Hey thanks!

"I really underestimated the mechanical depth of this game and it kicked my ass" is how most people have been feeling after they actually started playing musou games instead of listening to those "reviewers" that for years kept saying "they're all the same just mash one button".

@@Sephyroth97 Personally I've never played a musou before this one so I had no idea what to expect, I will admit that the reviews for this game specifically did mislead me.

@@AgentZer01000 90% of Musou reviews in the past were made by people that refused to play the genre but after Hyrule warriors opened the series to a much larger audience they were forced to actually start. The consequence is now people are playing HW, AoC and this one and realizing that they're completely different aside from the basics of light and heavy attack to start combos and each game has a lot of mechanical depth going for it. A simple glance at One Piece Warriors 4 and/or Hyrule Warriors and even someone new like you will see a thousand differences in mechanics, hopefully you'll discover you enjoy musous in general :)

Yeah if you go into this game thinking it was as easy as pre-Hyrule Warriors Musou titles, your gonna get fucked hard. Every Musou game sense Hyrule Warriors have added more complex mechanics that require proper timing, exploiting the enemies weakness, and using the terrain to your advantaged. This game is ESPECIALLY hard cause it's a Megaten game, which are all notorious for kicking your ass .

I actually like oracle's recovery a lot as you can just heal the party and restore your sp by clearing out trash mobs. disagree when it comes to leveling early game personas as a lot of personas can be fussed by using a high level early game persona. The weird thing about early game personas is that they learn a lot of good skills that later personas don't. Rebel soul, technical adept, and soul thief are all really good early game skills that personas stop learning fairly early. Also for some reason summoning cost is heavily scaled to the personas base stats and increasing their stats and level only makes them slightly more expensive. my lv 32 arsene only cot 2.5k to summon but everything else around lv 30 cost me around 10-15k to summon. my level 15 jack o lantern cost 1.7k to summon but my level 12 slime cost 3.4k to summon. So you end up saving quite a bit of time and money as you don't have to chain summon multiple personas to get early game skills on your mid-late game personas. junk collection is a nice bonus but farming treasure demons is much faster. a single treasure demon in shibuya jail before any bonuses from extortionist is 30,000 and junk collection part 1 only gives 19,200. with treasure hunter and the security level high treasure demons are actually fairly common.

@@MrGhosta5 Thanks for the reply, it will allow me to go into a bit more depth as to the reasoning behind my tips. 1) Oracle Recovery is good, don't get me wrong that even netting 2 SP per battle is pretty big, but you have to weigh the bond skill cost and what it actually does in terms of upgrading it past the first rank. *You only gain 10 hp and 2 sp per battle for every rank, and the bond cost of Oracle recovery increases by 15/20/25.* This means you are spending 45 points to gain an extra 4 sp per battle. Putting these points into the bottom two rows for economy or maxing out Avenger/Joker's Wild has a much larger impact on your gameplay. In fact, having more money means you will probably buy more SP items and having more ranks in Metaverse Medic means they grant a lot more SP. I would recommend waiting until you get about 14-15 bond points per level for rank 2 and 19-20 points per level for rank 3 in terms of *when you should probably rank up Oracle Recovery.* 2) So, while it is possible to level up a Persona like Andras or Arsene and potentially fuse skills like *Dodge Phys, Rebel Soul, Technical Adept,* etc, it is a lot less grindy to use your persona points to only level a persona up to when they learn their last ability ( _excluding Arsene and some later personas that require lv90 for their last ability_ ). If you are properly developing your economy BOND skills, then yen shouldn't be a problem. Grinding out for these persona points is exponentially easier as you progress through the game if you are properly fusing personas. For example, my lv72 Kali costs 44,289 yen to summon, but will yield 253,798 persona points. Conversely, my lv40 Pixie only costs 1,749 yen to summon but only yields 2,831 persona points. It took significantly more persona points just to get that Pixie to level 40 than it did to get my Kali. Leveling up both of these persona at this point are about equal despite the massive difference in level, stats, growth, and persona point value. *This isn't to say that you shouldn't level up lower level persona eventually since some are needed to fuse end-game personas,* but its much better to actually do so once you reach the point where you can adequately farm for persona points and yen. Also, as an aside, *fusing skills up into other personas has the benefit of them technically carrying more than the standard 8 skills per registry.* This is because you can save them with inherited skills in the registry, and when you summon them for fusion material, you can adjust any skills they learn naturally through leveling up before actually fusing them. Leveling up a single persona to fuse into much higher personas will very rarely work out, and normally has a much easier fusion that wouldn't require several hundred thousand persona points to accomplish. 3) The real question is *why not both?* You generally need to do fights in order to get a treasure demon to spawn, and both are pitifully cheap bond point wise by the time they unlock. If anything, I would say that Packrat is more of a passive way to increase your income where as Treasure Hunter makes actual farming more efficient. Treasure Hunter is a lot more important in the post-game as you can level quickly by hunting them.

