Since the DLC dungeons are built into the game now, I've managed to get a feel on a decent route on NG. When I do submit eventually (hopefully the first run will be this Saturday when I have time), how will the port be handled record wise?

Can't believe no one has posted about this yet. Quick sessions are gonna be a godsend for runs if it means what it says.

edit: Also I botched the title, don't mind me.

Ok, so while I was practicing NG, I had a bit of an idea of a new category that can make for an interesting run. I'm proposing a NG+ Skills Only category. I know that I'll need to put in a run first, but here are my impressions so far.

I feel that this is a decent middle ground between normal NG+ and NG. NG+ with everything imported makes for a pretty boring run since we one shot all the bosses aside from chapters 5 and 6, and even so, one session kills almost all of them. With skills only, especially on Hard, it becomes more skill intensive since everyone is squishy and EP becomes more valuable from using big skills. Plus, people won't have to worry about grinding stats and carnage (except for the skills you want).

I've currently only gone through chapter 1 (it's very late as I'm typing this), and I feel that we can come up with interesting strats for this category. One example being do we keep just the starter weapons and rely on skills? Do we just go straight to the boss or grind for exp? I think this can be a good category to experiment with.

Please let me know if this sounds good, or I'm just crazy.

This is a NG+ run that I recently completed. While I feel that the run itself is sloppy all around with many minor mistakes (my first RPG speedrun so menuing is not the best), I still feel this is a good representation of what NG+ would look like.

While setting up for these runs, I came across a few thoughts in regards to NG+ runs in general and potential rules.

• First and foremost, DLC. I think that DLC personas should be allowed. When min/maxing out stats, I believe the DLCs are about the same level as the high level personas; the only exception I see might be Kaguya only because she is low level so you can sculpt her how you want, and she nulls holy/curse. I'm still building her up so I can test her, but I think it won't make too much of a difference.
• On the subject of DLC, I'm on the fence on whether looking at the box to get the healing items should be allowed. Getting healing items from the doctor should be sufficient enough, and you can simply make coffees if you're SP heavy.
• DLC accessories should be fine since there are much better ones anyway.
• I believe skills gained from network fusion should be allowed. If people take the time to get them, more power to them.
• Network connectivity in general should be turned off however. Shouldn't need it anyway.

That's all I got for now. If you have any questions, I'll try to answer them best I can. Thanks.

Hi, I'm currently working on getting set up for NG+ runs, and am wondering if a NG+ category will be added?