I am forever happy that the Justice confidant was completely reworked in Royal. A little "show, don't tell" goes a long way to make a character that much more compelling.

Fun fact: Smash bros creator Masahiro Sakurai actually try to do a max confidants run in the original Persona 5. He almost manage to complete it but forgot to do yusuke's confidant, thinking that the game would end in march and not in december. Lesson of the day: Always remind yourself to do all your confidants Btw welcome back klingy

Me: Hmm, I hope Klingy's doing fine. Klingy: *Returns with biggest video ever.* Me: I see, it was worth it.

Caroline and Justine are the Hulk Hogan of Persona 5 and I'm not even mad. _"In the Re-release brother. Special Treatment needs to be Buffed dude, I'm telling you man. The cost is too high, brother. We need to change that, brother dude man dude brother."_

Thank Philemon for this comprehensive collection!

As someone who played Persona 5 on PS3, I litteraly never made use of Ohya's confidant abilities...ever. The game never made clear the conditions of how to make use of the "benifits" so I thought every single one of the confidant bonuses was bugged and wouldn't work, ESPECIALLY THE RANK 10 ABILITY.

I'm not sure if you mentioned this all the way back then, but Temperance unlocks in relation to when you beat Madarame's Palace. So if you wanna finish Kawakami's Confidant before the summer vacations, make sure to do Madarame's Palace ASAP.

I loved the editing that went into these great work.

OMG HE'S BACK! Welcome back and all that, hyped for new parts and stuff.

Have to say I greatly enjoy your bios in your let's plays. I'm a fan of bios in playthroughs like Chuggaaconroy's but your ones I like the most and I look forward to see them in your Persona and Fire Emblem videos.

wow, did not expect this video this soon

I do have a correction that I want to give you. The Star Confidant is not locked behind Rank 2 of Emperor. You can get it before the starting Emperor. The unlock condition appears to be after you finish Kaneshiro's Palace. I personally got the Star Confidant started on June 30th, and then I did the first rank of Yusuke's Confidant on July 4th. Heck, I actually got Rank 2 of Star on that same day.

Interesting to see this come out before the playthrough is over. Still cool to see. The tier list is about what I'd expect. I actually have quite a bit to say in unrelated stuff, but I'll wait for a proper part of the playthrough for that.

Welcome back, hope you enjoyed your small break and I can’t wait to get back to the third semester These are honestly the best bios yet, you are clear, you don’t take too long, the music doesn’t overpower you and the bio itself is easy to read and is very clear. I honestly can’t wait until your next fire emblem Lp if only for the bios themselves

Welcome back.

Hiya papaya, Klingy! Not much to say since I've already given my own thoughts on these bios and the Arcana (aside from Councillor and Faith as Arcana) in P4(for the Arcana) and P5 itself, but it's _very_ handy to have this. I'll be able to check back here anytime I need a refresher on the Major Arcana and their symbolism. Poor Ohya, doesn't even get named in the final tier list, she's just "the bottom-ranked one". I mean, she earned it, but still, ouch.

Crazy to think we're done all of the confidants (at least for giving their bios) and can already post a compilation of all bios now. Crazy how time goes by, but I won't complain if we get the culmination of Klingy's great bios for this LP. Great work Klingy, both on all of the bios and for this monster of a video compiling them all. 1:39:37- And I really like your addition of the tier list showing how good they all are in regards to gameplay bonuses. A very nice visual guide on their power. Although I find it crazy how even though there's multiple tiers, the fact that I consider everything not Ohya's as "at least good" also shows how for the most part the devs made some really great and helpful gameplay bonuses and makes them really worth going after. In other news, a lot given the time pass. I FINALLY finished up Engage back on Tuesday. I'll give my overall thoughts on the game for another day, but to give the quick version, a very fun and solid entry for FE that does great work despite a series of minor flaws and missed potential trying to bring it down. Was a pretty great time and happy I ended up liking it given the massive fears I had about it pre-release. As for what I'm doing now, mainly just some "smaller stuff" as a break after Engage. Main focus is doing Master Duel to cool off, especially since there's multiple events going on right now due to the 1 Year Anniversary. Going to try to do those events and hopefully cap them (a lot more feasible now since max rewards ends at 11K points given there's two events happening at once). First is the Legend Anthology Event, i.e anime featured decks, so I'm taking it as an excuse to have fun with a Dark Magician Deck with the event. The deck works great, though its power is better seen in a more skilled pilot than I as I'm still learning it, but still having fun with it regardless. After that, it'll be onto a repeat of the XYZ event from last year (hoping this means we get the return of the N/R event format next month), which I'll need to make a deck for, but there's a budget option I'm already eying for it. Also trying my hand at a certain challenge with another game. Will should have been resuming, but the save data got lost for the original run (when I was right near the end; Very salty about that still), so I had to start from the beginning. After a few resets due to either not feeling it or losing early due to bad luck, finally got a run I'm feeling for it. I'll give more details about it once it's over since I know the moment I decided to talk about it in detail/feel optimistic about it is when it's going to turn into a complete flop. But for what I'll be doing after all of that, I think the main plan is going to be finally finishing up Octopath Traveler 1 so I can play Octo 2 as it'll be releasing tomorrow. If not that, either more focus on SMT IVA since I did make more progress on that during the video break on this channel or something else entirely.

