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: My biggest regret about today is that the game does not let you visit Chihaya before dumping you in the dungeon.. meaning I had to grind for alarms.
: “You and everyone else… you’ve all grown so much… no, this is no time to get sentimental. We’re going to end this with a bang! All right, let’s go!”
: Naturally, we get the top score on the final exam. I think there’s a reward you can pick up from Sojiro once we cross into the expansion content. The game then immediately dumps us in Mementos.
: “The door to the depths of Mementos has been opened… wait, does that mean-”
: “…We’re really gonna do this, right?”
: “Of course!”
: “Why’re you askin’ now?”
: “Well… I-I just thought, what am I gonna do if you guys freak out and bail on me!”
: We all should’ve bailed on this game hours ago. Seriously, what you’re about to see is a big samey dungeon with exactly four enemy types and a single puzzle from Nocturne that gets recycled like ten times.
: “We’re going to erase Mementos, aren’t we? Come on, let’s go, you guys!”
: “Mona sure seems hyped up!”
: “Isn’t Mona-chan behaving a little.. odd?”
: “You know, you’re right.”
: “Yeah… I shouldn’t have brought that up. Shall we get going?”
: For whatever reason, the game immediately puts you on the first floor of Mementos instead of letting you warp immediately to the last save point.
: In the base game, I did a victory lap on the way to the depths, and probably should’ve this time as well because we are in desperate need of money. Anyway, let’s get to fusing.
New Persona: Minamoto no Yoshitsune
Origin: A Real Person
First Appearance: Devil Summoner
: Yoshitsune is a special fusion between Okuinushi, Shiki-Ouji, Arahabaki, Yatagarasu, and Futsunushi. He was the best Persona in the base game and is still VERY good even in Royal.
: You see, in the base game, it was possible to build Yoshitsune with a skill called Swift Strike - which is a weaker version of his signature skill, Hassou Tobi. The difference is that you could make Swift Strike guarantee critical hits, whereas I don’t think Hassou Tobi could crit even in the base game.
: Let’s talk about Hassou Tobi. It hits all enemies 8 times for somewhere between 100 and 150 damage (with Joker’s stats at current levels). I gave Yoshitsune the trait from Futsunushi that boosts Charge to a 3x multiplier. When Charged, this guarantees that Hassou Tobi does north of 2,400 damage to any enemy not resistant to physical. That’s before we factor in buffs.
: If you’re planning on using him, you probably want to switch out Joker’s gun for the one made using Metatron to get that extra 6 strength, since Yoshitsune gives zero fucks about magic.
: By the way, it’s possible to make a Yoshitsune that absorbs, nulls, or repels everything except guns (as there is no null gun or repel gun skill) and fire (which he’s merely resistant to).
: We can then itemize Yoshitsune into Yusuke’s best melee weapon.
: Let’s head all the way the hell down to the end of Sheriruth. We now know what the entirety of Mementos looks like. I can’t tell if the bottom’s supposed to be the Earth’s core or what.
: “It should be. Why, what’s wrong?”
: “I dunno, it looks just like all the other ones… I was thinkin’ it’s a little disappointin’… maybe we worked too hard to get down here or something.”
: “The lack of unforeseen circumstances is nothing to complain about. Let us continue.”
: “It’s some big, fossil-looking thing… so this must be the Treasure.”
: “So this is where that crowd of people was trying to reach?”
: “People are walking in and out of there, so the other side of the wall must be… wait! It’s not a wall, but a giant door!”
: “Guess that means the Treasure’s not here. C’mon, let’s stay focused.”
: “It opened straight away… I bet that means the inner depths the Meta-Nav was talking about before are right ahead.”
: “Hold on. The door only opens from this side…”
: “…What do you mean?”
: She means it’s one of those “Doors that don’t open from this side” from Dark Souls.
: “Well, I took a quick peek at the mechanism inside the door… and it looks like you can only open it from here. We can get in, but nothing can get out.”
