P4G is the one you don’t want to cheat in, without spoiling anything: the game will absolutely slaughter you for it.
It’s not a tremendously big deal in P5, but still something I can’t bring myself to do.
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The more you cheat, the less goodies you get for NG+ from my understanding.
Isn’t it the opposite? You still get any main items for spending time with your chosen partner but you also get everyones chocolate from the Christmas event where they confront you. Or that’s how it worked in the base game maybe it has changed in Royal?
I know if you get the special scene (if you cheat on everyone) you get Sojiro’s chocolate instead (and whoever you were with on Valentine’s Day. Only reason I know is because I didn’t have the heart to do it and immediately watched it on YouTube lol. I could be missing something though.
Oh I’ve done it 
I’ve played the game like 4 times now though so I had room to be an awful person once. I THINK (because I could be misremembering) that in the confrontation scene you end up getting everyones chocolate all the same, it just, y’know, doesn’t have the same love behind it any more.
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Yeah from my understanding Royal and Vanilla do it a bit differently, but you absolutely do keep your social link stuff.
And no worries, we all get a little evil in games sometimes. Especially in replays.
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Thrown full force at your dick, presumably.
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That’s basically the gist of it yeah
After finishing P5 Royal for the first time:
Makoto is who I thought I would want to date.
Takemi is who I ended up dating.
Haru is the secret best girl. Ended up liking her much more than I ever would have guessed!
Hifumi and Kasumi were runners up. Also loved how hilariously wrong yet also sweet the Kawakami story ended up being.
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I did the same when I played non-Royal, dunno why lol.
I’m gonna have to get off the fence soon, but I still can’t make up my mind. I turned down Kawakami and Ann, and I already did Makoto on vanilla P5 when it came out. Maybe I’ll try the new girl if she isn’t secretly Nyarlathotep or something.
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Will probably go back to finish off the Den stuff but for now I’m pretty satisfied. In case anyone is chasing that stuff too, save before every rank 9 romance possibility, you can get credit for dating and friend-zoning without having to play the whole game over again 
I’m surprised the other two games are coming out so soon (January 19th), hopefully the style and ease of play of Royal will have faded from my mind a bit by then, so they aren’t as painful to play
Edit: may as well leave some fishing tips while I’m here in case anybody is dreading the Angler award like I was:
Set Up
There’s a book in the Shibuya bookstore that unlocks Ichigaya, or Ryuji will invite you out and you can unlock it for “free”. Fish once and go to Shinjuku to buy the book about fishing, and the sports store in the underground mall in Shibuya will also start carrying the best fishing rod. This way you can start out with the most advantages (instead of having to guess which fish are worth more, you can just see it with your third eye and no need to build up points to afford a better rod) Incidentally, I’m fanatical about rotating my saves, and - after beating the game - I was able to load up one from around January 27th. This worked out in terms of weather and giving me enough time before the end of the game.
Method
Use your free small boilies (bait) to build up some points. Buy a few suspicious boilies and a few large boilies. The weather made it so the special fish showed up immediately instead of the usual method of having to fish like 6 times before it spawns. Suspicious boilies are the only thing the special fish (the Guardian and the Kingpin, who appear golden in third eye) will eat. Once you’re feeling confident in your understanding of the mechanic, go for it. If you fail to reel it in, it just wastes your bait and one of your fishing attempts for the day, the fish doesn’t despawn (and is probably closer to the shore and thus easier to reel in).
From then on, it’s just a matter of fishing in as many big sparkling fish as you can. When you have enough points, grab some medium boilies as well, so you can grab whatever sparkly medium fish there are instead of regular big fish. Rinse and repeat. Once you’ve got a good feel for it, you should be getting 10,000-15,000 points per session, so you should be able to get it done relatively fast. I don’t think any of the prizes are especially good, so if you aren’t a completionist about that, you can probably drop it right after.
Finally, keep in mind that the Thieves Den stuff is saved at a system level, so you can reload saves if you don’t have enough time.
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Apparantly it’s sold over 8 million copies now including original P5 release and Royal, I thought it was closer to around 5m, 8+ million is Final Fantasy numbers with a much smaller budget too
Im telling you, focus on Sega & Atlus xbox
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I’m interested in what the breakdown of that number is. From what I’ve seen the PS5 version has not sold very well (because it’s a pretty bad deal for those who have it on PS4 already), it’s never went out of stock anywhere so almost all of these are on non-PS platforms.
Regardless, this just strengthens my position that Sega won’t accept Sony pennies to keep P6 off other platforms. Sega will help or bring in outsource partners to help with multiplat if Atlus can’t internally do it.
Switch and PC were definitely the main sellers, Playstation has already had 2 versions of the game and xbox had the massive GP push
The only way I see P6 being PS exclusive is if it was a decision made a while back before P4 released on PC, ever since they released that I think they realised how much money they were missing out on
The bulk of that is Switch I would guess? Still, awesome to see the game have continued success and this has got to bode well for future Persona games on Xbox!
Imagine it was released as a multiplat from the get go…i mean Royal. Not necessarily 5. Would have sold way more. Might still do
It really was a shamefully bad deal, and I won’t stop beating that drum even if it didn’t affect me. That aside, the more I hear about P5R’s good performance on non-PS platforms, the happier I am. I really really hope that Sega/Atlus look at the sales for P5R in particular, since I expect fewer people will be interested in P4G and muuuch fewer in P3P.
I dream of seeing a day 1 Persona release across the Xbox ecosystem so I can take it with me wherever I have internet 
If it takes MS spending a ton on marketing for it, I think that would be a small price to pay if only for the symbolism.
But I was told ad nauseam by more than a handful of people in the Acquisitions thread that Sega doesn’t make anything that sells well and isn’t a “good buy”.
I’ll never stop bringing out the numbers when those asinine points are made, especially when you look at the majority of SE’s docket these days and how little many of their titles “meet expectations”. Persona is made on a fraction of the budget and has sold nearly as much as the last mainline Final Fantasy title (8 million vs. 10 million, respectively) despite being released a few months after FFXV and only having been on Playstation for the majority of its lifespan.
I can only imagine what its sales are in a year’s time of being on Xbox, Windows, and Switch. Whereas, with the exception of the bump seen by FFXV, mainline Final Fantasy titles have been decreasing in sales/popularity, Persona has been rising in sales/popularity with each release.
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