Persona 3: Dancing In Moonlight is 'harder' than Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight

Good afternoon everyone,

Last night's stream of Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight was interesting, because outside of the few characters that appeared in Person 4 Arena, I know nothing about how they should be interacting with one another, or the context of how they all met beyond some superficial details. Of course thankfully, Elizabeth is the 'host', which makes unlocking the social events just to see and hear what she says worth it.

But that said, the difficulty of P3:DIM is rather noticeable when compared to Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight and it really comes down to one thing: the music. Persona 3's musical comes from that early 2000s period of really high tempo songs, hell the Beats Per Minute on P3:DIM's songs are a lot more intense than anything seen in P5:DIS. Then there are the note pattern differences, and because of the style of music, P3:DIM has a lot more notes being put in rapid succession on normal difficulty. It really gets screwy on Hard and All-Night Difficulty

Now that said, I do feel overall the music of P3:DIM is alright for what it is, but outside of Burn my Dread and A Way Of Life, nothing really stands out to me as something I would want to hear as part of a playlist. It's probably more of a reflection of the era in which the original version of Persona 3 was released in more than anything else.

Still, we'll work out way through Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight over the next couple of weeks on Fridays because we should be able to get all the trophies for it. Hell we knocked out 25% of them tonight just by being able to remember how their counterparts where unlocked in Persona 4: Dancing in Starlight.

Also, tonight I unlocked my 1,000ths PlayStation Trophy, which actually points how the long gap between when my original PS3 died and when I finally nabbed as PS4.

Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight Trophies

• IRL Debut: Obtained a costume.
• Better Safe than Sorry: Played a tutorial.
• Welcome to the Club: Cleared a stage.
• An Exclusive Stylist: Changed costumes and played a stage with each of the members of SEES (excluding Koromaru and Shinjiro).
• Just Another Day: Watched a Social event.
• I Couldn't Help It...: Unlocked all ???s in Collection.
• Let's Do It Again!: Watched a replay.
• The Time for Challenge Has Come: Unlocked the highest difficulty level (ALL NIGHT).
• The Leader's Demeanor: Watched 20 Social events.
• If You Would Kindly Excuse Yourself: Failed a stage.
• Innate Ability: Cleared a stage on HARD or harder and earned a PERFECT rating on at least half of the Notes.
• Who Even Are You?: Started a stage with a different hairstyle, two accessories, colored contacts, and a colored wig.
• The Usurper of Rankings: Earned the highest possible grade on a stage (KING CRAZY).
• Going into Orgia Mode: Beat your own high score.
• The Difficulty of Communication: Cleared the stages where Fuuka and Ken dance together.

Twitch Clips

• A Way Of Life
• The waiting rooms are completely sound proof... 
• Burn My Dread
  

For the raid we dropped in on BestiBunni who was playing Crusader Kings over at twitch.tv/bestibunni! 

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 exercises were Weaving Combo #2, Hook Combo #1 and Waist Shape Focus Combo for 28 minutes

Fitness Boxing 2: Rhythm & Exercise States For Week of 10/30 to 11/05/22

• Punches Thrown:8664
• Estimated Calories Burned:3747.54 kcal
  
• Sophie's Champion Progress:80% (40 out of 50 hours)
  
• King EX Fight Progress: 97%
• Fitness Boxing 2 Consecutive Days: 694
  
• Fitness Boxing 1 & 2 Consecutive Days: 852

Work was okay yesterday, nothing special, just a day that existed.

Finished writing the latest commission request for a WWE short story that 'explains' the return of Candice LaRae back in September. It turned out fairly okay. The biggest problem with writing story set around wrestling is that I co-wrote so many for so long, it's kind of tough to find a plot setup that I haven't done. Did get a follow up commission request to do one that 'explains' Emma's sudden return.

Game six of the World Series is tonight, and the Phillies are down three games to two... can they even the series against the Astros at three games a piece to force a game seven? I don't think so... we'll keep track of the game, but unless the offense is going to suddenly right themselves and Wheeler pitches the game of his career, there will be no joy in the Delaware Valley. 

I used to hate facial hair but then it grew on me.

Song of the Day: Cry Me a River by Justin Timberlake

For tonight's stream, we're leading off with MultiVersus with the focus being on playing Black Adam, the latest character that was recently added to the game. We'll also feature other stuff as well, because that is what we do on Saturdays.

So on that note we'll see you later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!