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: We’ve got Haru’s Rank 11 scene today, and then it’s nothing but Sumire and Mementos.
: “Because of that, I tried getting into the stock market… not a thing you want to jump into with no experience. I lost five months of my allowance in one fell swoop…”
: That’s uh… not really how the stock market works. Unless he was gambling on options or buying dumbass meme stocks.
: “It wasn’t a huge loss, so it’s not that bad, but… it’s quite a thing to stare your failure portfolio in the face. My portfolio looked awful. I used that word because my portfolio looked absolutely terrible, but…”
: " ‘Awful’ originally meant something else. …So, Kurusu-kun, a question. What did the world ‘awful’ originally mean?"
: “That is correct. Yes, it was only comparatively recently that ‘awful’ took on a negative implication. It once stood for awe of any kind. This is why older English documents use phrases like ‘awful majesty’ and ‘awful power’.”
: “It could still be used to imply a certain kind of dread - that was just one of several possible uses back then. But as times changed, and language evolved as the centuries went by… we ended up with more specific words: ‘awful’ for the bad, and ‘awesome’ for the good.”
: “…Oh, it’s time already? Let me say one last thing. After this winter, you’ll all be studying for exams. You can use your time wisely, or slack off. Either way, I guess your test scores are going to be awful!”
: “Well, one thing’s for sure: you’re definitely an impressive guy. ‘Awe-inspiring’ might be a little much, but… I know I can count on you.”
: Anyway, let’s go see Haru. I also harvest the tomatoes we planted uh… three weeks ago? It was before Yaldabaoth. I also plant some potatoes, which double physical damage.
: Haru’s bedroom looks like it was made of rejected Animal Crossing items.
: “Yes, well… I needed to speak with you about this situation… or rather, because of it. I feel I owe you an apology, Akira-kun. I’m sorry… I was just so useless…”
: Joker: “So you’re going to grow some bangs and maybe get another 10 points in your magic stat? You’re finally going to make yourself worth using over Makoto?”
: “I’m so ashamed… Dr. Maruki created me a saccharine, perfect new reality - and I accepted it without a second’s pause. It was only because of you that I was able to find my own path.”
: “You were the one who gave me a future… and what did I do with it…? …I’m so pathetic.”
: Joker: “Look, I understand. Bangs take time, and you’ve only been in the party since October. Maybe you can get some extensions or something.”
: “…You’re so kind, Akira. But I’m afraid that doesn’t feel like enough, this time. I want to stand at your side through this, and I want to do it with pride.”
: “I wanted us to rebuild the company together. No, more than that - I wanted to save my father. But that’s just not possible. No matter how important he was to me, he’s gone now, and I cannot bring him back.”
: “Surely, if… if I could just rewrite the past for my own benefit, it would be terribly selfish.”
: You know what just occurred to me as I was writing this? There’s no second version of any of the Rank 11 scenes for dating versus not dating. Then I realized that it’s kind of a blessing that there aren’t, because the last thing this game needs is more writing.
: “I… don’t know. But what of the newfound purpose I gained after my father’s death? What of all the support you gave me? Even if I could simply choose to be happy, it wouldn’t be worth denying everything that brought me here.”
: “So I need you to understand that I’m determined to see this through. I won’t run away anymore. I refuse Dr. Maruki’s ‘gift’ to us. I’ll choose our own reality. The one I defined through my own hardship, mistakes, and tears.”
: I should’ve gotten someone to do a drawing of Haru going Super Saiyan and growing bangs for this scene.
New Persona: Lucy
Origin: An Actual Person
Persona 5 Royal Original
Rather than being the first name of Haru’s first Persona, her final Persona is named after Lucy Hay, Countess of Carlisle. Lucy Hay is mostly notable for having played both sides of England’s Second Civil War - first on the side of the Parliamentarians, and then on the side of the Royalists. She was supposedly the inspiration for Milady de Winter in The Three Musketeers. Incidentally, if you look at the portraits of Lucy Hay on the Wikipedia page, she also lacks bangs.
