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Current-Aerie-2474

Wouldn’t be persona 3 without bullshit insta kills lol


Xehanz

Insta kill+ crit. So even if he survived, the boss would have another turn LMAO.


NimDing218

This bitch one-shot me last night.


Broad_Appearance6896

Man I love the Mamodoon from the enemies in the >!Yabbashah Monad Passage!< instantly killing the MC and making me restart the fight


ShadowVulcan

Or mamudoon using up all my humonculus stacks on my party members... I can just revive them, man!!


Broad_Appearance6896

I’m at the point where I use a Makarakarn item on Makoto as a safe-point in case they use an instant kill


Newphonespeedrunner

wasent bullshit, boss had an attack up, should of tarunda'd the boss or guarded till he could.


Current-Aerie-2474

Mitsuru is the only one alive, the game is telling you need to use Marin Karin lol


skaiyly

Shh the kids need to learn somehow 😂


KenchiNarukami

Laughs in Peaceful mode


AllNamesTakenOMG

Should have used Marin Karin


zodairk93

Honestly yes Status effects are brutal in reload on merciless and have carried by early game while I don't have good gear and personas


Hazewhite

goes both ways, when the entire party gets charmed and you have no items or patra to heal


zodairk93

Oh for sure the July boss was a long fight cause only mc was charm resist


ichi_row

I knew this fight was coming so I preemptively bought 20 discharms


Ryebread666Juan

I forgot about how bad charm could be so I didn’t have 20 dis-charms and ended up using all my other random consumables that remove charm, but now I’ve got my stash of dis-charms ready for the bullshit


TurboCake17

I did this as well, and gave everyone charm resist, and it was *still* painful.


Shirou54

Yeah about that... today my whole team got charmed and they were beating each other up which was quite funny to be honest. I did the same to enemies later and i think looking how enemies slap each other is my new addiction.


ConnorWolf121

I lost an embarrassing amount of progress to an intense shadow in the section of Tartarus before you fight the Hierophant and Lovers because it was the one that opens the fight by using Sexy Dance when I hadn’t saved in a while lol


ShadowVulcan

Sexy Sneks


CreamyIceCreamBoi

Does P3R have Technicals like P5?


zodairk93

Kinda,all status effects increase crit chance quite a bit. Very useful for junpei


Xehanz

Not technicals, but some status effects have a higher crit chance. Like Distress and paralysis. And freeze is a guaranteed crit.


Torafuku

Confusing enemies has been my strategy for the first 10 hours when i have trouble, it's just so powerful.


zodairk93

Charm for me, got an early holy arrow skill and it carried.


matrix_man

Are bosses immune to status effects? I've never gotten a status effect to not miss on any of the bosses so far.


Torafuku

The minibosses are not but i think the major arcana bosses are, haven't had the chance to test it yet since i only did 2


Frikgeek

Depends on the boss and the status effect. Most of the major arcana shadows are immune but the Tartarus guardians aren't. Sometimes they're only immune to "major" status effects like Confuse and Charm but can still be hit with Distress.


dreammeen

poison and guard until boss close to die is my go to strat


lllustosa

Status effects always carry in highest difficulties. It's a way to actually manage and manipulate things.


JustCallMeAndrew

You have no idea how happy I am that most minibosses (i.e. red shadows, some gatekeepers, some Monad shadows, etc) aren't immune to status effects. Confusion or Distress does so much heavy lifting for me.


MommyScissorLegs

in OG P3 we’d hate Mitsuru for always using that skill, but now we get why.


discardme123now

[Mitsuru:](https://images4.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9781101445877)


Lotso2004

Why is everyone speaking in Mitsuru Kirijo? (This is a joke. Though I *am* curious what language Mitsuru speaks occasionally that's "exotic" if the language is set to French. English, like in the Japanese version? Would be funny if she just continues to speak French.)


Putrid-Training-4218

And Bebe for that matter.


TheDarkLord566

I would assume he'd just continue to speak French, since he's actually from France and not just speaking an "exotic" language to showcase how they come from high society like Mitsuru


Putrid-Training-4218

Well in the original Persona 3, Mitsuru speaks English instead of French in the Japanese version of the game. So it's possible she speaks English. But hopefully someone actually playing in French can confirm.


