First of all, you can check the fridge every day. Most of the time there's nothing in there. However, sometimes there are random food (or non-food) objects that you can eat. Once, there was some mysterious grass in the fridge that might have been from the little sister's science project. We ate it. It was great XD
And then there was a slice of ham sitting all alone on a plate. We wanted to eat it, but the game said "Something about it disturbs you. You left it alone." XD
If little sister has gone shopping, you can make lunch for school tomorrow! If you do well, you can share it with your friends and improve your relationship with them. It's pretty great. You also get bait, which you can use for...
Fishing! You can go fishing, if you have enough Diligence, and it's lovely. We've caught 5 fish so far! You can either trade them to the old man for items or use them to restore the HP of your allies, but we haven't tried to do either yet. We hope feeding our allies raw fish doesn't have any ill effects XD
In Persona 3, your stats (like Academics, Charm, and Courage) really didn't have much to do with anything except unlocking ladies and getting good test scores. In P4, you have five attributes (Diligence, Understanding, Knowledge, Courage, and that other one I can't think of off the top of my head). These influence your ability to spend time with people, thus making it so that you can't only work on one friend at a time. They also influence what you can do and what you can say sometimes. Though this might sound irritating to someone who's not familiar with the game, it's actually a nice feature because it lets you pace yourself and forces you to balance between friendships and skills.
There are some lovely new characters and Personas in P4. Who doesn't love a mildly gay blonde macho guy in a bathhouse? This guy is currently our favorite character. The Personas are better balanced in this game, with some formerly crappy Personas getting a revamp (like Pixie being able to use Zio) and formerly godly Personas being more limited. Unfortunately, that last part applied to my former favorite Persona, Oberon- he wasn't nearly as useful this time around. I shall have to find a new favorite. There are also some nice new Personas with interesting skill sets and appearances.
P4 also gets more deeply involved in the personal lives and emotions of the characters. It's nice to have these deep, but not overdramatic characters.
The enemies that you encounter sometimes have similar appearances or features to those from P3, but their weaknesses often aren't the same as they were in the previous game. Some of them, like the Ravens, are still weak to Zio, but many more have no weaknesses, or at least ones that are unexpected. The analysis system in P4 also makes much more sense than it did in P3; P4 records the results of every type of attack you've tried against the enemy, rather than making you wait and then giving you everything.
We have found another character (other than Igor) who has transferred to P4 from P3: Tanaka! Here comes Tanakaaaaaaaaaaa Over the airwaves to youuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
Great happiness.
One thing that I have found supremely annoying that I didn't mention before is that Yukiko one of the main girl characters) laughs really annoyingly all the freaking time. She even laughs at things that aren't funny! GHH. But we have learned to just skip through her awkward laughter scenes, like I wish I could have skipped the FREAKING AWKWARD LAUGHTER SCENE IN FINAL FANTASY X.
So, in conclusion, concludingly, we like P4 a lot better now that we're into it. All of those little things that the programmers put in there have totally made our days better. Like the disturbing ham. So yeah. We'll keep updating as we play.
I searched "Persona 4 disturbing ham" and came up with this:
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| That's awful. |
~Pigeonmeister
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