#these stats are the only reason he b survived the hospital fight

[jonathanbyersphd]

The 16 strength? Like yea, ok sure.

More importantly,

GLUE THAT HOLDS THE BYERS FAMILY TOGETHER. GLUE THAT HOLDS THE BYERS FAMILY TOGETHER. GLUE THAT HOLDS THE BYERS FAMILY TOGETHER.

[satoshi-mochida]

Atlus has released a new set of Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne HD Remaster screenshots.

Here are some details, partly via the game’s PlayStation 2 manual and official website, and partly newly translated information:

Prologue

It seemed like an ordinary day…

A high school student is on his way to meet his friends so that they can visit their sick teacher at the Shinjuku Medical Center. But as he rides the subway, he falls asleep and has a strange dream. He dreams that the world is about to end…

He arrives at the hospital and, aside from his friends, finds it completely deserted. After searching the building, he finds a man who describes what he saw in his dream. Frightened, he then comes across a curious old woman with a child.

The young man finds his teacher, only to witness the destruction of Tokyo. This is the Conception, the ending of the world in preparation for its rebirth.

As the young man lies unconscious, the child reappears With an innocent whisper, the child gives him the key to survival—Magatama.

When he awakens, he finds himself reborn as a demon. He discovers that the entire world has changed The earth is wrapped in a mysterious light as if it has been turned inside-out. It is now the Vortex World. He sees souls of tho dead and demons who live off of what they call “Magatsuhi,” the element of life. Even though he has been imbued with amazing powers, he realizes that in order to survive, he must recruit demons to fight alongside him.

Why was the earth transformed? Why has he become a demon? To find the answers, he sets out on a long journey, unaware of what terrifying secret he is about to uncover…

Characters

Main Character (voiced by Junya Enoki) – An average Japanese high school student. He becomes involved with the Conception when visiting his teacher, Yuko Takao. His journey in the Vortex World begins once he has been granted demonic power.

Isamu Nitta (voiced by Takuya Eguchi) – A classmate of the main character. He has a relaxed personality; however he has a tendency to be cocky. He is fond of his teacher, Yuko. After the Conception, he is nowhere to be found.

Chiaki Hayasaka (voiced by Reina Ueda) – A classmate of the main character. Born and raised in an upper-class family, she has a habit of talking down to people. Like Isamu, she is also drawn into the Conception.

Hikawa (voiced by Daisuke Ono) – Chief technical director of a large communications company called Cybers, and a high-ranking officer of the Gaea cult. He is said to be the one responsible for the occurrence of the Conception. After the emergence of the Vortex World, he organizes the Assembly of Nihilo, which becomes one of the two strongest demonic forces.

Yuko Takao (voiced by Suzuko Mimori) – A teacher at the high school the main character attends. She is popular with the students bacause she emphasizes logical reasoning over memorization. She gives the main character advice throughout his adventure.

Jyoji Hijiro (voiced by Takeshi Maeda) – A writer for an occult magazine. He meets with the main character while collecting data for an article on the riot at Yoyogi Park. Even after the Conception, his sense of duty as a reporter pushes him to investigate further.

Blond Child (voiced by Mariya Ise) and Old Woman (voiced by Tamie Kubota)

Raidou Kuzunoha (voiced by Tomokazu Sugita) and Gouto (voiced by Jouji Nakata)

Systems

-Press Turn Battle System – The battle system that Persona 5 is based on. The Press Turn Battle System can be said to be the basis for battle systems in Atlus titles. The key feature of Press Turn Battles is the simple ability to exploit the enemy’s weakness. By exploiting an the enemy’s weakness, the Press Turn icon in the upper-right of the screen will shine, granting the character another action. It is even possible to defeat enemies before they are able to attack. But be careful, because what applies to the enemy also applies to you.

-Magatama – By equipping items known as Magatama, you can gain many benefits.

24 Different Magatama – There are a total of 24 Magatama. By ingesting different Magatama, you will gain various boosts in your stats as well as learn new skills.

Effects of Magatama – It is to your advantage to make use of all the Magatama you have. Since they have unique strengths and weaknesses, use them accordingly.

Learning Skills – As the main character levels up, there are times when he will learn a new skill from the Magatama he has ingested. By leveling up with various Mgatama, he can learn a spectrum of skills.

Defensive Characteristics – Each Magatama has a unique set of defensive characteristics. Use them to compensate for your weaknesses.

Use Magatama to Your Advantage – If you get hit by a type of attack that the Magatama you’ve ingested is weak against, you will take high damage. It is important to make sure you don’t have the wrong Magatama equipped before boss battles.