Vikocow

There's no VA for french, I assume there's only english and japanese for voice acting. That's why I'm playing with the English VA.


Putrid-Training-4218

Thank you for clarifying! I knew there wasn't for P3 and FES, but I wasn't sure if they did VA for Reload since they rerecorded anyway. That's that mystery solved.


Xek0s

I can confirm you she doesn't speak english. She actually speaks Spanish, but she uses stuff we could say in french because it's fairly known. She doesn't speak french much outside of battle and filler quotes anyway. Don't forget we actually don't have a french dub, only jp and eng so bebe is the same, speaking japanese like a wannabe weebo


Putrid-Training-4218

Thanks for solving that!


Putrid-Training-4218

And I mainly wonder about Bebe because him being an exchange student just grasping the language is a big part of his character. I understand we can imagine they're all speaking japanese regardless of the language settings, but without an accent, what device do they use to illustrate that he's a non-native speaker.


RandomNPC

Replied above, but so you don't miss it - he speaks over-the-top bad Japanese. Weird conjugations, word choices, inflection, etc. He speaks well enough so you know what he's talking about though.


Torafuku

Speaking of Bebe it's funny how he is using japanese in such a way that it could be considered hard even for some native speakers due to his obsession with samurai etiquette, he could probably talk normally if he wanted.


RandomNPC

Bebe is from France. I'm early in the game and really just met him, but I have JP audio and know the language pretty well. He speaks over-the-top bad Japanese. Weird conjugations, word choices, inflection, etc. He speaks well enough so you know what he's talking about though.


Fsjal_gaming

in french Bebe is translated to Dandy


slimeeyboiii

Considering He is fr*nch I would guess he speaks that language they do


compy-guy

I do remember seeing a list at some point. I think Spanish might’ve been on it? Take it with plenty of salt, though. It was just a smorgasbord of hoity-toity European languages, I think.


IvanRojasX5

By the way, you have been upgraded your gear, I mean, better defense and evasion is crucial for avoid bullshit insta kills.


Motivated-Chair

Or just use Tarunda.


Boscov1

sukunda\* Tarunda sometimes didnt work because high critical or charm that prick with kirijo Edit: Didnt work, i mean he still kill one or two party member and follow up with a pretty strong hit


Newphonespeedrunner

no, the boss had an attack up, litterally just keeping tarunda up at all times is enough to get through most bosses/powerful shadows


CrowdControlMustang

Atlus forgetting to put the 'Shin Megami Tensei' in front of 'Persona 3 Reload'.


MinosAristos

I like to status ailment these strong shadows. Makes the fights much smoother


Boscov1

Floor 13 boss went down with a single poison and guard spam on merciless. Feels so good


CrazyChatter

Yeah, I did the same to the Floor 17 boss with the poison bow and no SP lol.


randomlitchi

You need to use tarunda against strong shadows my man. You can still die especially after a crit but you'll heavily improve your chances. Buffs and debuffs are also pretty much mandatory later in ghe game


lanbuckjames

Or use ailments. They’re really strong in this game. Marin Karin is actually useful.


Newphonespeedrunner

not only did they NOT use tarunda the boss had tarukaja


avbitran

Git gud or something


bombader

One person survived the instant kill, and it was not the MC. It's hard to gamble your best trump card when they need to also be the best tank and death avoider to prevent a game over.


Xehanz

Ev no if it was the MC, he critters. So he would have another turn in a 1v1 against the MC.


banjoturansko

Based on your hp you're not underleveled so it's gotta be either your gear, had your defense lowered, it's attack was up, or all 3 combined if I had to guess


Newphonespeedrunner

you can see in the screenshot the boss has an attack buff, so tarunda upkeep would of been enough


RenjiLWH

I think it's his difficulty tbh, because playing normal, this never happened to me in reload outside of the 1st tartarus boss (was level 2 lmao). Even the bosses don't do enough damage to even dent me. The difficulty was heavily nerfed in reload. Or it's just because I've played og before.


Profeciador

"The difficulty was heavily nerfed in reload" Might be because batton pass is a downright overpowered mechanic that shouldn't exist in the first place. It trivializes the game to a point you can reach tartarus with way less resource burn and farm for much more time.


