Summary
: Let’s slowly make our way to the club.
: It’s obvious the writers didn’t look this up - because honestly, who gives a shit - but the 1929 White Sox (which is presumably the team Hansen would be rooting for) had a pretty miserable season. They went 59-93 and were nearly dead last in their conference - a mere two games ahead of the last-place Red Sox.
: The 1928 White Sox were slightly better, with a 72-82 record. That year, they were 5th place in the American League, beating both Detroit and Cleveland in addition to the Red Sox.
: I wish I had played this before that City of Heroes private server came out, because I would’ve made a villain-side character named Immoral Rodimus.
: The unspoken bit here is that Al Capone was a huge fan of jazz, and was a backer of a lot of famous jazz musicians.
: Good to see that Gaston got another gig after that whole Beauty and the Beast thing.
: I’m going to skip some of the NPC dialog here because we have a cutscene that.. well, I don’t like it. You’ll see why.
: This cutscene starts out okay, we’ve got Frank, any cutscene with Frank in it cannot be bad.
: Yes, Frank’s master is a giant talking cat. Why are you surprised? This is Frank we’re talking about.
: Admittedly, if Morgana had been like this, Persona 5 would have been a much more tolerable game.
: “Oh come on now, it’s unusual all right! It’s just crazy!”
: “I’m afraid I have to disagree. In my tribe, cats are looked at as intelligent. To see that one is able to talk - I’m not surprised.”
: Johnny still hasn’t figured out the bit about not underestimating what Frank is capable of.
: “I haven’t been able to find him within my network, so of COURSE! I thought Master might know…”
: “Don’t call me a kid! We just wanna ask you something.”
: “I have no idea… Gilbert.. for some reason, he seemed to know… so we need to find him and hear everything he knows!”
: You mean other than the one we just went to maybe an hour ago?
: “Anything is fine! We just really need any help you can give!”
: A historical note: Al Capone wasn’t put into Alcatraz until 1934.
: This is where I stop liking this cutscene.
: A good cutscene would have had Frank throw Garfield here out a window.
: This is character assassination! I won’t stand for it!
: “We have no choice…”
: “It’s a deal. We’ll do it.”
: God dammit I hate this so much. This is Metroid Other M all over again, or alternatively that announcement that Zelda is now going to be nothing but Breath of the Wild clones for the rest of time.
: Edna is Al Capone’s sister. She isn’t based on an actual person - the real Capone had three brothers. Two of them were part of the Chicago Outfit, the other one was a Prohibition agent.
: “He’s a wandering guitarist. Well, we say he’s wandering.. but he’s been living in town for a year.”
: “Hey, I’ll go! But…”
: “Fine. We don’t leave until tomorrow.. Go ahead! Have a good time until then.”
: There’s really not much to this cutscene, so I’m going to be skipping a lot of it. Just imagine a very generic spanish guitar song in the background for like 3 minutes.
: “Sorry, but I think we should probably be going..”
: “Just one more song!”
: “Johnny! We’ve got an early day tomorrow.”
: I bet Tatsuya said this to Jun at least once over the course of Persona 2.
: In case you’re wondering how long this recent series of cutscenes is, I found a recording of it on Youtube - it’s about 25 minutes.
: Finally, we’re out of the cutscene mines. Actually, we’re not out of the cutscene mines at all. Next time, another.. 15 minutes or so of cutscene. We’ll also get a new “Handy Tool” for Johnny that is slightly more handy than his camera, but still not handy and actually not much of a tool either.