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Cielo ([personal profile] rainbowarch) wrote in [community profile] batheon2012-03-07 03:53 pm

I HAVEN'T USED SPARKLETEXT IN LIKE, YEARS

PIMP MY CANON


Levi, what is this?

This is PIMP MY CANON, a meme for doing exactly what it says on the tin. Here, you are going to sell your canon to your fellow bubble players!

Fellow bubble players, peruse the selection and maybe find a new canon to check out!

Okay how?

HOWEVER YOU HAVE TO. Post reasons why your canon is awesome! Post summaries, post pages, post gifs, post links to videos, post screenshots, post links to playthroughs, WHATEVER YOU HAVE TO.

Just uh, be mindful. Don't insert put too many images in your post (especially if they're big! Link to big things!) and link to videos rather than embed them. We want to make this accessible to everyone and go easy on connections.

Feel free to add to other people's posts with information of your own, or ask questions about a canon that's caught your eye! The idea here is to spread the love, after all!

Try to keep your spoilers to a minimum, too. If you think something might be spoilery, be sure to mark it!

(also be sure to hit preview before posting, broken codes cramping your style sucks)
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[personal profile] bufudine 2012-03-08 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
SO I HEARD YOU LIKE GORE? TOO BAD you only get less than 1 minute of actual blood and hours of this:



Digital Devil Saga is a story about how a small group of humans turned demons learn what it is to feel emotions and try to find meaning to their life by slaughtering their way through their enemies and falling down holes to talk to skeletons who love puns. "Tired of falling yet? Aww, I'm just ribbin' ya."

Being an Atlus game, there's plenty of soul crushing tears followed by heartwarming. The characters are colourful (literally!) and even the NPCs are a major source of hilarity and sadness. As you progress through the game, the NPCs grow and change with the party. These are the most adorable cannibals you will ever meet and they get a happy ending. How often can you say that happens in an Atlus game? YEAH.

Also you can get your face punched in repeatedly by the protagonist of Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne, the Demi-Fiend. The battle has the reputation of being the hardest (optional) boss fight in existence, for good reason. Also ignore the LPer's lies CIELO IS AWESOME and I could go into great detail about why >:T

Oddparents Fairly Oddparents, Wands and Wings, Floating Crowny thing

[personal profile] crackpotcrocker 2012-03-08 12:15 am (UTC)(link)
Photobucket

Theme Song

Fairly Oddparents is set in a fictionist town of Dimmsdale, hinted to be in Southen California, mainly from the tip off in Emotion Commotion, when Timmy is high board diving and the high dive is about 20,000 feet in the atmosphere. There's a lot of stereotyping on characters and sexism jokes.

Song here

The main character has a horrible life of being annoyed by his parents and abused by his babysitter. His life is deemed so bad, that Jorgen assigns Cosmo and Wanda to Timmy. According to Hartman, the idea was to have a Cinderella type story, with the lead character being male.
The humor revolves around literal aspects, such as that high dive example, along with the stereotyping and fancy foot work that Timmy does in almost every epsiode to avoid the exposure of his Godparents.
*Magically attains nice things. Parents notice nice things*
Timmy's Dad: *to Mom* "Where did Timmy get all of those nice things? I don't remember buying him nice things." Timmy's Dad: *to Timmy* "And where did you get these nice things?" Timmy: "Ummmmm... Internet?"
As well as lots and lots of Ho Yay.
Timmy's Dad: *on Mr. Crocker* "Those eyes. That hair. That figure. Oh, my gosh! It's worse then I thought. HE'S GORGEOUS!"
Which is also a running gag.
Not to mention the main character is a boy wearing pink with magical fairies.
Timmy must never let anyone else find out he has Fairy Godparents, or admit he has them, because according to Da Rules a Godchild will lose their Fairies if they reveal the truth. Now, what is the 'truth' in this universe is highly debateable. By 99 .9% of the characters viewpoints 'the truth' is logic and science. However, by the .1 %, 'the truth' is that this world has magic. Enter the Truth Seeker, Mr. Crocker, who holds the unpopular belief that magic is the cause of all of the odd things that go on. If a horrible, cruel and victorious babysitter wasn't bad enough, now Turner has the constant watch of his teacher, Mr. Crocker on his every move looking for an opportunity to expose his - FAIRY GODPARENTS!
Not to mention the school bully and trying to get the most popular girl in school to even look at you. What's a kid to do?

