Mark Danced Crazy - Let's Play Shin Megami Tensei: Persona

[Timrod]

: Once we’ve killed Kandori, we can use the hole behind that door to wind up right where we need to be. I don’t know why the developers chose this late into the game to give you a dungeon that doesn’t require you to walk all the way back to the entrance (or use a warp) but whatever.

: Meet the real Maki. Apparently, her condition has degraded so badly that she’s on life support.

: “Don’t you know what you did!?”

: “This is me…? No.. I made everyone suffer…?”

: “You killed the only one the real me could rely on! No one will save us now! It’s all over!”

: I’m not entirely sure what Aki is on about here. It’s pretty clear that Maki has some kind of uncurable disease and is dying from it. There’s also the weird question of why Aki didn’t just use the compact to fix Maki.

: “There’s three Makis.. are they all her?”

: “There’s three Makis? No way.. this is some sick joke, right?”

: “There’s… three of her… Jesus Christ. They’re all Maki.”

: It sounds kind of out-of-character for Elly to talk like that, since she usually speaks in very formal Japanese, but my guess is that she’s saying the “Jesus Christ” part in English while the rest is Japanese.

: “They’re all Maki? Seriously? That’s just…”

: “Calm down, Maki! This has to be some kinda mistake… right?”

: “Stop saying that! That’s a lie! This is me, I can tell! I messed up the town and made everyone suffer! I did that…!”

: “Don’t take it so hard. He was using you!”

: “Calm down! You were being used, and it sucks, but that’s all it was. Okay? C’mon, get over here.”

: “You were being used.. there’s no need to let it get to you, okay?”

: “Maki! You don’t have to take it so hard! It was all Kandori’s fault anyway!”

: This is one place where the game kind of diverges from Jungian psychology. Jung’s theory states that the Shadow isn’t something you have control over: it’s not part of your consciousness. Jung’s ideal state of being is that you’ve acknowledged that your Shadow exists and have balanced it out with your ego and persona. Even though Fake Maki is an anima (and part of the unconscious mind) she’s not the same thing as Aki or Mai.

: “I was jealous of everyone… wearing cute clothes, walking around town… gossiping about each other’s boyfriends.. laughing and joking.. I envied everyone who went to school and had fun with their friends.”

: “Maki…”

: “Even if I wanted to do something about it, I couldn’t.. I cried and cried…”

: “My jealousy and loathing grew.. I made up an ideal town to comfort myself… now do you understand? I’m hopeless..”

: “Disappear, everyone!”

: “Jihei! Let’s go back into Maki’s heart!”

: “…Wait, Masao. Do you know the story of the foolish girl named Pandora?”

: “Huh?”

: “The legend says she opened the gods’ box, releasing all sorts of evils. It applies to Maki. This town owes its miserable condition to her wishes.”

: “Rather than save her, we should focus on destroying the Deva System.”

: “If we destroy that thing, what’s gonna happen to Maki?”

: I like that this is the first instance of Mark actually being a character and not just filler. I wish they had done this way earlier.

: “From the looks of it, the system is keeping Maki alive. If we destroy it, Maki will most likely die as a result.”

: “But as long as the system is intact, the fundamental problem remains unsolved. Don’t let your personal feelings sway you… a small sacrifice for the greater good. The choice is obvious.”

: It’s been a long time since it happened, but Nanjo has another reason for wanting Maki dead. Technically, she killed Yamaoka.

: In case you can’t tell due to the sprites, Mark just punched Nanjo in the face.

: “I had you all wrong. I didn’t think you could really be that cold.”

: “Maybe what you’re sayin’ is true. It’s the kinda logic an adult would use. But dude… Maki might’ve made us suffer, but she also tried to save us all…”

: “I believe in Maki. I know she has what it takes to break away from that machine.”

: “You said it, man. If this’ll help Maki make peace with herself, I’m in.”

: “Yes.. we need to let Maki know that she isn’t alone.”

: “I’m gonna go, too. I borrowed her handkerchief, y’know…”

: “Man is an emotional creature, I suppose. We can split hairs all we like, but the ultimate decision is made by one’s heart. I’ll go in as well.”

: “Sheesh, you and your arguments. You coulda just come out and said so. Wouldn’t a clever, mature adult stay here?”

: “Heheh… when will I learn? You always got some kinda comeback all ready.”

