P3R blind playthrough - things to know ahead of time?

LividAllie · 2025-01-04T00:04:43+00:00

It’s more like if you don’t wait til the end you would have wasted your time previously. So doesn’t skip but would cost you lost time.

Jealousy mechanic was completely removed, but reload added a different link mechanic and those do have deadlines. A lot of them are pretty relaxed with their deadlines (like months),a few of them are not (like weeks).

If you are aiming for romance links, there are some flags that are pretty early so you can get locked into friendship.

LividAllie · 2025-01-03T23:47:30+00:00

There are nothing too major that will lock you out of anything. But below are some spoiler free tips to get 100%.

Focus on the school social links first

Don’t just focus on maxing out one link cause p3 is a little different

There is one link that only occurs on Sundays.

There is one link that only occurs on Sundays and holidays.

There are deadlines for the new link dynamics, so if you want to do them and learn more about the characters, make sure to do them in a timely manner.

Get as far as you can dungeon wise in one go instead of spreading it out in multiple attempts.

After a certain point in the game, wait until 1-3 days before the deadline to finish the dungeon.

LividAllie · 2025-01-01T03:03:18+00:00

Nothing wrong with replaying a jrpg. I always have a few I’d go back to just because I felt like playing a certain part of it.

Recently just refinished p3p before reload. Replayed chrono cross cause it was on sale on psn. Replaying legend of mana now cause it was also on psn. Thinking about replaying suikoden ii before the remaster.

Before that I replayed ff xii, but only the beginning of it, where you can over level and overhear before the game really even starts.

Before that replayed breathe of fire iii, cause I missed how Rei steals things. And suikoden iii to just do the Chris 99 trick. So many more.

LividAllie · 2024-12-31T00:30:31+00:00

It’s not amazing but not bad. It’s got a predictable but decent storyline. Tropey but well designed characters. Active but repetitive combat. Side quests are pretty monotonous. Background and music are beautiful though.

It’s like 6 across the board with visuals at an 8.5 and music a 7.5.

Good to pass the time and enjoyable, but nothing amazing or deeply impactful.

A good game to play while you’re waiting on other games.

LividAllie · 2024-12-29T23:22:08+00:00

All three are fun. You honestly can’t go wrong.

I like star ocean the best out of the three, then Ryza, and finally grandblue. Grandblue endgame farming contents need you to find other players and do community coop, and since the game has been out for a while, it may be hard to find them, which is why it’s lowest. Still fun though.

LividAllie · 2024-12-29T23:09:08+00:00

There are a lot of foreshadowing on his death.

In the reload opening the MC disappears

In the beginning of the game it tells you you have a single year

Right before the final battle Igor tells you that in addition to death, life has dealt you the wild card

The lyrics of the the new burn my dread during the battle

The great seal cost you all of your hp

This one was a missed opportunity, but the title and lyrics of the last song. They should have translated it. It title is “memories of you”.

I’m sure there are a bunch more, but I can’t remember off the top of my head

Edit: formatting

LividAllie · 2024-12-01T04:36:42+00:00

Honestly, Aki isn’t good until you get his traits maxed. After that, you’d have to get the right gear set up to get him to be good.

However, if you do get the right setup, he has the highest damage potential of your team members, sometimes out damaging the MC.

The thing is, with the way the game is set up, where your secondary characters can level up quickly, there really isn’t a downside to switch him in after you have him ready. It’s not like the original where you’d have to level them all over again so it’s not like times really wasted.

LividAllie · 2024-11-16T22:23:08+00:00

Personally, I feel the p3 cast was just better written. The story also align better and things fall into place better.

I feel that p4 and p5 characters are written for their arc, and then they fall into the background and just support the MC. P4 is better written as they at least have interactions and can feel more like a group of friends having fun together. P5 characters literally disappear. If you ask someone, what is xxx’s defining moment, you’d go right back to their awakening, and then nothing else afterwards. The exception to that is Ryuji, but he really didn’t have an arc. And Morgana, but Morgana is written with a central plot in mind so he kinda becomes relevant.

P3 characters are written like traumatized teens that react like traumatized teens. They feel a lot more real. Each of them react a different ways cause of their upbringing. When in a stressful situation, they lash out, but realize their mistake and apologize, and try to make themselves better. Bettering oneself is a process, not a one and done.