: Lucy is THE BEST third Persona in the game. Why, you ask? It’s not because of her resistance to Ice or her trait, which gives you a 50% chance to avoid status ailments.
: No, it’s because of Life Wall. Life Wall is a full-party reflect that works for both magic and physical attacks. Life Wall can be used to cheese the SHIT out of bosses, even if it costs 95 SP.
: “I’m sorry I kept you for so long. That’s all I wanted you to hear. From now on, I’ll fight even harder - to make up for all the trouble I’ve caused you.”
: “Thank you. Hearing you say that makes me feel like I can do anything. I will grow even stronger. I have to keep pressing forward. For Father’s sake, too.”
: Tonight, we’re making curry. I thought there was a trophy for making the best curry and the best coffee, but that’s incorrect - it’s a Thieves Den award.
: Incidentally, we’re one trophy from the platinum at this point. The only one we won’t have by the end of this update is getting all the stamps in Mementos because that’s busy work.
: “… This curry sure has a lot of ingredients, doesn’t it? Did I see you put fruit in there?”
: I didn’t know these existed, and hell if I’m going to bother getting them all.
: “Huh… I never knew apples would go so well with spicy curry.”
: There’s a reading slot on the train this morning. I’m skipping it. I’m also skipping Haru complaining at us to go into Mementos. We’ll do that tomorrow.
: Today, we have Sumire’s Rank 6. It’s one of the longest confidant events in the game.
: “I am so, so sorry! Seeing me trying to act like Kasumi must have been so painful and awkward for everyone… everyone must have noticed that I was acting strangely…”
: “They were probably being nice to me, knowing I’d just lost my sister… but even then… I had no idea I was even supposed to be sad. I didn’t remember that my sister was gone.”
: “When my coach told me to ‘think about who I really am,’ I thought it was just… figurative. Something about my slump. I was just living my life - like I didn’t even care that she was gone! I can’t take this shame…”
: I don’t blame you if you’re not reading any of this, because I’m not. We fucking get it! Your sister is fucking dead! We’ve known this for HOURS at this point! Fuck!
: Have I mentioned there are TEN FUCKING DIALOG CHOICES in this event, and only one matters?
: TEN FUCKING DIALOG CHOICES! NONE OF THEM MATTER! FUCK!
: “…I appreciate what you’re saying, but… I still can’t forgive myself. Ever since we were kids, Kasumi was always the one who decided what I did, what I chose, where I went… I couldn’t do anything without her…”
: “I suppose it’s clear why my grades weren’t going up much. I was never on Kasumi’s level to begin with. I was so pretentious, so wrapped up in my own stupid little problems… I was too self-absorbed to do anything!”
: “… I’m starting to remember things from our past now. It’s hard, but I’m trying. There’s a lot. It covers everything, starting from when Kasumi and I first got into gymnastics up until just recently.”
: “I want to talk about how it used to be for Kasumi and me. Would you listen?”
: You know what would have been a thousand times more effective? If Kasumire had a dungeon with an interesting design and interesting gameplay mechanics where we could’ve learned this instead.
: “I was too little to really understand the sport or the rules… but everyone praised me when I did well. The coach would get me little rewards, like ice cream cones.”
: “We did our best trying to learn the moves and routines, since it kept getting us ice cream.”
: You know what this is? This is that one dipshit scene from the Wolfenstein reboot. I think I linked this in one of my other LPs, but that’s exactly what this is.
: “Yes. We were together every day. We ate our favorite ice cream together, we talked, we laughed… those days were so fun. And one day, around when we started going to junior meets, Kasumi asked me…”
: "…All with a straight face, of course. She could be really funny sometimes. So obviously, I told her, ‘Kasumi, you’re a super genius!’ "
: “Well, we were just kids. But she really was a genius, you know. Everything came so easily to her. And every day, she only got better.”
: “You remember what my coach said, Senpai? That my… well, that Kasumi’s greatest weapon was her boldness?”
