Extra Persona 2 Tidbits you might have missed

If you were played Persona 2 IS by yourself and forgot to talk to everyone and/or just watched an LP online where they skip a lot of that, you might have missed these really good extra two lines of dialogue in Eikichi's Dad battle:

Normally in most LPs it ends here and goes right into the battle, but if you took the time to talk with his father when Eikichi is gone or a little bit afterwards, you find out that he doesn't really know anything about fighting and Lisa was listening in, as she adds this tidbit:

And Eikichi doesn't believe it.

It's a nice touch and surprised me the first time I played, since I wasn't expecting it.

Meanwhile, if you go to Gatten Sushi after saving Miyabi, you get this extra piece of dialogue:

"SON. YOU MAN NOW. HONEY BREAK OUT THE RICE AND RED BEANS."

I also really love how Miyabi knows and admits that Eikichi is reckless and silly, but he's HER reckless and silly guy.

So I was recording fusions for an LP, and lo and behold I get the greatest of all the rare Eikichi quotes finally on video.

Persona 3 doujin

Let's play spot the cameos!

This entire story is great, it has Jin kidnapping Fuuka and Ken and Fuuka bakes something for Jin and that goes as great as you think, then Ken throws a bat at Fuuka and tells him to beat Jin up while he's down.

I don't think there's anything greater than this.

Nothing.

Persona 2 IP Map Artwork + Eikichi is an artist!!!

I think the Innocent Sin Book may have the cutest map artwork for a frustrating part of the game:

Daaaaaaw look at everything. BUT WAIT! It gets better! Dungeon maps drawn over by the cast:

Eikichi is Blue, Lisa is Orange, Maya is Green and Jun is purple. Tatsuya is nowhere to be found.

I love how in this single page, Eikichi signs his name three different ways (Eikichi, M., Michel)

Awww, he drew himself it's kinda adorabl-

--EIKICHI, JFC.

Persona World Books and Doujinshi with Nocturn and If Guest Starring

There's so much I want to show. The doujinshi are all great and the P1, P2IS, P2EP and the P4 world books have interesting information. The P2 EP has a day routine for everyone.The Nocturne and the If books have great stories even if I have no idea what anyone is saying.

This was literally the first page I opened because I looked at the P1 World book first. Clearly we were off to a good start (?!?)

I SHOULD NOT BE SAD ABOUT KANDORI AND CHIZURU AND SHIP THEM WTF ARE YOU DOING TO ME WORLD BOOK?!

Everything in this panel is amazing.

"Noooo"

Miyabi talking to Philemon omg.(and Philemon laughing at her nickname, WHAT A DICK)

Okay that's a good taste of things to come.

I will also be taking requests because there's way too much and I don't know where to start. Send me a PM! I will do my best to scan or take a picture for you.

[P2] No context needed

The less context, the better. And just in case you've been wondering where I've been, I've gotten a new job. However, this did allow me to spend a bit of money and...

There's a lot coming.

It's the details

Yeap, I think 4am is the perfect time to point out that  Rhadamanthus Prime (on the far right) has tiny leg wheels and what appears to be a buttcape.

Persona 2 - We now take a break to bring you something different.

Sooo my favorite character in all of Persona is by far one(1) Eikichi Mishina. And it just so happened that a good friend gifted me with an adorable manga that included this frame:

And, I don't know about you, but that spoke to me!

So here's a blank. Now you can go nuts! Show me what you can do, tumblr!

Okay, April 1st is over.

Jig's up, fish day is over. Yes I made it all up. First the facts; There is a Magazine called Amusement, and it is french, and they are well known for interviewing video game celebrities, but this interview never existed. Neither did that magazine scan, or the screenshots of the game.

I made the icons, and the artwork that wasn't taken from already existing artwork. To be fair, I would love for this game to be made, and I think I might just end up doing other sprites for the 'fake game' for the fun of it.

But I thought you might, at least enjoy the work I did to make this all possible.

First of all, the logo:

Next up was doing a sketch of Nanjo/u for the magazine scan. I made it from scratch, using the Arena offical sketches and the P2 EP sprites to give me an idea of what to do.

Next, the screenshots.. Tatsuya and Eikichi are actually sprites I created for a log in a Dreamwidth RP game. Jun was a sprite I made for a friend who RPs him. So if you looked at my old plurks, you would have seen those floating around already.

Then turn those into 'screenshots':

And then you just jpg compress save them a few times to make everything blurry enough.

Now to combine everything into a magazine scan.

Then add a decoloring, , move the image around and resize, stretch and reshape. Save in jpg. Add black scan marks. Repreat process.

