PERSONA SYSTEM

Alright, I'm going to go over exactly why you don't want to do this. Watch this space.

Alright. You want Personas? Here:



First off, you're going to have to differentiate each and every persona. You're going to have to keep track of each Persona's:

Resistances: First and foremost, each persona would have to offer a different set of resistances and weaknesses. You'd also have to figure out how to implement a Reflect level, for repelling damage of an element, as per SMT convention. This isn't possible in the normal 2k3 DBS.

Stats: Strength, Magic, Endurance, Agility, and Luck. That's five - more than 2k3 offers. You'd also have to make sure your damage calculation mirrors - or at least closely mimics - the way damage is handled in P3 and P4 - admittedly easier than some of the other points here. Good luck making a Luck stat that affects Hama and Mudo hit rates, though. For that matter, good luck making Hama and Mudo skills that are affected by Expel and Death resistance.

Skillset: You'd have to commit each persona's individual moveset to memory, twice - once for the actual carried persona, and once for the compendium data. Not to mention the massive number of skills that are difficult to impossible to replicate with the 2k3 DBS.

Persona Level: This is the big killer right here. As you're aware, each Persona gathers experience and levels individually. You'll have to keep track of levels and experience for each Persona you decide to include. If you include just five Persona for each Arcana, that's 110 Personae. Persona 4 had twice this number and Persona 2 easily broke 300 between both halves.

This doesn't even cover Fusion, Social Links, the calendar, or any of the innumerable complexities of Persona or even general SMT games. I do not recommend you try to make this.

That game doesn't look great. Do we really need another Persona game? Do you think your experienced enough in RPGmaker to make this game? It seems like your not. I still think you'll be better off just learning the basics of the program first. People can tell you how to do one thing, but then you'll just keep asking questions.

It just looks like that game uses normal skills and just shows a battle animation of some spirit above your character(look for the game 'Boss Battle V', it uses the same effect). I don't know anything about Persona but what your asking in your first post doesn't really make sense. According to that video the Persona isn't on screen at all times and the monsters are hitting the heroes, so any differences in elemental damage would fall on the hero who uses the Persona. Switching in battle might be possible by making each Persona a different class and find a way to make an item trigger a common event that changes the hero's class. I don't know if this works but my point is this: nobody is going to hold your hand and figure this stuff out for you. Read tutorials, learn the basics, and just try things out for yourself. Don't ask "well what if I do this.." just do it! and see if it works.