#but am playing reload so

[pyururen]

Also i have found a new obsession

[marikodraws]

P3 protag studies based on his various character models 💙

[coffiishake]

NO SPOILERS PLEASE THANK YOU!!!

Mmm I love me a trio with shared trauma :)

[neymiiie]

Aigis

[kerto-p]

why is it harder to break items in the answer

[tired-demonspawn]

i was playing cyberpunk and it just seemed like a conversation they would have :)

inspiration under the cut

i was just replaying it man, actually kinda taking a break from my atla hyperfixation resurgence for some good old fashioned johnny silverhandin', but then these two braincell sharing disasters have this book-1-zuko-and-iroh ass conversation and i just had to draw it :)

[crescentfool]

i've been doing a bunch of tartarus runs in reload lately, and it got me thinking about how i miss certain ways FES's clunky gameplay can characterize minato… (ramble about the great clock mechanic + leveling up party members in reload vs fes under the cut)

when i got to yabbashah block in tartarus (block 3), i remember commending the developers for adding the great clock mechanic. it's a much more convenient way to keep party members at the protagonist's level- so when you think about p3 from the perspective of trying to make it easier for people to play, the mechanic succeeds in this respect.

but now that i'm in adamah block, and that i've done lots of my once-a-month tartarus runs… i think that i got a little too dependent on it, and the way that i played through reload feels like a vastly different experience from how i played FES.

in reload, my party's levels are very lopsided. minato, yukari, akihiko, mitsuru, and fuuka are all level 90+, meanwhile junpei and aigis are at level 79, and then… poor ken and koromaru are at 71 and 64 respectively. (i never got to have a great clock for them…)

meanwhile, in FES, my party's levels were much more evenly distributed and were at least level 90. i did all of this manually for every monthly tartarus run because i enjoyed having options available for the taratarus guardians and monthly operations.

with how i perceive minato, i feel that the way i played FES feels more in-line with his character than me dawdling around waiting for the great clocks in reload.

FES's gameplay loop left me with the very strong impression that minato has to work twice as hard as everyone else in SEES does. it makes sense because, yeah, he's the leader, but something about having minato run through tartarus multiple times with different groups of people just to make sure that they are adequately prepared speaks volumes about his character, to me.

and while the tired mechanic is present in reload to some degree, most notably with allowing you to freely raise your courage stat when you visit edogawa after school… the tiredness system doesn't hit the same way that FES does, i think.

the way your party members in FES will call it quits when they return to the entrance floor at tartarus when they're tired, versus minato, in spite of all his tiredness and sickness, still pushes through tartarus because it's his responsibility…. idk!!! i miss that! i feel like this really hammers home the difference between minato and the rest of SEES, how minato doesn't really see himself as a human with needs worth respecting as long as he's useful to someone.

i don't think that tartarus being tedious (in FES especially) is not what most people would describe as fun, and i can respect people thinking it's a slog. but, regardless of how it feels to play, it doesn't change that FES's gameplay loop is a fundamental building block in how i perceive minato…

of course, i do recognize that you can just opt to NOT use the great clock in reload (and it's great when players are offered the choice to not partake in mechanics)! i definitely think that if someone really wanted to, they could manually level up party members, but i do feel that kind of playstyle isn't necessarily "incentivized" to the type of people who are into playing games for Having a Good Time. it's kind of like… "why would you do that when there's a much more convenient option available to you."

in any case! despite my woes, i do want to emphasize that i'm glad that reload has a much more smoother gameplay loop than the original P3 did, because it does make the game more accessible to people. having played both FES and reload, it feels very strongly apparent to me how the core gameplay formula of persona has really been refined in the past 18 years (to think og p3 was 2006 and reload is 2024.. time flies!). and reload has made revisiting a story that i love so dearly much, much easier because the gameplay just bops!

at the same time, due to my "i miss characterization informed by weird and dated FES gameplay quirks" woes, i still think that playing FES is worthwhile. (really, i feel this way about all iterations of p3! i think it's worthwhile to see what each version and side media has to say even if it doesn't Land™ for you.) but i also understand why people wouldn't want to play it, so i will keep writing posts about things i liked from FES's gameplay because i'm still very fond of FES (especially in respects to minato. these mechanics are so telling about him!!!) 💪

[fadefromthelight]

I've been playing p3r and I am obsessed with Akihiko

here's the speedpaint if anyone is interested!

[robo-dino-puppy]

here's a return to sunfall (and blazon arch and the two carja gates near it)! the mod has been updated so there were no more endless loading screens when i recorded this :D makes exploring much more fun!

i'm not as excited about this thumbnail but it took a lot of super annoying work to set up so here's a(n unfortunately small) version without text:

[natjennie]

first lae'zel tries to kill me then some crazy hot dream lady tells me I'm supposed to save all of faerun by listening to the squid in my brain. guys. I'm only level three.

[thorcat]

BABY BABY BABY BABY BABY BABY

[dungeons-and-dragon-age]

HHHHHH

RENAN DID IT

BUT

WHAT THE FUCK

YOU CANT DO THIS TO ME

[possum-tooth]

when did minecraft update

[martritzvonmercie]

i love to play persona 3 reload and just imagine "this is what hamuko would have said here if it were her". if atlus won't add her i will. with the sheer power of my mind

[dwellermasked87]

Hello Persona Tumblr!! 👋👋

I finished playing my first Persona game (P5R) a bit ago and really enjoyed! It was a fucking blast! I loved it so much I’m doing a second play through for the true ending. But I want to plan on which Persona game I should play next. So I am leaving that option to you guys. 🫵

[bobzora]

happy international women's day