In the end, I am sorry if I mislead you. To be perfectly honest, I would love a Persona 2 Arena game myself, the dualogy is my favorite part of all the games so far. I would actually love it if there was more love for the P2 games and that EP PSP would actually be released here one day, but since that won't happen...well we can dream can't we.

And hey, maybe if the rumor becomes strong enough...

Persona 2, Arena - GUYS GUYS GUYS

French gaming magazine Amusement released the news that Persona 2 gaming dualogy is getting the Persona Arena treatment during an interview with Katsura Hashino (the magazine is pretty well known for their interviews with Japanese celebrities). This is a really rough translation of the french text, so I apologize if it seems weird in some parts.

PERSONA 2 ULTIMATE ARENA Persona is a series of role playing games that are very Japanese-like (? I think they mean 'typical japense game here'), with very Japanese-like characters and a graphical style that is also very Japanese. This is all very Japanese-like, don't you think? Very true, yet they have surprisingly enjoyed a popularity not only in Europe (where you can only get the game in English) but also in the Americas. After the acclaimed release of Persona 4 Arena, we sat down with Katsura Hashino this week and asked him the future of Persona and the just-released news about Arena 2, which is also, once again, being produced in collaboration with  Arc System Works, well known for their Guilty Gear and BlazBlue series. [...] Amusement: So why make the second game based on Persona 2? Katsura: We thought about it for a while, and someone in the studio went "hey we already have the color changes in Arena, why not make a game with all of them instead?" (laughs) Amusement: Persona 2 is not as well known outside of Japan. Where the PSP releases done to help establish similarity? Katsura: Our attempts early on were not always fruitful! Back in the 1990's we assumed no one was really interested in Japanese RPGs...our collaboration for Persona USA (note from Pixle: They mean Persona: Revelations here) changed a lot of the names and locations so that the players could feel more like it was their story rather than taking place in Japan. I still laugh with what happened with Masao (Pixle's note: See here) With the Internet now, it doesn't seem that far away at all! Amusement: So that's why you didn't do that with the PSP games? Katsura: (laughs) Yes exactly, that was dropped completely! Nowadays, Japanese Role Playing Games enjoy popularity all over the world. We've been making remaking new versions of old games lately so that players around the world can enjoy our early games. Amusement: Tell us more about Persona 2 Ultimate Arena Katsura: I can't talk much about the story yet! But we've got the Persona team working on it in cooperation with System Works once again. System Works are big fans of Tatsuya and Nanjo, so when we said "we want to do a new Arena game with the Persona 2 characters" they answered "When can we start?" (laughs). We are all really excited about it.

Amusement: Who is announced so far? Katsura: Tatsuya, Eikichi, Jun, Lisa, Maya and Nanjou... but of course that won't be the only ones. I think the fans will be pleasantly surprised and happy with who we are introducing into the game. We have a character like Labrys in the first Arena game to 'bridge' the two games. Teddie will also make a cameo...we wanted to have a character from the first Arena game as well, and he seemed like the natural choice! Amusement: Will Philemon and Nylathotep be involved? Katsura: I can't say. Amusement: Whose your favourite Persona 2 character? Katsura: Nanjou by far! I like to think that he still works with Mitsuru Kirijo behind the scenes... Amusement: How is Persona 5 development going? Katsura: I can't talk about Persona 5 (he bows) I am sorry! But I promise you it will be worth the wait. Please wait a little longer! Amusement: When can we expect Arena 2? Katsura: Sometime in April, 2015. Please look forward to it! Thank you!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

It's just a matter of perspective

Quality RPing at it's finest (Miyabi had just complimented him on his artwork).

IT'S HERE

*breathes heavily*

And here, you can see the moment Kandori quits life (again).

And the best Jun face award goes to...

The Persona Innocent Sin gang in a nutshell.

Roleplayin'

Nothing like a quality image for a quality roleplay log and post.

We now return you to this tumblr, already in progress.

Atlus stop doing this to me.

Okay so I speak nothing of Japanese, but I have an amazing friend who puts up with me sometimes poking her about things and yesterday I asked her to look at the time in Eternal Punishment when Eikichi meets Tatsuya in the new extra sidequests. It takes place the same time the other team is fighting Kandori and you had glimpses of Tatsuya being up to something. After Eikichi is held up and Tatsuya saves him, the two have a talk in the science room before he sends Eikichi off...

(Please not that the translation is not 100% perfect and I edited it a bit to read better)

Just because I could.

WORLD EXCLUSIVE PERSONA 2 PLAYABLE IN ARENA---okay yeah I only wish this is a sprite edit I made for a Dreamwidth RP post in which bros are clearly being bros. Happy birthday Tatsuya Eikichi sang you a song now kick him in the face.