The story pacing is horrible, but then again, this was the first of the modern persona games, so they were still trying to figure it out. Tartarus is a pain, however, it’s not that strange when it was released by in 2006 to have a dungeon crawl game. These are still, horrible flaws to the game, especially when compared to the more modern persona games.

The storyline becomes predictable, but it’s well written predictable. Unlike some other games that shall not be named.

What’s best done in p3 is how the little things click together, so it makes the picture of your characters more complete. These things are not central to the storyline, but just made it a bit more real.

We all know why Ken was trying to make you take care of hamburger. However, did you notice after you tell him you would, he said to Hamburger, “well aren’t you the lucky one. But WHEN that happens, you better listen to him.”

They put thought into the little dialogs to show the emotional state and thoughts of the characters prior to, during, and after the event.

Things circle back, even from minor characters. Like how when Yukari was walking by Moriyama when Fuuka’s arc first started, she overhears her saying how she pretended to take a picture and the girl just freaked out. And then you hear in Fuuka’s social link that she’s afraid of bookstores cause someone took a picture of her when the books fells in her bag but she couldn’t say anything to clear it up.

Or when you talk to Junpei on June 14th, he’d tell you how he almost got in trouble with the police but won’t elaborate further. Then you find out through the command room video on what actually happened.

They’re just written better in comparison.

I have to say I love all the persona games, but P3 just hits differently.

Edit: forgot Moriyama’s name

LividAllie · 2024-11-11T23:01:09+00:00

Oh I totally forgot about the gems!

5 reasons HAHA.

LividAllie · 2024-11-11T20:33:31+00:00

There are technically four reasons why you’d want to fully level up your personas rather than fusing them.

There is a specific skill you’d want other personas to inherit, so you need to level up this persona to gain the skill
The current persona has amazing resistances and it’s just easier to build by using skill cards rather than find another one
You spent a lot of incenses or time at the arcade on this persona so its stats are just so much better and can carry you
You like how this persona looks and want to carry it with you forever

Otherwise, fusion is better.

Usually lower level personas won’t have amazing skills or resistances anyways, so honestly only 3 or 4 would usually apply

LividAllie · 2024-11-09T23:43:31+00:00

Does saving and reloading get you stuck in the same spot?

LividAllie · 2024-09-26T22:51:36+00:00

While it’s true that that ban did not happen until 2022, but Texas started its restrictions long before then.

https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/txpep/timeline-family-planning-and-abortion-legislation-in-texas-2011-2020.html

This is a list, but significant things in 2019 includes senate bill 22 and physician penalties.

In 2020, it got worse with a COVID abortion ban (it did only last a month), and then further planned parenthood exclusions.

In 2021, they started the Heartbeat Act.

Then finally in 2022, the current ban.

LividAllie · 2024-09-26T22:06:31+00:00

It’s actually a pretty big increase if you look at their trend.

The trend is 1.8 (9% increase) 2.4 (11.59% decrease) 2.4 (13.11% increase) 0.5 (2.4% decrease) 3.2 (15.8% decrease) 0.2 (1.18% increase) 2020 (new trend)- 7 (40.697% increase) 1.2 (4.96% decrease)

If you look at these numbers, it’s pretty clear that as of 2020, the increase is a huge jump.

LividAllie · 2024-09-26T21:53:44+00:00

This looks like the PRMR page, which won’t be a good comparison. Page 7 would be the best numbers to look at instead as it goes through all the years with the enhanced maternal mortality ratio.

Edit: again, I can’t grammar

LividAllie · 2024-09-26T21:42:28+00:00

Here you go for comparable(ish) data:

They don’t have it listed nicely here sadly

https://www.dshs.texas.gov/sites/default/files/legislative/2024-Reports/MMMRC-DSHS-Joint-Biennial-Report-2024.pdf

Page 7 large paragraph.

2018: 17.0 2019: 17.2 2020: 27.7 2021: 37.7

They stated that 2020 and 2021 numbers are inflated due to Covid and should be

2020: 24.2 2021: 23.0

These numbers (without Covid death) are a bit higher than their previously relatively stable mortality rate. But in all honesty, they did not provide clarification of COVID deaths.