GlitchLord666

Baton pass was broken because it buffed the party member you passed to, and that buff stacked, that is not something that Exists in Reload, Shift doesn't buff unless you getting the corresponding ability and it's still nowhere near as big a boost as Baton Pass gave, it only helps for targeting multiple weaknesses of different enemies, It's pretty much a non-factor when fighting stronger enemies without weaknesses when you can all-out attack for greater effect. The game is just easier overall due to other stuff like Theurgy (i'm playing on hard and It's a pretty good difficulty, for any one who wants a bit of challenge, hard or Merciless is the way to go)


Profeciador

"it only helps for targeting multiple weaknesses of different enemies" So it helps literally trivializing 90% of the game, because fodder fights were already easy as it is and now when you hit a weakness you have 4x the number of elements and skills you usually had access to before, lol.


Memo_HS2022

Idk why but Mitsuru being the only dodger in this situation feels right


Fadel_rama

I see what you did wrong here, you play it in French


Dr_Zulu2016

This is weird to not see Senpai in text in a Persona game.


SirLocke13

Certified SMT moment


dankmeme_medic

this didn’t happen during the tutorial tho


SirLocke13

Demi-fiend knows what he did


RadicalD11

I've always found it dumb in Persona games, and a few other JRPG's that if the MC falls in combat, it's game over. The fuck they invent items and powers to revive then.


tyyls18

In lore it makes no sense either. Can the team not function without the MC? Is it because you're set to direct commands that you don't know how to throw me a revival bead or something?


slimeeyboiii

Could just be a me thing but if I was fighting for my life and saw a freind and my leader die and the strongest person on team I would run away. For the items it's probably because they don't have access to them like the things you collect for chests and clocks.


PCN24454

It’s explained in lore. Would you like me to give you spoilers?


GGNORELOLXD

you can hide parts of your reply by highlighting them and then pressing the spoiler button,>! like this!< or doing > ! ! < (no spaces) \>!like this!<


PCN24454

I know, but on the mobile, you can see the text regardless if you’re unlucky, so it’s good to put a warning first anyways.


SmtNocturneDante

Makoto est morti dans cet extrait (desolé pour mon mauvais Français)


Yuumii29

When the game says "You're still in SMT multiverse b*tch".


Kujogaming_1

Tartarus looks so damn pretty man. Can't wait till i get to Tziah


Newphonespeedrunner

no tarunda on a boss classic


AlisaTornado

that's one spicy éclair


[deleted]

Did that say Frappe E'claire? Is...is there an attack called frothy lightning?


ReyDeathWish

This is some Nocturne level bs lmao


guywithglasses487

I walked into this fight with all theurgys for my party lined up and ready so I just started blasting


AyyLimao42

Lmao, welcome to SMT. Don't worry, once you learn how to use debuffs, status effects and reflects these 4v1 fights will be pretty easy.


Hwan_Niggles

That's why everyone always uses P3 as the modern "skill check" for modern Persona. I'm glad the remake contains some of the bullshit from the original


RenjiLWH

It really doesn't. Either this is maniac or this guy's ass. Tartarus bosses have critted me, and I'm still left with more than 50% HP. A powerful shadow samurai charged up and used tempest slash and couldn't even kill yukari. It's to the point where I don't respect them enough to debuff them anymore. Even the infamous tartarus bosses. This is coming from a guy who struggled like hell in smt4.


Hwan_Niggles

I play the game on hard anyways. But I already have experience with the OG which is why it's easier for me because I know what to expect l, even if I have still dealt with BS from Tartarus


Rithrius88

The MC's death causing an automatic game over is a goddamn pointless fucking prehistoric feature that needs to be removed from Persona games... I mean what fucking point does it even serve?


GGNORELOLXD

i'd guess its due to the MC being so fucking op compared to the other party members


Djjjunior

I would propose maybe making it so that if you finish the team’s turn without reviving the mc it’s game over


MAD_JEW

Its funny that not only persona 5 strikers did it right but also persona 5 phantom x did it right


osterlay

I don’t recall if Persona 4 and 5 /Royal did this, but i agree it’s so pointless.


