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: Welcome to Persona 2: Eternal Punishment! It’s a direct sequel to Innocent Sin, and boy am I eager to get started… right after I finish eating lunch. The burger place a couple of streets over opened back up yesterday.
: I’m really happy for the owner - last I heard, he had a huge gambling problem, but apparently he turned his life around and re-opened all the restaurants he owned. I got two pizza burgers for lunch!
: Jun!
: This is, of course, the Alaya Shrine we saw in Innocent Sin.
: Huh.. these text boxes look a little off compared to Innocent Sin. I bet it’s because of all those complaints about the PSP version - Atlus probably decided to go with the PS1-style textboxes instead.
: Tatsuya doesn’t wear his Seven Sisters uniform in this game. I’ve heard that originally they had planned for him to stay in his uniform, but a concept artist had already made this red tracksuit and they went with that instead.
: Forget…? Remember…? Why do I feel like…
: If you’ve read the Innocent Sin LP, you probably have a pretty good idea of what that is. I still feel like I’ve forgotten something though…
: Oh, now I remember! The save transfer! It never asked me to transfer my save from Innocent Sin! I can’t have a complete and accurate LP of Eternal Punishment without doing that.
: But.. I never saw a menu option to do that. Maybe I’d better restart and see if I clicked through it somehow.
: Ah, there we go! Now I just need to load the Innocent Sin save.
: No data…? That can’t be… I know I kept my Innocent Sin save on this memory stick. I even made a backup, just in case the memory stick (or the PSP) died. I’m sure it’s probably an issue with my PSP’s file structure. We’ll just go without it for now.
: It’s a little hard to get across in screenshots, but they’re doing a Shinto prayer with bows and claps.
: Is that… Yukino!
: And this is how you know it’s the PSP version and not the PS1 version. In the PS1 version, they used the names from Revelations: Persona (because unfortunately, the PS1 version came out before Atlus realized their terrible mistake and re-released Persona 1).
: In the PS1 version, Yukino’s name is localized as “Yuki” but Maya calls her “Yukki”.. which doesn’t make a lot of sense.
: This time around, we play as Maya. She’s now a silent protagonist the way Tatsuya was in Innocent Sin - but that means that we get to hear Tatsuya talk!
: JOKER…? Does Jun have penmanship problems or something? That’s probably why he carries around all those flowers.
: No, wait.. it’s not that.. there’s something I was supposed to remember. This is probably why that other guy beat me to LPing Persona 5 Royal by just over a week. I would’ve liked to LP that.
: But.. everyone knows all you have to do is keep believing, and your dreams come to life! Wait.. I feel like.. I’ve said something about that before..
: We don’t need textboxes to know Maya is telling him “Let’s positive thinking!” That’s what I like about Maya, she’s always an optimist.
: The wiki doesn’t have a clean portrait for Mizuno, so I’m going to have to use full screenshots for her dialog.
: I think they mention it in one of the guides for this game, but I’m pretty sure the “Rumored Student” is Tatsuya.
: There’s this weird bug that happens whenever text is on screen where the framerate slows to a crawl. I’m not quite sure why that is.. you’d think it’d be better on the PSP version.
: This is probably why I opted not to…
: In this world, Yukino has no apparent romantic interest in Fujii.
: “Wait, you’re going to a party, huh? To hell with the weekends… sometimes you just gotta have a good time.”
: We need to talk to everyone in the room to progress.
: There’s a lot of NPCs who talk about the “Guardian Dragons”, but it’s not a plot point as far as I know. I feel like this was probably based on an actual fad.
: Even in this world, there are rumors about giant spaceships under the city.
: Jun isn’t a demon-user. I mean, not anymore. He’s just a boyfriend now, like Yusuke in Persona 5 is in all these pictures of him I found on my hard drive. I have no idea where all of these came from.
: Yes! This is why Yukino is, has been, and will always be the best girl in this series… next to Elly. This is something Hashino probably should’ve stolen from Satomi Tadashi before he tried writing his own..
: Hold on.. Hashino.. I feel like I’ve forgotten something. There’s this indescribable rage that boils inside of me every time I see that name, and I don’t know why.
: Where’s the option to let Yukino be Yukino? Why haven’t we recruited her into the party yet?
: "It’s bad enough that she split us up! Now you can’t take some time off! Don’t give in to her, Maya! If you’re going over to Sevens, let me call up one of my old teachers. She’ll be able to help you out.
: Wait.. ‘Mackey’? That doesn’t sound right. Let me take another look..
: Oh it’s “Maaki”, the same way he calls Yukino “Yuuki” with the elongated “u”. I must’ve read it wrong the first time.
