#maybe a spinoff in that time is ok if you MUST keep that video game money rolling in. since those are at least partially outsourced

[prismit]

ok, beat scarlet! final, spoiler-free thoughts:

i wish they’d held off on releasing it for at least a year, both for the devs’ sake, and so that we could have gotten a fully finished, polished game. but even with its flaws, i really loved it and i think it’s my new favorite main series game!! the story is the best they’ve done since gen 5 imo (though gen 5 definitely hasn’t been dethroned, and i don’t think it ever will). also i love the sub-legendaries, they’re so cool.

[sillyfudgemonkeys]

My stance on P5 (cause apparently I need to explain myself :/)

So someone just told me someone was vagueing about me on the confessions blog (can’t say my name cause it’s against the rules but they’ll try to get as specific as they can 🙃 if you have issues just be a real anon hater and send to my inbox directly you coward). And I’m not going to do a reblog to that post, because I’m pretty sure that person must be on my blog. Because the post they were vagueing me about was......not tagged.....in the P5 tagged (I did not tag it as P5 nor Persona 5), it was just a post that was on my blog (now if it showed up in the tag or search I dunno why but I didn’t tag it for P5 for a gd reason cause I keep it to my blog). The post was me pointing out how P5 when they first enter Futaba’s dungeon they didn’t have shoes on, but after the cutscene they DID. The post was more comical (with me getting salty in the tags, but then you’d have to go out of your way to read my tags). And tbh, I’m half and half, yeah I know it’s a nitpick, and I’d just chalk it up to an animation error and let it go usually, but it’s P5 and that game is already inconsistent with it’s plot/world building/characters/anything important that I’m like “nah I’mma rag on it cause it’s just one more thing they screwed up” so I’m like half let it go and half rag on it (fun fact, when I saw they didn’t have shoes on I was gonna make a post saying “hey look this is cool, nice attention to detail” and then they messed it up literally 2 seconds later so dklsjf;afa yeah). (oh and btw, it wasn’t just “one” character, it was the whole PT cast at the time 8U” at least get it right 8U)

But the thing is......that was just a post on my blog, I’m not me berating the P5 tag. So that means you, person who vagued me, tend to go on my PERSONAL BLOG. So like....why are you on here? No, don’t ask me about me and P5, I will answer that, but you answer why are you bothering looking at my personal blog? Is it cause of certain content I post? Then just blacklist certain tags (like my “silly plays” tag cause nothing really interesting happens in that tag, or my more negative “persona problems” type tags), I know I need to be better at tagging my asks, but if you like my original content then just.....go to the OG content tags (aka videos/pictures/edits/coloring)? That way you avoid anything not made by me? Or if you don’t have a reason and you’re just here to be mad cause someone doesn’t like your game, then block me. You don’t seem to like me, so just....why are you here? You seem to want to ask why I’m here with P5, and I have my reasons, but if you don’t have a reason to be on my blog then why are you on it?

I’m not saying this to be mean, but I don’t want to be policed, esp if someone is going to be hypocritical about it. And it’s annoying to see vaguing (cause imo you are as bad as someone who sends anon hate, but you don’t have the balls to just send it to me directly XP)

Ok now where’s my stance on P5? I don’t like it, but it’s a part of a larger series and lore which I do LOVE! Which means, considering I’m a LORE WHORE, it doesn’t feel right to just skip a game esp if it could contain info about the MegaTen/Persona lore (or even Character lore) I want to know. In fact, I really hate it when I’m talking lore with someone and if expanded info is brought up from a side game they are like “Oh I didn’t play that game so it’s not canon” No Bethany, just because YOU didn’t play a game doesn’t mean it’s not canon. And no, no one is bullying you over the fact you didn’t play it, you just don’t like being wrong and the person was like “Ok well it IS canon and it’s in the game, you don’t have to play it but you.....can’t ignore this fact, also why are you arguing this part of the lore when it’s heavily established in said game you ignored???? I mean you do you but don’t get mad when someone corrects you. No one’s forcing you to do anything.” Ahhhhrrrrgggh so many convos I’ve seen happen, I’m not going to be on the end that I hate. DX<

Also, P5 is not the entire Persona fandom, so while I put up with it and indulge in it by association, it doesn’t have the ownership of the fandom (like with all the original games+ spinoffs+all remakes/ports and P5S/P5R included, but not mobile games, it’s only 23% of all of Persona in terms of game entries, and that’s overlapping with crossover games, and if we included other stuff P5 is def a minor aspect in terms of entries). It’s not that hard, I’m just a bigger all around Persona fan than I am a Persona 5 critic (I don’t want to say hater, because it feels like it sounds like I’m hating it just to hate it, when really it was a game I was excited for and loved and then it just burned me bad and I’m just dealing with the scorn). Always keep in mind, I loved P5 before I hated it, it’s probably why I’m as salty about it as I am, because I love P5′s potential and....I was just let down (it wasn’t unrealistic expectations, like I said earlier, P5 contradicts itself.....all over the place, it’s hard to ignore and it’s not something that was as big of an issue, or even an issue at all, in other games). 