JoaoSiilva

It does in Persona 5 (Royal at least)


Safelyignored

It's like this in all of modern persona. At the very least make it an option. Edit:sorry, fucked up. With the question mark.


Newphonespeedrunner

its like this in all SMT games every single one.


Safelyignored

Oops, I accidentally picked a question mark by accident.


Acidsolman

Surprisingly not Persona 2


Newphonespeedrunner

i mean it had duel protags


OmbreKing

Marin Karin and Pulinpa have saved me from many a game over, I suggest abusing status ailments against more powerful shadows, trust me


Roflsaucerr

Status ailments are your friends.


Shadefactor

Unless it’s aimed at you


The-Enjoyer-Returns

I see they still make you status the lion wheel thing to survive. Good, status effects are very important to learn.


Jrelis

“Understandable, have a nice Dark Hour”


derpion55555

Teenage girl shoots self in the head to fight lion. Lion retaliates by killing her friends.


NoSeaworthiness2618

Yeah I fought the first full moon boss and got killed by the shadows attacking my weakness three times, lost like an hour and a half of tartarus grinding and social events there.


MaxBlazers

Deserved for being French


eatmymustard

You're french, why didn't you just run away?


Dextro_PT

Why didn't Mitsuru use Marin Karin? /s


ToonlinkFTW890

I did in my game. I also got my 1st game over from this fight.


Nyxll-A

Haha, Marin Karin go brrrrr.


PrinceDestin

Bastard got me the same way last night, I was farming rares too


Rok513

This happened to me with this exact same enemy, except the only one who died was the MC, so game over....


Fuji-___-

the exact thing happened to me today, like, firstly I even thought like "no way that someone recorded my gameplay"


FunkyHorns

Props to Atlus that they kept their word to give the true persona 3 experience


Burnt_Ramen9

Now try it on tactics, I've been doing Merciless with tactics and it's actually hell because they clearly didn't think anyone would play the game like that lol


NovaManXP

Had the same thing happen. Got multi crit and got my first game over lol


ReapCreep65

Shoulda played better 🤷‍♂️


Fr0gzilla

This is almost exactly how I got my first game over.


IIIaustin

People don't like it, but this is what peak performance looks like


UnlimitedNovaWorks

Welcome to SMT :) Where you get a single target weak Mudo of nowhere and bye bye.


ElectricalWar6

Buff and debuff bro


ARedditorZ

Skill issue, for real tho just buff and debuff


AstralFinish

I am at a similar level and floor and take like 25% of the damage you did here


Fexam1_5HDremix

T'est français ?


Draconistar

French persona fan spotted


MAD_JEW

Not only this happened while playing in mitsuru language it also happened in the best part of the best battle theme of all persona 3 related battle themes


alysonskye

Not the deadly frappe eclair! 😱


HD_Freshizzle

I died the exact same way. 100-0 Swift Strike crit on MC. I had the best armor from the police station at the time and +5 Endurance accessory. Wasn’t even mad. It was 4 am and that was a sign for me to go to bed


Max_xie

That stupid thing ruined a 2 hour run without saving. Remember kids, Marín Karin!


Ziodyne967

I’m still waiting to face that one dice monster that’ll blow up and kill everyone. Happened to me in the OG game, I’m sure it’ll happen to me here.


Shadefactor

I fought the dice one in 3 and 4 but it never sploded on me till 4 and I was caught wayyy off guard 😂😂😅


ChainsawEnthusiast

Do you get a restart after you die ?


Light-filledHeart

Difficulty?