: “Kasumi was always so bold. she was like a beacon of confidence. And one day, I realized I’d never catch up. It didn’t matter how hard I tried. I’d have consolation prizes for the rest of my life.”
: “Kasumi was always the one up on the podium. But… even when she won her ice cream, she never ate it without me. I always told her not to worry about me, but she still said she’d wait until we could enjoy it together.”
: “She really believed in me. She said we’d be the best in the world someday. She had her own practices to do, but she was always so busy helping me… she spent hours trying to help me.”
: “She was so kind and strong… she was the perfect older sister. …Kasumi’s kindness was so… so… infuriating.”
: WE FUCKING GET IT! You’ve spent the last fucking five minutes doing nothing but illustrating the fucking point of how much better your sister was than you! We fucking get it! Fuck!
: “She was always the one on the podium, surrounded by flashing cameras. But all I could do was watch from the shadows. I’m not Kasumi… and no matter what I do, I’ll never be like her!”
: “If she’d just given up on me, it wouldn’t have hurt so much! At least then people would stop trying to compare us!”
: “You’re right… I suppose I was just selfish, in the end. The thought kept coming back. Every day, my mind went back to it. Everyone would be better off if I didn’t exist.”
: Hold it. Hold on a fucking second. What you’re saying is that you don’t know why, it didn’t really matter how hard you tried, and that in the end it didn’t even matter even though you tried so hard and got so far.
: God dammit the writers just made a character who is a fucking early 2000s Linkin Park song. That band was a fucking mistake, just like fucking Creed.
: “The thought kept coming back. Every day, my mind went back to it. Everyone would be better off if I didn’t exist. Either that, or I should just be Kasumi. She’s the one people really want.”
: “Sumire’s the one who’s useless. Pointless. Who would care if she died? …But my sister died instead. Why did she have to protect an idiot like me? I… I watched her-”
: “Yes. I’m done running away. Akira-senpai… I can’t stop here. Now, I want to keep doing gymnastics as Sumire. I want to hit those heights Kasumi was aiming for. Otherwise… I’d never be able to face her.”
: No, you know what this is? This is the fucking sad song from Ouendan 2, only Ouendan 2 did it in about five minutes and with a fraction of the fucking text. I searched the thread and I don’t THINK I posted that before.
: I fucking hate that the writers could’ve done fucking ANYTHING for Sumire, and instead went with the most generic rehashed sports story imaginable.
: “Please… will you keep going out with me now that I’m Sumire? I want you to hold me to this. To make sure I don’t run away from who I am again.”
: “R-Really? Thank you so much… eheh… you must think I’m pretty lame. But… I guess that’s Sumire. That’s who I am. I have to be stronger. Both in my heart, and with my gymnastic skills…”
: “But for now… I’m Sumire Yoshizawa. And it’s nice to meet you, again.”
: Fitness Talk would’ve been nice, I dunno… back when we were still negotiating instead of just fusing the best Personas possible?
: “I think this really helped me. Now I can focus on turning over a new leaf, and doing my best. Let’s get some practice in before I have to go to club. We’ll be training even harder than before, Senpai. I’ll be extra strict from now on.”
: Joker gets +5 Max HP.
: “And I’m sorry you had to see such a pathetic side of me… as soon as I acknowledged myself as Sumire, my gymnastics training started to fall apart, too. …But this is the real me, I guess.”
: “Yes. I’m done turning my eyes from it. I need to move forward, even without Kasumi. It doesn’t matter how painful it is - I’ll accept everything.”
: “I’ll think about where Kasumi got her strength from. And what I can do as Sumire… I’ll calm down and think all of this through.”
: Thank god, she’s shut the fuck up. Here’s the thing: if I boiled down the actual contents of that confidant event into the salient points, I could have done it in five dialog boxes.
Sumire: “My sister is dead.”
Joker: “I know.”
Sumire: “She did gymnastics in Odaiba. Earned my first ice cream there. Sweet, sweet ice cream.”