Why do I still post P5 stuff when I don’t like P5 (by which I mean...posting about the OG manga raws, or wanting to do a partial game to anime dub or even would be willing to help with editing a fandub for the anime)? Because I remember being a newbie Persona/Megaten fan, getting into the series, and wanting to know more about it and it’s side materials but then not being able to have access it any of it (because it was still prettty niche when I first joined and I had no money at the time). I want to give people access to it! Sure it’s harder for me to now to devote time to it (than it was a few years ago), but I want to help with giving access to this Persona/Megaten stuff now that I have some ability! And it also means P5 as well gets some of that love. 8U

As for why I was replaying P5, so this is one thing that’s making me wonder if you are a regular on my blog or not because I’ve been talking about playing the Korean version (but in my one post I forgot to type “silly plays P5/Persona 5 KOREAN” so yeah I forgot to specify Korean at the end). So tbh....I’m actually ignoring P5′s writing while I play (cause I’m just going through the gameplay motions), cause I don’t know korean. 8U And I’m mostly using that tag as a means to point out different things in the korean ver (no that much, but yes Ryu’s shoes ARE censored 8U). But why? Well.....I talk about it here and there but anon/person....1) I’m a trophy whore, I love plat trophies and P5′s is super easy I can get it (and I’m not above playing bad games, oh yeah burn, I’ve played a lot of bad games for plats, and I’ve also played the same games multiple times for plats, I do this to myself but really I don’t mind replaying P5 4+ times for 4+ plats esp since I don’t really have to pay attention). 2) I’m a big MegaTen/Persona collector, I want all the plats I can have (I plan on platting the other versions of the all the dancing games on Vita and PS4, P4G, and the versions of Catherine I don’t have, like I legit have a gd excel sheet keeping track of the versions of Megaten games I don’t have yet....I’m just doing P5 cause it’s 1) one of the easiest to do and 2) it was easier to get my hands on them atm). I don’t talk about my trophy hunting on here that much tbh, but that’s.....really a big reason why I’m doing it (plus with the Korean/CHinese ver I don’t have to pay attention to any story so it’s all good! :D) Yeah I do it to myself, but I don’t really mind. 8U And I mean I tend to keep most of my P5 issue on my blog too. I think the only two posts that I put in the P5 tag were 1) a few consistency issues I wanted to meme about (aka the I’m about to head out post, which was actually the 2nd post I made on that topic but I decided to just meme that one, so I thought it was better than me just bitching, at least I tried to make it a bit funny yet informational 8U), and 2) something that I tbh had an issue since I back when I liked P5 (aka wishing they worked on speeding up the loading times and the fast forward feature), so since I was playing the game I was like “That reminds me, man I hope they fix this in the re-release!”. As for english P5, the only reason I’ll be playing P5 OG in english is for either archiving reasons or research reasons (probably both at once so I don’t have to play through it more than once again).

As for P5R, uhhhhh I’m excited for Kasumi (Jose is cool too, and the new dungeon has me interested too, and all the P2 demons coming back to it makes me wonder what else is/if anything is coming back), she’s my main draw. Yeah it’s connected to P5R, but she looks so much like Hamuko I JUST HAVE TO KNOW WHAT’S UP WITH HER! Hamuko’s my girl, and I need to know if Atlus is going to do something with that, or if I need to be pissed for them literally lifting Hamu’s face! Am I gonna get pissy about P5R’s new add-ons (aka, I’m aware that P5R is probably going to keep the issues from OG P5, so I’mma just judge P5R based on it’s new content)? Yeah, if they kept up the same writing P5 OG had. So yeah, I’m probably going to get pissy if they eff it up, but I’m not going in pissy, going in with really low expectations tbh, but I’m giving it a chance. But if they don’t eff up the new stuff then......that’s good! It means they did something right. So far Kasumi is not Marie so we’re off to a good start. I’m hoping the keep that momentum. 8U

So yeah, I think I have valid reasons for staying, maybe you don’t like it anon/person, but they are there. 

tldr; someone feels like the need to police me despite the fact they could just ignore me (even tho it seems like they specifically came to my blog to get mad, rather than me clogging up the tag, like I post there maybe once or twice every 2 months). My stance on P5 is that I deal with it cause it’s part of a bigger fandom I’m a part of and the fact I love the lore of that bigger fandom so it’s not like I can ignore it. I also have a Playstation trophy problem. 8U And I’m excited for Kasumi is that so bad???? (also I didn’t mention it, but Anne/Haru are enough to keep me around 8U)

[mysticdragon3md3]

Persona 5 Scramble Can't Stop Breaking Sales Records!! by  Spencer Pressly

This vid is a little old (12/3/2020), so it doesn’t discuss the P5S Western release announced on 12/8/2020.  But I didn't know P5S sold *this* well, before even coming to the West.  O.o!  