Ammo hoarder is great, Ann gets more bullets and it’s really easy to get a show time.

Im a fan of ammo hoarder. It's not a must have, but yeah having more ammo for joker or particularly haru is pretty nice.

I feel like an idiot now 😭

I cheesed ango by just spamming skills since i stocked up on a ton of sp items

@@InGreatPainIAm ango is very easy because of environment attacks you dont need to cheese him because you can break his armor very easy and stop his attacks with ice

@@Riftmaker17 it has been so long since i played it that i now have no idea who the hell ango is

You had trouble with SP on the mini bosses? Dude, SP was never a problem for me, and I almost never take into consideration the SP cost of the skills

Saaaaame legit was just playing the game told myself the same thing open KZfaq this is the first video on my recommendation

I had the same feeling because I’d get bodied by large groups of shadows and die instantly. The game is great but it’s a lot to take in. I wish it would’ve had a tutorial to practice the combos

yeah same

@@armedlove14 I mean, you can practice the combos outside of combat, so there’s really no problem there.

Hahaha I legit thought every checkpoint was setup for me to exit jail to restore my SP so I can continue on

Thanks bro, the QoL changes in this game are insane.

Haru with maxed master arts is insanely fun and hits like a truck

Haru made the third boss look like a joke even at hard lol. It is easily one of the best to use along with Yauske

Or just play Haru lol. One of her master arts makes it so that holding Triangle doesn't consume ammo.

Lmao me too

Enjoy!

Thanks I’m only an hour in and I’m loving it so far.

finally did something right pfff you obviously never heard of dynasty warriors and samurai warriors the generation of muso was already good way before p5 strikers became a thing

lol. I came back around and ended up using him quite a bit.

@@BoomstickGaming About that....... You do know that the game specifically states that you only gain Master Arts while controlling a character?

@@eirmundgundnand9442 in his defense, there are so many mechanics at the beginning of the game, that it doesn't hurt to have a reminder. I was completely lost during most of my first battles.

How do I do it I need free heals

ty!

Traditional fighting games and RTS, are the only genres i'm not very good at. I might cover them, but usually won't be anything like a guide or "tips" video.

@@BoomstickGaming I see, anyway it's always been a great fun and pleasure to watch your video!

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Thou hast aquire a new vowel

Yeah, I was also at edge about through out the first place, but more I got into it, more I like it now

I might get blasted but I don't think the combat has been this good since the first two games

@@ryn7782 You're allowed your opinion. Hard to believe nowadays, but people can have different opinions without trying to rip each other's heads off. ;D

Your opinion is quite interesting if you consider that initially ATLUS wanted to turn the original P5 into an ARPG but decided against it because they didn't want to throw away all their years of experience making turn based JRPGs. This is, in a way, a little bit of what P5 would have been, not nearly the same of course but it gives a general idea. Musou spin offs tend to have a lot of effort put in, more than mainline Dynasty Warriors; some examples include OPW4 and DQ Heroes and of course HW, they all have very different mechanics and very little in common outside of the very basics of the combo system from which everything stems.

@@ryn7782 ehh not really, there's nothing necesarilly unique with the first two games' combat, they dont really use that much reliance on smt combat so they just feel like regular rpgs

Yea I was wondering the same. You can swap your persona skills and place them in a new order but for some reason it has no effect at all.

Hey don't worry, i remember getting P4 spoilered to me waaaaay back in the PS2 era :D

i believe its persona specific, so whichever one u have equipped

Yes it is! Building a Phy, Healing Bicorn right now thanks to Skill Inheritance

@@LBorigin Awesome! Thanks for letting me know!

Well it is canon follows after p5 vanilla so i would get it for the story and the fact it is very fun

Pretty much what the other guy said, P5S is not a spinoff, its a direct sequel of the vanilla P5. (rip the royal ending being not canon)

@@pravus247 Well P5S isnt "canon" too and if nothing is canon everything is

@@DeadbeatTako How it is not cannon?

Not sure I understand your question when you level up a persona in the velvet room using enhance persona feature it uses persona points to level a persona up as well as its stats that are in yellow gets the increase

It's when you reach Osaka or Okinawa I think

It’s only like that in Merciless but yea it’s sweet when that happens

same way in persona 5. Inflict burn then use wind attacks to deal more damage. inflict shock and attack with physical attacks. Inflict freeze and attack with physical attacks. Inflict brainwash/confuse and attack with psy attacks etc

@@dylancoles3314 thanks for the response!