Joker: “Great.”
Sumire: “Actually, I hate my sister.”
: Anyway, let’s do the stupid crossword puzzle for tonight and then go to sleep because we are fresh out of content.
: There’s nothing on the schedule today - Sumire’s not available, so we’re going in to Mementos.
: I’ll skip us getting free time via Kawakami in Hiruta’s class, since we don’t do anything with it.
: “Um… I know I’m still a newcomer, but I’ll make sure not to slow the group down. I’m looking forward to working with you all!”
: “I keep tellin’ you, you don’t gotta be so formal! But if you want, I can teach you everything you gotta know about what we do as the Phantom Thieves…”
: “Sorry to interrupt, but I already explained everything to her.”
: It’s… not going to make us sit through another explanation? What?
: “Ah, yes! Morgana-senpai already taught me all about them!”
: “O-Oh… yeah, okay then.”
: “Guess you missed your chance to become a senpai, Ryuji.”
: “Sh-Shuddup! Wasn’t even aimin’ for that anyways!”
: “Oh, I-I’m so sorry…! I didn’t mean to ruin your chance to become a senpai…”
: What the fuck is this dialog?
: “Well then, let’s get back on topic.”
: “We should begin by investigating Mementos. But I’d prefer to avoid dying in vain due to a lack of preparation… therefore, it’s more important than ever that you all be in your best shape before proceeding.”
: I wish I had a SMART GIRL portrait for Akechi.
: “As usual, we’ll let Akira handle how we should proceed. Once we’re all prepared, let’s head into the Mementos.”
TYPO COUNTER: At least 10
: Both of these requests are labelled “Smax”. One of them is harder than most of the actual boss fights.
: This is going to be a prime example of the Hashino-Allanson Rule of Explanations. There’s absolutely no reason she couldn’t have said “Oh, this is Mementos? Morgana told me all about it.” and then let us get to some actual “gameplay”. I use that term loosely.
: “Oh, right - this is Violet’s first trip into Mementos.”
: “Well, check this shit out - this place is EVERYONE’S Palace.”
: “I’m not exactly sure what that means, but I do get the sense that it’s important! Thanks for explaining!”
: “Good job catchin’ up!”
: “Buuut, doesn’t it feel like the place has… changed, somehow? Or was it always like this?”
: “Think so? Looks the same as usual to me.”
: “You’re kidding, right? This place has always looked rather bizarre, but the massive cables are a recent addition.”
: “O-Oh yeah…?”
: “They appear to be the same cables as those we found in Maruki’s Palace. It looks like our theory about them affecting this place was accurate.”
: “Yep, we nailed that one - better than we thought we did, too. I’m getting strong readings all the way down… it leads all the way to where we found the Holy Grail.”
: “But the God of Control isn’t there anymore, right?”
: “Why don’t we check it out ourselves? I’ve got something I want Violet to see, too.”
: “Me?”
: “How’s about THAT!?”
: “Oh… hmh.”
: “Talk about a low-key reaction…”
: “Well, it wasn’t really out of my depth to imagine a cat turning into a bus…”
: “But, but - my transformation…!”
: “Wow, he actually let the ‘cat’ part slide that time…”
: “Yes, it’s that ability to imagine it so easily that allows Morgana to transform in the first place.”
: “Let’s go already. Standing around here’s a waste of time.”
: “B-But my main point is, I’m in a totally different league than those other buses. Hop in - you’ll see what it’s like riding in a high purr-formance vehicle!”
: No, Morgana, that’s how the cats from Monster Hunter talk. They’re better than you.
: Anyway, we have to warp all the way the hell down to the big door to the final dungeon.
: “This room…”
: “Indeed - I could never forget. But this is all…”
: This is Yusuke’s first line today. I think the writers kinda forgot he exists.
: “These are all more of those cables, right? They must be coming from all over Mementos and gathering in this spot…”
: “…Actually? It’s the opposite. They’re not gathering in Mementos… they’re spreading. This is the point of origin.”