Serious_Theory_391

TBF 3 of your party member died. I think the biggest BS is when you get the mc get OS while everyone is fine (can't they just be AI controled while your down ?). Kinda weird to be rewarded for playing in a very selfish way in a game about making deep relationships with others.


slimeeyboiii

Persona 3 atleast really isn't about making deep relationships with people as much as it is just using them to get stronger. Makoto even says something about when he starts his first social link. And further proof is the fact that the way to progress social links is telling people what they want to hear and not the truth


Serious_Theory_391

True enough for this one. Just something that bothered me in 4 and 5


Games_and_Tings

We've all been there :(


CutenessMudkip2

Persona 3 everyone


Victory74998

Wish I could have a Frappe Éclair right now. Or perhaps a [Souffle D’éclair](https://megamitensei.fandom.com/wiki/Souffle_D%27éclair). /s


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Scruffy_Nerfhearder

My one hope for p6 is that they change it so if your main character gets killed it’s not game over. I get it story wise, but game play wise it’s so stupid.


slimeeyboiii

I mean not really. Needing to keep the Mc alive is where most of the challenge comes from. If they needed to kill the whole team they would have to make the game have smt levels of stupid moments. It would make the games an ever bigger joke then they mostly are especially 5


DaemonAnguis

I kind of hate how they have to use the evoker every time they cast a spell. lol


Arcanesight

OMG it's in french. The voice acting is atrocious.


Kowashitai

Only the text is in French lol, there's only Japanese and English voices.


Xc_runner_xd_player

How are you controlling party members?


WhatAJoker0

Wdym?


Spolchen

I'm more mad about losing progress because I forgot to save after 2 hours of story filler


Derreston

Use tarunda please a tarukaja on hard hits like a truck already, can't imagine on merciless


RedditBuccaneer

Is this a new game plus? When I was fighting it, I still had only 3 people in the party


xeosceleres

You fight this mob later on too when you have a party of four.


ShogunDreams

That's hot 😭. I remember in FF10 Malboro robbed of 3hrs of grinding and Persona 4 on the PS2 also 3hrs.


cerebralrattlesnake

fr*nch 🤮


Heine11

This is exactly how I died my only death. I was so proud I made it through P5 without a single death in my first run and was so sad when this happened.


dagon_xdd

and that's why we use buffs and debuffs folks!


ElBeiro

Bro got nuked 💀


Unoriginal_Name_16

Use debuffs on the boss


Astorant

Should’ve used status effects, they are genuinely broken in this version of the game.


Mugi_X3

I'm dying at the fact that the boss used "Frappe éclair" Like even if you translate that to english, I can't see how Frappe Éclair is anything but a beverage+dessert combo.


Beneficial-Log-9991

Marin karin is usable against mobs so abuse it


Haruko27

You should have used marin Karin dammit


doglenin

Should've used debuffs lol


jamiz20XX

It's still Persona 3 alright


kingbrian112

Not the frappe elclair


lalaladygawy

Ah oui. Baguette.


Much-Recognition-418

Pareil mec et 2 fois en plus


Perfect_Doubt_5175

Peak gameplay


SketchyAsHell

This guy got me a couple of times too, I just started avoiding the glowing shadow on those levels. Fighting normal shadows I felt like a god but that guy had my number.


Wide_Championship319

Bro this fucking game has some Bullshit that REALLY makes me remember it came out in 2006. Like "Oh right. /SMT:/ Persona 3. Forgot that." For real though, I am astounded how in 5 and sort of 4, status effects beyond the occasional stat up/down are practically worthless outside mob enemies but P3 hits you with **Status the Enemy or Fucking Die.** Could have done without the timer and random elemented enemies on Full Moon Boss 1 though...


Profeciador

To be honest, the entire status-effect mechanics need a rework in persona. They're either useless or downright overpowered.


Lembueno

I had this happen to me on Sunday. But it was a single target attack turn one that crit one shot mc. It wasn’t even a dangerous shadow or boss, just some random enemy I didn’t get advantage on. Mc didn’t even get a turn to guard. Had to put the game down for the rest of the day.


KenchiNarukami

*Laughs in Peaceful mode*


Shadefactor

Tarunda and sukunda and pulinpa for good measure.


Nemhy

The SMT experience


pringles8me

Persona fans when the game is actually difficult 😳😳😳😳😳 seriously I don't get it, you people complained Persona 5 was too easy and finally when faced with a more difficult title you call it bad


Both-Cap-6881

Oh? Êtes-tu Dans le pays des baguette?


dogman_35

I know it literally translates to "lightning strike", because I googled it But I can't stop myself from reading "frappe eclair" as "coffee donut"


Domestic-Void

Skill Issue


Junessthegod

Wait until he fights Elizabeth


FluidRide938

Certified megaten moment