: Even though Futaba is saying this, the door will remain open even once we go through it. You can go into the final dungeon and then back out to Mementos.
: You can access Iwai and Tae from the first floor if you need to - this is because we have to clear this dungeon in one day. Not that that’s a huge challenge, given we’ve been doing it the whole game.
: “It’s as though whatever lies within has been locked away…”
: “Wait, so you’re saying that the people going in there are choosing a life of imprisonment?”
: Since Haru went ahead and said it, yes. This is what the theme of the rest of this game is going to be. In fact, the plot of Royal isn’t all that different.
: “I have never felt such eeriness before… what is this place?”
: “We’ll find out once we reach the depths. Come on, let’s go.”
: “It’s so creepy…”
: “So those strange pipes tunneling through Mementos were originating from down here after all. You know, I have been considering this for some time.. they remind me somewhat of veins.”
: “I mean, what does everyone think this world is…!?”
: “Calm down, Lady Ann. The Treasure is definitely here, and that’s what’s important now. And I can sense something else. A tremendous presence that’s coming from much deeper within…”
: “I don’t know that I want to find out what that may be, but we must harden our resolves. It’s time to head for the depths!”
: Gotta love how neither of them answer her question.
: “It looks like they’re all trying to get past that door.”
: “But why’s it so crowded!?”
: “It looks like the door’s keeping them all out. We’ll have to try and look for another way in.”
: The other way in is simply jumping around the side.
: “The Shadows out front were trying to get in here, right? What could it be…?”
: This dungeon reminds me a lot of those “orange” maps you’d see in Counterstrike and Team Fortress 2 that use the stock developer textures. It’s about as exciting, too.
: “…Is this a prison!?”
: I wish I could find the clip from Sonic 06 of Silver going “ARE WE UNDERWATER?” because this is one of those moments.
: “Who’s captured here?”
: “Technically speaking, I would say it’s someone’s Shadow…”
: “They’re saying something…”
: “They feel safe being here? What’re you saying? You’re being kept in a prison.”
: You know, they’re doing the whole “jail is the safest place” thing that guy from Yakuza 0 did before he got shot by a guard who was on a rival family’s payroll.
: “This reminds me of Kamoshida’s castle… they’re like the ‘slaves’ we saw there.”
: Oh, okay, it’s not Yakuza 0, it’s STALKER. Actually… it really kinda is STALKER, given what we’re about to run into.
: “A system that grants… desires?”
: “Something like that exists? Here!?”
: “It’s no use. You can’t reason with these people.”
: “They’re truly ‘distorted’, just like the scenery here…”
: “Quarantine? Who’s locked in there?”
: Everyone, in about four years.
: “…? Mona?”
: This is one of the only forced fights in this dungeon. Two Melchizedeks are nothing we can’t take out.. even though Wind is kind of our weak point right now due to Baal being the same since Okumura’s Palace.
: “Wait a sec… this is everyone’s Palace, right? Not like Kamoshida’s castle… who’s keepin’ these people here?”
: “Mona-chan?”
: “…I remember now. I’ve… seen this place before.”
: Could it be that just like Teddie, he’s actually a Shadow? Oh wait, we already know he is.
: “Hold on though. It wasn’t open until we came here today.”
: “Sorry.. it’s just a sense I’m getting. Still… it feels like I’m really close to remembering something important…”
: “Y’know, comin’ in here was what you wanted from the beginning. We just gotta keep movin’ on!”
: “On top of that, I’m curious to know who the ruler of this place is.”
: “Wait, what about these people?”
: “Leave them be. They’ll be taken care of if we erase Mementos.”
: “Hey, it’s dangerous to keep standing around here! Let’s get going!”
: The first couple of rooms after the cutscene are all generic and contain exactly three enemy types - and we’ve already seen one, that being Melchizedek. All of them are within Insta-Kill range.
: One of the two remaining enemy types is Moloch. He goes down very quickly to Satan.