: “After all, this place is the core of the masses’ consciousness. If you want to manipulate Mementos, there’s nowhere better to start than the very heart of it…”
: “So it intends to reach its roots from here to every corner of civilization… that’s such a desperate move, it makes me sick.”
: How is that desperate? What part of that is desperate? What the fuck are you even talking about?
: “Hey, look at that!”
: “That’s the one handling all the data from Maruki’s Palace. What’s our next move, Joker? Should we follow where it leads?”
: Right nearby is the entrance to Maruki’s area of Mementos. If you’ve played Shin Megami Tensei V, the name might sound familiar.
: Welcome to the Path of Da’at.
: “Hm? What’s that?”
: “Oh, Jose.”
: “Wait… a kid? Driving? And you all happen to know him already? Is there anybody you don’t know?”
: “There’s a flower here… but this one smells a bit different from the others. Let’s see how it tastes… gah!”
: “Aw, I guess I shouldn’t be picky. I’m going to move on further. Are you guys doing the same?”
: “I see. Whether or not you do, let me know if you find any more flowers. I’ll reward you well for them. Well, good job.”
: “What an odd kid.”
: “It would be much odder if the Metaverse were as logical as the real world is.”
: “Be careful if you’re going any further, all right? I’m getting all sorts of strange readings - Shadows too.”
: Now, you’re probably thinking something like: “If this is a $60 expansion, did they at least do something with the Mementos segments to make it not pure filler” and the answer is no.
: All of the enemies are identical to the ones found at the end of the game, during the run to where Yaldabaoth was. There’s nothing new here.
: All of the Treasure Demons spawn in Da’at, so you can get everything from Regent to Crystal Skull.
: A couple floors in, I start feeling bored and wait two minutes. We’re going to take on the Reaper.
: When the Reaper spawns, you get this red shimmering effect on the screen. As soon as you see that, Tatsuya Sudou is after you and will not stop chasing you until you die or touch the stairs.
: One annoying thing about Da’at is that unlike all the other areas of Mementos (where going down is advancing), you go UPSTAIRS to advance, which kept throwing me for a loop.
: The best way to fight the Reaper is to let him ambush you. I didn’t do that here because he’s piss-easy at this point, but doing so makes him only get one action per turn instead of two.
: The Reaper wasn’t re-balanced for Royal, and it shows.
: His moveset consists of Concentrate, all the -dyne and ma-dyne spells, Megidolaon and a single Physical and Gun attack. What’s more important is that he has Breaks for Fire, Wind, Elec, and Ice.
: He also has Hamaon and Mudoon, as well as their multi-target versions. Bringing any physical attacker here is not a great idea - being at low HP doesn’t stop casters from doing damage, but it does basically shut Yusuke down.
: I have Yusuke bring out the big guns and start buffing. However, I didn’t really need to. You see, there’s one thing that breaks the Reaper’s AI - and that is having multiple party members that resist things.
: The Reaper’s AI prefers to use Breaks to remove any possible resistances before resorting to his real spells. Because all of our party members have a Null and a Resist (along with Joker being able to block the entire elemental spectrum) he’s going to need to use this a lot.
: With everyone Charged and buffed, the party knocks off a pretty significant chunk of the Reaper’s HP in one go.
: The Reaper gets his only real attack in here, which knocks Yusuke down. However…
: In doing so, he triggers a Showtime that brings him down to half health. At half health, the Reaper is supposed to start spamming multi-target instakills… but he never does.
: He uses Mudoon on Ann and then for some reason uses Wind Break twice.
: Makoto throws in a Checkmate and from there the Reaper goes down without doing much. I have a feeling this is because the party collectively has so many resists that they can’t all be broken at once.
: Killing the Reaper gets us four to five levels for everyone.
: The rest of this area is a joke. We can insta-kill everything, up to and including Abaddon.
: Floor 3 is where our first target is. I’ll skip there since nothing else interesting happens.
: “Let’s change her heart, for her child!”
