Revelations Persona
Frequently Asked Questions
Megami Tensei Persona - Be your true mind
A faq by
Henry LaPierre
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Version 1
Megami tensei persona: be your true mind is an RPG that takes place
in current times. A large corporation is dabbling in the art of mind
manipulation, through which they open a dimensional portal. You gather
a team of characters, who happen to be students from the local high
school, and try to solve the mystery of what's going on. A large barrier
has encased the city where you live, monsters are walking the streets,
your friends and loved ones are missing or being killed. It's up to you
and your friends to bring the city back from the dark reaches. Armed with
only your wits and fists, you start out on a long and perilous journey.
Soon you will aquire better weapons, such as axes, bows, spears, and
swords, not to mention each character will unlock their "persona". Later,
you will be able to purchase automatic weapons like, pistols, pump
shotguns, uzis, and rifles. A whole city is open for you to explore,
will you go to the police station to try and enlist help from the police?
Or will you go shopping at the mall for new weapons? It's up to you, but
you better think fast, life as you know it is depending on you.
Starting up:
After turning the power on to your Playstation, hit the start button.
After the title comes up, press any button, this will bring up two
choices:
1. Load a game
2. Start a new game
To load a game, press the "O" button("O" is the accept button throughout
the game, The "X" button will cancel your selections and return to the
previous screen) while load game is highlighted.
This will bring up two choices:
1. Slot 1
2. Slot 2
This is which memory card slot on your Playstation you want scanned
for game saves.
Press the "O" button when the slot you want scanned is highlighted.
After a few seconds all the Megami save files on the card will be shown
on screen in the saved data menu. Choose the save file you would like to
load(highlighted in red), after making your choice you will be asked if
this file is OK to load:
1. Yes
2. No
Press the "O" button to load the saved game. You will appear at the last
Agastya tree or bush you saved at.
To start a new game, choose New game from the startup menu. The game will
scan for a memory card so that you may save when you need to. It will
notify you if there isn't one present. After this the game will begin.
Controls(all are using Type 1 controller configure):
Here are the main controls for the game, if other uses for the buttons
arise, see the individual instructions sections, as extra controls may
be listed among them.
"O" button: This is the Accept/Inspect button(choosing selections)
"X" button: This will cancel your decision, and return you to the
previous screen. Holding down this button while walking on
the city map makes your character/party travel faster.
Triangle button: This brings up a descriptive text box in the battle
menus, rotates the city to a 45 degree angle when
walking on the city map.
Square button: This brings up the menu screen in non battle screens, or
cancels directly out of it.
L1 button: Sidestep left
L2 button: Calls up the automap/city map
R1 button: Sidestep right
R2 button: Calls up the enemy diary(list, see various enemies)
Select button: Holding down this button in a dungeon causes the small
corner map and phase of the moon chart to disappear.
Start button: Holding down this button causes a text box to appear with
your current location while in a dungeon.
Directional pad: Moves your party, picks choices, it will also scroll text
so be careful of holding it down during text.
Options screens:
Hitting the Square button outside of battle will cause the options menu
to appear, it contains these sub menus and their uses:
1. Item:
1a. Use: Choose an item to use, only highlighted items can be used.
1b. Equip: Equip/Remove items or weapons from characters. Can be done
individually(itemwise) or choose maximum/all maximum to
equip the best possible items on your characters. Arrows
to the right, show the values of the equipped items.
1c. Sort: Yes(sort)/No(don't sort) is asked upon choosing this. When
sorting, choose an item you wish to move, it will then
highlight in yellow. Now choose a location you want that
item to go to(helpful for grouping like items, or items you
are familiar with) and press the accept button.
2. Magic:
2a. Cast: Choose the character who you'd like to cast a spell with.
Now choose the persona you'd like that character to cast a
spell by, then choose the spell itself(only spells listed
in white are available). Finally, choose the recipient of
the spell. Remember, casting still takes spell points.
Spell points are slowly recouporated by walking through
dungeons, at a rate of 1 spell point for every 2 steps
walked.
2b. Persona: Same as Changing personas in the Velvet room, except
for a few differences. Choose the character whose
persona you would like to view/inspect, then highlight
the appropriate selection, Change/Status. Change is
accomplished the same way as in the Velvet room(see
Velvet room) accept that you don't have access to the
spare persona bank, it is all done using the 3 personas
equipped on the current character, you're just shuffling
the Main(equipped) and sub personas. Choosing status
will allow you to view the persona's statistics. If you
press the accept button while viewing the personas
statistics, the persona's card will be shown.
2c. Card: View the inventory of all enemy contact cards in your
possession.
3. System:
3a. Map: View auto map or city map, depending on location.
3b. Analyze: View the enemy diary(all monsters battled so far)
3c. Config:
3c,1. Auto map: Choose between Free(rotates with you), or
Fixed(stationary). This refers to the small corner
map.