: I’m going to skip a lot of the dialog here, because this is a puzzle recycled from Nocturne.
: Pushing one of these red pillars makes a bunch of yellow tiles appear.
: Stepping on a yellow tile turns it blue, while stepping on a blue tile turns it yellow.
: The goal is to turn all the tiles blue and end up on the space with the pillar, essentially making an Euler circuit. Not every one of these is solved that way, as some of the later ones require doubling back.
: No shit. This puzzle is set up so you can’t possibly fail.
: “So that device is not only a switch, but also the wall that’s blocking our path.”
: “That’s a pretty elaborate device…”
: “It is only natural that security is tight in a prison. Then again, no inmates actually wish to leave…”
: This isn’t a forced battle. The game spawns the enemies, who will immediately begin patrolling but won’t notice you provided you keep moving forward.
: The other enemy type that appears here is Lilith, who.. well, let me take this opportunity to show off Hassou Tobi.
: Even uncharged and without the starting status effects from ambushing enemies with the grappling hook, Hassou Tobi can end encounters by itself.
: There’s a lot of these NPCs around. Most of them say the same thing with slightly different phrasing.
: “The hell…? Is this some kinda prison cell too…?”
: “Plus there are those blood vessel things coming down into it…”
: We also max out Haru. She’s now pure gun and psy damage. In the end, it’s probably better that she doesn’t learn any fourth-tier spells due to how high their cost is.
: I grab another alarm and fuse US Ambassador to Japan John Thorman. We need him for a 5-way fusion.
: Thorman itemizes into Imprisoned Mjolnir, which is Ryuji’s best melee weapon. You know, Ronald Reagan was in the original Megami Tensei novels and I’m wondering if anyone tried itemizing him. Anyway, we use Thorman to do the last Persona fusion we’re going to do until the expansion.
New Persona: Chi You
Origin: China
First Appearance: Devil Summoner
Chinese war deity who is half man, half bull. Fought a war against Huang Di, said to be the ancestor of all Han Chinese. Was defeated and eventually beheaded by Huang Di’s general, Yinglong. Also important to both Miao and Hmong folklore.
: Chi You is a five-way fusion between Yoshitsune, Cu Chulainn, Thor, Hecatoncheires and White Rider. In practice, he’s basically Kohryu but with better stats and a unique skill that reduces the cost of Psychic spells by 75%.
: The next room has a hook point in it that we can use to reach one of Morgana’s better weapons.
: We also get a good look at Yusuke’s new sword.
: Ann gets maxed out, learning her final spell. She can only use Blazing Hell ten times on a full SP bar, which is why fourth-tier spells aren’t the best on the party members. It’s only really worth it on Joker due to how much he can lower the cost by.
: “Happiness is much more than simply ‘gaining’ things. To be honest, I can’t believe he’s actually enjoying his life here…”
: Yes it is, only this time one of the tiles starts out blue. We’ll skip it.
: There’s a save room, and then yet another one of these extremely challenging puzzles. We’ll skip this one too.
: “It truly seems to go on ad infinitum.. where does it lead?”
: “I never expected there would be this much here… but the Treasure’s presence is getting stronger. We’re going in the right direction for sure.”
: “No… Madarame…”
: “Is President Okumura here too!?”
: “Father isn’t around anymore…”
: “…Sorry.”
: “No, it’s okay. More importantly, look here.”
: “The hell’s goin’ on!? These guys shoulda had a change of heart from their Palaces disappearin’!”
: “Man, your bod’s as great as always. C’mon, come closer.”
: “You creep!”
: “Hmph.. I’m joking. I don’t want any more trouble. I finally get to live without having to think for myself now.”
: “I mistakenly thought myself to be talented… but now I think I’m a fool for wanting too much.”
: I’ll spare you posting that theme from that game that just came out, because in a year’s time the fanbase will have ruined it. You know the one.
: If you’re reading this in a year, please congratulate me on accurately predicting the future.
