link6616
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Posted 08/11/11
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Summer holidays!
This is a very combat light time, and a pleasant light fun month, enjoy the change of pace or loathe it. Which did you do?
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link6616
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Posted 09/21/11
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Right, Started!
One of the things I'm remembering now is how progressively easier the tower becomes, or at least how much less time I'm spending there in game days wise...
Ah the tarot speech from mr edogawa. Quite a good speech and if you want it easily accessible I'll provide a link to it.
I would just copy and past but the formatting is terrible in the script I found (uses spaces, not tabs or anything.)
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link6616
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Posted 10/10/11
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Nearly finished August now...
I'm curious to see how everyone is progressing with their soical links? I thought I might post mine up
Fool 5 Magician 1 reverse Priestess 4 (fuuka) Emperor Max Hiero (old couple) 2 Chariot 9 Justice (Chihiro) 8 Hermit Max Fortune 1 Strength 4 Hanged man 5 Death 5 Devil 5 (tanaka) Tower 6 (Monk)
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Emie_R
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Posted 10/14/11
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I'm a bit further ahead into September (which is good since my PS2 has called it quits and I have to wait until payday later this month to replace it).
As of 9/22:
Fool--5
Magician--max
Emperor--max
Hiero.--max
Lovers--1
Chariot--max
Justice--1
Hermit--max
Fortune--max
Strength--9 (I must have said something *really* wrong to Yuko cuz it's taken way too many meetings to max...)
Hanged--3
Death--6
Devil--max
Tower--max
Star--4
Moon--max
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link6616
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Posted 10/17/11
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You've got a lot more maxes than I do...
Also, I think we should talk about the film festival a little more... It's such a large part of the game time that it's part of the pacing is worth mentioning, but I can't think of what to suggest.
EDIT:
I think the film festival allows a nice bit of exposition on the characters parts... Not that they don't get enough chances, but the movies allow for either a more interests/hobbies side of things (fuuka) to a more background/desires thing (Mitsuru/Junpei).
For instance (minor minor spoilers I suppose) mitsuru suggest the film eternal love stopped too soon, and didn't deal with the difficulties of being a royal, comparing it to her own life.
Still, while the films are a nice change of pace, it feels quite annoying as I can't really progress my social links much at all.
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Emie_R
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Posted 10/17/11
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Unfortunately, I don't have anything to say about the film festival since I opted not to go with anyone. But it's part of my strategy for maxing all social links--only spend time with school friends on school days, non-school friends on weekends and holidays. So, I spent most of my summer hanging out in the bookstore.
Working the schedule is crucial. For example, I discovered this playthrough that the Moon social link is available everyday the week prior to exams when everyone else is unavailable. Guess Nozomi doesn't put much stock into studying...
I'm sure most of our players know this already but just in case, certain dialogue choices are worth a lot of points toward the ranking up of the social link. This is true even during weekend/holiday events when they've asked you out. For instance, you may have hung out with Kenji at the mall and he criticized your fashion sense. If you humored him on this, one of those dialogue choice is worth a massive amount of points. At the end of the event, the game tells you something like "today you became a lot closer to Kenji." So, there's a set amount of points that you need to earn for the next rank-up. But it's never the case that a dialogue choice will earn you negative points. In my last post here I mentioned that I must of said something really wrong to Yuko to delay the maxing of her link but it would be more correct to say that there was something really right that I neglected to say at some point.
Lastly most veteran players mention that having a persona in your inventory that matches the arcana of the social link will speed things along--this is because doing so increases your earned points by roughly 30%.
First playthroughs are advised to respond naturally and not worry so much about all this. But if you're a completionist like me and you've played the game before, it's more rewarding to see everyone maxed by the end. Plus, I think it's worth mentioning that beginning the game with maxed character attributes affords only a marginal advantage--you can finish the Devil and Tower social links sooner since you don't have to spend time doing all the other stat-boosting stuff.
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