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Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth
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Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth (Japanese: ペルソナQ シャドウ オブ ザ ラビリンス Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth) is a spinoff game belonging to the Persona series, which is part of the larger Megami Tensei series.
Story
The game's events are set at distinct points in the timelines for each cast: For the Persona 3 cast, the events begin during the typhoon from 18-20 September 2009. For the Persona 4 cast, the events begin at the final day of the Yasogami High festival, on 30 October 2011. Abnormalities within the Velvet Room have brought together the characters of both games across time, but they have no way to return without exploring the parallel Yasogami High school festival they have wound up in. The characters also meet Zen and Rei, two amnesiac characters native to this dimension who join the characters in exploring the labyrinths to discover the truth behind their lost memories.
Gameplay
Persona Q takes the dungeon-crawling aspect of the Etrian Odyssey series and mixes it with the cast and gameplay of Persona 3 and Persona 4. After selecting a team of five from the many playable characters, player maneuvers through its dungeons through a first-person point of view while drawing and managing the map in the 3DS bottom screen.
Upon starting a new game, the player has to pick the protagonist of their choice to start their game, along with the names of both protagonists. This influences the party members they have access to in the first stratum (before the other cast joins) and the labyrinth events they can experience. The player also gets to choose between five difficulties: Safety, Easy, Normal, Hard, Risky. Choosing Risky prevents the player from adjusting the difficulty level in the middle of a playthrough, forces their chosen protagonist to always be part of the active party, and immediately issues a Game Over once their chosen protagonist dies, even if other party members are alive and can revive him.
While combat uses the formation setup from Etrian Odyssey IV: Legends of the Titan and a Navi Gauge mechanic similar to the Burst Gauge from that game, elemental weaknesses play a major part in combat. Hitting an enemy weakness or landing a critical hit from a physical attack inflicts the Down status on that enemy, rendering them unable to act for that turn, disabling their ability to dodge, and enabling the Boost status for that party member, which gives them increased action speed and sets their skill cost to 0 for their next skill. The enemy can also benefit from this system, disabling your own characters if they hit their weakness or land critical hits.
The party members' stats and skill set is determined by their Persona. Each party member learns up to three skills as they level up, with stronger versions of existing skills automatically replacing their weaker versions. The fourth skill slot remains unused until their Persona undergoes a special transformation triggered by a specific sidequest. They also have four spare skill slots where the player uses Skill Cards to further customize their innate skill set. As Zen & Rei don't use a Persona, they instead learn up to eight skills.
Sub-Personas
The Sub-Persona system serves as a predecessor to the Grimoire Stones of Etrian Odyssey Untold: The Millennium Girl. Due to the abnormal circumstances of the plot, both the Persona 3 and Persona 4 protagonists cannot switch their Personas like they normally could, but in its place, every party member can equip a Sub-Persona and use its skills in addition to their own. Sub-Personas are usually acquired as part of the spoils of battle, taking the familiar appearances of many mythological figures that appear across the Shin Megami Tensei series. Sub-Personas can be levelled as long as they are equipped in battle, learning up to six skills at once and providing their user with a bonus to HP and SP only during battle. They can be further customized through fusion, merging two Sub-Personas to form a new one that can learn the skills of its components. Zen & Rei cannot use sub-Personas as they aren't Persona users.
Locations
- You in Wonderland
- Group Date Cafe
- Evil Spirit Club
- Inaba Pride Exhibit
- Clock Tower
Characters
Persona 3
- Persona 3 Protagonist
- Junpei Iori
- Yukari Takeba
- Akihiko Sanada
- Mitsuru Kirijo
- Fuuka Yamagishi
- Aigis
- Ken Amada
- Koromaru
- Shinjiro Aragaki
Persona 4
- Persona 4 Protagonist
- Yosuke Hanamura
- Chie Satonaka
- Yukiko Amagi
- Kanji Tatsumi
- Rise Kujikawa
- Teddie
- Naoto Shirogane
The Velvet Room
Unique characters
Monsters
Missions
Quests
Items
Development
Reception
Trivia
In other languages
Gallery
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