-Demon Negotiation – You can talk to demons and try to convince them to join your party or give you items. The main character has the option to talk with demons from the start, but other party members can learn to talk, too.

-Demon Fusion – If you have more demons in your ranks than needed, try fusing some at the Cathedral of Shadows. By using fusion, you can create very powerful demons. If you fuse demon A with demon B, you will get demon C. Demon C will have his / her own skills, but will also inherit some skills from demon A and demon B. Be sure to take this into consideration before you fuse two demons together. The skills that will be carried over are displayed in green. Since they are randomly determined, try re-selecting the fusion participants until you get the skills you want.

-Growth – By earning experience points and leveling up in battle, demons will be able to learn unique skills. Those new skills be carried over to newly born demons through fusion. Gift events, as well as events that power-up or diminish acquired skills may also occur in leveling up.

-Signs of Change – If you continue to level up a demon that has shown Signs of Change, it will transform into a more powerful demon.

-Difficulty – “Normal” is the standard difficulty level, while “Hard” Is the highest difficulty level. A “Merciful” difficulty level that allows inexperienced players to dive into the story without worry will also be available as free downloadable content.

Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne HD Remaster is due out for PlayStation 4 and Switch on October 29 in Japan, and in spring 2021 worldwide.

View the screenshots at the gallery.

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have you been re-introduced to ALICE FORTESCUE? last we heard, the PUREBLOOD was most familiar with TIMELINE THREE. I don’t recall if they were always a SLYTHERIN, but I’ve heard the SEVENTH YEAR is still OPEN-MINDED, AMBITIOUS, EMPATHETIC  and CONTROLLING, ESCAPIST, COMPARTMENTALIZING so that’s familiar. at least SHE/THEY remember their way around the castle.

PINTEREST | PLAYLIST | STATS | BIOGRAPHY

CHARACTER INSPIRATIONS: allison argent ( teen wolf ), parker (leverage ), trish walker (jessica jones ), clara oswald ( doctor who ), clarke griffin ( the 100, s1&2 of the 100 not any further thx ), margaery tyrell ( asoiaf & got ), sutton braddy ( the bold type ), gaby teller (tmfu ), carol danvers ( captain marvel )

plant mum to mr. jenkins. droobles blowing gum champion. lover of popcorn, jewelry, strawberry bubblegum ice cream, divination, collector of sunglasses & happy memories.

AESTHETIC: gym mats, sweat, the smell of grass in the early hours of the morning, sunshine that lights but also burns, flowers put in doc martens, a legacy to protect, changing your hair when shit gets weird, idealism that haunts you, smiling more than you feel happy, smoke & mirrors, records, badly sewn flower patches on jeans, wand & dagger thigh holsters,  craving power, a different pair of sunglasses for every day, stacked rings, long pendants, glitter eyeshadow, being the sword and the shield, music being an escape that you didn’t realize you needed, a lion’s heart but chameleon’s adaptability, using people’s perceptions of you against them.

HISTORY:

childhood started off as a dream. being close with both of her parents, gervais& lucille, spending most of her time learning trades from them, she felt like she floating on cloud nine. growing up in galway, ireland, with all the life around her, the world was hers to explore, hospitality was in no short supply in her neighborhood. alice was so effervescent, that people were drawn to her light, to her kindness, to her free-spirited nature. alice had always been particularly close with her dad who brought back souvenirs from his missions as an auror, the unknown was something she wanted to discover as each trinket from every which corner of the world was collected. When her was dad away on missions, her mom would instill these ideals in her on how to be a kid, lifeskills, just fun things about magic, playing in her expansive garden, things for the soul – stories about home. when her dad came back her mom stepped back while he taught alice how to do savate, self defense, how to hold a wand properly, wand formations, about history, everything she could & very well should know. thanks to gervais’ influence, alice started asking question after question until she was absolutely convinced that being an auror was now her calling as well – all at the age of five. alice was a naturally kind child,  drawn to the profession of being an Auror is because it was driving some sort of darkness away. she wasn’t alone in her goal as she knew other people wanted to be aurors as well. her heart swelled at the idea of being part of something bigger than herself, being part of a group of people who were as passionate about saving the world & helping people as much she was.

