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rionaleonhart) wrote2021-01-09 11:02 pm
rionaleonhart) wrote2021-01-09 11:02 pm
I Just Want Your Professional Take On How Many Things In My Dream Symbolise Dicks.
I’m up to the start of January in Persona 4 Golden, appropriately enough!
I'm probably going to check out Persona 3 at some point once I've finished this. If there's a character whose name begins with A and ends with -chi, I am going to be extremely suspicious.
Adachi's motive for persuading Namatame to put people in the television being 'lol, murder is fun' feels a bit silly; it'd make a lot more sense for it to be 'he'd become the natural suspect for the murders I committed'.
Everyone turning up for Shu's birthday is deeply charming.
I watched the ending you get if you agree to push Namatame into the television, and it's really intriguing! Even the characters who are unhappy with the decision commit to staying. If they're killing someone, they're all going to be complicit together; they're not going to walk away and try to tell themselves their hands are clean.
And then, just before you leave Inaba, Dojima says something that implies he suspects that you were the one behind Namatame's death. I'm fascinated by this.
(Nanako dies in the 'kill Namatame' timeline, which makes it a bad ending. I... I mean, I suppose technically it was probably a bad ending already. 'A group of good-hearted teenagers murder an innocent man because of a misunderstanding and then have to live with what they've done' just brings me so much joy that it's hard for me to remember it's objectively not great.)
I really like Naoki's social link; I'm a little sorry I took so long to start it!
The ferocity with which Yosuke says, 'You did that stuff knowing full well that those people were gonna die! If that's not a crime, then what is?' is interesting; is he thinking of how close he himself came to pushing Namatame into the television, knowing it would result in his death? (Still want to write fanfiction where Yosuke kills Namatame and then has a guilt-ridden psychological breakdown.)
Yosuke dealt the final blow when I fought Adachi, which feels like a nice touch, given that Yosuke's the person in our party who lost someone he loved to him.
Everyone putting their hands together in celebration and then getting awkward about it is pretty cute.
The protagonist was a bit grumpy after accepting Yosuke’s Christmas invitation. This was probably intended to be ‘no girlfriend to spend Christmas with’ grumpiness (this game did not have a Makoto to tempt me away from my boyfriend), but I am choosing to interpret it as ‘ugh, Teddie’s going to be there’, because Toya should be thrilled to be spending Christmas with Yosuke.
Yosuke's very well-meaning and compassionate, he has a good heart, and occasionally the game just forgets about that for comedic purposes. It's sort of frustrating that the writers learnt nothing from this; exactly the same thing happens with Ryuji in Persona 5. I still love these characters, but I feel they’re written inconsistently on occasion.
(For a less frustrating example of inconsistency: Yosuke is very inconsistent in how he writes his text messages. 'HEY party 2morow, my place. U in? Knji n TedD will B there, 2.' A week later, he's texting you in perfect full sentences about his ski trip plan.)
I'm probably going to check out Persona 3 at some point once I've finished this. If there's a character whose name begins with A and ends with -chi, I am going to be extremely suspicious.
Adachi's motive for persuading Namatame to put people in the television being 'lol, murder is fun' feels a bit silly; it'd make a lot more sense for it to be 'he'd become the natural suspect for the murders I committed'.
Everyone turning up for Shu's birthday is deeply charming.
I watched the ending you get if you agree to push Namatame into the television, and it's really intriguing! Even the characters who are unhappy with the decision commit to staying. If they're killing someone, they're all going to be complicit together; they're not going to walk away and try to tell themselves their hands are clean.
And then, just before you leave Inaba, Dojima says something that implies he suspects that you were the one behind Namatame's death. I'm fascinated by this.
(Nanako dies in the 'kill Namatame' timeline, which makes it a bad ending. I... I mean, I suppose technically it was probably a bad ending already. 'A group of good-hearted teenagers murder an innocent man because of a misunderstanding and then have to live with what they've done' just brings me so much joy that it's hard for me to remember it's objectively not great.)
I really like Naoki's social link; I'm a little sorry I took so long to start it!
The ferocity with which Yosuke says, 'You did that stuff knowing full well that those people were gonna die! If that's not a crime, then what is?' is interesting; is he thinking of how close he himself came to pushing Namatame into the television, knowing it would result in his death? (Still want to write fanfiction where Yosuke kills Namatame and then has a guilt-ridden psychological breakdown.)
Yosuke dealt the final blow when I fought Adachi, which feels like a nice touch, given that Yosuke's the person in our party who lost someone he loved to him.
Everyone putting their hands together in celebration and then getting awkward about it is pretty cute.
The protagonist was a bit grumpy after accepting Yosuke’s Christmas invitation. This was probably intended to be ‘no girlfriend to spend Christmas with’ grumpiness (this game did not have a Makoto to tempt me away from my boyfriend), but I am choosing to interpret it as ‘ugh, Teddie’s going to be there’, because Toya should be thrilled to be spending Christmas with Yosuke.
Yosuke's very well-meaning and compassionate, he has a good heart, and occasionally the game just forgets about that for comedic purposes. It's sort of frustrating that the writers learnt nothing from this; exactly the same thing happens with Ryuji in Persona 5. I still love these characters, but I feel they’re written inconsistently on occasion.
(For a less frustrating example of inconsistency: Yosuke is very inconsistent in how he writes his text messages. 'HEY party 2morow, my place. U in? Knji n TedD will B there, 2.' A week later, he's texting you in perfect full sentences about his ski trip plan.)
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