: “Good deeds should be done swiftly. Let us dive back into Maki’s soul.”

: There is alternate party member dialog here, but in every single case it’s “Something’s in the mirror!”

: “Now what!? We can’t get back like this!”

: “Something must have happened at the town inside Maki’s heart… with Kandori gone, she’s the only one who could do something like this.”

: “What about Kandori’s mirror? Let’s just have it send us back.”

: “Oh yeah! We still got Kandori’s mirror! We just have to make a wish and poof! We’re back in business!”

: “Mark! If we make a wish to Kandori’s mirror, can’t we get back to that town?”

: “Oh hey, what about Kandori’s mirror? Let’s just like, wish for it to send us back there!”

: “Oh yeah, we could still do that, huh?”

: Yeah, that’s a good idea. We could even try just wishing Maki’s disease away while we’re at it, assuming the mirror works the same way the compact does.

: I’m really surprised they did a cutscene for the Deva System exploding, but not for the mirror breaking.

: “Whoa! I-is this for real!?”

: “Is Maki resisting us…!? It seems that way to me.”

: “What is it, Masao?”

: “It’s Maki’s compact…”

: “Hm. There’s no mirror inside.”

: The alternate party dialogue here is all, believe it or not, exactly the same.

: “Let’s see here.. the real Maki’s compact and the ideal Maki’s compact… The real one has a mirror. Hmm…”

: “Gimme that, Nanjo! Please! Send us back into Maki’s heart!”

: At this point, we have the ability to walk around and talk to our party members. There is going to be a lot of alternate party member dialogue here, as all four possible party members have a lot to say about this.

: “My mom was Kandori’s dad’s old mistress. She got thrown away like an old rag.”

: “But even knowing that would happen.. she still gave birth to me. Know why she did that?”

: “She told me she couldn’t neglect her own child’s life. You have a mom too. No parent alive doesn’t love their child.”

: “You’re gonna see your mom again, so hurry and wake up!”

: “Maki! Please wake up! Please…”

: “You’re not the only one who suffers from having multiple aspects of yourself..”

: “Everyone says how elegant and beautiful I am, but it’s not true at all. I’ve always acted like someone I’m not. I hate seeing boys talk to other girls…”

: “That’s why I always wear a fake smile. It was so stifling.. I’m no good, am I? But I understand now.”

: “What I really needed are friends I can trust. The ones I have with me here… I like someone now. You probably like him too, Maki. Please wake up…”

: “I wish I could talk to you again, about things like him. Okay? So wake up…”

: Unfortunately, given Atlus’s history of pairing the protagonist with the worst possible people, my guess is that Jihei ends up with either Maki or Ayase.

: “Wakey wakey, Maki! I still have your handkerchief. Anything you wanna talk about, I’ll listen…”

: “I get you how you feel. I used to think the same way.. I would like, wish there would be no future.”

: “I worry about the future a lot. I think that’s why I party so hard.. 'cause the future’s too depressing to think about, right?”

: “So I made up my mind to live only for now, and ran away from the future… but it doesn’t work like that.”

: “It’s my future, I have to come up with it myself… so I’ve made my choice. I’m gonna snag a great guy so I can live on easy street!”

: “So, Maki… I wanna hear your dreams for the future, too. Please Maki… please…”

: Ayase’s so basic you could rub her head on a dirty grill and that thing would be sparkling clean in seconds. My personal canon is that instead of going back to the fake town, Ayase gets catapulted like twelve years into the future and winds up with Yosuke from P4. They deserve each other. I also like how this is just The Breakfast Club.

: “Rise and shine, Maki, and I’ll tell you the funniest story I know!”

: “Y’know how they call me Brown? It’s a nickname I picked up in middle school.”

: “People think it’s about my brown hair, but really, it’s 'cause I crapped myself.”

: “See? Isn’t it funny? Man, it was embarrassing.. I spent most of middle school as the butt of every joke in the class..”

: “I was sick of myself. I came to Hermelin 'cause I couldn’t take the local schools. So when I got to high school, I did my best to act like Mr. Cool… but I was lying to myself all this time.”

: “No more, though. I realized how dumb I was being from watching you… so there it is. Now c’mon, give us a smile…”

: Well, that was an interesting summary of the 1985 film “The Breakfast Club”. We’ve still got Mark and Nanjo to talk to.

