Persona Qsday: Week 7 (Contains Persona Q Spoilers!) · 12:51pm Nov 3rd, 2015

After a brief hiatus, we're back with week seven of my Persona Q coverage!

Remember, only plot spoilers from P3/P4 will be tagged! Character names from both games and plot details specific to Persona Q will NOT be tagged. Proceed at your own risk.

When last we left off, the combined forces of Team Yaso and Team Gekko were exploring the second labyrinth, the Group Date Cafe.

Let's plunge back in!

Before proceeding to the next floor of Group Date Cafe, there's some business to take care of. First and foremost, some new cutscenes have appeared. One of them is funny, one of them is...*sigh*...more bear shit.

More importantly, there's a new quest which leads to a bonus boss at the End of You In Wonderland: a giant golden beetle that's a total pushover...until its health gets critical, and then it starts killing the hell out of you. Still, I beat the thing, scoring a vendor trash reward, the Persona Queen Mab, and...a mysterious yellow orb that Elizabeth calls the "Sphere of Fecundity".

I could not make this shit up if I tried.

Before diving into the next floor, I need to do some grinding to get my auxiliary people up to speed and also to farm vendor trash so I can build up money for equipment and Compendium and whatnot. Because my money situation in this game is...perpetually bad.

After several grinding trips (during which I complete a request that's been lingering for a while), I decide to finally head on down to...

GROUP DATE CAFE

Stop 3

The puzzle feature of this floor involves some very oddly-behaved FOEs. Unlike the ones from the previous floors, these move but don't shoot. They take one step forward for every step you take if you're facing them. If you're walking backward (facing away from them) or sideways across their field of vision, they don't move. Naturally, puzzles involving these FOEs require you to think carefully not only about when to draw them forward, but when to walk backwards.

An amusing scene during a rest break involves Junpei getting annoyed at the girls for calling him "this Junpei". When he complains, Yukari says, "Would 'THAT Junpei' be okay?" Junpei invokes the "Have Pity Ordinance", which Aigis explains was issued in 1685 and prohibits anyone from treating Junpei lower than a grasshopper.

When Minato asks, "How much better than a grasshopper?", you're presented with three options for your answer:

A tuna fish.
A water flea.
A person.

I answered "a tuna fish."

There's also some amusement here in that neither Akihiko nor Junpei realized Naoto is a girl. The reveal leads to Junpei embarrassing Naoto by nicknaming her 'Nao-cakes'. (WTF?!)

At a dead end, there's yet another Teddie scene that leads to a request going up on the board. Which is a Teddie request. I'm getting REALLY sick of Teddie now...

The Teddie request, inviting the Persona 3 girls to a tea party to meet "Mr. X", is a hilarious fiasco that's just embarrassing and painful to watch. The good part is, there's not really any way to fail this one as long as at least one girl bothers to show up. The bad part is, you have to put up with even MORE Teddie.

Sigh...

BIZARRE BATTLE QUOTE TIME!