Last time, we had our obligatory beach episode that still managed to be less bad than the campout, and Nanako desperately needs a restraining order against Teddie.
Anyway, the case is closed so I’m sure the next term will be completely uneventful!
Category: Persona 4
Persona 4: September 18th – October 4th (Downtime)
When I get home, Adachi is there and also drunk.
ADACHI: They found Naoto-kun! Oh, uh, do you know who Naoto-kun is? He just up and vanished without a word, but it looks like he’s back now.
This sure must be awkward if you wait until the last minute to save her.
Persona 4: October 5th – October 20th (Fall Midterms)
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.
Persona 4: October 21st – October 30th (Culture Festival)
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.
Persona 4: October 31st – November 6th (Heaven)
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.
Persona 4: November 7th – November 20th (Downtime)
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!
Persona 4: November 21st – December 3rd (Dramatic Turns)
Last time I made a new social link, but I still don’t have them all. This time, the plot continues… maybe?
Persona 4: December 3rd – December 5th (Seekers of Truth)
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.
Persona 4: December 6th – December 23rd (Fiddling While Inaba Burns)
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?
Persona 4: December 24th – December 25th (Magatsu Inaba)
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.
Persona 4: December 26th – February 13th (The Hollow Forest)
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.
Persona 4: February 14th – March 20th (True Ending)
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.
Persona 4: Social Link Roundup
Let’s go over all the social links before the conclusion, including the ones I didn’t finish in the liveblog.
Persona 4: Conclusion
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.