The dynamic between you, Ryuji, Ann and Morgana is the best-written relationship in the game and subsequent members that are added to the team somewhat feel like also-rans, save for one late game team member who’s palace and subsequent back story is excellent. It’s here that I really started loving these characters. While doing this you meet and recruit new members to your team as you uncover a shadowy conspiracy that threatens the entire world. From there it’s up to you, Ryuji, Ann and your four-legged exposition machine Morgana to form The Phantom Thieves, a group of progressively expanding teenagers with attitude that track down criminals to infiltrate their heads and change their hearts. After years of secretive abuse, a suicide attempt by one of your classmates is the catalyst for you to meet your third member of the team Hermio-sorry I must stop that, Ann Takamaki. The game's initial palace is based on Shujin academy itself following rumours that the schools lauded volleyball coach Kamoshida may have the slightest touch of Jimmy Savile about him. Things get even more Pokemon when you discover that as the chosen one and the game's protagonist, unlike other people who can only harness one Persona, you alone can capture and use as many as you want. Upon further investigation of these palace’s, you discover that you possess the power to harness “personas” which manifest as powerful spirits that function as the game's various spells and abilities. Upon meeting Ron Weasley, um I mean Ryuji Sakamoto you both suddenly discover you have the ability to travel to a parallel universe known as the “metaverse” in which people's darkest desires manifest as physical objects contained inside enormous structures known as “palaces”. While on probation you are sent to Shujin academy where rumours about your past spread fast and you are soon alienated. In Persona 5 you play as the trademark mute, yet somehow irresistible protagonist, who after being convicted of a crime he didn’t commit is sent to live in Tokyo in the guardianship of a misanthropic coffee shop owner with a mysterious past. Persona 5 is absolutely enormous, and writing about it feels a bit like compiling an index of every blade of grass on the planet but if you would lend me your time and patience, let me explain to you why I think it’s just so incredible. That’s when the week long obsession with staying up till 5 in the morning just to work on my relationship with one of my confidants overtook any desire to play anything else. When a game causes you to commit thoughtcrime like that you know it’s something special.
A few hours further in I was literally searching prices for flights to Japan on Google, I was thinking to myself “I’d probably watch anime featuring these characters, I like them so much”.
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Thankfully, however, the opening sequence in Persona is so full of style and charm it made me feel like quite the idiot for doubting it. However, with Persona's long awaited debut on the PS4, I thought it’s time I actually sit down and dedicate some time because if I’m going to scoff at something, I at least want a little basis in my snark. I played a few hours of Persona 4 Golden on the PS Vita and after the several hours, it took my hands to reform into the shape of a hand following the endless stream of X-ing through dialogue looking for some gameplay in there I felt a bit left out. You see I’ve never really understood the reverence with which the world holds the Persona series.
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