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World of Sense:
First area of Monade Mandara is "The World of Sense". Make sure you walkthru every path and open every door. There are many "Angels" or "Devils" type of demons here, you'd have fast and easy battles using Holy/Dark kill-all magic (ex: Pierrot Screaming, Dark Judgement).

Enter the "The Room of Sense". Here we get to see flashback of highschool student Katsuya!!! in 7th Sister uniform!!! (*__*) The teenage Katsuya looked younger (obviously~), with less stylish hairstyle and regular glasses. His teacher Kashihara Akirari (Jun's father) asked if Katsuya really wanted to abandon his dream of becoming a cake-maker, to become a police (Ulala and Maya were shocked ^^;;). Katsuya answered very firmly. Kashihara concerned if it's because of his father's incident, Katsuya replied no and left. Then we met Shadow Katsuya (even with that sinister face he still looks handsome to me ^^;;). He confronted Katsuya, saying he is tired of being the responsible, role-model good elder brother who'd always put family first, who even abandoned his dream in hope of bringing back the losted family unity. Katsuya tried hard to deny these claims. Shadow Katsuya then claimed Katsuya likes Maya, but due to his brother he decided to hide his feelings. Katsuya then turn around and pointed his gun at Tatsuya...here we have two options, 1) Trust Katsuya or 2) Stop Katsuya. Of course TRUST him would be the correct choice. However if you want to bring back Eikichi's memory, choose the bad choice.... (my choice~~)

Somehow at this point, I felt that after Tatsuya found out Katsuya's "shadow", he had already make the decision that meant for the best of everything ;__;

After passing through the "Room of Sense", you'll came upon a purple crystal, touch it then you'll have access to the Rest Area, in which you can go back to real world from Araya Temple.

Let's go back outside. There's one final (?) rumor, check out my Rumor List.
Also back to Hirasaka's Satomi Tadashi and talked to the Map collector. He'll give you the blank map of the final dungeon!!! Complete it and you'll get the final sets of cards, which include 3 FOOL cards!
Go to Kissmate Publisher, Mizuno Chief Editor will tell you about her long lost dream, you can choose to encourage her to chase back her dream!

World of Instinct:
Back to Monde Mandara. Now we enter "The World of Instinct". Notice now the map will have green boxes, be sure to walk-thru them thoroughly! Reaching the "Room of Instincts", we'd see flashback of Ulala & Maya drinking at Ebony. Ulala whined about the same old thing (how she'll never get marry, no one wants her blah blah~~), then realized Maya had fell asleep.... Shadow Ulala appeared and confronted Ulala, claiming she's jealous of her best friend and she has 0 charisma. Ulala got mad... now Maya have choices to make: warned her what she had promised, or let herself dealt with it. The first one was the good choice, second one was bad. If you want Eikichi's memory to return, choose the second....

World of Judgement:
Enter the "Room of Judgement", where to fight Shadow Katsuya & Ulala. Eikichi was chained and hanged above, he called Tatsuya by his nickname (Aku no Hana from my IS file ^^;;). Their weakness are same as the actual person with their final Greek Myth Persona. Fairly easy battle! Afterward Eikichi was released and HIS MEMORY HAS RETURNED! T__T Eikichi yelled at Tatsuya for being such an idiot for suffering all these alone. He wanted to fight with the gang and kick Nyarlathotep's ass, but suddenly his body disappeared in a warp of light. A Golden butterfly appeared, it's Philmon. He transported Eikichi back to the real world safely. Tatsuya looked disturbed and said, "it would be too hard for him, shouldn't have his memory returned..." (I know I know I'm making a very bad choice here...but I just want the SIN gang to remember!!! >_<)

Notice now Kasu High basement Area 7 has opened!

World of Wisdom:
Inside the "Room of Wisdom", we'll see a reversed (black) Promepheus strangling Miki, BaoFu's police partner/lover who was murdered by WonPao. BaoFu screamed in horror, Maya had to make choice: 1) "Stop! Don't do useless attack!" or 2) "......." If you remained silent (2nd choice), BaoFu will attack the illusions, which would also will bring back Lisa's memory later on (note again: this is the BAD choice, remember!). BaoFu cried bitterly that he was so powerless and useless without the power of Persona; He couldn't save Miki. Katsuya gave him a punch in stomach and calm him down.

