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Well to be fair, I only tried it a couple times and didn't really give it that much of a chance, but I can be a little sensitive with motion sickness and that first-person navigation honestly makes me feel nauseous, so that prevented me from wanting to try it anymore.

Of the main SMT games, I have played ~50 hours of Devil Survivor Overclocked, but gave up on it. Dunno how different it is from other SMT games but it wasn't really my cup of tea.

I dunno. I WANT to like Persona 1 but I just... can't. I think it's terrible. I had so much trouble doing even basic things when I tried it. crying And even if I give it another chance, it'll still make me feel bad anyway because of the first-person dungeon crawling. It's really hard for me to believe that it's even a Persona game, since I played 3 and 4 first... it's SO different! The art style is weird, and where are the social links? The demon contact thing does look kinda funny, but yeah I have to agree that the battle music seems obnoxious. I kinda like the actual song, but it doesn't look like it suits those battles too well.

But hey, it's cool that you've played it. I wasn't expecting that! surprised Have you played 2 as well? Or all of them?

NINTENDO

Oh no... please no. Persona Q better not.

I mean, just because it's directed by the EO guy doesn't mean it's gonna be like exactly the same gameplay, right? T^T

I don't know... I REALLY liked battling in Persona 3 and 4, and I'm not a big fan of the whole cookie cutter RPG thing. I supposed the differences are as follows:

-NO FIXED PARTY MEMBERS. At least not once you've met enough characters. Towards the end of the game, I find there's a specific party of three that I definitely prefer taking with me.

-You have several different Personas you can bring with you and use in battle, kind of like Pokemon, with their own elemental strengths/weaknesses and attacks. Some kinds of attacks can also just not harm them at all (null) or they can absorb the attack and gain health from it, or they can reflect the attack back at the enemy. The enemies are like this, too.

-These are Personas that you fused yourself, meaning that the Personas you have on you at any given point are probably not going to be the exact same as everyone else. Also you can make different, stronger ones as you progress (like Pokemon)

-Most characters have one Persona they can use. The main character can use 100+. The main character's flexibility allow him/her to play any role in the battle as needed - primary physical or magical attacker, healer, buffer, whateva.

-During the main character's turn, you can give orders to the other party members, like telling them to act on their own, or to let you control them directly, or to conserve SP (like MP or PP) or heal and so on.

-A person's weaknesses/strengths change based on what Persona they have (or in the main character's case, which Persona they currently have equipped - you can change once a turn).

-You also have a weapon and can choose to attack with that instead of using a Persona. Your weapon also has an attribute (Pierce, Stike or Slash) that some enemies are weak to, much like elemental weaknesses.

-The point is to first figure out what the enemies' weaknesses are, and take advantage of them. When you hit an enemy's weakness, it gets knocked over (same goes for you party members). If you can knock over all enemies, you can perform an "all-out attack" where your whole party just rushes towards the enemies and beat them up in a big cartoon cloud, often causing the damage needed to end the battle. You can just defeat them individually too, though.

-Your party members can die and be revived, but if the main character dies, it's game over. So the whole time, you're trying to protect the main character like an egg. It makes for quite the adrenaline-filled experience... at least for a JRPG.

-Bosses are often more complex and harder/longer to take out, and you often really have to use strategy then, but since it's Persona you can be kinda creative about it.

-Having success in the dating sim part of the game helps makes it easier to fuse stronger Personas, and also unlocks some really baller Personas that you wouldn't be able to fuse otherwise.

It's all those differences that made me LOVE the battle system. I even loved P3FES' The Answer, which is like 30 hours of additional gameplay that is JUST dungeon crawling and battles and s**t (and story but no social links). ALSO STOP EVERYONE CALLING IT A DATING SIM IT'S ALSO A FRIENDSHIP SIM OK.

The dungeon-crawling aspect is cool, too! You can make your party members all run around and search for the stairs individually and order them around. And you can see enemies before fighting them so it's not just random battles. You could try to sneak around them if you didn't want to fight, but I recommend sneaking up on them and fighting them all! >:3 Unless you're just trying to find the save point ASAP or something.

All-out attacks were shown in the PQ trailer so hopefully that means the battle system will not suck.

Just buy Gems? Or don't play the Game Gear games, lol.

If you're looking for quality Mega Man, which ones have you played? I can suggest some original ones that are also good.

Wayne sucks its d**k way too hard (which I can say because he quit Gaia like a c**k). It's good, probably the second-best, but it's way too hard. I remember Sauvie had an MSN status (wow) about something like "wow people actualy think megaman 2 is hard??? huh." It's ******** hard. It's only easy because you've played it to death.

That said, 9 is hard, even if you've played others. It's a Mega Man game for Mega Man fans.

It can be really soul-crushing. Old game design is just like that and I think each kind of has their place. New games are easier with more to see but less personal reward, but old games have less to show and have a lot more personal reward.

Speaking of, Yellow Devil in SSB4. God, I wish they'd release Powered Up on 3DS or something. Or even better, just Mega Man 2: Powered Up. I wonder if he'll go "buuuuuuuuuuumo" in Smash. Doubt it. He's still the worst part of that remake, let's just hope he doesn't ruin the Mega Man stage.

WHICH IS MEGA MAN 2, NOT MEGA MAN 1 HOW CAN THE YELLOW DEVIL SHOW UP THERE!?!?!?!?

UH, NO NOT REALLY?

I have never, in any Square game, really had to exploit weaknesses or anything like that. It's just like, attack. An attack is an attack.

Same with the Mother games.

What else have I played? In Mario RPGs I guess that sorta applies? Not really?

Persona, Pokemon and Fossil Fighters are the best examples I can think of, of the rock-paper-scissors thing. I'm sure there are more, I just haven't played them.