On the 5th we learn about how different countries tend to center themselves in world maps, and the teacher asks where Japan is found in non-Japanese maps.
YOSUKE: I don’t even know what he’s talking about… Do you know the answer, John?
Have you never looked at a map, Yosuke?
Naoto comes back to school on the 6th.
That evening, I get a letter from the killer demanding I don’t rescue people anymore, then I get… an anime cutscene of someone alone in a room furiously scribbling names and ranting about how he’s going to “protect” people from the world? That doesn’t track at all, the culprit clearly knows he’s killing people. Or is this another fakeout? The cutscene was voiced, but it didn’t sound like Adachi.
Last time, the game managed to get even worse than the campout. It was thoroughly vile and confirmed the writers are transphobic and misogynist pieces of garbage, not that that was ever really in question.
But there’s still more game, so let’s trudge onwards. Maybe there will be plot this time.
Last time, the real culprit was revealed to be even more boring than the fake culprit and John’s baby cousin got hospitalized. That means now is definitely the best time to go on dates!
Last time I made a new social link, but I still don’t have them all. This time, the plot continues… maybe?
Last time, we hit the ending divergence point, by which I mean the “pick the right options or get a bad ending” point. Trying to actually solve the mystery didn’t work because the game wanted me to act like an idiot who didn’t know anything, so I did that.
Last time, the investigators deduced the real real culprit by, I kid you not, literal process of elimination. Perhaps today we’ll learn there’s a real real real culprit?
Last time, the villain begged me to pretty please come fight him, but I had to complete a social link first or I’d miss out on an optional dungeon, so I left him hanging for a month.
Last time we beat the real real culprit and the spooky demon man behind the real real culprit, but the game still didn’t end.
Last time, I went through the optional dungeon added in the rerelease revolving around how the rerelease-exclusive character was very special, but I didn’t care because they didn’t put any effort into making her likable.
This time, it’s Valentine’s Day! I am dreading the horrors.
Let’s go over all the social links before the conclusion, including the ones I didn’t finish in the liveblog.
The opening of my first draft, back when I thought I’d be doing this in a single post, was “Persona 4 is better than Persona 3.” That was very naive. I’m now quite confident the opposite is true: Persona 4 is so bad it makes Persona 3 look good.
So! Persona 5. My expectations are at rock bottom after the atrocious slop that was Persona 4, but from what I can tell the general fandom opinion is that this one is at least interestingly bad. Crossing my fingers that means there will be something worth suffering through “Haha sexual harassment is funny!” this time. (I am still, of course, expecting a baseline level of funny sexual harassment; I’m keeping my expectations realistic, here.)
…Aaand the opening movie immediately flashes us with sexy catgirl butt. Off to a great start.
After returning home, we’re introduced to our diegetic save function.
Sojiro: I’m obligated to report on you, which is why I’m having you record your daily activities.
So is the implication that we’re recording all our illegal and supernatural activities too? I don’t know what Niijima was complaining about, she should have plenty of evidence against us.