World of Feelings:
In this area, there's a rather tough demon DEVIL Lv.76 Shou, beware! Enter the "Room of Feelings" to confront Nyarlathotep. Maya was asked if she felt angry: 1) To You!! or 2) somehow I felt sad. The first choice is the BAD choice and could bring back Lisa's memory. I chose that and Ulala was scolding me for not able to be mature and calm enough to deal with this situation. ;__;

World of Prosecution:
In this area, there's a door to a treasure box at upper NE. When you open the door you'll encounter demon STRENGTH "Ashi Dahaika", you won't able to hurt him (all attack turns 0). The only way to hurt him was equipping Persona STAR Lv.70 Farrydoun", there'll be conversation between the two (the person who equipped it would go berserk!) From then on you'll be able to attack it. (it's very tough, beware! Also it'll start to appear randomly)

Enter the "Room of Prosecution", Lisa was captured. Battle with Shadow BaoFu & Maya: They have exact same weakness and strong points as the actual persona. S.Maya was completely immune to magic, S.BaoFu was weak against Thunder. I have two members casting Thunder+Thunder combo (even though S.Maya will reflect damage on themsevles) hoping to get rid of S.BaoFu asap. The other members all use "OneLetterSlash", "Giga Fist", etc. on S.Maya. S.BaoFu has a nasty skill that turn all members HP/SP line to ???, so better cure-all members often just in case.

After defeating them, Lisa was released and HER MEMORY HAS RETURNED! Lisa cried so hard, very very touching~~ T__T she asked her "CheYan" ("lover" in Cantonese, how she refer to Tatsuya) to bring her along. As she lean on Tatsuya's back and wept, her body was transfer back to real world by Philmon....T__T Do not walk into the warp of light inside the room yet, that's the final boss place~~~^^;;

Back outside to Kasu High basement, the final Area 8 is now opened. The Password to Sachiko's treasures is "3341", you can get "legend blade" (material for making the legendary weapons).

Back to the "Room of Prosecution" and enter the light warp. Nyarlathotep claimed this would be the final destination, and the last toy was--Jun! He was chained aboved. Nyarlathotep reminded Tatsuya that, did he notice how he's different from his friends? Scenes cut back to Innocent Sin's ending when the gang decided to give up their memories for a new world where Maya would be alive. Tatsuya has choice to punch Philmon (again). Animation of IS gang speaking farewell to Tatsuya, Tatsuya felt reluntant and refuse to let go of the memories. Nyarlathotep explained that it's because Tatsuya betrayed his promises with his friends, refusing to give up his memories, thus cause an unbalance between the two worlds when his mind failed to merge with the new world. TATSUYA WAS THE ORIGINAL SIN, and his sufferings, the chaos in this new world as well as meeting with Maya was his PUNISHMENT! *O* The party and Tatsuya was shocked, Maya stepped up to challenge Nyarlathotep.

Final Boss:
The first form of Nyarlathotep used Dark Element attack, all Holy, Dark and Multi attack will NOT work on him. I recommend equipping Persona with "Immune to Magic" or "Immune to or Absorb Dark". That way most of his Dark magic attack will become total useless! Here's an example of what I use:

Maya: Artemis (using Ice combo with Katsuya)
Urara: Skuld (using mediama to cure-all)
Katsuya: Brahma (using Ice combo with Maya)
BaoFu: Promepheus (using WisemanSnap)
Tatsuya: Huster (using Aqualidat)

It was a long~~~~ but safe battle. When Nyarlathotep change to second form, quickly abandon all your Persona that can immune to magic (= weak against Physical). This 2nd Nyarlathotep do mostly physcial attack! Use Rakakasha or items to UP your members' physcial defense. If you have both Rakakasha spell and Generous Prayer, do a "Rakukasha --> Generous Prayer" combo to UP all your members defense at once. Here's list of my Persona:

Maya: Amano Mahime (first use her special "Protective Dance" to UP each member's Magic/Physical attack, then use Generous Prayer to cure in every round)
Urara: Skuld (doing Heat+Heat combo with Tatsuya)
Katsuya: Hyperion (use TripleDown)
BaoFu; Promepheus (keep using WisemenSnap, Persona itself is strong against physcial attack, he should be the safest member)
Tatsuya: Apollo (doing Heat+Heat combo with Ulala)

Beware that Nyarlathotep will seal all members' magic usage at one point! It'll be time for "items", keep everyone HP up and attack slowly. It's a little tougher than his first form, but still pretty safe.

My thoughts on the ending....(writing in progress)

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