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Kanji's arc meanwhile is completely ruined by Yosuke basically being a homophobic dick at every opportunity, and the fact that the game never even tries to engage with that and instead play it for laughs just makes the whole thing feel that much more hollow.īy the end I had absolutely no idea what the game was really trying to say, despite the fact that it felt like it clearly had something.Īnd while P3 failed to have any sort of deeply compelling non-generic message, it made up for it by having genuinely strong characters. Which isn't, like, a horrible message I suppose, but when compared with what it could have been, it feels like it falls utterly flat. Naoto's social link feels entirely misguided- instead of focusing on how she is a woman in a man's world, and helping her find her own place in it, the focus is bizarrely on how it is okay for her to also feel feminine and not have to completely sacrifice her masculinity. The game could have explored the theme more with Kanji or Naoto, but after their Shadows it felt like they never really engaged with it again. 'you should be able to come to terms with what society expects for you, and then agree with it whole-heartedly' isn't a very compelling or engaging message in a lot of ways. And while I think that's a valid choice for people to make, and I can respect that the game at least gave them agency in tha respect. The fundamental premise behind Yukiko, Rise, and so on's social links is that they should feel comfortable taking on the role that society assigned them anyway.

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It feels like it wants to have something to say about norms in society and how people should be free to choose whether or not they want to take the path society has made for them under their own terms or reject it, but there just isn't as much time being taken to focus on rejecting it as there should be for that to matter. While I generally liked it, it took me almost all of 2022 to play through it and I wanted to strangle Yosuke every time he opened his stupid mouth.Ĭlick to shrink.Persona 4 in my opinion largely feels. Thread tax: I think everyone who calls P4 the best of the modern Persona games probably has massive nostalgia goggles on. As for the plagiariasm? Not usual since students were forced to learn the master's style, but I do not doubt it happened. One of my own teachers had to do the grunt work on the work of one of Austria's greatest painters.

While my own fine art education was fortunately not like that, getting students to do the 'master's' work was the MO of 'master classes' in Europe just a couple of decades ago (and was a tradition since artists put their names on their work). As someone intimately connected to the fine art world in Europe, Madarame hit hard for me. Kamoshida is without doubt the strongest villain in P5, but I think the others depend a bit on the player's history (especially considering here that the villains are based on real people a Japanese player would be familar with).

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