Fan Wiki

Oh, and Hartman does seem to love Star Wars, the show spoof everything but Star Wars seems to be a main one.

Super Hero Spoofing Video

Mun recommends watching this show between Season 1 and Season 5. Seasons 6,7 and 8 are very highly flanderization with the characters and the writing in season 6,7 and 8 is just bad in generel.

The Live Action movie, where it's not great as some of other TV specials, like Channel Chasers, it's not horrible for being a cartoon to live action and plot line wise and better writing that's been done for a couple of seasons. Oh, and characters aren't flanderized.

Have a clip ~

FOP is available for download on Itunes and also runs on Nick Toons and NET FLIXS

Oh, and the creator of Danny Phantom also is the creator of FOP.
Edited 2012-03-08 02:47 (UTC)

[personal profile] ex_diplomacy861 2012-03-08 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
Arc Rise Fantasia is marginally like Tales of Symphonia with a more visual novel-esque feel (as Fantasia's director was part of Symphonia's development team) and party switching trends. No, really. You switch party members like laundry in this game.

Fantasia is pretty much everything you'd expect in a retro JRPG, and it isn't afraid to pull out all the stops to please its fans. You have a jerk with the heart of gold, a clueless priestess, a selflessly selfish prince, a little girl who punches grown men into the air, said grown man who talk about flowers, a pretty woman with dominatrix vibes, and a thief who confronts the hero about his attitude because hey, he knows puberty is a rough time and all, but be nicer!

And more, like the most badarse crown prince. Dragons and summons, too, as well as Luminous Arc cameos.

Story-wise, Fantasia revolves around a government-employed mercenary who meets a naive priestess (and I mean naive, she takes "my butt fell asleep" literally) when a douchechanter parades in and starts killing everything, and it pulls plot twists/ballsy moves left and right. It might start off rather slow, but give it a chance to pick up and you might not want to stop playing like I hadn't. You want a love triangle -- no, a love square? Political drama? Exploding dragons? Singing priestesses? Canonical crossdressing? I am your father? -- okay, no, but you can see what I mean.

It also has nice music, and the battle system is fantastic, arguably one of the best features Fantasia has to offer. It uses a mix of turn-based and time sensitive, and the magic system is fun to exploit. Fantasia keeps you on your toes with challenging boss fights, so this definitely won't disappoint in terms of difficulty.

If you want a preview, here's my LP of the very first segment of the prologue! It's for the Wii and cheap now -- around 20 bucks -- if that helps.

. . . and I should point out that many dislike the English voice acting, but I promise you that they grow endearing with time.
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[personal profile] bufudine 2012-03-08 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
ALSO BECAUSE I AM THE BEST LEADER--

Digital Devil Saga a JRPG with whose story spans across two PS2 games that can unfortunately be a bit hard to find unless you order them online! If you live in Australia/New Zealand, you can snag the very last copy. The good news is that apparently the games will be coming to PSN for Europe, which will hopefully mean they will also come to NA PSN, so fingers crossed! I'd really love to do a comprehensive LP of the games some day (but I lack the equipment); there aren't any decent LPs that span both games, so I highly recommend actually getting a copy and playing them!

I can't hold all the Hinduism in these games, guys.

[personal profile] ex_diplomacy861 2012-03-08 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
Happy endings in my Atlus? What is this blasphemy.

Man, I would live in Austria/New Zealand just to have that privilege of getting the very last copy of a game. Then I can taunt whoever comes after.
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TALES OF HEARTS

[personal profile] spiria 2012-03-08 01:06 am (UTC)(link)
HI EVERYBODY. I dunno if anyone else is gonna pimp out Vesperia, so I'm gonna wait a little while before starting a thread for that.

