battle system; enemies; elementals;
battle system
The battle system is fairly simple - each week, new enemies will appear, and in order to defeat them, you need to make icons! For every enemy you defeat, you'll earn an amount of points, and some money. You need points to move up floors, so try to get as many points as you can!
Each enemy may be strong or weak against certain types of attacks. If you strike at their weaknesses, you'll earn bonus points, and if you use attacks they're strong against, you'll actually lose points, so be careful!
In order to attack enemies, you need to have a persona equipped. Each persona has at least two attacks, and they'll use up to two attacks in a battle (you can pick which attacks to use). You can use the money you earn to purchase or fuse personas at the persona shop. You can carry up to three personas, so get a variety of them to attack the enemies! You can only use one persona per battle, so choose carefully.
You can also earn bonus points by fighting well - in other words, through popular vote at the end of the week. The amount of bonus points is determined both by the type of enemy and by how well your icon fares against everyone else's.
There's also some personas with an ability that grants even more bonus points!
Lastly, when you defeat an enemy, you get the option to draw one out of three random cards. These cards may contain either a persona, money, or bonus points! However, there's a small chance that the card you draw will be cursed - if you draw a cursed card, you'll keep what's in the card, but you'll lose all the bonus points for that battle.
One small detail - if you don't gain any points for 3 consecutive weeks (aka don't submit anything), Death will come for you, and you're out of the game.
enemies
At the start of each week, a bunch of new enemies will appear! The only way to gain points is to battle enemies, so make sure you get the little critters.
Each enemy has a name, strengths, weaknesses, and gives a certain amount of points and money. Here's an example enemy:
COWARDLY MAYA
Resist: N/A
Weakness: Fire, Wind
POINTS: 3
GOLD: 5
Battle Bonus: 0.5
The above enemy, Cowardly Maya, isn't strong against any elemental, and is weak against fire and wind. It gives 3 points and 5 gold when it's defeated. It also gives a battle bonus multiplier of 0.5.
So let's say you equip a persona that has Fire Lv.1, and make an icon that is predominantly red. A level 1 skill gives a bonus of multiplier 0.5, so if you attack it with Fire Lv.1, you'll get a (0.5) x (3) weakness bonus, which makes for a total 4.5 points instead of just 3.
Additionally, since its battle bonus multiplier is 0.5, if your icon wins, for instance, 10 battle points during the voting period, you'll get a bonus (0.5) x (10) points, so another 5 points.
So in this scenario, the total amount of points you'd earn for fighting the Cowardly Maya are 3 (base) + 1.5 (weak bonus) + 5 (battle bonus) = 9.5.
elementals
Elementals are the powers that the personas have. When an enemy is weak against one, equip a persona that has an attack of that elemental and strike!
In order to use an elemental attack, you need to have the persona equipped and to follow the icon guidelines for each elemental. If you do one but not the other, the attack won't land!
Note that "almighty" is a special elemental - it's only useable by the persona Messiah, and it's a substitute for two elementals of the player's choice - so if, for instance, the enemy is weak to wind and fire and the player uses an almighty attack, they can make almighty be a wind+fire attack to strike both weaknesses at once. Note that you must use two elementals if you pick Almighty (but you don't have to use the guidelines). Additionally, each Almighty attack costs 50 gold to use (the price is for both skills combined, so not 50 gold per skill).
FIRE
Icon must be predominantly red.
ICE
Icon must be predominantly blue.
WIND
Icon must be predominantly green.
THUNDER
Icon must be predominantly yellow.
HOLY
Icon must use negative space.
DARK
Icon must be predominantly monochrome.
STRIKE
Icon must be textless.
SLASH
Icon must be non-100x100.
PIERCE
Icon can't have any manga coloring.
ALMIGHTY
Icon can't have any textures.