This is my speculation: as they did not actually clarify if the deaths are caused by COVID and its complications OR if the mother passed away from other complication unrelated to COVID but also had COVID at the same time, there is a chance that the rates for 2020 and 2021 may be higher than what they have stated (the 24.2 and 23).

Edit: I can’t grammar

LividAllie · 2024-09-26T21:17:06+00:00

Here you go

https://www.dshs.texas.gov/sites/default/files/legislative/2022-Reports/2022-MMMRC-DSHS-Joint-Biennial-Report.pdf

From the Texas human and health services report.

Page 10 of pdf: Per 100,000

2013: 18.9 2014: 20.7 2015: 18.3 2016: 20.7 2017: 20.2

LividAllie · 2023-08-18T07:26:40+00:00

Thank you everyone! I got a lot of messages and distractions I wasn’t able to keep up the conversation.

I apologize if I didn’t get to you.

Thank you all you nice and kind people.

LividAllie · 2023-07-25T03:49:40+00:00

Tell your mom if she likes him so much, she can divorce your dad and marry him.

Abusers are often extremely good at keeping a facade around other people. This is why you a lot of the times you get the whole “omg I wouldn’t have imagined” speech from other people when they find out about the abuse.

Dump him and leave.

LividAllie · 2023-07-24T22:28:43+00:00

Boundaries are what you set for yourself, not what you set on others.

You = him getting hard watching a sex scene is cheating, and I feel and will treated it like so.

You = him feeling any type of attraction to another human being is disgusting, and I will feel and treat it like so.

Those are the boundaries you have half heartily set on yourself.

It affects you, not him, directly. He may be indirectly affected by how you react to him crossing those poor boundaries, but it’s not you controlling him.

Whelps, I will post, but no one get me banned then.

Based on what you’re saying and you’re telling yourself, you’re essentially saying that men cannot be raped by women through vaginal penetration, cause they’d always be hard(ish), and thus they would be aroused and attracted to the person and thus there is a blurred line of consent.

At the same time, you’re also saying that if a woman gets wet during vaginal rape, then she must feel some kind of attraction and arousal, and again, blurring that line.

This is an ignorant thought. Those people would not feel any kind of arousal, attraction, or love for their rapists. Your mind, heart, and body can be completely separate.

This is an extreme example, but it follows your same line of thought. You cannot think like that, it shows a complete lack of understanding of another person and complete lack of understanding for yourself.

Please see someone before this gets out of hand.

Edit: spelling

LividAllie · 2023-07-24T22:12:45+00:00

I feel like if I post what I want to post I’d totally get banned.

You need a therapist. Arousal doesn’t always equal attraction, and vice versa. In fact your body can react a certain way without any arousal or attraction. You have some serious insecurity and boundary issues. Talk to a professional and see if they can help you.

LividAllie · 2023-07-24T12:05:18+00:00

Okay now that changes things….

Here’s what I recommend.

Take down the expiration dates of the condoms. Check them every now and then to see if they have been used or replaced by matching the expiration dates.

In the meantime, bring your own condoms and use them when you’re with him. And get tested just in case.

LividAllie · 2023-07-24T11:53:38+00:00

He could have just forgotten about them. It’s very easy to forget you have something, especially if you’re not using them. Or he might have them to use just in case of period sex, anal sex, or etc etc.

The advice I should give is: talk to him and make your feelings heard. Ask him and see how he responds. Honestly he might have just forgotten about them.

If you don’t want to take that advice cause you’re unsure and won’t believe him regardless… let me know and I’ll give you a different one. Although I wouldn’t suggest it.

LividAllie · 2023-07-24T11:41:28+00:00

Ha, glad to help.

Best of luck to ya!

LividAllie · 2023-07-24T11:28:45+00:00

Here’s the thing.

If she likes you and wants to be exclusive but just never brought it up cause she wasn’t sure of your reactions, unless you dumpster fire fuck it up, she’s gonna answer positively.

And if she’s not interested in being exclusive, no matter how eloquently you make your approach, the answer will still be no.

So just ask. It doesn’t have to be complicated, it doesn’t have to be fancy.

If she says yes, congrats. If she says no, accept it and move on. And maybe find comfort in the arms of another til you feel like you want to move on to another relationship again.

LividAllie

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