Necratoid Wrote:So the pilots have to fight random encounters instead of do sync tests and the entire class is available party members... and this is all tangential to the Kaiju fights... so in effect the your adding a running gag in which Rei keeps Tanging people and they keep getting back up (Groups are to small to keep them down), but knowing embarassing things plus the whole naked in public thing... so your giving the cast more busy work combat and Nerv keeps getting sued for laundry bills?Are you talking about Persona 3 or Persona 4, here? How Persona 3 and Eva go together is very hard to explain without massive spoilers from both series, unfortunately. My idea was running the plots of both parallel, rather than mixing the two together. SEES and NERV would be separate organizations. The Pilots would fight Angels, and SEES fights Shadows. Where the interesting interactions come from is what both groups don't tell (or just fail to mention) the kids on the front line.
Besides changing the End of Eva so that the class is yelling at Rei for doing it yet again.. on a grand scale no less. Meanwhile, one or more of the white mage equivalents is stapling Asuka back together. What was the point again?
With Persona 4, the plot revolves around finding a serial killer who's MO is to throw people through TV screens into the "TV world", where they're eventually confronted by their Shadow, which is the incarnation of all their repressed thoughts. Denying their shadow prompts it to kill it's owner, who's body is eventually dumped back into the real world. Accepting this shadow is what gives a person a Persona. The heroes of Persona 4 are a group is students, who blunder into the TV world and end up figuring out the killers MO. They then decide to try to find the murder and find the truth, while periodically staging rescue missons when someone is thrown into the TV world. There's a big emphasis throughout the game on searching for the truth, and not settling for easy answers.
Now let's assume that the murderer and the heroes of Persona 4 don't know any of the big secrets about NERV, while NERV and SEELE are completely ignorant of Personae, and run the plots of both parallel. The heroes of Persona 4 are practically tailor-made for derailing Gendo's and SEELE's plans. First, The process of accepting one's shadow very, very likely to cause a jump in a Pilot's Synch Ratio, especially in the case of Asuka. The same process also is a trigger for people to start getting over their own issues and mental problems, which Gendo relies on to control people. Second, Having a bunch of magic-using teenagers poking around NERV looking for a murder is bound to cause fireworks, one way or another. Third The mere presence Souji Seta (the player controlled character of Persona 4) is the equivalent of setting a world-renowned therapist loose on Eva.