Video Game Story Time quoted some Sega executives talking about how they've been trying to convince Atlus, for the longest time, that they should re-release more of their past games and to more platforms.  I hope the sales on P5S finally prove to Atlus that they should take Sega's suggestion.  

Though I disagree with the strategy of not getting our hopes up until the official publisher talks about localization.  Even before the retrospect of P5S already being announced for Western release, so many times, Sega or Atlus West or Japanese companies in general have cited that _fanbase demand_ is a big reason why things happen.  It's why releases happen and why merch gets made.  Those companies need to convince their investors and/or collaborators that certain products/actions are worth their effort and WILL make money.  And that is mostly evident through _fanbase demand_.  That means, yelling on Twitter, tagging the companies, filling out product request forms, filling out surveys (Remember that Atlus survey a while ago?), and KEEPING OUR HOPES UP.  If asking and requesting for a company to sell us a thing makes other people in the fandom impatient---THEN GOOD.  Maybe inciting more people to yell along with us will be enough to convince companies to sell us what we want to give our money for.  They've admitted enough already.  They want to know what we'll buy from them.  Let's just tell them.  I don't see anything wrong with making other people impatient.  (I only see problems with people complaining about fans telling companies our requests.  Aw, our requests cluttering up your algorithm-tailored timelines customized to only your personal interests?  Get over it!  Not everything on the internet has to be exactly what you’re interested in, with all else cut out, lest it offend your spoiled eyes! There are going to be more things on the internet besides your personal interests!  If you don't like people telling a company that wants our money, what we would give them our money for, then ignore it!  Sorry, but I'm so tired of randos commenting hate when fans comment to Atlus's social media about what games we want from them, and I'm so tired of spoiled figure collectors complaining whenever a figure/character gets announced for a series that they're not specifically a fan of.  These have been problems for too long a time!)  

But this surprise at P5S's popularity/success, based on a presumption that P5's other spinoff ventures predicted a trend, seems kind of off.  I mean each of those things had something working against it.  Persona 5 Dancing Star Night was a dancing game in the late 2010's.  Do people still play dancing games besides the super-casual family gamers, looking for party games?  The Persona 5 franchise attracted fans with a craving for deep character attachments and story experiences.  I'm not sure dancing games overlap much with such an audience.  And sure Persona 4 Dancing All Night probably did well or at least ok, but it was released when dancing games were more widely popular (I even played Bust a Groove back then!)---I take it back; P4D released in 2015; Bust a Groove was 1998.  P4D released when dancing games were no longer the novelty and it probably made its sales more on fandom loyalty to character attachment and story affinity.   But now even proud Persona fans are shy to admit they bought P4D.  P4D was a must-play because it actually continued the story.  And we all want that.  Anyone attached to these characters would have bought any game that continues the story.  Hell, that's why I was excited to buy Persona 5 Dancing Star Night.  That's why I was disappointed to find it not only didn't continue P5's story, but all its events occurred within a dream and none of the characters would remember any of their interactions in it!  Same with Persona Q2.  I can't remember if it turned out to give everyone amnesia at the end, so they wouldn't remember the events of PQ2, but a similar amnesia happened in the original Persona Q, and wouldn't be unexpected in PQ2.  So, that's one damper.  But the biggest damper was that PQ2 was on the Nintendo 3DS.  No one was playing that system anymore!  So that's why PQ2 didn't sell well.  And we all know Persona 5 the Animation not only had bad animation quality, but it just didn't live up to the coolness of the game.  Even the All-Out Attack finishing art was somehow made un-cool.  And all the cleverness and sass implied in the game's 3rd dialogue options?  Nope!  Totally passed over so Ren Amamiya could remain a blank audience avatar, even though you don't need that for an anime series!!!!!  Some things needed for videogames don't need to be in anime adaptations!  X~X;;;;;;;;;;;;;;  So that's three whole Persona 5 spinoff projects that each had individual problems going against them.  All problems that Persona 5 Scramble doesn't have.  P5S continues the story, is not a gaming genre that people are embarrassed to buy, doesn't have terrible animation, and comes on platforms that people actually want to play on.  

