Persona 4

[owsf2000]

I still haven't gotten a chance to really play through Persona 3 yet, but I saw that Persona 4 is out now on the way to work yesterday. That is I saw a copy of it at HMV. Kind of caught me by surprise really.

Unfortunately my video game budget is exhausted for 2008, so it'll have to wait til january at the earliest. (And Ar Tonelico 2 will be bought before Persona 4 regardless.)

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[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

I pretty much completed the game over break, afaik. The only thing I haven't done is find the Alexandrite or whatever for the jeweler girl. Everything else is 100%, including glyphs, enemies, areas, etc. I'm only a little ways into a playthrough as Albus though. Not sure if there's a better ending or not, since I killed Albus in my first playthrough. Dunno if it's possible to save him or not or possible to beat Dracula without using Dominus at the end or not, etc. Just got home so haven't bothered to look at GameFAQs or anything though.

I did bypass the floating head guy and the killer robot guy in the prison that chase you if you get hit by the spotlight in various areas. The enemies I had the most trouble with were the double hammer guys, but those seemed to only be in the two extra areas you access from Dracula's castle, so they're probably intended to be that annoying anyway. Even leveled up to almost 80, those guys suck, though having the wings glyph helped a lot.

[owsf2000.livejournal.com]

You probably found it in gamefaqs already, but you get the alexandrite stuff as a random item in the treasure chest at the end of the training room area. That place is tough when you're first going through it, although once you know where and when to jump, it's pretty easy. Problem is that it's like a 25-33% chance of getting that stuff, so you could have to run through it a hell of a lot of times. I think one of the stronger monsters also drop it rarely, but you'd probably be better off running the training room a 100 times hoping for the treasure chest to have it.

I'm not sure if there's a better ending for it either myself. I had started going through the game with the guy and have gotten up to the centaur boss in the castle. That thing is HARD with the guy due to no healing items etc. It's possible tho, you just have to not get hit. X_X

Many of the bosses were easier with him due to the rapid fire of the gun. The boss that you have to steal the glyph from to win is simply not in the game when you play the guy. You just use your warp ability to move past the wall.