: “It’s not like you get punished for bein’ dumb. Nobody needs to strive to be more than they really are.”
: “These people seem completely different than they were before…”
: “I don’t think it’s because they had a change of heart though…”
: “Wait.. have they chosen a life of captivity after they lost their distorted desires?”
: “Unfortunately, Okumura isn’t here with us. Nothing can be done for the dead.. I’m sorry.”
: “…Yes, I know. Thank you for the details. Now if you don’t mind, what in the world is this place?”
: “It’s supposedly called the ‘Prison of Regression’.”
: “Regression?”
: “More importantly, does this look like captivity to you? Why, it’s the exact opposite. The utmost freedom is available to anyone who desires it here. This is the freedom to not make decisions.. the release from having to think for yourself.”
: “It is far more marvelous than the country I wished to create…”
: They really needed an option to have Futaba shoot him in the head mid-speech.
: “Release from having to think? But, that’s…”
: Two things. One, why the fuck does any of this matter? Two, isn’t this just the end of The Matrix?
: “So those are the Palace rulers…”
: “I really gotta thank you for changin’ my heart. I got to come back here, after all.”
: “We… sent 'em back here?”
: “I don’t understand… just what have we been doing by using the cognitive world?”
: “That’s true, but…”
: “This ain’t the time to be gettin’ confused! We’re here as the society-fixin’ Phantom Thieves today!”
: “Having the freedom to not make your own decisions only means that someone else is controlling you! Tell me - who is the ruler here? Who made all of this?”
: Let me tell you why I hate this scene. Up until now, the villains are more or less ripped straight from the Shounen Battle Manga 101 playbook. They’re obviously the villains, behave in a way that borders on cartoonish, and are there to be the bad half of a world where everything is black and white.
: This scene tries to take what are basically your shounen battle manga opponent of the week and turn them into something deeper that was never really there to begin with. It also tries to bring up the question of “Is what the party is doing the right thing to do?” about a hundred hours after we’ve established that this is a black and white morality shounen battle manga.
: “Haven’t you learned anything in school? The collective ruler of a democratic country is its people.”
: It’s like Hashino picked up a Noam Chomsky book, read the first few pages, and went “WHOA MAN, THIS IS SOME DEEP SHIT” and then made a plot where the central idea is “Whoa man, did you know society is like, a prison and we’re all prisoners in it?”
: “D-Don’t lie outta your ass like that! I mean, there was a guard here earlier! That means someone’s gotta be lookin’ out for you guys, right?”
: “You may be right. We are the ones ‘looking out’ upon everyone else.”
: God fuck I hate every single word of this entire thing! Fuck! This is like, entry-level pseudo-intellectual bullshit!
: “No…”
: “So the ones who least want the prison to be tampered with… are the prisoners themselves?”
: “It don’t matter what this guy’s talkin’ about… we’re gonna erase all of Mementos anyways! C’mon, let’s keep goin’! Mona! The Treasure’s in the deepest part, right!?”
: “Mona?”
: Why isn’t Futaba pissed? They were supposed to make Shido pay for killing her mother, and now he’s sitting in a jail cell not giving a fuck. You’d think she would be fucking livid at this.
: “I saw the humans in here.. and realized I looked different than them for some reason. …Right! That’s when I started to think I wanted to turn into a human!”
: “Is that why you thought you would regain your true form if we destroyed Mementos?”
: “Sorry.. I’m still missing a lot of my memories.. but I know I started randomly checking a bunch of Palaces… then my next memory is about that bastard Kamoshida’s. …Yeah.. I’m starting to remember more…”
: “Guards again!? And there are more of them this time!”
: “Dammit… we got careless!”
: “Let’s run!”
: Also not a forced battle.
: Oh wow, I didn’t know Roy Guarder from acclaimed Zelda clone Two Brothers was in Mementos.
: This area introduces Chernobog as a regular encounter. On the left is this dungeon’s new treasure demon: Hope Diamond.
