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Yeah. Basically, demons have invaded part of Tokyo. The Japanese Army (or whatever their official title is) has quarantined that part of Tokyo. Unfortunately, our intrepid protagonists are trapped in the quarantine zones, and have to find a way out.

Oh, and in seven days, they're going to bomb the hell out of that part of Tokyo, so our heroes only have a week to make their daring escape.

The kids have gaming systems, called Nintendo DS COMPS that can be used to summon and befriend demons.

I'm really disappointed in it. The character designs are so aggressively generic. Like, the girl with the Pocky? Why would you do that to us Atlus? Why? WHY?

The Persona 1 game is a dungeon crawler (YOU DON'T SAY) where you run through randomly generated dungeons. Chronologically, it occurs when the characters are whisked into the dark world, only instead of showing up at the school they find themselves in a WEIRD TOWER of somesort. 

scans: m e h

SRPG for the DS with really awful character designs. Most of the demons look like they'll just be reused Devil Summoner/Soul Hackers artwork.

How should we address Persona 2 in Japanese??

We can't use Innocent Sin to address P2 in English. I didn't realize it until now but that was just cooked up to correspond with "Eternal Punishment" it seems (I assumed it was at least a working title by Atlus USA) ...no offense to fan translators or tradition or anything, it's just not official -- and that's how we'll roll.

But... the Japanese version has "Innocent Sin" written in English text on the cover of the game, the title screen, and the spine of the jewel case.

All the male characters cross dress during a certain scene.

"Tarukajon"...?

This is an odd place to ask, but could someone explain how Devil unions work in the Devil Summoner games? You know, the setting, and if it is any different from the other games.

Victor has a mansion in Devil Summoner, and in Soul Hackers he has a cruise ship-shaped hotel.

You can fuse demons like in the old SMT games (ie, threeway fusions produce different demons  instead of just leveling the demon up like in Nocturne and Kuzunoha Raidou).

Sorry to stray offtopic (Youtubing)

Any idea what is going on here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFntNMe5ic8&feature=related

The game looks extremely sharp (especially for a Youtube vid)

It's in English (assuming it's patched)

And Lucifer and Satan are in the final fight with YHVH (Gamesharking?)

Could you even get Satan in your party?

Is this a Gameboy/Playstation remake?

Lucifer joins if you're aligned with Chaos, Satan joins if you're aligned with Law. They can't normally be in the same party (because their alignments are opposite), but the person that created that particular video used a gameshark/code breaker code to put them in the same party.

I'm going to try it out today after work. It seems they fixed the patch and the game works well. Gemini said something was missing in the game. Some Black Joker thing and some fusion button configuration? Who/what is the Black Joker?

There's artwork and a sprite for a form of the Joker that never appears in the game. In Eternal Punishment, you can select which fusion spells you want to perform from a list and it will automatically set it up (place characters in the correct order, etc). In Innocent Sin, you have to set them up manually.

[Abraxas]

Gnostic deity Abraxas and Babylonian goddess Ishtar in Devil Summoner.

I would like Ishtar more if her spell set didn't suck.

Now if only I could find a torrent of Devil Summoner World Guidance/Encyclopedia Britannica.

You mean this one..?




@_@

Yeah.  Actually I thought it had Soul Hackers information included, but apparently not? Oh well, thank you for scanning that in!

It's not a strategy guide, it's just a whole bunch of inspirations and cross references to various things in the games themselves.  It's like a scrap book for the whole process.  They're actually pretty interesting if completely unnecessary.

Yeah. Basically, they're like Wikipedia. Keep in mind these were published back before Wikipedia became the beast it is today.

Haha, oh wow. I actually own this book.

Now if only I could find a torrent of Devil Summoner World Guidance/Encyclopedia Britannica.

Persona 1's Mot is seriously the best Mot ever.

Necroma-ing this topic

The correct answer is Frost Five:


Well, Frost Five and Baal. Baal, why aren't you in 3D yet? Shame on you Atlus, shame on you.

http://www.luv2game.com/luv2game/index.html?fuseaction=news.shownews&news_id=68

I guess this is the most appropriate forum?