Persona 3 FES Endurance Run (Part 23)

Hello internet, and welcome to the another update on my Persona 3 FES Endurance Run! Last session was a session of love, determination, and courageousness. And by that, I mean we fought a bit and then talked to a bunch of random people! Awesome.

Today, we found something important. Something very important. We found out how to change the  music in Tartarus. After 66 hours of this (and slight variations), we figured out how to turn it into this, this, this, or this (I know that's a lot of links, but stick with me here.) In the end, we decided to go with the first one, mainly because it's energetic enough to keep us from getting bored (for the time being). It's actually really cool because whenever I leave a battle I always forget it's going to start playing this new song, so I get super pumped. The only real problem with this discovery is that it took us over sixty hours to find it. I remember reading before I got this game that you could change the music, and at the time I thought that would be cool. But after playing the game for a while without ever finding out how, I completely forgot about it until now. It turns out that you're supposed to press the square button to bring up a command menu that allows you to split up or regroup your party, and then scroll down to the option "Ask Fuuka something." We actually went to this menu to try and use Fuuka's brand new spell that allows us to leave Tartarus without using an item, which thankfully was there as well. 

 This just got a whole lot more fun.

This is really cool and all, but it just really shows how terrible the game is at explaining things, and how batshit crazy the menu system can be. Another thing that highlights this is an item you collect called "Old Documents". You find one of these at the top of each block of Tartarus, and if you give them to Elizabeth he gives you a ton of yens. But what are these documents all about, you may ask, and how do I read them? What? You think going to the Key Items screen and then selecting them from there makes sense? Well yeah, it sure does, but while they appear there, there's no option to read them from that menu. You have to pause the game, go to "System", and then go to "Dictionary". The Dictionary is a log that allows you to look at some key words and phrases from the game and figure out what they mean. Now this is a really cool feature, and I mean that. If you stopped playing for a long while and forgot what was going on, this would be incredibly helpful. The problem is, it's hidden in the "System" menu, an option most people would never go to, and the game also never acknowledges its existence ever. The game alludes to you being able to read the Old Documents somewhere, but never explains where. And you know what? After all that, the Old Documents really aren't that interesting at all.

Another thing we thought to change that improved our experience was to change my TV aspect back to 4 by 3. For some reason, we had been playing the game in 16 by 9 (Widescreen) the whole time which made the game look kind of shitty, to be honest. But running at it's native aspect, it's way better and I wish I had realized this from the start.

So, with our new music to keep us going, we headed back to Tartarus for some fighting! Aigis is still getting repaired, so we had to replace her with Ken for the time being. Ken kind of sucks, but it didn't really end up mattering too much. We managed to defeat the last two bosses of this block, and collect the final "Old Document" of the entire game! Tartarus is now practically over, I guess. Like, for real this time. And even if it isn't, we at least won't have to go back there for another whole month since we did so much fighting in November! Yeah! This month's going to be awesome!

Besides that fighting, we didn't actually do much for the rest of the session. We talked to a lot of random strangers on the street just for fun, remembered how weird some of the conversations can be, so we continued that for a while. Then we remembered that there could be a method to this madness, because we could be completing some of Elizabeth's requests. This is a feature I haven't talked about much, mostly because we barely ever use it. What it is is that Elizabeth will tell you some things to do, and then you have to do them within a certain deadline. These requests vary from finding a weapon in Tartarus, fusing a specific Persona, getting an item from a stranger, or just feeding a cat. The reason we don't do them that much is because the prizes she gives aren't very good at all, and the requests really aren't that exciting either. We did the one about feeding the cat, obviously, but other than that we just do the one for collecting the "Old Documents" every month and that's it. We tried at the beginning, but a lot of things have to be done on specific days, and we would always forget. But today, since we were doing so much talking, we decided we would do a few. And , to be completely honest, I can't for the life of me remember what they are, so there you go. 

      An example of one of Elizabeth's more exciting requests.

So, during all that time, we only actually went through three days of game time, which is a record for us of wasting time. This is why it's great that there were some more mid-terms the next week, allowing us to waste a week in about five minutes. Obviously, thanks again to Levi's iPhone, we managed to ace all our mid-terms so well that I think after this we'll finally be able to hang out with Mitsuru. Only problem with that is that we are also about to S. Link with Aigis, and we still haven't got to ten with Chihiro. God, there's just too many women and not enough of us! I guess that's a problem most men wish they had.

Speaking of problems I wish I had, the members of S.E.E.S had a couple of meetings to discuss whether we should kill Ryoji or not. Most of us don't think we should! OK! Yukari and Mitsuru also had a private meeting which lead Levi to make the most retarded conclusion ever: (and while this isn't a direct quote, it's goddamn close enough for me) "Why would two girls talk to each other in private if they weren't bi-curious?" That's a very very good question, Levi.

Well, that't it and that's all for today! We're about 68 and one half hours into this game now, so that's a thing!