: The room past where the former palace bosses were is mostly skippable, but it’s one of the only rooms where you can encounter this dungeon’s red shadow.
: Abaddon is a big, tanky fuck who absorbs Physical, Gun, and Curse. He’s neutral against everything else except Bless, which he resists. This is a significant buff from the base game, where he was weak to Nuke and Psychic.
: Fortunately, we get a Gun Down against him which immediately erases half of his HP.
: His magic defense is also on the low side, allowing Chi You to hit four digits without concentrating.
: The next area has a miniboss right at the start to introduce us to the second half of the glowing floor puzzles.
: “There’s something shining back there.. what could it be?”
: “Either way, if it is worth being protected, it should be safe to assume that it’s of value to us. What do you think, Joker? Shall we defeat it and take whatever it is protecting?”
: This miniboss is a pair of Thrones, the only class of angel we never bothered to fuse because they’re just not that useful. They learn Fire Amp and Inferno.. but we have Mada already.
: Yusuke laughs at their pathetic attempts to kill him instantly.
: Throne is weak to Nuclear, so we let Big Mike handle this one.
: This fight maxes out Ryuji, who is still trash compared to Yusuke.
: It also maxes out Morgana, who now has the best heal spell in the game.
: Makoto learns Atomic Flare. Keep in mind those stats are before the +11 to everything from her gun. She’s easily the strongest character we have.
: “Hm… what do you think this could be used for…?”
: “Who knows? It’ll prolly come in handy though. I mean, that strong-ass Shadow was guardin’ it.”
: Joker would like to remind you that horny jail is a very real place.
: “…Do you think that could be the Quarantine Cell we heard about?”
: The disk we got opens a closet. Looking back, I’m not entirely sure why this is necessary for this particular puzzle, but we’ll need to do something similar for a bunch of upcoming ones.
: The idea is that you can use the closet as a free space to reset the tile in front of it.
: “We’re so far underground at this point…”
: “I hope we don’t suddenly find ourselves in a giant pool of lava.”
: “Still, we gotta keep going!”
: “Doesn’t that cell seem.. different from the others?”
: “Wait.. could this be that Quarantine Cell?”
: “Supposedly the most sinful, most dangerous inmate is held within…”
: I think you can guess who that inmate is. He’s five foot something, gay, and has never been horny except for Yusuke. Technically, it’s someone else - but we all know it’s really Joker.
: “This… this place smells familiar for some reason…”
: “Mona-chan?”
: “…There’s no mistake. This is it. I.. was born here.”
: He was born in horny jail! That explains his constant thirst for human women, and also Joker!
: “Born? Inside the prison?”
: “Wait, then are YOU the dangerous inmate!?”
: “No… the inmate wasn’t me… but I remember this place… someone created me here. To guide all of you…”
: “Guide? And who is this someone?”
: “Ngh… I can’t remember… damn it.. I’m so close, but my memory is too foggy…”
: “Y’know, hearin’ all this just makes me wanna know what’s inside.”
: We have to eat a couple of attacks, none of which do all that much damage.
: “Given how important this cell appears to be, the depths of Mementos must be near. Mona’s memories may return if we continue on…”
: “Yeah…”
: “So, we’re finally gettin’ close to the public’s Treasure, huh?”
: “Now that I think about it, it makes sense Mementos would connect to some place like underneath Shibuya. Everyone crams themselves into packed underground boxes day after day without any complaints…”
: “From my standpoint, those are the true inmates of Mementos. It’s no surprise the places are connected.”
: “You know, the voices of the public may have led the Phantom Thieves on more than any criminal…”
: SMART GIRL
: “Seriously! Let’s hurry up and steal that Treasure so we can crush Mementos!”
: “We truly are reforming society. Let’s go!”
: The next area has Orochi in it, who dies about as quickly as you’d expect.
: Now we get to deal with ADVANCED stupid floor puzzles.