Based on stone it seems

Its based on their element: so Jack frost would perform bufu, Jack o lantern would perform agi, etc. They show you the element when you pause to use a skill with sp.

With joker it whatever persona you have equiped.

@@andrewchamberlain9523 I don't think so. Because the element for pixie is cure, but she does lightning every time i press square square triangle..

@@JTown465 it’s actually square square triangle triangle to use dia

the skills they use in combos are always the same per demon, no matter what they learn. Also, in this game you never "lose" skills, you can swap old ones back at any time, so it's more like a loadout.

@@Sephyroth97 Oh, you can swap any skills at any point, that's cool. But I dread that I have to learn every skill in every combo of every persona I use.

I'm having the same problem with pixie

Just figured it out for pixie. Light attack twice then heavy twice

@@DanZord1 ive been trying to do light attack 5 times then two strong but thanks ill try that

This is perosna dependent. Two strikes and a special will always get you a support skill. You need at least three strikes to get the actual attack skill. You can lower the time yo get the attack skill by using special and then a follow up, but you can't proc the support skill this way.

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@@ZoraVisions BY THE TIME IT HITS YOU

Came here to ask the same thing

@@Nitrotetrazole Joker actually has 3 skill combos total! His square,square, triangle, triangle does Dia with pixie, his 3X squares then triangles does zio and I don't remember what his master skill one does for pixie. Hope this helps even thought it's been a week :p

@@whakamole5279 it absolutely does, thanks a ton

@@Nitrotetrazole I want to add that Skill Cards do NOT affect the combos. It's only tied to their move list of what they learn as they level up. For example, Jack O Latern's Agi combo, the Agi cannot be replaced with Agidyne because he never learns Agidyne. Usually the high tier skill takes presidence over lower skills ONLY if it's tied to their move list. You can use Skill Cards on Persona that actually learns the skill as they level up if you don't want to use PP on them. You can use the Skill Card Maeigaon on Arsene to replace his Eiha combo to Maeigaon combo since that skill is one of the skills he learns.

Same here. How do you choose the skill?

Mine use Dia.

Atk, atk, special, special

It’s actually attack-attack-special-special

ye idk why it looks so jagged. Persona 5 royal looked so much better :/

@@miguelmmr4186 It's because the models are not 4K. They are just getting stretched out to fit the 4K resolution. Causing jagged lines. The bigger the screen the worse it will look. On PC you can fix it with Resolution scaling. I hope they make a PS5 version patch for the game that fixes it.

@@MeldinX2 ye but how did they released the game while it looks like this, its so bad compared to royal. Im playing it on pc and with the nvidia control panel i managed to make the look very sharp but i would prefer to play it on my ps5 :/

@@miguelmmr4186 I guess they did not think to upgrade it for next gen systems for 4K. Or maybe they did not care. Who knows.

@@MeldinX2 well it released before the ps5 was even a thing and was being developed earlier still so they definitely didn't consider next gen

aren't they the same? Oh boy

If you check your compendium as if your summoning a persona, typically the more expensive personas will yield much more points. I just summoned, leveled up, registered and deleted for the points and then repeated that process to level my personas up blazing fast.

I'd say level 15 is the minimum

Were you breaking the entirety of an armor bar or just a segment?

@@BoomstickGaming just segments of his armor, anytime he is about to cast god's hand or any of his other skills I would attack with your 5:30 strategy and he is still able to cast, didn't interrupt his abilities

@@manmoth6849 cause ur persona was not strong enough. It takes forever if your persona Ma stat is too low compared to the shadow.

@@chrisngo7049 yea I realised that later, I already finished the game at 100%. Now playing merciless 💪

I decided to act like a true madman, buy the legacy battle themes, and then set to random all.

@@JackgarPrime hell yeah

X to Doubt.

@@JShepLord No

Yeah if you play in easy normal mode you beat the game like that but in hard you get 1 shoted if you play like that lmao

@@Nyxo1000 Why would i play on hard lmao

@@jackjohnson8305 idk for me playing games with no challenge is boring... In hard the game makes you think exploiding the weakness of enemy and that stuff you know

As someone who has played both types, this game is more like an action RPG version of Persona 5, than Dynasty Warriors. That being said, battles seem to devolve into chaos, unless you know what you are doing.

This feels way more Kingdom Hearts than Dynasty Warriors