: With Thanatos Tower behind us, it’s time to look at Nemesis Tower. Nemesis Tower is honestly probably one of the best-designed things in this game. I didn’t think much of it when I played it the first time, but when you look at it, it’s clear that a lot of testing probably went into it.
: Once we finish Thanatos Tower, the game puts us in Class 1-1, which has the entrance to Devil’s Peak. You might notice those two Jack Frosts in the corner there - they’re actually special.
: In the English PSP version, this Jack Frost is Raiho Kuzunoha, a minor character from Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Soulless Army (which released a few months before the PSP version of P1 did). In that game, Raiho is a Jack Frost who undergoes a demon fusion with a bancho uniform and decides that he wants to become the next Raidou.
: He also has a girlfriend, named Reiho (surname is obviously Ayanam-hee). Now, given that the Raidou games didn’t exist when Persona 1 released on the PS1, you might think that they were something Atlus added in for the re-release. They’re not.
: In the PS1 version Raiho is actually a different Jack Frost from Shin Megami Tensei If.. by the name of Hee-ho-kun.
: Unlike Raiho, Hee-ho-kun is a Jack Frost who winds up in the SMT If protagonist’s high school and decides he wants to be a student. You might think it would be a logical choice to switch him for Raiho, simply because the Raidou games came out in the US and SMT If did not (and was not fan-translated until 2018)… but Hee-ho-kun was in Nocturne.
: Also strangely enough, Atlus made a Hee-ho-kun costume for Morgana in Persona 5.. as paid DLC.
: Brown, that’s racist.
: The way Elly is basically ready to devil bust them makes me think she’d be right at home in SMT 4, though I think we all know modern Atlus would make her a Messian instead of a hunter.
: Anyway, I dicked around Devil’s Peak for a bit because I wanted to see what was in there. Devil’s Peak has two forms: one that existed in the PS1 version and one that exists only in the PSP remake as a bonus dungeon.
: The purpose of Devil’s Peak is to make sure you don’t miss any spell cards by allowing you to encounter every enemy in the game. The PS1 version has seven floors, while the PSP adds floors eight through twelve which unlock after completing Snow Queen.
: The even-numbered floors are accessible via a staircase in the center of the dungeon. To get to the odd-numbered floors, you have to go through the even-numbered ones. Right now, we only have access to floors 6 and 7, which contain enemies from Thanatos Tower.
: Floor 7 has a very rare bonus that you’re absolutely going to want if you get it. Alice seems extremely threatening: she’s level 99, a Fiend order enemy (who cannot be negotiated with) and seems like she’s here to punish you for grinding. The truth is, she has no attacks and is basically a Metal Slime.
: Using the guns and charm ammo we picked up from Thanatos Tower, we can lock Alice down and stop her from running away. I had to move Yukino around a bit to get her within firing range.
: This gets you an ABSURD amount of EXP.
: Anyway, once we do that we can head on over to the library. Stalling? Who’s stalling? I’m not stalling.
: This is how you know that Tsutomu is related to T-Shirt Isono from Devil Summoner: Yarai-ku is the city where Devil Summoner takes place. It’s weird that Atlus bothered to translate this given that they never translated Devil Summoner. Not even the fans have, probably because it’s a Saturn game and Saturn emulation is still pretty balls. It’s why I have a real one.
: Honestly, Philemon should just say “Wait, you did Thanatos first, what are you talking to me for go steamroll this place.”
: Unlike Thanatos Tower and Devil’s Peak, Nemesis Tower doesn’t get a big scrolling introduction.
: You’ll notice that the clock is back in the top-right corner. I forgot to mention it, but it’s in Thanatos Tower as well. Let’s get to it.
: “I assume you’re the guardian of this tower… can’t you even appear before us?”
: “Haha… I suppose there’s nothing to be done for it. You call yourself a guardian, but you’re powerless without the Snow Queen!”
: “Yeah, you hear that? You’re scared of us, aren’t you? Hahaha!”
: “Hey guys! This tower’s boss seems like, totally weak, huh?”
