It was back to the usual combination of working on social links and grinding in Persona 3, of course. I worked on getting closer to the old couple, rival athlete (is everyone’s parents dead?), the dying guy at the shrine, and the french transfer student, as well as building a new link with a business man at the mall (who turned out to be the shopping channel host). And I also maxed out the link with Yukari, freeing me up to build up another girlfriend. Love ’em and leave ’em…

I still have to start links with Mitsuru and Chihiro, as well as max out a bunch of others, and with about three game months left to get those remaining 64 or so ranks, it might be tight. I probably won’t max out all of them though, since that requires you to be fairly efficient at building those links, and I’ve gotten sloppy in a few places. The only real benefit to it is the ability to create Orpheus Telos, the ultimate persona, and that’s only really needed for an optional dungeon. It would be much easier in a New Game+ with all of the personas and stats available right away, but I doubt I’ll go that far anyway.

And I also popped back into Tartarus for some more grinding, but the main result of that trip was taking the time to make a bunch of new personas, so that I now have stronger fire, electric, and dark attacks, and a better healing specialist. I have 52% of the compendium collected so far, and have started making some of the special persona combinations as well. I won’t be able to make it for a while yet, but one of them will be a bit…different…