: “The ideal Maki is the manifestation of Maki wanting to change herself. But if her ideal self denied its own existence…”

: “Maki, have you really lost hope? If there’s even a fragment left, call out to us…”

: Over in the corner, by the cabinet, there’s something sparkling. I also just now noticed, as I’m posting this, that Mai’s bear is on the chair next to it.

: “This size and shape.. I think it may fit Maki’s compact!”

: “Seriously!? Maybe we can use this to go back! Lemme see that, Jihei!”

: “Owwww! Ugh.. huh?”

: “I get it… the compact brought us here…”

: “Ngh.. where are we!?”

: In case you don’t remember, we’re back at the entrance of the Lost Forest. In the manga, the party gets dumped in the gingerbread house, which is much closer to where we need to go.

: “Looks like it worked… this looks like the forest where that girl in white was.. the child-Maki.”

: “Bingo! This is child-Maki’s forest!”

: “Wow, talk about luck! Isn’t this that little Maki’s forest?”

: Luck my ass. We have to walk all the way back through that dungeon fighting obsolete encounters, or buy items to repel them.

: “Hey, it worked! Isn’t this the forest where that little Maki was?”

: “Same to you, lady! Why’re YOU here?”

: “I… don’t really know. After I transported you all, I thought I heard Maki’s voice again… and when I came to, I was here. But why have you all come back?”

: You think she’d figure out that Kandori is dead and we’re coming back to get her. I don’t think the game ever confirms whether the scientists that were in the mansion with her got out, but I’m assuming they do.

: “What about Maki!? What’s going to happen to her!?”

: “If we leave her be, she’ll stay that way for the rest of her life. Or worse…”

: “No… can’t you do something!? My Maki…!”

: “Cool it, lady! That’s why we came back!”

: “Don’t worry… we won’t let it end like this.”

: “Relax! Just have fate in us – you can forget all about it!”

: “That’s ‘faith’, you cretin!”

: “Yeah, faith, exactly! It’ll be fine! Hahahahaha!”

: “The dude shows his true colors. After all that stuff about pretending…”

: “Indeed. He’s innately imbecilic.. not a man to be ashamed of soiling himself.”

: “Mwahahahahahah!”

: Brown, shitposting since 1996. Quite literally shitposting. Anyway, onto Elly and Ayase.

: “Don’t worry. We definitely won’t leave Maki hanging!”"

: “Don’t worry, Maki-mom! I’m more competent than I look, y’know!”

: “Was that Maki’s voice!? She must be just past here!”

: “Let’s go! That li’l Maki might know something!”

: “Wait! Please… take me with you! She’s my daughter! I can’t leave her suffering like this!”

: “…Very well.”

: Survival not guaranteed, must bring own Persona, I have only done this once before.

: “I don’t care about that!”

: “Then that settles that. Come on, Suzakin. Let’s reunite a mother and her child.”

: We could go into the forest, but what we actually want to do is turn around and go back to the Mikage Sun Mall. You might ask why we’re not going to the Black Market, and that’s because..

: This is presumably why the Deva System broke: it was located on the eastern half of town. Let’s just hope all those scientists and Chisato/Yosuke made it out.

: We have a metric fuckload of money, and I believe this is the last shop in the game that sells equipment. Most of these hit fewer targets than our current guns, but do more damage overall. The armor shop doesn’t sell anything new, but I bought a full set of armor for Maki since I don’t think I got around to doing that at the Black Market.

: The streets around this area prove to be an issue, because both Berith and Titania can spawn. They’re levels 48 and 49, respectively, and are just over what our negotiation limit is (47). I did some grinding to get the party back up into range.

: Titania is an annoying pile of shit because she spams Magnadyne, the top-tier Earth element spell. I also lost a recording, so I had to re-record everything up until the end of the next dungeon.

: Before we can go to the next dungeon, we have to go all the way back through the Lost Forest to the gingerbread house, fighting enemies that are 15 levels out of date.

: And here we go, back to the gingerbread house. Incidentally, this run was done with the lower level party from the second run on Kandori I had to do, because FRAPS is a pile of shit but so is every other screenshot tool out there.

: “Waaaaaah! Mommy!”

: “I’m sorry, Maki.. I’m so sorry…”

: “Mommy! Mommy! Waaaaaaaaah!”

: I really like the touch here that it’s ultimately Mark who gets Mai to calm down. This part of the game may not be great gameplay wise, but plot-wise I really like what the writers did. Honestly, I wish that they’d remake this game and just cut everything from the start of the game to Mana Castle or so.