7:02 wait, the dog is biting the man's *leg*? It moreso looks like he's biting more... Private parts. Also you're amazing for making this Klingy!!! Thank you as always and welcome back! Hope your break was good

I was beginning to wonder when you'd be back. Nice to see the confidants and what tgey do and represent. Also have you finished engage or not yet?

Hey your back. Well happy late Ash Wednesday, it seems my area wanted to have an snow storm. I agree the tier list for the most party. I think strength should be tier on it own. It interesting how the only social link that nerf was tower(well given the tower’s symbolism I guess it fitting). Hifumi and Mishima feel like those “you have research breathing”. If persona 6 does bring back social link, keep the gameplay bonus, but it maybe make them more balance, I.e don’t make special treatment as early as rank 5 and fuse at any level. I have been playing persona 3 portable(female), it surprised me how certain links(lover and emperor) a few months earlier then the male route.

16:22 i fucking burst out laughing Tks Dojima

Heeeeey, welcome back! Also rip Ohya, she didn't even get named

It'd be interesting to see a full video on Thieves' Den (both a look at Awards, its mechanics, and interesting decorations) since I find that is one of the aspects of Royal that is most often overlooked, though I imagine that'd be an absurd ammount of work lol, so truly, maybe it's overlooked for a reason

Ironic that this video comes out the day that I first see news that *Apparently* Atlus is working on a P3 Remake and Persona 6 at the same time.

51:13 Reject Modernity, return to SMT 1 Now that I think about it, he actually does look like a 40y jaded version of the SMT 1 protagonist. Maybe an intencional reference.

If the party member rank of the tier list is ordered, I'm surprised Futaba is lower than Ryuji considering how blitheringly OP she is.

I was able to rank up the Strength confidant in 3rd semester. I had to fuse the persona with the skill, back out, talk to Igor again and back out again, talk to Lavenza and cancel the special battle request. The rank up cutscene starts after that.

Pretty sure Hifumi rank 7 also works with instakill so its pretty good ability

The power of our bonds. Edit: I have finished Fire Emblem Engage. The story was ok but I found myself not getting enough of it. So much so that I neglected my XC2 NG+ run.

"Yay, Klingy's bac-" /1h40min video/ ...A.

19:42 rank 9 doesn’t have a brief fight in it only rank 1 does and it is impossible to lose in it( or maybe mine and yusuke’s health was too high for them to beat us before they decided to self destruct) how did we not realize until now.

Would've been nice for the Confidants shows in Plot based in order appearing to P5 while some R from its Vanilla & some R from its Royal Exclusive version in here.. 🤔 Oh well. 🤷‍♂️ That's looking cool tho. 👍🙂 Looks like it'll help for Players a lot of how to given Bigklingy's Explanations there. 😄

THIS VIDEO TOOOO GOOD

Funny to start with Sly 2 job complete music.XD

Idk how I did it but Kawakami did reject me on my first playthrough

Bro... In my p5r game I passed the Maruki deadline and now I don't know what to do. Im not playing the entire fucking game over again, and I don't have a savepoint for before Maruki's depart. I checked a non-spoiler website and for the true ending I need Maruki's maxed confidant... So now the question is... Do I just finish the game and get the normal ending or should I try to do something about the missed confidant. Keep in mind, this is my first persona 5 playthrough, never played the original. So even getting the normal ending would be fine. Also it might be my only option. Wait did I just answer my own question? Anyway cool vid.