: “Kuniko Kagami. You are the mother who doesn’t properly care for her children, correct?”
: “…Something is wrong with her.”
: “Could this be what people call… self-neglect? Not being able to sustain a normal life to the point where it’s damaging to their health…”
: “I remember the request saying something about the room being messy! So not only was she neglecting her children, but herself as well!?”
: “That’s not true. What about your child?”
: “That’s wrong…! Joker, we have to stop her!”
: You might ask “Did they do anything but take a Rangda and give it stat buffs?” and the answer is fuck no they didn’t, what do you think this is, a game that had effort put into it?
: The only difference here is that this Rangda can cast Makarakarn, but still has the weakness to Bless.
: I wound up bringing in Sumire and Haru simply because Rangda reflects Physical, meaning Yusuke is useless.
: The dialog here takes several minutes longer than the fight itself did.
: By the way, there are 40 fucking stamps in this final area, which has only 14 floors - 13 of which can spawn stamps. Getting all the stamps here is a goddamn ordeal.
: Now we get to the actually difficult miniboss. Where have I heard that last name before? Minamoto… Minamoto…
: “He wants to die because he hurt his sister… we can’t leave him.”
: “He does look like he’s got the resolve of someone who wants to commit suicide. Be careful, Joker!”
: “We’re not here to kill you. We’re here to change your heart.”
: “Think it over harder! There’s still a part of you that wants to protect her, even if it means giving up your time, right!?”
: “Watch out, Joker! He’s attacking!”
: This fight is what happens when I don’t have the guide up to remind me that it’s against Yoshitsune.
: Unfortunately, there’s no easy way to do this fight. You can certainly make it impossible for him to win (remember, Yoshitsune is a pure physical Persona with no magic) but he’ll still be annoying.
: Just like our Yoshitsune, he has Hassou Tobi.
: He also has Charge. If he manages to hit you with a charged Hassou Tobi, it’s probably going to be a game over unless Joker is immune to physical.
: Sure, it looks like we’re winning now…
: Except then, Yoshitsune uses Heat Riser and Charge.
: I had to pull Ann out because Yoshitsune resists fire. This attack instakills Makoto and Haru - Yusuke gets an evade due to his high agility and Joker repels phys.
: Fortunately, Yoshitsune is already low on HP, and having two party members go down (or trigger Endure) gives us a Showtime.
: The next turn, Futaba activates Ultimate Support. Everyone is now fully healed, buffed, and charge/concentrated… and Yoshitsune dies on the next turn.
: I really wish they had done more fights like this. The last two are against enemies that have weaknesses.
: “Are you all right? Have you calmed down? It must have been hard to tell yourself that you hate your sister.”
: “Huh…?”
: “Does that mean… you really did hate your sister?”
: Well, glad that’s over. There’s nothing much else to do here but suffer through another 7 or 8 floors of randomly-generated hallways with enemies we can simply run over without fighting. Quality expansion we’ve got here.
: We trade our last crystal skull to Jose for a ring. That’s okay, we can just summon crystal skulls right out of the compendium now.
: The reason was so that I could get the last black items I need to get Sumire and Akechi’s ultimate guns… but then I decided there’s not much of a point to deleting half of Joker’s Personas just to itemize the guns.
: By the way, the last trophy we don’t have is for getting all the stamps. We can do that in a side update because that’s like two hours of grinding.
: And now, have my favorite random Mementos dialog bit so far, and by favorite I mean most rage-inducing.
: “It sure is cool how we follow basic character design principles for a JRPG and aren’t all anime swordsmen… except wait, we’re not because Sumire and Akechi both use swords and Joker uses a knife.”
: “This is the central data hub. This room’s most likely where the data sent over from the Palace goes.”
: “Hey, what’s that on the screen?”
: “I presume this is less about surveillance and more about looking for targets, though.”
: Metal Gear!?
: “Think about it. While all sorts of unnatural events may be taking place in Maruki’s reality… that doesn’t mean every human’s wish has already been granted.”
