Turn Me Back To How I Was.

Jul 30, 2022 19:18

I've finished Persona 5 Strikers!


I asked 'you want us to torture Konoe?' as a joke, and I was very alarmed when Zenkichi's response was 'Come on, I can do that on my own.'

Zenkichi loves us and got into trouble trying to protect us, yesssss.

I was spoiled by the trophy list for the fact that Zenkichi would get a Persona, but I wasn't prepared for how odd it would feel to have a middle-aged man join our party of idealistic teenagers. I'm glad he's clearly enjoying getting to feel cool, though.

One-on-one fighting the false Joker was pretty rad!

It's a terrible and fascinating moment where Shadow Akane disappears and, for an instant, Zenkichi thinks his daughter just died in his arms.

'I knew this already, but... you kids are a bunch of lunatics.' I really enjoy the dynamic Zenkichi brings to this game: a grown adult being drawn into our orbit and reluctantly becoming fond of us while also being absolutely unable to handle us.

'I'd be totally screwed without you guys.' 'It's like I'm never bored when you're around... Thanks, Rei.' Awww, Ryuji.

'I just keep remembering how it's thanks to you and everyone else that... that I'm even here like this, at all.' Morgana is also being pretty cute.

Aww, Ann spent her free time on the trip making friendship bracelets for everyone!

I've been thinking of this as a short side game, and it's only just hit me that I've been playing for forty-four hours. It's only short in comparison to other Persona titles; it's easily the length of a Final Fantasy.

I tried not to fight Sophia at first, and I noticed that none of my party members were attacking her either, bless them.

omg, the power of friendship broke her programming, I can never resist the power of friendship

Ryuji catching Joker around the waist to keep him from going over the edge!

If Ichinose personally designed Sophia, that certainly explains Sophia being bright and bubbly and then going 'why don't we just murder Alice? that seems the most convenient option.'

Sophia reaching out to Ichinose! I really like the themes of compassion and redemption at the heart of Persona. These games always believe that people can become better.

'It's machine learning time,' Joker says, before going off to beat up an AI. Incredible.

Ryuji can't sleep in his own bed because he's so used to snuggling up with me in the tent.

I hope Akane gets really excited about the new member of the Phantom Thieves and Zenkichi is bewildered to realise his daughter is a fan of his secret identity.

That was good fun! Nothing life-changing, but I enjoyed playing it and it was good to spend more time with these characters. I don't think it needed to exist, but I'm glad it does.

If they made a sequel like this for Persona 4 - an action RPG about everyone having a post-game roadtrip together - I would buy it twice.

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