: If I was one of those people who did the whole italicized lines to add dialog to a silent protagonist thing, I would have Jihei saying “We’ve already killed Yuriko and we know you’re lower level!” Actually wait, I kinda did that with Mara, didn’t I?
: “Lucky us! Hahahahaha!”
: Wait, aren’t you just the villain from Yakuza 2?
: “What a litter of witless, yapping whelps you are!”
: “But it’s all to the good.. I think you can keep me entertained for a while. Weak playmates fall so easily I rarely get to enjoy my sport!”
: “Ohoho… I haven’t introduced myself, have I? My deepest apologies. I am the Snow Queen’s faithful servant.. the guardian of Nemesis Tower..”
: “I hope you grasp the honor of dying by my hand.”
: I can absolutely imagine Yukino taking her shirt off to reveal that she’s got yakuza tats, and then getting into a cutscene battle involving lots of tiger drops with Michiko. Unlike Yuriko, Michiko isn’t a reference to anyone as a far as I know (or rather, as far as the SMT wiki knows).
: “Incidentally… hm? You.. yes, you!”
: “Oh, what a pleasant surprise! Such a fine, handsome gentleman! I’ll spare your life if you become my pet. What say you?”
: If you have Nanjo, she tries to make him her pet instead. His lines are basically carbon copies of Brown’s altered to be in his voice.
: “W-w-wait a second! What the hell!?”
: Okay yeah this totally needs to go down like Yakuza. Brown gets to be the Majima of the group, driven insane after shitting himself. Elly can be an idol singer who is actually an underground fight club champion and Ayase can get replaced with one of those people from New Japan Pro Wrestling that showed up in Yakuza 6.
: Jihei is probably a side character who gets pulled in and finishes Michiko off because Kiryu and Majima aren’t allowed to kill people.
: “I’ll take that ugly face and make it uglier!”
: All of Brown’s lines here are gold.
: “Th-this is outrageous! I take pity on you.. and you bite back in response!? H-hmph! I suppose you commoners never could understand my greatness!”
: She’s not lying. The clock will still show up, but we are not under a time limit to complete the tower. Except.. doesn’t something feel a bit off?
: “Once more, take as much time as you want! I look forward to seeing you! Until then.. farewell!”
: This honestly feels a lot like a couple of the pre-written scenarios for Pathfinder I used to GM. There’s one in particular Nemesis Tower does remind me of, but I’m thinking of doing an LP dunking on some of those so I’ll leave it unspoiled.
: One thing I didn’t understand when I did this the first time is that.. wait, shit. You know what, let’s talk to our party members (something I didn’t do the first time) because I don’t want to reveal what the gimmick behind Nemesis Tower is. Not yet, anyway.
: “And she acts like she’s better than everyone in the whole world! Just between you and me, she’s a lot like our very own Mr. N!”
: This line. This is the important one. Let me just stop and talk about something else for a minute, because this is part of why I like Nemesis Tower.
: There’s a rather infamous story about the development of Dishonored. Dishonored has this mission where you have to kill a person at a costume party, but don’t know who they are because everyone is wearing masks. When the mission was first developed, there was a guard standing by the stairs to the top half of the building who would tell you that no one was allowed upstairs.
: The problem was that the developers assumed that people would ignore the guard and go upstairs anyway. Instead, they assumed that it was the developer telling them there was no reason to go up there.
: Now, you might assume that Michiko telling you twice that there’s no time limit is a bit suspicious. But what if it’s not? What if you know that Thanatos is coming and you need to grind for it? This dialogue is what stops it from becoming another Dishonored playtester scenario.. in 1996.
: “Whatever the truth, it’s clear that she’s hiding something. It may be best for us to hurry, even without a strict time limit to observe.”
: The first floor has an enemy I don’t think we ever ran into in the SEBEC route, that being Siren. Because of the way we did Thanatos first (and also because of that Alice) we’re more than high enough level to grab every spell card here. That’s what we want to do.
