General SMT/Persona speedrunning discord with various games: https://discord.gg/DJYHxAy

Fusions from this https://pastebin.com/HY8C2ad9 Daily life from this https://pastebin.com/PRgTp2r6

When it eventually says to teach Growth 2 to Ose, do not do that. Keep the card and teach it to Rangda instead.

Restructuring the categories is a possibility. The game hasn't had much of activity so there hasn't really been much if any category discussions before. More active discussion can be done in the SMT speedrunning Discord server, ask for an invite on twitter or something if necessary.

Guess I'll say something about categories.

I agree that stuff like "hard%" are bad and should just be "hard mode" or something similar. Any% on the other hand should be a thing. If you're beating the game as fast as possible without restrictions, like P4G very easy bad end, then just call it any%. There is literally no reason to not call it that and any% is very widely known term in speedrunning.

And when you call something any%, make sure that it actually IS any%. You look at the P1 board you have any% snow queen which has both bad end and true end. I wouldn't put true end under any%. NEVER. While technically not wrong since you do beat the game BUT you are adding restrictions, which any% should never have. Like having a Snow Queen main category with any% and true end would be much better imo (assuming bad end is what you get when you speed through the game).

Should say I agree with category name specifying difficulty and ending when out of any% zone. This may have been pointless rambling but whatever.

Are you talking about the standing still on tartarus floors? Shadows are only loaded when the main character is close enough to them. Splitting the party and just chilling at the spawn point lets party members freely search the floor and find the stairs. It's just as easy way to avoid shadows. I don't even know if it's actually faster.