The Year is 2011, an ominous fog sets in to the small town of Inaba, in rural Japan
This is the story of a young man who goes to spend a year living in the countryside in a small town with his uncle and cousin. What connections will he make? What will happen to him in the end. This is up to you.
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Persona 4 Golden is a turn-based RPG in the popular ATLUS series. In this game you play as a High School age boy who spends a year (April 2011, through March 2012) in the small rural town of Inaba. Sounds boring? Not really, shortly after arriving a murder happens. There's also this mysterious tv channel that appears on foggy nights that supposedly shows your soul mate. Before you know it a girl at your school goes missing and you get wrapped up into a mystery to solve the case and bring the killer to justice. You'll build a team of your fellow teens to bring the killer to justice, The Investigation Team.
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- SP (mana for summoning your persona to cast magic) is very hard to recover in the early game. The shopping district has vending machines which sell drinks that will restore your SP. Not by much and you can only buy so many per week. It's not a lot but it will help out a ton.
- Most Social Links cannot be done on rainy days. You can advance the Sun and Hermit on rainy days though. The Hermit should be prioritized, as it gives you a bigger discount on recovering SP as you go on. The Hermit social link works different, rather than hanging out you must do requests. The Hermit social Link causes time to advance only when you turn one in and this can be done on rainy days, so try to get stuff turned in then.
- Have a matching Persona in your inventory of the person you are hanging out with. This will make the relationship advance faster
- Check the fridge at home every night. Sometimes there will be ingredients to make lunch. If you do this you can share with one of your social links at school. This will raise your relationship level with them for free. Making and eating lunch does not take up any time.
- On rainy days the restaurant Aiya has a Mega Beef Bowl Challenge. It's pricey but if you do it you will raise randomly raise three out of these four social stats (Understanding, Diligence, Courage, Knowledge) the fifth social stat, Expression, cannot be raised this way. You'll get a cool little prize for finishing the challenge.
- Unlike Persona 5, most social links do not give you little perks (besides the xp bonus when fusing the matching arcana Persona). The Hermit social link does give you perks for raising it, also the social links for the party members do have perks for raising them, so definitely try to prioritize them.
- If you hear rattling chains while exploring a dungeon, be careful. When you try to open a treasure chest (while the rattling is heard), one of your party members may warn you not to do it and that something dangerous may emerge. If you choose to open it anyway you will have to fight the Reaper. The Reaper is super tough and if you are low level you should attempt to flee. If you defeat the Reaper he will drop a best-in-slot item for one of your characters. So if you are high enough level and feel confident, go for it.
We need to talk about endings for a bit. Persona 4 has a few and getting a good one is desirable. There are a few bad/stupid ones. Ones that aren't worth your time and if you want to see them, just Youtube them after you beat them. Feel to PM me even, I can point you in the right direction.
Now, let's talk about getting a good ending. I will hide the text options you must pick behind a spoiler. i will not say more than I have to within these, just give enough info to make sure you don't go the wrong way and get a bad ending.
Getting the True Ending (this was the ending to the original PlayStation 2 version of Persona 4)
You have to make important dialog choices on three days: December 3rd, December 5th, and March 20th.
December 3rd:
Yosuke will ask you "What do you want to do Leader?, use the following dialogue choices in order:
"
- Wait a second here…
- We’re missing something.
- Censored true feelings.
- Something’s been bothering me.
- We’re missing something…
- Calm the hell down!
"
December 5th:
You will need to name the killer and tell your friends your suspicions about them. You may have figured out who it is by now, if not i will hide the answer within a spoiler. Do not click unless you are at this point of the game and still haven't figured it out.
Last Chance, i am serious.
Adachi
March 20th:
The game will tell you that you should go home and get prepared for tomorrow. Do not do this. Instead go to the Junes Food Court. The game will try to dissuade you, but go there anyway.
Doing this will get you the true ending of Persona 4. But Golden added an extra ending, the Golden Ending.
To get the Golden ending:
Do everything for the True Ending. Get the Aeon social link maxed before December 24th. This unlocks a new dungeon which you must complete before February 13th. Do this and you get the Golden ending.
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This game means a lot to me. It's one of my favorite games, my online handle is the name of a character from the game. I really love the characters and the town of Inaba, I can relate to it myself. I have lived in a bigger city and then had to go to a smaller boring town, but ultimately I have a web of friends that mean the world to me and it's what helps me get by. So enough of being sappy. Whether you are new to the game or are just coming back for another round, stop by, say hi. Let's talk this great game with everybody, share advice and tips. Stay Golden.
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