Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25405817-20160511154306/@comment-25405817-20160517010021

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote: Hidden Scorpius XI wrote:

-However, unlike Aura, Personas can be extremely vulnerable to some attacks, which can quicky kill the user. Conceptually speaking, Aura and Persona are two different powers, and combining them would either require nerfing Aura or making Persona OP.

-The jumping and zooming abilities are cool and all, but P5 introduces platforming and stealth to the series, which in a narrative medium, can be done, but it can also be done without. It would become too overloaded, IMO.

-I didn't want to make it explicit, so take that as you want. And no. Shadow-Selves won't be a thing in this story. I have something a bit more original going on.

-Not a bad idea, and I regret not learning about this before. But even then, adding the "Catharsis Effect" into this fic would be overloading it.

-And even then, it would make sense that at first, the weapons would be pretty basic. They would't be as complex as the weapons in the show until late in the story.

Now, I feel compelled to point out some corrections about what you've interpreted from the P5 trailers:


 * The ripping off the mask thing is the "Preemptive Attack" (hitting an enemy on the back while dungeon crawling). It then enables the "Player Advantage." It is not a preemptive attack.


 * All enemies in P5 are Demons now. The figures you see roaming the dungeons are just generic forms the enemies take before entering combat. Similarly to the shapless blobs in P3 & 4.

-The Arena games, the animations and the mangas all ignore that part. Of course, the visual, cosmetic aspect (flaming aura, for example) remains.
 * "...just like Arsene allows the P5MC." That is speculation. To soon to confirm if it is only the MC.

-There's so much vagueness in these sentences, it makes me think that you don't have much of an actual idea of what to do in that aspect.

-As for the ShadowSelf part...what would be the "more original" replacement?

-You don't have to add all the Catharsis Effect, you know. Only the weapon part.

Now about P5

[All of it] -No. I won't do that

-Or maybe you're not that smart.

-Something conceptually different than the Shadow Selves.

-Noted.

-You haven't seen the interview footage, then. The MC can sneak up onto a "guard," Rips off his mask, and the guard turns into several Demon enemies. Or have you seen Hand or Idol type Shadows in-game?