3c,2. Sound: Choose between Monoaural or Stereo
3c,3. Controller configure: Choose between Type 1 or Type 2
3c,4. Window type: Choose from 8 different styles
1. Solid receeding color
2. Plaid
3. Checkered
4. Brick
5. Sand
6. Snowman
7. Metallic
8. Pipe
3c,5. Battle settings: Options available during battle only
3c,5a. Command confirm: On/Off (the OK after all decisions)
3c,5b. Message speed: Normal/Fast/Off(no messages, spell names)
3c,5c. Window anime: On/Off(windows just pop up if off)
3c,5d. Auto battle pre-set options:
Character 1: Hand weapon only/Gun only/Free
Character 2: Hand weapon only/Gun only/Free
Character 3: Hand weapon only/Gun only/Free
Character 4: Hand weapon only/Gun only/Free
Character 5: Hand weapon only/Gun only/Free
These are the pre-set attack commands for battles, that
will be used if you choose the third type of auto battle
from the battle menu in combat. Free setting shuts auto
battle off on the selected character, allowing you to
still select their attacks.
4. Form:
4a. Manual: Manually place each party member in a desired location.
There are 25 possible locations on the character grid to
choose from. By moving the directional pad, pick a
character to move(represented by number), then choose a
location on the grid to place him/her(represented by a
yellow diamond). When all the characters have been placed
it will ask you if it's "OK" Yes/No. If you choose Yes,
it will ask you if you'd like to save the formation to
memory, Yes/No. If you choose to save the formation, you
will then need to pick a slot from among 8(labeled A-H)
to save it in. Press the accept button when the correct
slot has been highlighted. It will ask you if it's "OK"
Yes/No once again, choose yes to save the formation.
4b. Load: Use this to load a previously saved character formation.
To do this, choose one of the saves from the 8 slots to
choose from. After answering "Load OK" Yes/No, your saved
character formation will be loaded.
5. Status:
Use this to show you a character's current statistics. Select the
character you wish to view and you will be able to see the following
attributes:
5a. Name of character
5b. Level of character
5c. Experience accumulated
5d. Amount of experience needed for raising to the next level
5e. Persona(main, equipped) level
5f. Persona experience points accumulated
5g. Amount of persona experience needed to raise to the next level
5h. Strength(orange is character, yellow is amount added by persona)
5i. Vitality(orange is character, yellow is amount added by persona)
5j. Technique(orange is character, yellow added by persona)
5k. Agility(orange is character, yellow added by persona)
5l. Luck(orange is character, yellow added by persona)
5m. All equipped weapons and armor
5n. Strength of all equipped weapons and armor
5o. Personas equipped, main and sub
5p. Hit points, current/maximum
5q. Spell points, current/maximum
The bar graph of your character's current statistics in the
following 5 areas mean the following:
1. Strength(attack power)
2. Vitality(maximum HP)
3. Technique(persona power/maximum SP)
4. Agility(defensive power/speed)
5. Luck(defensive/attacking percentages)
The bar graph will be filled in with colors. The orange is what
you have raised your characters level in that attribute to(base
level). The yellow is what the currently equipped persona has
raised your levels in the attributes to. Each persona is
different and as such will raise attributes differently.
Battle screens:
There are 6 choices you can make from the first battle screen menu:
1. Fight: gives you 6 more options
1a. Sword(SWD): Use hand weapon to attack enemy, choose target(s)
1b. Gun(GUN): Use gun to attack enemy, choose target(s)
1c. Persona(PRS): Use characters persona to cast a spell, choose spell
to perform, choose target(s)
1d. Persona change(CHG): Switch to one of the selected character's
sub personas(now=currently equipped), spells
for the currently highlighted persona are shown
to the right.
1e. Item(ITM): Use an item from your inventory, select target(s)
1f. Defend(DEF): Your selected character will assume a defensive
position upon start of the battle.
After all the characters attack selections have been made, you will
be asked if these choices are OK, Yes/No. After selecting Yes, the
battle turn will commence.
2. Escape: Choosing this will allow your party an attempt to escape
3. Contact: Attempt to gain the enemy's interest, or use an already
accumulated contact card to force an enemy type to leave
the battle. Highlight the enemy type you wish to contact
and hit the accept button, this will begin the contact.
4. Form: Re-align your characters battle formation, takes one full
turn. See Form in Options menu for instructions.
5. Auto: Let the computer take over the battle for you, there are 3
choices of attack strategies to choose from:
5a. Normal: hand weapons only
5b. Same: same as last "entered" attack commands
2c. Pre-set: your characters will perform their pre-set
attack selections(see System/Battle settings/
auto battle pre-set options in Options menu)
In all 3 choices, defense is chosen if character is out of
range for the auto attack. Pressing "X" at any time during
an auto battle will stop the combat at the end of the
current full turn, bringing back up the first battle menu.
6. Analyze: Check the status of any enemy, highlight target. From this
you can view the following:
1. Enemy's level
2. Enemy's name
3. Hit points, current/maximum
4. Spell points, current/maximum
5. Strength
6. Vitality
7. Technique
8. Agility
9. Luck
10. Main spell magic types
11. Current condition of enemy
12. All spells known to the enemy
While in the first battle menu, pressing any of the top 4 buttons
(L1,L2,R1,R2) will bring up one of 4 different options/statistics
screens(depending on the button pressed).
L1: All character status screen
L2: Se
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