HOWEVER, THIS COMMENT THREAD IS ABOUT TALES OF HEARTS.

( cue opening video )


Now, before we get into the story and characters and everything, I want to explain something kinda nifty about this game. Most of us who know the Tales Of series know that it's primarily an anime-styled cutscene sort of game. Tales of Hearts halfway broke that tradition by releasing two different versions of the game: The anime version, and the CG version. Yes, you read that right. There is CG in your Tales Of series.

Obviously, the fanbase enjoyed the anime cutscenes more. As pretty as the CG is, it just doesn't really feel like Tales Of to me, and from what I see, a lot of the fanbase felt the same way. Still, it's pretty awesome, and it's something totally unique to this game. c:

NOW, ONTO THE STORY.

There are two parts to this game, really.

Part 1: While on the run from the Sorceress Incarose, Hisui and Kohaku Hearts find themselves washed up on the shores of a small town called Seable, where they are then found and rescued by Shing Meteoryte. The two of them need weapons called 'Soma' in order to defend themselves, and, long story short, Shing takes them to his mother's grave to retrieve her Soma (Elrond - this becomes Kohaku's soma), Incarose finds them, and in addition to wounding Kohaku's Spiria to a point where she won't wake up, also kills Zex, Shing's grandfather. Shing makes a decision to use his grandfather's Soma, Asteria, to jump into Kohaku's spirune and try to save her, and ends up meeting a woman named Richea inside her spirune. After that meeting Kohaku's spirune shatters, sending shards of it all over the world and causing Kohaku herself to wake up, but to be virtually emotionless save for the emotion of kindness, which stayed with her. Thus, the plot for the first part of the game is pretty much Hisui and Shing traveling around the world in search of shards of Kohaku's spirune, which leads to meeting the rest of the party members and lots of interesting interactions with other people.

Part 2: Once Kohaku's spirune is completed, we get into more plot things, and we finally learn more about Richea! Also, a few really surprising things happen, and I'm not going to talk too much about this second part because it is littered with spoilery things, but take my word for it, it's amazing. c:

So now that we have story down, I'll introduce the characters a little more. Also, their names will include a link to an arte exhibition for all of them, so you get to see their battle styles. c:

* Shing Meteoryte - Awww, lookit him, isn't he cute? This is our derpy main hero, Shing. He's a fairly naive boy, and he hasn't really been outside of his hometown at all in his entire life, but is finally getting his chance to do so with what happened to Kohaku. His mother passed away when he was young, and for most of his life, he was raised by his grandfather, who is a Soma User (not that Shing knew this until shortly before the game starts), and has been training his grandson to have a strong spiria. We find out later why his grandfather wanted him to have such a strong Spiria, but that's getting into spoiler territory. He has a strong sense of right and wrong, and is very pure-hearted and has a strong sense of making up for his mistakes as well. Also, he helps out pretty girls. Especially if they have big chests. BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT GRANDPA TAUGHT HIM. No, really, Grandpa taught him that.

* Kohaku Hearts - The official spelling of her name is 'Kohak,' but many people tend to romanize it to 'Kohaku,' since that's how it's pronounced in the game. Either way is correct. I tend to use Kohaku because it makes more sense to me. BUT ANYWAY, I could TLDR forever about this character. And I have before. I mean, really, look at dat personality section. The point here is that Kohaku herself is a very complex and interesting character, and even moreso because she is a case where you get a bit of her full personality at first, and then you're forced to learn many aspects of her personality very slowly. She's got an interesting fighting style, too; she's very well-balanced, being able to do offensive techniques and defensive ones as well.

