@Swa Care to elaborate? It's always interesting to find out the things that bug people about well-liked episodes.

edited 30th Apr '12 5:23:47 PM by PerpetualLurker

@Lyra Says you Lyra

You're about to something evil to Spike aren't you?◊

edited 30th Apr '12 5:23:44 PM by DavidtheMouse14

@ LYRA it's not us this time it's only one..that would be like all of us calling all ponies weird becuase of something Pinkie did.

@Japanese Teeth: first of all, on the subject of Hurricane Fluttershy: it wasn't bad by any means, in fact it is probably my favorite Rainbow Dash focused episode, and she's my favorite character! It just seemed a very sudden progression to the end. I felt like I was finally getting invested in the plot, then suddenly, it was over. I might have just been really sleepy that day or something.

Now as for your Persona question, Persona 3 and 4 are essentially a different series than the first 3 games. They're sort of a reboot, and more or less in a different canon. Persona 3 is great, nearly as good as Persona 4 in every way, but the original version of it had some seriously glaring issues that detract from the experience. If you can, get a hold of the PSP version, which fixed every major issue with the game and added a ton of new content, including the choice between a Male or Female main character. Overall, I liked number 4 better, but the PSP version of Persona 3 is technically as good as it, so it'll likely come down to personal preference. Persona 3 is much darker, and has the main cast as a group of comrades focused on their mission. Persona 4 is more lighthearted and much more focuses on the team as a group of FRIENDS, with their friendship being the center of the game.

@Kegisak:Seriously, just use a guide for stuff like that. The system for fusing personas is incredibly complicated. It's not worth it trying to muddle through it.

D-D-Double Post! Did my wall of text slow down everyone from posting?

edited 30th Apr '12 5:26:00 PM by Bluespade

Most people agree Luna Eclipsed had some bigg issues, morale came in sloppily out of no where, issues with how some ponies were acting (justified or no) etc... It's just most people just ignore those little things becuase of the AWESOME MAJESTY THAT IS THE PRINCESS OF THE NIGHT

So G4 Persona is Friendship is Magic?

Change my vote to Luna Eclipsed. Because Chicken Pinkie pie was the worst pinkie pie.

edited 30th Apr '12 5:26:27 PM by stevebat

@Bluespade ~My Little Persona, My Little Persona~

edited 30th Apr '12 5:26:32 PM by crowlover

@Blue: Don't have a PSP. Do you know how the FES version of 3 is?

@Seraphem: I feel the same way about Luna Eclipsed. It's a great episode with one or two nasty flaws that set it back a bit. Namely the issue with the moral.

edited 30th Apr '12 5:27:52 PM by JapaneseTeeth

Yeah, I guess. I'm just one of those people who likes to do stuff on his own, even if it is impossibly complicated.

@Steve: Yeah, persona 4 is basically friendship is magic the game.

Not me, I think it's probably the single best episode outside of the finale.

@Stevebat:Pretty much. Although the third game also relies on The Power of Friendship to power your persona, which comes off as kind of inconsistent with the rest of the game's tone, which is one of the reasons I liked the 4th game better. Oh, also the bosses in the 3rd game are boring, and really cool/unique in the 4th game.

The way the plot was resolved still bugs me. It's like "Oh wait, they want to be scared! Everything is fine now." She never really does anything differently; she just starts being scary on purpose rather than by accident. You'd think that would be counterproductive.

That's the one I played first. It's good, just let down by a lot of issues that they fixed in P4. You can't control your party members in battle, only give them specialized A.I. orders. Their A.I. works remarkably well... but not nearly as good as if you controlled them yourself. There are also a lot of little issues they fixed that don't matter much, but felt like a godsend when they fixed them: the menu screen took forever to load in dungeons, there is a really, really long thing that happens every single time you gain a social link rank, persona fusing is improved, social stats were a lot harder to raise, etc. It's still worth playing though. OH, the one advantage FES has over the PSP version: all of the animated sequences were cut out of the PSP due to hardware limitations.

I understand, but personally, I don't care about the morals.

edited 30th Apr '12 5:32:49 PM by Bluespade

And the loser is..... Luna Eclipsed!

FINALS Winter Wrap Up

Sonic Rainboom

Green isn't Your Color

Suited For Success

A Dog and Pony Show

Party of One

The Return of Harmony pts.1 and 2

Sisterhooves Social

Hurricane Fluttershy

A Canterlot Wedding pts.1 and 2

Oh! Also, how do the ultimate persona's work? I've unlocked the three, but I'm not quite sure how to fuse them. I guess they're once I get higher up?

Nn... Sonic Rainboom.

edited 30th Apr '12 5:33:56 PM by kegisak

Green isn't Your Color.

I really didn't see the problem with LE either. People do have fun getting scared. It's the reason horror movies and haunted houses exist. The conflict only existed because of the misunderstanding of that. With that figured out, nopony really needed to act differently.

edited 30th Apr '12 5:34:30 PM by PerpetualLurker

Out of that list? Oh man that's hard....Winter Wrap Up. I don't know, it's probably my least favorite out of the listed episodes.

@Bluespade, :It wasn't that that bugged me, it was that the episode basically spent the entire time treating the situation as if everyone was genuinely afraid of her, and then at the end it turned around and when "but they weren't really scared", even though pretty much everything in the episode indicates that the were.

edited 30th Apr '12 5:35:43 PM by JapaneseTeeth

Winter Wrap Up

LUNA ECLIPSED LOST! This is impossible!!! Oh well, I like all of the winning episodes, so it's good.

@Kegisak:Are you talking about for your party members or your MC? Cause the party ones should change automatically once they hit Rank 10...

Oh wait, we're still voting? Hurricane Fluttershy.

Seem I scared Lyra off... Sleamy.

I really really liked Fluttershy's character in Green Isn't Your Color. The problem was Twilight really shouldn't be in this episode.

Vote: Green Isn't You Color.

Green isn't you color

The issue isn't the moral itself it's how the story really has nothing to so with it. Though I do see how it worked out. And overall WE COMPLETELY ENDORSE THIS WITH THE FULL ROYAL CANTERLOT VOICE

Luna was frustrated that all the ponies were scared of her, but the ones that seemed the MOST scared weren't really, they were just playing, AND DID NOT KNOW SHE WAS UPSET, that can't be emphasized enough, Pinkie though Luna was acting scary on purpose and she was playing along, she never saw anything to the contrary. The other ponies saw that Luna wasn't really mean or anythgin worth being scared over. Yeah it's a stretch, but LUNA WAS AMAZING!!!!

I'm still here, I just don't really have much to add.