[voiceactinguk]

5M/3F for "Astrocreep" spinoff

Hello, I'm looking for 5 male character positions and 3 female character positions for an "Astrocreep" spinoff I'm developing. If you don't know, "Astrocreep" is a point 'n click adventure game series where the player helps an alien kill people and evolve, similar to "the visitor". This game, "Aquacreep", is a spinoff game, cannon to the series, but completely it's own separate thing. In that, I mean to say it's in the same universe, and that's where the similarities get frayed. This game is NOT a "Point 'n Click" but more of a sidescroller/mystery game. See the following gameplay footage to get the best idea: Not shown in that video is how the creature takes a human form, the form of it's victim, and masquerades as a human. Yes, this is a "The Thing" type of story. The basis is that the player (Dean) must hunt, identify, and kill the "Aquacreep" to win the game. The identity of the monster changes at random, and the player must talk to other npc's ( any of which could BE the aquacreep in disguise and kill at any time ) and look for clues to determine who is who, and what is what. So The video does most of the heavy lifting here, I will list the characters and leave an email address, if you are interested please send me an audition or if you have questions feel free to ask. THIS IS NOT A PAID GIG. You will however receive credit for your work in the game, and the opening swimming sequence is designated to have the player swim pass the "credits" like in a movie. So you will be credited "upfront". Now, onto the characters: Backstory: The game takes place on an ocean research center stationed 30 nautical miles from the nearest landmass. There is a tropical storm about to hit the facility and the characters are preparing for it. They plan to have a party to wait out the storm. These are trained professionals just cutting lose during the storm, and silently an alien infiltration is taking place. REFER TO THE VIDEO TO SEE ALL CHARACTERS IN ACTION MALE ROLES: Player (Dean): This character is the protagonist. The player's avatar.He's one of the diver's that do field work for the ocean research facility. Audition Line: "Storm's definitely rolling in. Looks like it's gonna be a rough one. You need a hand with anything out here?" Steve: The medical practitioner. He assist Isabel, the lead scientist, in the lab on experiments. Audition Line: "Should be a pretty heavy storm, the radar was showing a lot of red. We'll be fine though, the institute keeps our preparations pretty thoroughly stocked." Thomas: The dive boat captain. He drives the divers out to locations to collect ocean info. Audition Line: "Well, I better get my shit together here before it lets loose on us. My guess is it's gonna last all night, maybe longer." Trevor: Security Specialist. He runs the security for the facility. Audition Line: "I'm not worried about it, just gonna get my drink on with the rest of ya'll and chill out 'till it's over.May be a lot of rain, but it's still just water.Nothing to get all excited about." Shawn: Diver. He recovers specimens and records data from the ocean for the facility. Audition Line: "But yea this party is gonna be rad, man. Everyone I've talked to about it is pretty amped. Isabel seemed a little bummed, but I guess that's just because she'd rather spend the night with her sea slugs. Hey, more alcohol for us, right?" FEMALE ROLES: Rebecca: Lead diver. She recovers specimens and records data from the ocean for the facility. In charge of the equipment and diveplans. Audition Line: "Hey by the way, you heard the crew is meeting up in the rec room for the storm, right? I'll be the one getting drunk off my ass, so come have a beer with me later, ok?" Isabel: Lead Scientist. Head of research department. In love with her work. Serious. Audition Line: "I suppose. This storm is most inconvenient, the timing couldn't be worse. We were making excellent headway on the project and now we have to put it all on hold to prep the facility before it hits." Uma: Technician. Handles technical functions for the facility. Mildly psychic. Audition Line: "But it's not just the storm, I just have this...unnerving feeling...like something bad is about to happen. I can't explain it, like there's the storm, but then, I don't know, this other feeling...like something isn't quite right..." I don't mean to be intentionally skimpy with the character details, but I intend for the story to play out based on the idea that the player will be focusing on the identity crisis plot point. The characters are "open to interpretation", give me your take. The main point is on the story beats, like if you talk to a character and see things they say, and base your assumption on who is really a shapeshifter off the information you get in conversations. The npc's that BECOME SHAPESHIFTERS is RANDOMIZED. The game is intended to play out differently each time, so after the ( video ) first chapter, all bets are off. I'd like to wrap this audition up in a week's time so let's say the deadline is next Friday, AUGUST 25TH. If interested, please email me an audition at : suitsnnukes@gmail.com Thanks, Suits http://dlvr.it/PgBJgj www.voiceacting.space