after lucille’s stillborn child was when alice had to learn to have the emotional & mental capacity to learn to take care of herself, to deal with her emotions, feeling obliged to take care of her mother. alice was their only surviving child, who was spoiled rotten, and never had to go through anything relatively traumatic until the one thing that felt like it broke her family. she had a choice, to soothe herself or fall apart. alice would not fall apart, so she internalized it all, the ugly, the grief, the despair, the anger feeling like she had to shoulder all of the burden of balancing out the household.  while she had always been close with her uncle florean, aunt ophelia and cousin atlas it wasn’t until after the trauma that she was left more so with them when her dad was on missions and her mom retreated into herself. alice was able to escape from her home quite often into the shop, spending time with atlas in particular helped Alice to move on from the loss her family had endured. fortescue’s was the respite she needed from navigating her parents, florean being a role model and an especially influential figure in alice’s life during a time that she felt like she was suffocating. without him & atlas, alice would’ve collapsed into herself, would’ve surely lost sight of who she was going to be & what she wanted due to the pressure. florean reminded her that she was allowed to be a kid, she was allowed to let loose, those days were spent thinking of whimsical ice cream flavors and helping fix his various motorcycles & bikes while listened to pink floyd, the beatles, the supremes. florean & ophelia picked up on the spiritual education that she’d been lacking in since her mother had pulled away, something that was sorely needed after what felt like losing her mother entirely.

getting to hogwarts, there was a part of her that was surprised that she was sorted into slytherin even if alice did fit into the house like a glove. now in her last year at hogwarts, alice is prepared to face the outside world, prepared to graduate and become the auror she’s always meant to be. she feels a pull, a connection and feels as if she has to carry bloodlines in being an auror. alice needs power, she craves it, especially as the years pass & her mother has further retreated into herself. she was sorted into slytherin for many reasons – one of them being  because of her subconscious and burning need for the power over people’s feelings like her mother’s she wished she had, and the power over her own she she wishes she could master. the more power she can have as an auror, the more good she can do with her influence by having access to the training & information she needs to take down dark wizards. not only that, but the more she can learn how their minds operate so she can get the better of the death eater movement. alice is singleminded in her pursuit, willing to do whatever it takes & push herself as far as she needs to get to her goals &to help make this world a better place.

REACTION:

there’s a new legacy that alice wants to plant for her family, one that her father started, one she intends to finish as the years go by. despite a war having been brewing, alice knows she can be a soldier, she knows she is going to be part of the order when the time does come while also having high hopes to be an auror as she has since she was child can be conflicting, but it’s her path, she knows it. war is always a necessary evil, alice knowing her whole life fighting was never something she could avoid. so, she excelled in it. with how she was raised, with how her father &uncle left nazi occupied france, alice sees the death eaters as very similar to nazis. both groups advocate for genocide, using violence, brainwashing, manipulation, indoctrinating kids from the time they could use the silver spoon in their mouths to feed themselves. alice is aware she has privilege as well, as a white womxn, as very well off, as a pureblood, she’s aware that if she doesn’t stand up & fight as hard and as smart as she possibly can, she’ll just be part of the complicit. while she is a queer womxn, a known blood traitor with a pretty big target on her back related to her father, her privileges have enabled her to have a life that wouldn’t be possible for many other people. it’s her duty to fight, to stand up, to do something, to put her ass on the line. With several universes coming together – her objective, her goals do not change. in a way, this change has brought out the side of alice usually reserved for when she’s smoking a joint or indulging in the occasional psychedelic, the dreamer, the person who’s so curious that she could spend all her time just exploring the world if she could. new universes, alternate realities means more information, more opportunity to learn about the world around her and use that information to make the world a better place.

DIFFERENT TIMELINES: 

TIMELINE ONE: Some mornings, she misses her runs. Alice lets go in this verse, she lets herself fully indulge in the side of her that’s always been there and lets loose. The most fun at parties, the best person to take you on an adventure, in this verse Alice loves traveling and travels as often as possible. Becoming an Auror gets put on hold, Alice has so much more life to live before she dedicates herself and her time to the academy and the Ministry. Gervais Fortescue is alive and well, as is Alice’s mother who was able to cope and move on from the grief of losing her second child. Alice is extremely close to both of her parents and loves her extended family just the same. Teamed up with Frank Longbottom, they throw some of Hogwarts most memorable & exciting parties, a duo and now recent couple for the ages. 

TIMELINE TWO: When Gervais Fortescue is murdered just after Florean & Ophelia, Alice feels devastated. Alice and Atlas only have each other and though they are the same age, Alice feels protective over Atlas in the way someone would a older sister does over their younger brother. She’s not crumbled after tragedy before, she won’t do so now, Alice joins the underground Order the summer before her seventh year hoping to pick up where her father left off or do his legacy proud in some way even though they barely trust her to do patrols. As long as she’s doing something, she’s fine, as long as she’s protecting Atlas and keeping busy, pushing herself past exhaustion, she’s great. Because the Order won’t take her as seriously as they did her father ( she’s just a kid after all ), she decides it’s time that the students at Hogwarts have a chance to fight back, to do something, to let the world know there is still hope -- no matter how mangled it may be.