: I make it down this far and then the tiles go red.
: The trick here is that there’s a semi-transparent bridge behind where the party is in this shot, and you’re supposed to do a circuit by using the bridge.
: “Reality is ending? That is similar to what the others in the prison are saying.. what could that mean?”
: Most of the NPCs here keep talking about the apocalypse. We’ll see what that is.. soon.
: There’s a big dumb area here with a bunch of stupid floor puzzles. I’m going to skim over it because this is even less of a dungeon than Shido’s was.
: The trick is to do the left side first, then the right side, then the top. This opens up some walls so that you can do the top puzzle in less than ten moves. There is a kind of mercy mechanic where if you hit the last tile (the one with the pillar on it) on your 10th move, it will still let you finish the puzzle.
: There’s one last save point, and then it’s time for a boss fight.
: “It’s huge… I didn’t realize such a gigantic place existed here…”
: “Is.. this where everyone’s Treasure is held?”
: “But this ominously bizarre air about it… it almost feels like a temple of sorts. Although…”
: “Look, th-there’s no point freakin’ out now! C’mon, let’s go!”
: Well, there’s the boss. Time to go kill it.
: “And.. what’s that thing in the middle?”
: “There are no other passages leading out of this room. It appears this is our final destination.. the depths of Mementos.”
: Kind of funny that it’s Fox telling us about Final Destination.
: “In that case, is the Treasure of Mementos somewhere in here?”
: “I’ve never been here… but I can sense it. There’s no mistaking that presence. If we get rid of it.. if we get rid of it, the public should come to its senses!”
: “But something that large will be impossible to carry out of here.”
: “We just gotta make it disappear, right? If we can’t move it, then we’ll just hafta destroy it!”
: “Yeah.. that will work.”
: “Once we do that, the entire Metaverse is going to disappear, right? This is finally it…”
: “That thing isn’t gonna sit back and let itself get destroyed.”
: “Even the inmates are starting to liven up. How eerie.. are they planning something?”
: “That must mean this thing’s gotta be the Treasure. They saved us the trouble of checkin’!”
: “…Hold on. Something’s off. Shido said the masses are allowing themselves to be held captive here. Could they truly be operating this gigantic system that eliminates intruders on its own?”
: “The prison guards and soldiers were very organized too…”
: “Are you trying to say that someone else rules this place? Is it not the public?”
: “We don’t have time to worry about that! Leave it for later!”
: “All right, guys! We better not lose now!”
: We start out with our usual boss killing repertoire: Concentrate and Thermopylae. Rivers in the Desert is playing in the background, because Atlus was too cheap to make a theme for this boss.
: The boss has only one attack: Arrow of Light. It does Almighty damage, but only attacks one target and never actually hit during this fight.
: With one salvo of attacks, we’ve reduced the boss to 50% HP. That seems.. oddly specific, doesn’t it? That’s because we’ve just triggered the script. The game skips Joker’s turn.
: The prisoners start chanting the words “Holy Grail”.
: The boss then heals itself for somewhere between 900 and 1000 damage in a loop until it is at full health.
: “What was that!? Don’t tell me.. are the inmates giving it their strength!?”
: “Dammit! This is never gonna end!”
: “It seems hopeless if there are this many inmates supporting it…”
: The game won’t reveal the boss’s name until we fight it for real, but I’ll tell you exactly what it is: it’s Yaldabaoth.. also known as the Demiurge… also known as YHVH. We are killing God because this is a JRPG.
: “Who’s that!?”
: “The Treasure’s talking!?”
: “The Holy Grail…”
: “Dammit! They’re worshipin’ that thing!”
: Yaldabaoth becomes a disco ball.
: Even with all those lights, it still can’t hit anyone.
: This time, we don’t even get past Makoto’s turn.
: “No.. did it heal again..!? We can’t lose! Keep attacking!”
: Every time Yaldabaoth heals, it gets slightly lighter.