: There’s one other change to the dialogue here. Can you spot it? They replaced Mai’s name in the dialog boxes with Maki’s. This is a change that will persist from now until the end of the game, and is actually kind of important: it’s showing that the real Maki is learning to live with herself and no longer sees Mai and Aki as separate people.

: “Maki… we want to help you. The real you. I know that sounds weird, but is there anything you can do?”

: “Nuh-uh. Nothing.”

: “Why not? Aren’t you also one aspect of Maki?”

: “There’s ANOTHER one of her!?”

: “The really bad me is called Pandora… Aki broke Pandora’s seal. Pandora swallowed Aki, and now she’s trying to make this world go away.”

: I’m not entirely sure what Pandora is supposed to be in terms of the Jungian psyche, but if I had to guess, it’s something like this. Real Maki considers herself a different person from Mai, Aki, and Fake/Anima Maki. Pandora is Real Maki’s Persona (with the evils in Pandora’s Box represented by Aki and the remaining hope represented by Mai) while Fake/Anima Maki’s Persona is either Maso or Tensen Nyannyan (depending on if the manga is canon, and it isn’t) both of whom are more loving and motherly figures.

: “But if she does that… we’ll… I’ll… die..”

: “What!? Then how do we get to Pandora!?”

: You take a bus there, and then you realize that Borderlands was never good and have it permanently removed from your Steam library.

: “Is this true!? Then where is this Pandora!?”

: Unless we’re talking about Avatar, in which case you don’t because that movie was the most generic anything ever made.

: “Now way! Seriously!? Then, uhh, where do we find Pandora!?”

: Oh, she means the streaming radio company. You have to use your phone for that. You’d think Ayase would realize this given that Pandora formed as a company in 2000 and this game takes place in 2006.

: Oh yeah, I should mention that Persona 1’s setting is kind of a plot hole. Persona 2 and Persona 3 establish that it has to take place in 2006, but the original PS1 release is set in 1996.

: “Am I correct?”

: “Uh-huh. But you’ll need the three compacts… and my energetic self’s help.”

: “Energetic… you mean the ideal Maki? We have the three compacts, don’t we?”

: “I remember you had two of them, Jihei. Red and green… we’re missing one.”

: “Jihei, aren’t you carrying two of them already? One red and one green… we only need one more.”

: “Didn’t you have two already, Jay? Red and green, huh…? We’re still missing one.”

: “Hey Jihei, didn’t you have them? One red one and one green one? So we’re still missing one…”

: “Please save the energetic me first… it’s all my fault… my energetic self is crying deeper in the forest…”

: “There’s another Maki behind this door? Then I’m coming with you all!”

: “Man, I’m confused. How many Makis are there, anyway?”

: Technically, just one. None of the other Makis are separate people.

: “What? My ‘face looks gentle’? You keep joking around, and that won’t be true for long.”

: One thing I love about this game is that they actually bothered to give Reiji lines after he kills Kandori off. There’s certain other games (Ni no Kuni 2) that would’ve just relegated him to the trash for the rest of the game.

: “Haha… children feel most at ease crying in their mother’s arms.”

: “Ahah… kids calm down quick when they can have a cry in their mom’s arms.”

: The text dump lists two lines for Elly at this point, and I’ll explain why: there’s this thing that happens in the manga and I believe in the Japanese version where Elly uses very formal Japanese at all times. When the party lands in the gingerbread house, Elly drops it for just a single line. They don’t really get this across in English. I’m not sure how you get one to trigger over the other.

: “Little Maki’s so cute… but if it was like, Little Nanjo or Little Mark… they wouldn’t be cute at all. Hell, I’d probably punch 'em!”

: “Hey, Jihei, what kind of kid were you when you were little? I was a little cutie, but isn’t it gross to imagine Hidehiko and Nanjo like that?”

: So, like I said, my capture software kinda fucked up and I lost my recording for this part. Thankfully, I saved right before the cutscene at the end, so we’ll start at the end and then I’ll do a quick overview of the rest of the dungeon.

: Most of Inner Lost Forest is a spinner maze, though a very basic one: there’s a lot of four-way junctions with a spinner in the center. This is the last room before where the cutscene is. Along the way are a couple of item rooms, but only two of them have anything of note inside: one has a Blue Tablet (a Persona fusion item) and the other has an SP Incense.

