[quote=@Gohan]
I could like, just take Kain or something instead, if those were your two strongest choices. To round out the trio. 
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They're some of my strongest choices -- by no means the only ones, though Kain being involved is interesting too.

Anyway, I don't want to hold you up from getting this going, but a few things have been popping up on my end and I had to do something of an all-nighter thanks to it. With this in mind, perhaps you two should start without me? Perhaps I could get involved eventually, but I don't want the fact that I'm not certain yet to hold you up if you're gearing to go.

[quote=@Raddum]
So you haven't got to personally deal with the hell that is trying to prepare for Dark Aeons?
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Yes and no. I'm Australian, so I had the Dark Aeons in my PS2 game by default. I've encountered them a bit, but - as I insinuated in a previous post - I haven't had enough time - starting from the PS2 generation - to go into my RPGs with the same level of extensiveness I used to in the old PSX days.

Zanmato is indeed overkill, but a nice card to have up your sleeve.

Persona 5 is the primary game you mentioned there that has my interest, maybe Dragon's Quest but I never even got around to really playing the PS2 Dragon's Quest game I bought (for the aforementioned reason concerning my schedule since the PS2 generation started). I admittedly play fighting games more often than JRPGs/JTRPGs, but those are all equal as my personal favourite video game genres.