* Hisui Hearts - Big Brotherrrrrrr 8Db Hisui himself is actually really loud and rude. And he's very overprotective of his little sister. When you learn the history of the Hearts siblings, it becomes really understandable as to why, but yes, Hisui is the siscon of the game who takes his overprotectiveness to all the extremes. He's actually not a bad guy. He just has a hard time really putting on the dere, because he is tough manly man forever. He's so loveable, though, despite how much of an overprotective jerk he can be. c: And his sister knows how to keep him in line ~ ♥

* Beryl Benito - She's our token mage of the game! And our token loli. Though, surpriiiiise, she's actually older than both Shing and Kohaku. 8Db Anyhoot, this is Beryl. Cute, isn't she? She's a soma user (x2, even! her hat and her brush are both Soma), who has dreams of becoming an imperial painter. And apparently, she's pretty damn good at what she does. We meet Beryl when we find that she has a shard of Kohaku's spirune within her, which causes her to act really abnormal. Of course, we fix her and she joins us shortly after that whole thing.

* Innes Lorenz - We actually meet Innes before Beryl, but Beryl joins our party first. Innes is a merchant and the owner of a shop called 'Every Day is a Peaceful Day', and also a soma user herself. She deals in selling soma, actually, and this is how Hisui got his. We also find out later that she's part of the military, and there are a lot of heartbreaking spoilers concerning that as well, but I won't mention those. Innes overall is kind of the token troll/big-boobed chick of the game, and she's actually a really fun character. c: She and Beryl often get into little arguments that end up resulting in mass hilarity.

* Kunzite - GUESS WHAT GUYS, IT'S AN ANDROID. The last member to join the party, Kunzite is nothing short of badass. He's also laden with spoilers himself, because his mistress is Richea, who is ... spoilers. And I don't want to spoil too much. But yes, he's pretty badass.

This is our Main Party! Richea Spodune ends up joining us later on, but she doesn't fight. She's a plot-pivotal character, and a lot of the second half's plot revolves around her. We find out why she was in Kohaku's spirune, how she got there, what her mission is, and how it involves everyone else in the party, and even how it involves people in the past! Specifically, Kohaku, Hisui, and Shing's mamas and Shing's grandpa. 8Db

There are also other characters in this game who are just as amazing; some of them are temporary enemies, some of them are full-fledged enemies, and some are recurring NPCs who are amazing and wonderful. Seriously, I can't say the words 'amazing' and 'wonderful' enough about this game.

I realize this thing must be a monster by now, so I'll try to hurry up with the rest of this.

Tales of Hearts was, unfortunately, never localized. There are ways to play the game and understand what is being said despite that, however: [livejournal.com profile] vesperia did an actual full-on script translation of the main game (no skits, just the main game), which can still be found on the internet (I will be linking to it, by the by). There is also playing the game via emulator or buying it yourself, though I'm pretty sure it's region locked, so you'd need a Japanese DS to play it if you buy it. However, R4s are a wonderful invention for the DS, so as much as I don't want to advocate piracy in such a beautiful game, unfortunately, those who are short on cash may want to look into emulations or R4s. If anybody wants the nds file for the game, I will be happy to hand it over, but it's really pretty easy to find.

Also of note, there is a Translation Patch in the works for this game! It might not seem like it because the guy heading the project tends to do a lot of trolling (I really don't blame him, his trolling is pretty hilarious), but yes, it is happening!

There have also been rumors about a remake of the game for the PSVita being in the works. I sincerely hope it is true. :B

My last point of note before I end this monstrosity here is more of a pimpage for my baby girl, Kohaku. She's going to be a cameo battle in Tales of Graces f, which is coming to America for the PS3 in about a week. And I need to say it.

She is going to kick my ass and I am going to be so proud of her for it.

Especially if that name change is a thing. AUGH. So irrationally upset over it.

RELEVANT LINKS:
* Vesperia's LJ post regarding the ToH script (links are down now because megaupload)
* But not to worry, I have the script uploaded here for those of you who want to read it.
* Translation Patch Progress Site
* Tales of Hearts @ Aselia Wiki
* Tales of Hearts: Hard Mode Playthrough (Bosses Only)

Unfortunately I can't find an actual completed playthrough. :( Any questions, please feel free to ask me! I don't claim to be an expert on the game, but I've done my best to make sure I know as much as I can to be able to play Kohaku as best as I can.
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[personal profile] spiria 2012-03-08 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
OH, IT'S BEEN BROUGHT TO MY ATTENTION THAT DS GAMES ARE NOT REGION LOCKED.