: The enemies are largely the same as the ones we fought out on the streets, but there’s a few new ones. Selket is a relatively rare encounter that.. honestly, I just nuked through.

: Morrigan has reached Rank 7 by this point and has Mazandyne (the highest level blast spell in full-party target form). These guys are Beriths, which are like the Eligors in the other forest but tankier. The two middle enemies were more Titanias.

: Similarly, Yatagarasu reached Rank 7 and learned Mamagnadyne (highest level full-party target earth spell) which also does a crapload of damage.

: There’s an item room right near the end of the maze, but it’s got nothing in it.

: “Look! These people came all this way because they were worried about you!”

: Totally not a scene out of a horror movie. Maki’s not going to turn to the camera and have her face rotting off or some shit.

: Well, that’s… something. It’s supposed to represent Fake Maki wanting to erase herself from existence, but honestly it’s just kinda dumb.

: “Don’t you know what kind of girl I am?”

: “Maki.. I know you feel like you can’t just let it go… but doesn’t everyone get jealous now and then, one way or another?”

: “I know I do. And on top of that, you were just being used. It’s Kandori’s fault, not yours.”

: Several times, and also you killed Nanjo’s butler. I’m amazed he’s not more angry about that.

: “I don’t want pity. It just makes me more miserable.. I deserve to die!”

: “That’s not true!”

: “…”

: “Maki…”

: “Dude, Maki…”

: “Aw, Maki…”

: “What a petulant child…”

: And here it is, the last moral choice in the game. We’ll see what that does on the 8th floor of the next dungeon, in the next update.

: “Jihei is right! You’ve sown these seeds, and now it’s time to reap them! If you want to die, then why sit around here and mope about it?”

: “…”

: “You spoke of pity? Don’t make me laugh. We came here of our own will because we could sympathize with you.”

: “But even before that, did you think you were alone in this world?”

: “We live at the sufferance of others. Each is responsible for each. Your careless decision would have left behind wounds that would never heal.”

: God dammit Nanjo, you quote Linkin Park again and I’m ending this LP right then and there.

: I’d like to point out that Linkin Park was formed in 1996, so it’s not impossible for Nanjo to be a member. Just saying.

: “…”

: “Now let’s get back. We still have to rescue Maki on our own. I don’t leave things undone.”

: “I’m sorry, everyone. Please… please let me come along.”

: “Hehe.. of course you can come! Welcome back, Maki!”

: So, remember how I said that it didn’t matter that Maki died during the Kandori fight and got basically no EXP out of it? Maki is now the same level Jihei is: Level 53, Persona Level 51.

: “Heh…”

: “I’m back, guys!”

: sniffle “Thank you, all of you… thank you so much…”

: “Mom… I’m sorry. I’ve been bad. I remember it all now. It was so lonely being by myself.. it hurt… I wanted to see you..”

: “I’m sorry, Nanjo, and you too, Jihei… thank you very much…”

: “… I should apologize, too. I said some harsh things.”

: “Nanjo? Dude, are you blushing!? Haha, I get it! You’re so stuck-up, this is the first time anyone’s ever thanked you!”

: “S-silence, Masao! Honestly! Let’s get back, Jihei.”

: “I don’t know how to thank you all.. Maki’s a lucky girl to have so many friends. Thanks again…”

: “I’ve finally come to my senses. Even if I’m a dream, or an illusion, or a shadow, I’m still me. Plus, I have Jihei and the rest of you with me! That’s all I need…”

: “A touching scene, but we can’t stick around forever, you know.”

: “Whew, it all worked out. But Jihei, if that had happened to me… Oh, I shouldn’t act so weird. Sorry. I’m sure you’d come and rescue me…”

: “I’m glad everything worked out. But if it had happened to me, Jihei… No. I’m sorry for acting so strange. I’m sure you’d come to my aid.”

: “That was so touching, even I couldn’t help but tear up…” sniff

: “That was pretty harsh, Jihei. I was worried about what might happen.”

: Now let’s head back. The rest of the Inner Lost Forest is basically this: four-way intersections with a spinner in the center. Now, I know what you’re thinking: isn’t that hallway west or our position shaped like a swastika? The answer is yes, yes it is.

: There aren’t really any notable new enemies here. Legion has a lot of HP and isn’t weak to much, but has low defenses and usually dies before it gets a turn off.

