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Any chance of getting this one on YouTube? I'm afraid my computer no longer allows me to connect to NicoNicoDouga and I am a little too frustrated to find out why it does that. And if need be Elochai I can look over the damage/meter values as well this time if the quality is a little too blurry again.

Taking a page from ATLUS are we Mori? Too bad it's a futile effort. Plenty of people will post spoilers and make the information public, so you might as well just accept it and be prepared for the aftereffects.

In the games, Tetrakarn and Makakarn were barrier skills that reflect physical and magical attacks once respectively. There are exceptions though. Makakarn cannot reflect status ailment spells and the Megido (or any almighty spell) series, while Tetrakarn cannot reflect a physical attack that has an almighty attribute. Translating this to fighting games, I imagine this means that Tetrakarn reflects any attack not a projectile or grab for (barring 50SP skills anyway), while Makakarn works on projectiles only. Of course, that's mostly speculation on my part and nothing concrete. It'd certainly be nice of either ATLUS or ASW to go in-depth how she works. I'd certainly like to know if you can have both on at once like in the games. I have no clue about the Scan though. Scanning was used in P3/P4 to get inside info on the weaknesses/strengths of the Shadows so you could make the appropriate set-up, but I dunno how this could work in the game.

I'm actually kinda glad for this. The last ASW limited/special edition (BBCP) was not worth the amount I spent on it (OST CD that doesn't read the files it is supposed to *facepalm*), so any reason they can give me to just shoot for the standard edition and save my hard-earned cash the better.

An ominous door with a Full Moon looming over in the distance? This does not bode well but it looks awesome. Thanks for the link Flux.

Yeah it's kinda scary how good Ken actually is. Only fault I found with him from what was shown is that his FA is incredibly punishable if you anticipate or even block it (on the stream, when the Rise blocked his initial FA hit, he was up in the air for a while before landing into free damage). If I could look past the aesthetic of his Persona and his near uselessness to me in P3, I'd play him myself. By the way, did anyone happen to see the character select screen? It has the 2 Random selects on the sides but, what about the center? EDIT: Nevermind I found it. Turns out there's a 3rd Random select under Yu Narukami. So best case scenario for me would be that Adachi occupies one Random on left/right and we get another potential character on the other one. Worst case: Adachi occupies the one in the dead center under Yu and we have 2 Random selects on either side. EDIT 2: I'm surprised nobody pointed this out already but Rise and Ken's titles are "The Scandalous Superstar Idol" and "The Pretentious Tenderfoot Duo" in the localized version.

Rise's Awakening SP Skill is a weaponized DDR command grab. I...I have no words. EDIT: Her instant kill is surprisingly lackluster (smacks opponent with soundwaves, cut to 3D microphones and a still portrait of her and done). Really doesn't live up to the hype. No comments on the deconfirmation because I am not entirely sure I should trust anything an ATLUS representative has to say. Especially when they're in cahoots with Mori.

Ken's range is incredible. And it is scary. Very, very scary. Oh and from the sound of things, Adachi is not in the E3 build right now.

There was the supposed last hit of Yu's long-sequence one, but other than that, there has been no new development. For the record, the Yu one was a few months back.

You are most welcome. Part 2 of the combo vid [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywhvmEWqK4U&feature=youtu.be ] is now complete. This one was a lot easier on the eye and had far fewer obscured values. Hopefully I am at least somewhat on the mark since it's rare for me to find a character for whom I'm willing to suffer haemolacria XD.

Ha, talk about a demotivational navigator. Then again, that is within character for him. Good to see that the trouncing he received hasn't humbled him any.

Great job Elochai. If you'd like I can also look over the damage and SP uses. I can't promise the absolute 100% accuracy (and in the Mahamaon ones it shouldn't matter since they spell defeat for the opponent anyway), but I can certainly give you a rough idea if you wanna update it sooner rather than later. EDIT: I have gotten through Part 1 [ http://youtu.be/LxXK8zFcSQw ] of the combo vid and wrote down my findings. I'll get to Part 2 sometime later when my eyes are no longer bleeding XD.

The literal meaning that I could find is "at [someone's] mercy" but after looking a bit deeper it could also refer to "making fun of someone", "trifling" or "to amuse oneself". Dunno if this sheds any more light on the subject of Adachi's playstyle, but there's my take on the matter. Hope it helps.

Nothing's for certain just yet. All the boxart depicts is the characters we've confirmed are in. And notice that there is no Persona Sho (he's visually depicted when his scar is glowing). It just doesn't do it for me and like mentioned, I don't like how Yu's taking up most of the space with a resoundingly "meh" expression.

I like her expression there the most. It's like she's saying "Ohohoho...I could break each and every one of your bones with my pinky". Too bad that's story-related tiers and not gameplay ones. More like "You see this here character? He's what you'll be fighting 90% of the time. Have fun!" No don't jinx it! Just keep the faith and believe until the very, very end.

That's Sho's hand. He's showing everyone a magic trick but nobody's looking his way. Honestly, the boxart is...eh alright, I guess. I dunno, maybe it's because I never saw Yu as a great character, but I am not too fond of how he takes up 70% of the image, while everyone else is shoved to the side. The image is also rather large so I wonder if they'll actually fit it on a PS3 case and keep the image quality.

Oh SD you always know how to make me bust a gut..or 12. Can we petition ATLUS or ASW to hire him as a writer for the next BB or Persona game? It'd make the gag reels actually funny unlike CP's mostly miss ones.

Looking at Sechs up close like that and comparing him to other characters in XBlaze and BB makes me feel like giving him a sammich. Seriously, he's like if Slenderman donned a wig and drew on his face for a bit to give the impression of a human being.

Point proven, there IS a game out there with no DLC at the moment, even if it will never see Western shores due to licensing. I mean more along the lines of announcing so much extra added content ("extra" used tentatively) before the game is even released. It's like they're already prepping us to be their cash flow instead of first giving us a complete game and then asking us if we'd like something extra to go with it.

Swag? Bragging rights? Or maybe just some aesthetic to wriggle every last penny you have draw in the collectors who like that sort of thing. Personally, I think the DLC is going out of hand right now. We got a character confirmed for DLC, along with BGMs, glasses (seriously why would you ever want this..), navigators and now these cards. Just once in 2014 I'd like to see a game where DLC does not exist or at least isn't revealed before the game is even released.

OK whoever the casting director is for this game did a bang-on job with Todd Haberkorn as the Shos. I'm not even kidding, this is quite literally THE most fitting a voice I've ever heard for them. Instantly in love and possibly maining either if Makoto is not in. This has been one crazy good day.

Holy shit Adachi, what have you been eating? He looks like a berserker from the images, but damn does that make me wish we had a trailer of him in motion. Also, it seems like he uses his gun not as a projectile but so that he can pistol-whip his opponents (middle image on the right page, below the SP skill). Thank you Strife.

Oh Adachi you lovable, colossal creep. And yeah, I can definitely see a gun though from my view, it looks more like a traditional handgun than his old police revolver. Character does look fearsome though, much more so than in his debut fight. So one more? Well guess it's time for me to cross my fingers and hope that the next reveal is P3MC someone unexpected. EDIT: Is it just me, or is Magatsu-Izanagi pulling off Vorpal Blade in that screenshot?

I'd argue this is more to do with the story influence than anything. We're less likely to see a character in a villainous light if we have information pointing to the contrary. Still doesn't change the fact that a suit makes Ragna sophisticated as hell. I kinda wish he now had an alternate sprite of it but that ain't happening.

Huh, that's a good question. I guess I never thought about it considering I very rarely see Ramlethal players pull off either move. I would like to know the answer myself as well.