He's embarrassed that he got mind controlled to clean but admits seeing things get cleaned just gives him a sense of satisfaction. Wonder can ask him to come clean his house then, to which he says stop making fun of him, but if Wonder genuinely needs help around the house he'll lend a hand.

Wonder tells Junpei the nice things SEES said about him when he wasn't here and he's very surprised. Awww guys. Yukaricchi has been localized to Yukariqin in Chinese, which is like "my bestie Yukari" awwwww guysss

Aigis and Koromaru shows up to save everyone from a swarm. P5x underlings react appropriately to a robot and a dog being Mitsuru's employees

They keep doing this!! Ominous motherfucker I know you know!!!

They find Motoha and Tomoko in a cognitive illusion again. Motoha, bless her, is secretly smarter than everybody else and already knows it's an illusion, she just doesn't know how to break it. After some discussion they conclude whoever controls Meta-Tartarus wants them to play baseball.

Joyfully, the writers did not forget that drama CD where due to Chidori's unintentional magic, Junpei keeps having dreams where he's playing baseball but Aigis is the pitcher using her grenade launcher to pitch speeds up to 300km/hr. But it made him sad ... More extremely pointed foreshadowing that maybe this DOESN'T take place pre Oct 4 2009 but maybe Jan or even Feb 2010 for the p3 crew... Was not expecting a drama cd reference, of all things.

After baseball game they got teleported to Escapade where cognitive Tomoko got hurt, which leads to Motoha losing control of her emotions and that awakened the hermit boss. They beat that, Motoha joins. Blue door teleports them to the dorm, where I had accidentally played before doing any of this in order 😂. Mitsuru establishes nap rotation schedule.

Other plot stuff, is the eyes on the blue monad door go dim when a full moon boss is defeated. They noticed two more eyes have gone dim, and they have jumped from Hierophant and Lovers to Hermit, which means Justice and Chariot must've been defeated by someone else. It wasn't Aigis, Koromaru or Motoha who did it, which means it's gotta be Riko, Yukari and Akihiko. But.... After losing contact with them, they've only reestablished very staticy contact with Riko, and can hear Yukari for a few words. Hmmmm...

Ken shows up during a tower boss, and the p5x underlings react appropriately to Kirijo group employing child labor

Because each p3 main story event is titled, I can see before playing them what they will be about. It'll be a few scenes further introducing Ken, get to the bottom of where Laufel is being held hostage and if it has anything to do with the psychic magic going on. It definitely does.

However, the segments where Shinjiro is getting introduced are labeled "SIDE" instead of "EXPLORE" or "STORY" SO................. Knowing what's established,

- p3 characters were able to resist the reality warping psychic attacks both by being in Tartarus (used to it) and by keeping themselves grounded by being near each other. Basically they reality check by seeing how the others are doing, and if their wishes manifest, it would be incongruous with being in Tartarus, snapping them back to reality pretty quickly. (Unless of course, their wish is to be in Tartarus.... Cough cough)

- if they are isolated there is a chance they would fall to the same reality warping delusions p5x characters fell under. They have mostly been found in pairs, or just got here.

- the Fortune and Strength boss is the Oct 4th boss, to be fought at the end of this chapter. I SEE IT IN THE TITLE. The p3 characters have made NO indication of not knowing which full moon boss comes next.

- Tartarus has an Adamah section. It's modeled out and playable in the side play grinding mode. Why would they know what the Adamah section look like if not in January.

- did Akihiko get fucking separated from Yukari and Riko and manifest Shinjiro