: “That’s a good point. If everyone’s wishes were already made into reality, there wouldn’t be any requests on the Phan-Site.”
: “Exactly. Therefore, Maruki is likely choosing certain targets with this system, then affecting each one individually. Probably using the same method as when he made Violet’s Persona go berserk that one time.”
: Wasn’t making shit go berserk Akechi’s power? Oh wait, that’s practically non-canon because it only comes up in one scene and is promptly forgotten about, and also has zero net effect on the plot.
: “Wha… me!? From what I remember, Dr. Maruki summoned these things that look like tendrils, and they grabbed me. Wait, don’t tell me, are these…?”
: Wait a second. A thing with tentacles that tries to put people in a world where all dreams come to life? Isn’t this just that one episode of Futurama?
: “You mean to say, these cables all across Maruki’s Palace and Mementos, they’re part of his… methods?”
: “Yes, that hypothesis explains much of what we’ve seen if it were found to be true. Maruki is extending these cables from his own Palace, tunneling into the depths of Mementos…”
: “And spreading his influence from the same place the Holy Grail once occupied. That allows him to grant the ‘wishes’ of any people he may discover once they’ve fallen under his influence.”
: You might wondering if any of this is part of the argument the party will present against Maruki, and it’s not.
: “Psh, screw that.”
: “Mmhm! This won’t last much longer now that we’re here!”
: " 'Kay, but I’m the one who has to do the actual hacking, though."
: “Huh? What’s that supposed to mean?”
: “Well, the displays are showing parts of Mementos, right? I guess we can suspend something here?”
: “You got it - I like the way you think!”
: “Yeah, go ahead an shut up now. We ain’t resumin’ shit.”
: “Does this bring us any closer to stopping Maruki?”
: “All we did was suspend the data sharing. Stopping Maruki’s a whole other story. I don’t think this’ll interfere with his effect on Mementos.”
: “What? Then what good does suspending the data stream do?”
: “According to this console’s output, all the cable-tendrils are retracted now. Possibly including someplace in the Palace that was blocked before?”
: “We won’t know unless we check it out for ourselves. What say we head to the Palace next?”
: Why don’t we go someplace that isn’t randomly-generated filler?
: As a final fuck you, the game doesn’t let you warp back to the start of Mementos from this room.
: I hope you’re ready for being bombarded by fucking pointless IMs, because I sure as hell wasn’t.
: “Heh. You’d think she would be a little more honest with herself. But if you think about it… we’d never have fixed this without Futaba. If we’d just passed it off as a false alarm, who knows how much worse their lives would have gotten?”
: “Futaba picked up on that cry for help. She was kind enough to fight for them. That’s how we saved that family.”
: “Hey… that’s pretty much what the guy was saying in Mementos. I guess they really do have that sibling connection, huh?”
: “So. They ended up living together, huh? I can’t tell you if that’s a good idea or not, but… as long as they can remember how much they care for each other, I think they’ll be okay.”
: “Right… Makoto lives with her sister, too. It’s just the two of them there… I guess she’s dealing with a lot herself. She’s acknowledged her own conflicting feelings, huh? This request really made us think…”
: It made me think about how much Royal sucks. Seriously, who the fuck looked at this and said “This is okay. We can release this at a $60 pricepoint when it’s 60% randomly generated content.”
: You see, when you’re a poorly-written anime cliche, you don’t have to worry about things like stamina.
: We’re not doing anything tonight anyway, so let’s call it here. Next time: Sumire. Then more Sumire. Then more Sumire. Then maybe I do a side update where I get all the stamps and fight Jose. Fuck this trashfire of a game.
: By the way, the Reaper is available as a statue in Joker’s mind dungeon, representing how he’s actually a reincarnation of Tatsuya Sudou who is going to have a fucking rad ending where he brutally fucking murders Maruki. I wish.
: Fuck, I need an update title. Shit. Wait, I know.
: No More Heroes 2 was a good game brought down by a few terrible fights and the godawful strength training minigame.