: Weirdly enough, having Ayase seduce Siren is the correct negotiation tactic.
: The first floor is very small. All those empty spots are obvious dead ends.
: The second floor has two stores which sell guns and armor. We don’t need them. They do, however, have a Velvet Room. I stop and fuse Azrael - Azrael goes to Yukino, and Janus goes to Elly to boost her stats. Right now, our party is something like this:
- Jihei: L40, P in the high 30s
- Yukino: L36/P36
- Elly: L33/P34
- Ayase: L33/P34
- Brown: L36/P35
: The third floor is where shit gets real. I took this shot at the same time as getting into a battle (hence the screen tearing) but you can see that we’re headed to a room with two exits.
: “No it ain’t! Comic Hotmilk’s so bad I use it as a nighttime sleep aid! More like Comic Warmmilk!”
: This totally doesn’t seem like a creepy fetish thing.
: “Who you callin’ little, asshole? I’m a grower, not a shower!”
: I actually thought this was the cow talking, but there’s a guy in a very dark brown suit standing in front of the party.
: “Ugh.. uuuuurgh! Bluuuuugh! Cough Gag Puke”
: “S-stop…! H-Help me! P-please, n-no more milk!”
: “Help me, kid! I’m drowning in sticky white stuff, and it’s not even MY sticky white stuff!”
: This is definitely someone’s fetish.
: “Ugh…! I.. I can’t do this! I’m a thinking man… my brain is my strongest… muscle…”
: “I thought you were both at school!”
: “Please… stop! I beg you! B-bluuuurrrgh!”
: “I… I’m gonna die… ugh…”
: “Oh, come on! I’m a sex machine, not a milk machine!”
: “I… can’t move.. anymore..”
: “Ha…hahaha… ahahahaha… haha…”
: “Oh, no! They can’t hold out much longer! We must do something about it now, before it becomes too late!”
: “Huh…? Y-Yuka! You guys! P-p-p-please save me!”
: “And me! I’m gonna get ED if this goes on too much longer!”
: “Uhh… save these two goons? I wanna say, ‘No way!’ But like, why’s Michiko doing this? Is there some point I’m not getting?”
: “And ugliness is unforgivable! Therefore I, the acme of attractiveness, am punishing these sinners!”
: I didn’t know acme was actually a word, but it is. It means “summit” or “peak”.
: “Do you understand, whelps? Ohohohohoho!”
: If there’s one complaint I have with Snow Queen, apart from how bad Thanatos First is, it’s that a lot of the characterization is kind of inconsistent. Elly sounds a lot more like Nanjo than she does herself (which is kind of understandable because they basically have the same lines) but Brown sounds like a completely different person here. Plus, this was the guy who was hitting on Yuriko before he even knew who she was. If anything, I think Brown sounds more like Yukino here than he does himself.
: “Oh, there was a line there, and you just crossed it! Cut this out and get those chains off them right now!”
: “Oh, you care deeply for your friends, mm? What a beautiful friendship, yes?”
: “Ohohohoho! How splendid! Hah! “Friendship!” Then in honor of your admirable friendship… I’ll tell you where the key is so you can free these ugly fellows from their chains!”
: “It can be found on the topmost floor of this tower.. that’s right – it’s in my care! Ohohohoho!”
: “Ohohohoho!”
: “Ohohohoho! However… those mirror shards you so eagerly seek.. you may find one through the door behind me. The mirror shard is kept within a large chest there… along with a hint to defeat me.”
: “Ohohohohohohohoho! Remember, there’s no time restriction in this tower! Spend as much time as you like searching! You only have to ask that your friends endure the torture a while longer.”
: Omitted - several more generic ojou-sama laughs.
: “Blurrrgh… t-the key… please!”
: “Ugh.. Uuuuuuugh… where… oh where… is the key to unchain my heart…?”
: Before I explain the gimmick of Nemesis Tower, let’s talk to our party members.
: “We gotta help them, but we need that Mirror Shard, too. What should we do?”
