You'll need to answer questions in lectures and remember your work schedule while balancing time with your buddies. You take your character to school, go to classes, join clubs and basically live like a high schooler. During the day, Persona 3 plays like a simulation game. However, this battling is just going on at night. They're nifty, and as you play, you'll be able to combine Personas to create super-powerful allies.Īs you progress, your character and his or her Personas are leveling up off of the experience points you're earning, you're climbing to higher and higher levels of Tartarus, and the foes you face are getting tougher and tougher. These are massive creatures that pack special attacks such as fire moves and lasers and all sorts of crazy crap. You'll fight them with swords and arrows, but your main avenue of vengeance are Personas, representations of the SEES members' personalities.

At night, you'll head to Tartarus with members of the SEES and battle all sorts of Shadows - blobs of black, flying monsters, and so on.

The rad story spills over into some rad gameplay. Yup, it's like Buffy the Vampire Slayer got into a head-on collision with the JRPG genre. This group is the Specialized Extracurricular Execution Squad (SEES) they're all students, and you're one of them. A select group of people has the ability to stay lucid during this 'Dark Hour' and fight the Shadows. Every night at midnight, the citizens around you turn into coffins and a tower packed with evil beings known as 'Shadows' appears. You're a transfer student in modern day Japan and upon arriving at your new home, you discover that this isn't just another boarding school. (All enemies) Stronger in Boost.The thing that's always made me a Persona 3 fan is the story, and that remains largely untouched here. (1 enemy) Stronger in Boost.ģ-10 severe Phys attacks to random targets. Raise attack/defense and accuracy/evasion for 3 turns. Slightly restore SP at the end of the turn. If unhurt during turn, extra attack activates. Greatly raise Fire/Ice/Elec/Wind/Psy/Nuke attack strength. Medium Phys attack, effective on Bind, but will remove binds. Medium Phys attack that splashes to either side. Medium chance of HP restore when the user's HP drops below 30%. Medium chance of another attack after regular attack. Restore HP and remove ailments/Binds each turn for 3 turns. Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth ArcanaĪ light Cut + Fire attack. In such cases, he will only inherit up to five skills, depending on how many the predecessor Personas know.

Orpheus Telos is normally created via hexagon fusion, but there are also several triangle fusions that will result in him (most involving either Messiah or Thanatos). The rest of Orpheus Telos' skills can only be acquired via the predecessor Personas used to fuse him. In the events of creating Orpheus Telos, Orpheus Telos of the Fool Arcana truly stands for nothingness, undefined and having limitless possibilities, as Orpheus Telos has only one skill, Victory Cry, a passive skill which completely restores HP and SP at the end of each battle. Once the player has completed all of the prerequisites, Igor will award the Cipher's Mask AKA the Colorless Mask in the Velvet Room, allowing them to summon Orpheus Telos from the sea of the soul.

Orpheus Telos can only be obtained by maxing out every single Social Link in one playthrough.

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