Persona 3 update.

[aruru]

FINALLY had some time to play Persona 3 for a bit today. Made it to the 14th floor of Tartarus before my whole party got tired and had to go back. Dammit, I can barely explore around the floors before my guys get exhausted - guess I need to focus more on finding the stairs first. Pooh. :P

Got SUPER-lucky at drawing fortunes at the shrine one day (forget which) - I got a fortune that not only gave me 10,000 yen, but also boosted my status to Great AND gave me a Lucky Charm! Awesome! :D

Joined Student Council as per Mitsuru's request. Also hung out with Kenji when he called me up (Social Link level is still at 2 with him, though... I think), met the old couple from the bookstore and got their Social Link, played the MMORPG and got that Social Link (was very amused by the Innocent Sin references, even though I've never played that game and only "got" the title and character names bit), practiced with Kazushi twice (his Social Link's at 3 now, w00t), and started putting the mack on Yuko (team captain) and got her Social Link. Dude, I am SO making the hero a pimp. Possibly more pimptastic than Ocarina of Time-version Link! XD (Though Link gets serious points for being pimp even as a ten-year-old. XD)

Anyway, after all that, I made it to May 1st (SOOOOO lagging behind y'all, I'm telling ya. ;_;), and met Shinjiro (Akihiko's friend) for the first time. He seems... interesting. Wonder why he looks so pissed off in his portrait... hmm, I think I'll refer to him as "Sour-Look Boy" from now on! >D

Had to quit for dinner after that, though. So no, not that much progress. :(

Am considering returning to Tartarus and take on the 14th floor boss that day in my next play, though the hero is stuck with the Tired status (Junpei and Yukari are fine, though). Good idea? Bad idea? :O We shall see some other time, I guess!

Comments

[aruru.livejournal.com]

Ah, I see. Okay, I'll try my hand at the boss and the "mad-dash" strategy. I have several saves, so it'll be fine - worst that can happen is that I'll get my butt kicked and have to try the whole thing again at another date. :\

I already encountered one enemy that I could cause distress on! It was the Cowardly Mayas I randomly found on one of the higher floors. Don't know why they were there, as they usually hang out on lower floors than that, but hey, easy exp, hee. XD

Hope I can play some more soon! :D

[shinkuu.livejournal.com]

Yeah... Another thing I found was that, if I DIDN'T do the mad dash, and just explored around, I ended up finding some cool stuff and getting some good experience. But the more I got, the more paranoid I was that I wouldn't be able to find the stairs or exit when I really needed to. It's especially scary when you get a Shuffle and accidentally get a card with Death on it!!

I found that, with the later floors, there was almost no alternative to the mad dash... Because I used up so much SP, just for the fights I couldn't escape from while searching for the stairs. I try not to chance it with fights, and always try to get the Player Advantage or just avoid the fight completely. Sometimes all the enemy needs is one lucky turn to wipe you out!

But yeah! Glad to see you're getting to play more!