SO.

* Tales of Hearts: Anime Edition @ Play Asia
* Tales of Hearts: CG Edition @ Play Asia
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[personal profile] bufudine 2012-03-08 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
SHUT UP!! ALL PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW IS:

CANNIBAL DEMONS. GREAT BUTTS. WAY TOO FUCKING SAD.
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[personal profile] bufudine 2012-03-08 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
inorite. You'll be out of tears by the time you get to it, though. I like to think Atlus decided to take pity on the player for once.

You make a tempting argument since I live in Australia... But I already have the games so I guess someone else will just have to buy them!
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PERSONA 3

[personal profile] tsundyne 2012-03-08 01:17 am (UTC)(link)


TEN: all you need to know is that you shoot yourself in the head to summon figments of yourself to punch people
LEVI: That is seriously why Ten started playing P3
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[personal profile] tsundyne 2012-03-08 01:17 am (UTC)(link)


also this because it's just cool

play the Answer people, god
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[personal profile] messianic 2012-03-08 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
Also



Minato is a dork.

Now you may carry on with your lives
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[personal profile] contemptibility 2012-03-08 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
The Legend of the Legendary Heroes (aka Densetsu no Yuusha no Densetsu/DenYuuDen/That Series With a Dorky Name)

... Despite the ridiculous title, the basic premise of "SEARCHING FOR ~HERO RELICS~", and the fairly easygoing first episode, it is not a gag anime. In fact, it happens to be very fond of its mood whiplash, going from light-hearted and comedic to WHOOPS SOMEONE'S TRAGIC PAST and/or LOOK PEOPLE BEING BRUTALLY SLAUGHTERED, usually within the same episode.

It's essentially about a Crapsack World that runs on Gray and Grey Morality where War is Hell, Fantastic Racism is rampant, Aristocracy is Evil, everyone has had a Dark and Troubled Past (meaning that yes, the cast is a Dysfunction Junction), Well-Intentioned Extremists are generally the only people to get things done, Cruel and Unusual Deaths are the usual, Infant Immortality is ruthlessly averted, the Powers That Be aren't very nice, Sacrificial Lions are everywhere, and others that are spoilers or that I can't think of at the top of my head.

... Aka the world sucks and people are weird. Hilarity/angst/wtf is going on ensues. Considering how large and versatile the cast is, you're bound to find at least one character you like. |D The main ones include a lazy mage who pretends to be weaker than he really is, a badass snarky heroine/Cloud Cuckoo Lander, a ~charming~ troll/manipulative bastard, aka the trio in the center.

It has lots of eye candy on both sides (and those are hardly the only examples) and so much Ho Yay between the two male leads that it's practically canon. It also has some very lovely openings and endings. C:

... Oh, and crazy laughter. I still hate you, Jae.

You can find all the episodes subbed by Funimation on Youtube. o/

Note: The anime is adapted from a light novel series and covers the prequel, so be warned that it ends on a cliffhanger and wraps up little, sales mean a second season is unlikely, and that the novels may never be fully translated sob. /)_(\ So, uh, if you want a series that wraps everything up and don't want to have to do a lot of reading and research, then LOLHeroes might not be for you—
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Re: TALES OF HEARTS

[personal profile] spiria 2012-03-08 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
Also, I messed up on one of my links.

Anime Opening
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Vassalord

[personal profile] not_heavens_adam 2012-03-08 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
Better Than It Sounds summary: "Just how much UST can there be between two male vampires? Let's find out."

Yep, that pretty much sums it up.


In one corner you've got a gay, sassy, flirtatious, pimp of a vampire who is, secretly, chalk-full of self-worth issues. And, in the other corner, you've got the most-likely-gay (at least for Johnny), catholic, would-be-priest. 'Would-be' because he's a vampire too...with cybernetic parts. So that he can hunt vampires better.

They also live together.

Which results in scenes like:



Early and often.

Vassalord has everything: deep plot, violence, sexual tension, a sassy, gay, vampire, mystery, romance, action, and girly manly crying. Mostly provided by Charley.