: Third round. A charged Hassou Tobi is enough to send it into heal mode.
: Fourth round. Ann and Makoto unleash their Concentrated fourth-tier spells.
: “No fair! This is cheating!”
: “If this is really how people feel, there’s no way we’ll be able to steal their hearts… we’ve come here for nothing…”
: “This is horrible…”
: This is a very common line uttered by YHVH in the main SMT games, usually after he’s been killed off.
: “Is this what everyone wants? To stop thinking and be guided by the Holy Grail?”
: What Joker’s saying is that while there are those who think that life leaves nothing left to chance and is an aimless dance directed by a host of holy horrors, he will choose a path that’s clear - he will choose free will… and Yusuke.
: “Yes.. it’s so frustrating it makes me want to to cry… but I.. I will never agree!”
: “The humans I look up to aren’t like that… no matter how painful reality is, it’s all over if you don’t try to change how things are! I’m not the only one who believes that! Everyone here agrees…”
: “We don’t want to turn back into the people we used to be! That’s why we risked our lives coming here!”
: “Mona-chan…”
: “He’s right!”
: “That’s a load of shit!”
: Ryuji’s right, if I got a full turn in any of those fights, Yaldabaoth would be dead.
: “Encroach? What is it gonna do!?”
: “Hey, this doesn’t look good!”
: “I’ve got a bad feeling about this…”
: “Mona! What should we do!?”
: “Humans aren’t all stupid like you say they are!”
: I’d believe it if it wasn’t Hashino saying it, because he thinks his viewers are fucking idiots.
: “Hell no…”
: The voice here is entirely synthetic, and there’s a good reason for that.. which we’ll see next update.
: “Huh!? Who’s that!?”
: “N-No way… I see… so that’s how it was… I remember everything now…”
: “Is everyone okay!?”
: “Owww… of course we are!”
: “Oh! Hey, our clothes are back to normal!”
: “Look!”
: “We’re back!?”
: “We didn’t come back ourselves though… we must’ve been driven out by the Holy Grail.”
: “Did we lose?”
: “I know that, but…”
: It is a fucking CRIME that this didn’t happen way earlier in the game. This feels like Persona 1, and holy shit they could’ve done so much with this. Why the fuck didn’t they go with this instead of the palace fuckery?
: We’ve got Saya no fucking Uta going on here and it fucking rules! Why was this not the entire game!?
: “Huh? Tch, the hell is this? What’s going on!? Kaoru… Kaoru!”
: “Is this scenery.. for real?”
: “What on earth!? This is impossible… why doesn’t anyone notice this!?”
: “Damn, looks like I should take this seriously…”
: “…! Oh no… something wrong’s happened to the world!”
: “What’s going on here!?”
: “Wh-what the hell is happening here?”
: “I hope those kids are safe…”
: They absolutely needed a scene where the rain of blood hits Sae and she turns into her shadow.
: “Everyone else isn’t seeing this?”
: You’ll notice that someone is conspicuously missing from this cutscene. Actually, TWO someones. There’s a good reason for that, believe it or not.
: I’m pretty sure smartphone sales were already starting to tank in 2016.
: “Why isn’t anyone noticing this abnormality?”
: “It’s probably because they don’t feel that it’s odd…”
: “Ooh… I feel.. woozy… nngh…”
: The reason this is happening is fucking stupid.
: Okay, but.. isn’t that just Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunnygirl Senpai, which has been around since 2014?
: The thing is, this makes no sense. There’s at least ten people other than the party who know they exist, plus the party knows that they exist.
: I call bullshit on this, the boss couldn’t even fucking land a hit. Joker should be taking maybe 1 damage from this.
: And now we know why Mishima changed the question.
: Well, that sucks. Next time, we’ll see the “Richter Mode” where you play as a party of Hifumi, Shinya, Iwai and Kawakami. Oh wait, that would be good game design. No, we’ll be seeing a bunch of bullshit cutscenes and another bad ending.