: Dangit! You know what it is? It’s that slowdown. Maybe I got a bad copy of the game or something.
: Now that we’ve spoken to everyone, we can take the elevator down to the lobby and meet this Serizawa person.
: I don’t think I’ve ever heard someone described as a “ceramic girl” before… something’s really off about this game.
: “What!? What do you mean you have to work!? Don’t give me that… you weren’t planning on going anyway, huh? Oh, I know what it is. You’re still thinking about your ‘Deja Vu Boy’ huh? Ka-----! I told you to just forget about him!”
: “Besides, how close can you be to a boy that you bumped into once at a train station? Even if you felt you’ve met him before… What? You’re not kidding about this work thing? I’ve got an idea! Let me come with you! You’ll be able to finish your work in half the time, and we might still make it.”
: Katsuya!
: “No normal person could have done something like that.”
: “…No, he hasn’t. What the hell does he think he’s doing?”
: All these spelling and just.. general common sense errors. Everyone knows it’s spelled “Kounan”, with a U. It’s giving me this odd feeling that I’m reminded of something, but can’t remember what..
: Oh god.. my head..
: “I’m sorry that he’s worrying you, too. Please excuse me, but I must be going.”
: “Were those guys from the Police Department?”
: “It won’t take long, but… are you sure it’s alright?”
: “You mean… something happened?”
: We can meet another familiar face in the teacher’s lounge while we’re here.
: Akinari Kashihara is Jun’s father - in Innocent Sin, he worked with Tatsuya Sudou to write In Lak’ech, the book that ultimately allowed Nyarlathotep to destroy the world before being driven to suicide by his wife, who believed he was cheating on her with Maya Okamura.
: Wait.. Okamura.. I’ve heard that name before - and not from Innocent Sin. For some reason, all that comes to mind is a forehead.
: If you haven’t read the Innocent Sin LP, Hanya dies at the beginning of the game after being thrown from the clock tower. It’s so unrealistic - everyone knows that nobody dies from anything except old age.
: Anna was a minor character in Innocent Sin, where she was working with the Masked Circle as Lady Scorpio. She’s also gay and in love with Yukino.
: She’s one of the focuses of the bonus Tatsuya story in the PSP version of Eternal Punishment, which is why I chose to do this version and not the original.
: Noriko was in exactly one scene in Innocent Sin, when she meets Anna at Club Zodiac. But wait.. “big sis”? Didn’t she call Anna her “senpai” in Innocent Sin..? What’s with this translation?
: In Innocent Sin, Anna had already dropped out of school.
: “Hey, you! Aren’t you gonna say anything!?”
: Oh, right. I think I mentioned this in the Innocent Sin LP, but the person driving the car that hit Anna is named after Daisuke Kaneda, a game designer at Atlus who worked on Persona 3 and Persona 4. He had nothing to do with Persona 5, which is good because…
: You know, ever since I woke up this morning, I’ve had this.. irrational hatred of Persona 5, and I don’t know why.
: “That was just too cruel. I’m gonna find that old man and complain, Ma-ya!”
: We can examine the Narurato Stone, which was the entrance to the Silver River (and subsequently to Xibalba) in Innocent Sin.
: In Innocent Sin, Maya Okamura wrote In Lak’ech with Kashihara, and was later accused by Kashihara’s wife of having an affair with him. She later goes insane and kills Maya with the Spear of Destiny.
: Our next destination is the Principal’s Office. Once we go in here, the game actually starts.
: Well, looks like Hanya dies for the second game straight.
: “W… what’s with this? What the… hell!?”
: “Excuse me, sir. I want to ask you…”
: “The note he’s holding… that pattern of killing… it’s him! Are you the first one on-scene? Did you see anyone suspicious? Anything suspicious when you got here? When did you get here?”
: “I…I don’t know! Stop asking me things all at once!”
: “A, a demon…? Who the hell are you!? And, what’s this feeling…”
: “Wha…!?”
: Well, this clearly isn’t Jun… but it’s someone who knows about Innocent Sin. He’s also missing an eye.. didn’t we know someone like that?
New Persona: Helios
Origin: Greece
Persona 2 Original
Titan of Greek myth who drives the Sun as a chariot.
New Persona: Callisto
Origin: Greece
Persona 2 Original
Nymph who either served under Artemis or who was her best friend, depending on interpretation. There are strong connotations that she was likely Artemis’s lover as well.
Returning Persona: Maia
Origin: Greece
First Appearance: Persona 2 Innocent Sin
Daughter of Atlas and Pleione. Eldest of the seven Pleiades. Mother to Hermes.
: Wow. Next time, we’ll meet Philemon again and go through a demon-infested Seven Sisters.. for the second time.