So I had a discussion about the themes of Base Persona 5 vs the Third Semester planned, but it somewhat went into a tangent on how I feel criticism in regards to games like Persona 5 which have serious series and put a lot of effort into narrative/characters, in both Persona 5 and other games as a form of comparison. Admittedly this was also partially spurred by the reactions to the characters and narrative of a game that came out last month but games like Persona 5 are a good spring board of a comparison. Since Persona 5 is very much trying to have a serious narrative and a message about Japanese culture. However I realise that in regards to myself when talking about these games I’ve often felt those aspects can be a double edged sword, because while these aspects can be used to give narratives more meaning or give a strong message, it’s also one that can lead to very strong criticsism and pushback against its issues from me. While there are various aspects that can effect how I react to story and character writing issues, how much I like the idea in general but also it’s execution as if a game is trying to say something it’s holding itself to a standard and is trying to deliver an idea, which causes me to be more critical to see if their grand idea was delivered and more For example, Fire Emblem Three Houses, I’ve played this game a lot in the 3 and a half years it’s come out and it has a lot of characters I I have strong feelings about, hence I’ve been thinking a lot about how it parents itself and the issues that causes with other aspects, I’m not going to talk about the biggest one. But here is an example First is how the game handles Nobles vs Commoners, admittedly I don’t feel that Fire Emblem is the game series to handle this idea due to how the series itself has treated nobility in the past, since a fair amount of main characters have been Nobles alongside a good amount of the secondary cast and a lot of them, hence the series itself tends to portray examples of nobles as nice virtuous people. Hence while this game has quite a few cases of portraying Nobles as evil, Count Varley’s treatment of Bernedetta to try and make her a good marriage partner, Margrave Gautier parenting to both his sons causing their personal issues and the Seven Major Imperial Families hoarding power and doesn’t have many evil commoners who aren’t downright criminals, because it’s one of the more anti noble games. But a lot of the games main playable cast are Nobles, all but 1 od the Black Eagles, mist of the Blue Lions, while Mercedes’, Dedue and Ashe are all part of the Commoner class Ashe is the adopted son of the noble and 5 of the Golden Deer, most of whom are perfectly nice civil people. Hence while the game doesn’t like to paint the nobility systems in the best light combined with the Crests which is similar things that I feel is flawed, hence it feels like the game is pushing an anti nobility narrative rather than actually acknowledging the nuances of a group. And while there is more I could add Katie back to the main point, the fact that both Persona 5 and Three Houses are deliberately strictured with grand ideas empathises when they screw up and tends to make me more annoyed, even discounting cases where a game portrays something I am morally against as a good thing. So let’s talk about Engage, I’ve heard a fair few cases of trashing the games story and characters compared to Three Houses, while I myself have found I am way less annoyed by Engages narrative shortcomings than those of Three Houses, in fact I would argue that I like Enages actual narrative better than all but 1 of Three Houses routes, because while I do have critiques of it, like how some certain late game bosses are given a more sympathetic sendoff than I would have liked but since the game doesn’t really have any grand message or takes itself super seriously i don’t take the narrative as seriously. To link back into Persona, while Fire Emblem for example has ranged from somewhat campy fun to very serious message Person doesn’t really have that, even games like the Q games which are more colourful and make heavier use of comedic skits still have commentary woven into their narratives. But even then I’ve often found myself critiquing Persona 5 for its marriage failings them other games, But when we compare the criticism of Persona 4 vs 5 for me,while o do have issues with Persona 4’s writing it’s way less involved with its depictions of its messages, I don’t have any string issues and whole ot does have social commentary it’s a mystery game first and foremost, while Persona 5 puts it at the forefront and stumbles, so the game being very much against how Kamoshida treats Ann and Shiho, but in the original al has the Shinjiku Creatures implied to want to do similar things to Ryuji, making it seem like the narrative has a double standard even if it wasn’t intended is an issue I have with how the game presents its more serious aspects.

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