: There’s also Aello, which.. honestly, Jihei casts Mazandyne and they all die.

: The dungeon also steps it up by having four-way intersections with a spinner in the middle AND one-way floors. I didn’t even bother finding my way back to the entrance and used an Emergency Exit because fuck this nonsense.

: I’m sorry, me. I made you LP YIIK for like three months and transcribe all that godawful dialog and now those memories will never go away.

: “I’m the ideal Maki Sonomura. It’s not like me to be so down. Now, can you tell us where the last compact is?”

: “Uh-huh. The real me has it.”

: That should technically be “the real us” but whatever.

: “The real you? Isn’t that where we got the green one? Jihei already has that one.”

: To understand what the deal with this is, I’m going to need to bring up the Jungian psyche chart again, because there’s something in that last Jung post I didn’t talk about.

: At this point, we’ve met Maki’s Shadow (Aki and Mai), we’ve met Maki’s Anima (Fake Maki), we’ve met the physical Maki, but we haven’t met her Ego or her Self, which Persona 1 kind of rolls into one thing. In Jung’s thinking, the Ego represents consciousness: essentially, it’s everything you perceive and feel while awake.

: The Self is a little bit different. Jung’s idea of the Self is that it’s a combination of the Ego and the Shadow. The Persona is part of the Ego, the Animus/Anima is part of the Shadow. Unlike the way Persona 4 pictures it, you can’t ever really “find” your true self under Jung, because you ARE your true self - it’s who you are when you’re by yourself and also unconscious because that’s the only way you can really interface with it, at least under Jung. There’s a quote from Jung I read that compares trying to find your true self with putting a mask on and looking in the mirror and getting confused as to where you went.

: “The Alaya Cavern?”

: “It’s behind the shrine.”

: “I’m --”

: “Mommy, would you please wait here with me?”

: “Why? Why can’t I go too!?”

: Two reasons. One, because you weren’t visited by the magic jangly key man. Two, and more importantly for Jung, it’s because realistically only you can ever know anything about your Ego or Self.

: “I want to deal with this. It’ll be okay. I have friends to help.”

: “Maki… all right. But you’d better come back, do you hear me?”

: “Hey, me? Look after mom, okay?”

: “Yep! I will. Be careful… me.”

: “Huh? I’m smiling!? Don’t get the wrong idea.. it’s just my cavities acting up.”

: “Mai’s me, too… I just realized… I was pretty cure when I was little.”

: “Huh? Heehee.. maybe that was just a little bit conceited.”

: “Hm… a genuine conversation with one’s inner child. A strange sight to see..”

: This immediately reminded me of Sundowner in Metal Gear Revengeance and now I want to see fanart of Sundowner in his Jungian psyche world playing with his inner child. Anyway, I think this script file gets some of the alternate party member text misplaced, and I think I might’ve posted some from this spot earlier. I’ll just post the rest.

: “I was quite cute myself, at that age. Would you like to see a photo sometime?”

: Elly also has this line listed and I have no idea where the hell it’s supposed to go.

: “Jihei? Do you prefer domestic girls yourself?”

: “I was really cute as a kid, too. The neighborhood ladies were all over me! No, really! I’d be walking around and they’d wipe my nose for me.”

: “Um, okay, so there’s teeny Maki and ideal Maki, right?”

: And then real Maki.. ugh, it makes my head hurt."

: “Oh, it’s something I taught Maki when she was little. With her father dead and me busy with work, Maki was always alone…”

: “So I taught her this spell to chant when she was lonely at the hospital.”

: I think this might be a plot hole, because Maki has only been in the hospital for like six months.

: “I told her that wherever mommy was, I could always sense her presence…”

: Next time, we’ll head to the Alaya Cavern and see what all those moral choices we’ve been making were good for. I also made a quick stop at the Velvet Room to see what we could fuse.

: Unfortunately, the answer is not all that much. Most of these Personas we either already have (Morrigan, Yatagarasu) or are way out of our level range. Loki would be an upgrade for Reiji, except Loki fucking SUCKS.

: Not even giving him Megidolaon could fix that godawful stat spread, not to mention the insanely high SP cost.

: There’s also US Ambassador to Japan John Thorman, who.. is not great. Good resistances, okay moveset, but godawful stats and a crazy high SP cost with very low Magic Attack (he’s actually below Lilim) for his level. Hard pass.