: “It’s a good lesson for those two, don’tcha think? I mean, they’re kinda lame…”
: “They get on my nerves sometimes, but they’re not that bad. I wanna help 'em out!”
: “Gah! I can’t stand that Michiko!”
: So anyway, here’s the gimmick. Nemesis Tower has three places in which you can fight Michiko. Let’s post the map so I can explain further.
: The map looks big and complicated, right? Well, here’s how it works. From the moment you enter Nemesis Tower, a hidden countdown starts. That countdown lasts for 20 minutes.
: If you make it to Michiko within 20 minutes (see the room on floor 5 with the red kanji) you fight the weakest version of Nemesis, located on the fifth floor. This timer works just like the one in Thanatos Tower, meaning it only runs in first-person mode.
: After the 20-minute timer runs out, the boss trigger on the fifth floor disappears and the sixth floor becomes accessible. The sixth floor has a stronger version of Nemesis. A second timer then starts for 40 minutes.
: After 40 additional minutes (so, over an hour from when you entered Nemesis Tower) the boss trigger on the sixth floor disappears and the seventh and eighth floors open up. Here, you fight the strongest version of Nemesis.
: Michiko isn’t lying when she says that there’s no time limit. You can in fact take as long as you’d like. However, she omits one fact that is kind of a kick in the dick if you’re expecting to grab the mirror shard and then make it to her in 20 minutes.
: If you take the left door, you’re put on a short path to the fifth floor. If you take the right door, you’re put on a winding route that goes to the fifth floor and then drops down a series of holes to the first floor where the mirror shard is. Simply put, there is no way to do all of that and then make it back to the fifth floor in 20 minutes. You MIGHT be able to if you TAS the game, but even then.
: Anyway, the four-nuke strategy doesn’t work as well here, mostly because there’s a lot of enemies who nullify and/or reflect nuclear damage. Unfortunately, due to the time limit, we don’t really have the time to make new Personas for everyone.
: The fourth floor is basically one gigantic dark room. If you look at the path branching north, that leads to a treasure room with some weapons in it that we don’t need. We’re going for 20-minute Michiko, by the way.
: I went for it anyway. The Dubthach Lance is really the only piece worth considering if you’ve already done Thanatos Tower - this is because it adds several points of Agility to Brown, and as we all know, speed is king in this game.
: Once you get up to the fifth floor, it’s a straight shot to Michiko’s room.
: “That’s my plan, anyway. I have a feeling you won’t give up that easily.”
: This is my absolute favorite thing in an RPG of any kind, where the villain (and/or DM’s) carefully-laid plans just fucking collapse and they’re left in shock. Things like the trial in Chrono Trigger if you get found not guilty.
: “Oh… oh…! How can this be!? The source of my strength.. the power of negative emotion…!”
: “The hatred and anger is too weak! This won’t be enough at all!”
: This is something I don’t really get. Nemesis is a goddess of retribution, but not retribution based on anger. She’s specifically the goddess of retribution against those who are arrogant or prideful (and in some cases also the goddess of vengeance against criminals) but not some kind of weird berserker blood deity.
: "No! Simply impossible! My plans were flawless! Without exceptions, humans think ‘As long as I’m okay, others don’t matter.’ "
: “This mindset… no, it’s even more atavistic than that! My plans revolve around the basic human instinct for self-preservation! Why would you try to help others with the expectation of no reward?”
: I love absolutely EVERYTHING about this version of events so much so that I don’t even really want to post the dialog for the other versions. The way they wrote this makes you feel like you’re a Jojo protagonist.
: “I can’t understand at all! My strength.. this level of power is FAR from adequate! What am I supposed to do?”
: “This is for torturing Toro and Tsutomu! For calling us all whelps! But most of all.. for saying I’m your pet! You’re gonna pay royally for that one! Now let’s get this showdown started!”
: She’s actually right. You only need eight mirror shards to get the good ending. However, here’s the kicker: there’s actually thirteen mirror shards in the game. If you stop and get the one on the alternate route, it actually locks you out of getting all twelve shards.
