I'm So Lost.
Here is the last instalment of my Persona 5 liveblogging! (Until I eventually play Royal, I suppose.)
Unsettling thought: if you don't make it to rank nine with Haru on your playthrough, would that mean she has to go through with the marriage?
Oh nooooo, Haru's crushed that I said we were friends! Of all the romance options, I think she's the one who comes across as most into Rei, but I'm not really interested in them as a pairing.
I invited Ryuji to a theme park and he's worried that people might think we're dating. Spoilers, dude: we're dating.
It was a close thing, but I managed to max out all the optional confidants before running out of road!
'Let's go to sleep. You must be tired,' Morgana says, lying down and curling up exactly in the middle of my bed so I can't lie down myself. He really is a cat.
Ryuji literally just asked me, 'Do you wanna get married, Rei?'
EXCUSE ME, EVERYONE STOP DISAPPEARING PLEASE
These little scenes in the prison where we're talking our friends out of their slumps are a nice touch.
Did we just summon a super-god to kill God?
Nope; we summoned a demon lord to 'punish' the 'naughty' god by shooting it with a bullet made of the seven deadly sins, apparently.
I don't want my cat to float into the sky and disappear!
You know what, Sae? Screw you. If it's 'turn myself in to the police or Shido can't be convicted', let's just not convict Shido. He's already had a change of heart, so he shouldn't pose a danger any more; why should I lose my freedom just to get him convicted?
I can't believe you're making me do this! This is bullshit!!
Okay, accepting Makoto's invitation immediately after that conversation with Sae does feel a tiny bit like I'm going 'SCREW YOU, SAE, I'M GOING TO BANG YOUR SISTER OUT OF SPITE.' I'm not banging your sister out of spite, Sae; I'm not that sort of person. But I am going to bang your sister.
(We didn't bang because Makoto got worried because I was clearly hiding something, I.E. THE FACT THAT SAE'S FORCING ME TO TURN MYSELF IN, GODDAMMIT SAE, I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU'RE COCKBLOCKING ME ON TOP OF GETTING ME ARRESTED)
I'm really curious about whether my friends are planning to get me out by legal means or pull off a flat-out jailbreak.
All my confidants trying to help me and make sure I'm protected!
Oh, no, Mishima describing me as his best friend is making me feel slightly bad for hating him so much.
Aww, Sojiro came to pick me up!
Everyone's waiting for me at the café! Friendship!!
Running around Tokyo for the last time to say goodbye to everyone is pretty emotional.
Aww, and that was a lovely ending cutscene!
I waved back at Joker when he looked up at the camera after the credits. Love that kid.
And with that I've finished the game! Only took me a hundred and forty hours. Goodness knows what I'm going to do with myself now.
What an adventure. I'm filing Persona 5 alongside Final Fantasy VIII and Final Fantasy XV in the part of my heart devoted to flawed disasters of games I love with an intense passion.
Final thought: why is the gigantic, screaming, tentacled penis in a chariot not a Chariot-class persona? I mean, I can see where the Tower classification comes from, but there's a literal chariot involved. It's not a literal tower. It's just a giant screaming chariot penis.
Unsettling thought: if you don't make it to rank nine with Haru on your playthrough, would that mean she has to go through with the marriage?
Oh nooooo, Haru's crushed that I said we were friends! Of all the romance options, I think she's the one who comes across as most into Rei, but I'm not really interested in them as a pairing.
I invited Ryuji to a theme park and he's worried that people might think we're dating. Spoilers, dude: we're dating.
It was a close thing, but I managed to max out all the optional confidants before running out of road!
'Let's go to sleep. You must be tired,' Morgana says, lying down and curling up exactly in the middle of my bed so I can't lie down myself. He really is a cat.
Ryuji literally just asked me, 'Do you wanna get married, Rei?'
EXCUSE ME, EVERYONE STOP DISAPPEARING PLEASE
These little scenes in the prison where we're talking our friends out of their slumps are a nice touch.
Did we just summon a super-god to kill God?
Nope; we summoned a demon lord to 'punish' the 'naughty' god by shooting it with a bullet made of the seven deadly sins, apparently.
I don't want my cat to float into the sky and disappear!
You know what, Sae? Screw you. If it's 'turn myself in to the police or Shido can't be convicted', let's just not convict Shido. He's already had a change of heart, so he shouldn't pose a danger any more; why should I lose my freedom just to get him convicted?
I can't believe you're making me do this! This is bullshit!!
Okay, accepting Makoto's invitation immediately after that conversation with Sae does feel a tiny bit like I'm going 'SCREW YOU, SAE, I'M GOING TO BANG YOUR SISTER OUT OF SPITE.' I'm not banging your sister out of spite, Sae; I'm not that sort of person. But I am going to bang your sister.
(We didn't bang because Makoto got worried because I was clearly hiding something, I.E. THE FACT THAT SAE'S FORCING ME TO TURN MYSELF IN, GODDAMMIT SAE, I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU'RE COCKBLOCKING ME ON TOP OF GETTING ME ARRESTED)
I'm really curious about whether my friends are planning to get me out by legal means or pull off a flat-out jailbreak.
All my confidants trying to help me and make sure I'm protected!
Oh, no, Mishima describing me as his best friend is making me feel slightly bad for hating him so much.
Aww, Sojiro came to pick me up!
Everyone's waiting for me at the café! Friendship!!
Running around Tokyo for the last time to say goodbye to everyone is pretty emotional.
Aww, and that was a lovely ending cutscene!
I waved back at Joker when he looked up at the camera after the credits. Love that kid.
And with that I've finished the game! Only took me a hundred and forty hours. Goodness knows what I'm going to do with myself now.
What an adventure. I'm filing Persona 5 alongside Final Fantasy VIII and Final Fantasy XV in the part of my heart devoted to flawed disasters of games I love with an intense passion.
Final thought: why is the gigantic, screaming, tentacled penis in a chariot not a Chariot-class persona? I mean, I can see where the Tower classification comes from, but there's a literal chariot involved. It's not a literal tower. It's just a giant screaming chariot penis.