Did I forget to mention the near constant eye-candy/fan-service?



Yep. Go, read it. It's only at 5 volumes right now. :|a
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YnM Representin~

[personal profile] cinnaponpuppy 2012-03-08 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
Yami no Matsuei

This show is basically about everyone being gay for Tsuzuki with a side order of supernatural mystery and a dash of Japanese mythology.

The shinigami are tasked with solving the supernatural that disrupts the natural order of life. If someone's life is prolonged when it shouldn't be, the shinigami are employed to figure what is going down and fix it. Tsuzuki is in it for the food reasons beyond his own control. He is being punished for some crime he has committed, and is put through this hell of taking others lives to benefit his own (how he views the job). Hisoka, Tsuzuki's new boyfriend partner, took the job in order to find out who killed him.

The manga is still on going (after a long hiatus), but the anime has only thirteen episodes. The differences between the anime and manga is that the anime skips over the silly arcs, nothing is really finished, and the chicks are close to nonexistent.

Potential trigger warning~
There is blood, violence, mention of suicide, and sexual assault/rape.

Intro theme.
English Voice Actor for Tsuzuki is DAN GREEN.
It counts as Shoujo, but it has all the homo.

cinnaponpuppy: (make it two scooby snax?)

/adds

[personal profile] cinnaponpuppy 2012-03-08 02:15 am (UTC)(link)

This is Squall. Squall is hot, but aloof.
In Final Fantasy VIII, you can make fun of an ugly train, make him babble nonsense(prison torture scene), and impress a motherfucking dragon.

[personal profile] ex_diplomacy861 2012-03-08 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
Minato's dork can't compare to anyone else's.







just typing that made me cry

[personal profile] ex_diplomacy861 2012-03-08 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
Lots of eye candy.

Stay away from the manga, guys.

You'll cry like me.
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[personal profile] bakegarasu 2012-03-08 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
Do you like fancy armor? Do you like adorable snail demon children? Do you like crazy-ass villains voiced by the guy who played Shaggy in the Scooby Doo live action movies?

Then Karas might be right for you!

Karas is a six-episode OVA released for Tatsunoko's 40th anniversary. This shortened format leaves out a lot of things that a longer series might have been able to expand on, but what you do get for the main storyline is fantastic.

It has CGI! It has giant monsters! It has blood! It has a 'hero' whose backstory could probably be the one for a villain but he doesn't really angst over it.

The whole thing is up on Youtube in English if you are in America. If you are not in America, or prefer subtitles, let me know and I can fetch you the links. /o/
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MOVE TO THE COUNTRY, JUMP IN A TV

[personal profile] yellowglasses 2012-03-08 02:21 am (UTC)(link)

WELCOME TO PERSONA 4
WHERE BODIES MYSTERIOUSLY APPEAR HANGING FROM ROOFS IN THE FOG AND THE POLICE CAN'T DO SHIT


Play as a boy who barely talks yet somehow forms strong bonds with the people he meets, and manages to date any girl he pleases along the way!

Basically, the game is about these above-mentioned murders taking place, and only you and your friends can stop it by jumping into televisions and wearing glasses. You also save people from dying when the murderer throws them into the television, causing the Midnight Channel- only visible on tvs on rainy nights at exactly Midnight. The people who show up on this 'show' are the people who mysteriously get found after it rains for a couple days straight.

These people are faced by their Shadows. Beings that take on their appearance and reveal the victim's deepest secrets they keep from everyone else and are in denial about.
EVERY SINGLE PERSON YOU HAVE TO SAVE SAYS

AND THEN YOU HAVE TO FIGHT THEIR BOSS SHADOW


Eventually everyone you save works together to solve the case of WHO IS THE MURDERER???


Along the way you also....
...
..

Fight weird looking shit



Do stuff for people so they'll like you


Eavesdrop on your schoolmates


Become obsessed with checking the weather


Accidentally accuse the wrong people of being the killer



Date people maybe??? Also rank social links with everyone.


YEP THAT'S PERSONA 4.
Edited 2012-03-08 02:25 (UTC)

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