: “I like, don’t care too much about what happens to Toro or Tsutomu. But seeing a jerk like you act like some stuck-up celeb… now that totally pisses me off! Get it?”
: “Silence! Silence! SILENCE!”
: “Let me be clear on this… you’re saying that I am inferior to that hideous pair? I, the lovely Michiko?”
: I mean, given that Toro has Mara as a Persona and Tsutomu could feasibly obtain a COMP from his uncle, who knows the current Kuzunoha incarnation.. yeah probably.
: “Oh… oh…! This is outrageous! My magnificent plans were simply too sophisticated for you mangy curs! I knew I should have slain you all as soon as you entered this tower!”
: Fucking BURN. I think I like the sort of off-versions of the characterization that exist in Snow Queen more than I like the ones that exist in the SEBEC route.
: “Ahaha.. I, for one, would be ashamed to look that way in public. Ayase is right. A failure to acquire a couple of Mirror Shards in this tower won’t hurt a bit. Let’s draw a line under this conversation, shall we?”
: “However much we explain it, you’ll never understand our reasons for coming directly here. Now, en garde!”
: “No! I won’t succumb to the human heart! Kindness! Friendship! Trust! Such things simply do not exist in this world!”
: It’s like she doesn’t even realize that the proper title for Nemesis would be “Lady” as Nemesis is female.
: “Lord Nemesis… be the sword which vanquishes my foe! Heed my call! Go, Nemesis!”
: Isn’t that just the Statue of Liberty? That’d explain why Michiko thinks Nemesis is some kind of blood god like Kali - she doesn’t even know who Nemesis IS. There’s also a bit of weirdness here in that it’s implied that what we’re seeing is basically Michiko in a ridiculous outfit.
: “Soooo lovely.. and sooo elegant!”
: “…You gotta be joking! I’ve had enough with the fun and games already! I’m so disgusted I can barely speak.”
: What are you, a Metroid?
: With us having done Thanatos first, Nemesis is a fucking JOKE. Even if she’d reached full power (which gives her some extra HP and slightly better stats) she’d STILL be a joke.
: To understand what you’re seeing here - we finished Nemesis off in just under two full rounds of combat. Ayase didn’t get her turn because Nemesis was already dead. Nemesis did no damage to anyone, and I’m not even sure she got a turn at all. That’s entirely possible, because in this version she has a whopping 12 agility. At full strength, she has.. 15. That’s less than half of what our slowest party member has.
: In fact, because of that Alice we killed earlier, only Elly and Brown get enough EXP to level. Ayase gets a Persona level only, and Jihei and Yukino get not even a full level-up.
: “Or do you wanna go another few rounds?”
: “I…I lost!?”
: You keep on using that word. I do not think that word means what you think it means. That movie’s overrated as hell.
: “And to a pack of crude delinquents, no less! Oh! How can this be? Oh…! Ohhhhhh!”
: “You got a beatdown from me, the always-amazing Brown, and his gang! Is that getting through to you!?”
: “So stop horking like a seal and get out of our sight!”
: “Yup, that’s right! You’re like, totally, hopelessly stupid. I’m sick of looking at your stupid face.”
: “Aaaaaaaaaaagh! What manner of egotistic, abhorrent monsters are you!?”
: I feel like that line could fit in any episode of Always Sunny. Title card: “The Gang Nukes Michiko to Death”
: “I’ve done nothing, yet the five of you gang up on me, then gloat in triumph! People are always like that! You lot are no exception! And neither are those ugly faces on the walls who once senselessly bullied me!”
: I feel like they kind of overdid Michiko a bit the same way they over-did the villains in Persona 5 for the most part. It’s enough that she tried to kill Toro and Tsutomu. I don’t think they really needed to tack on her being a serial killer.
: Okay game, we get it. I’m surprised we don’t get a flashback to her kicking a box of puppies or something.
: “But those morons in my class.. they called me names! They talked behind my back! They gave me the cold shoulder!”
: “Only the Snow Queen mask ever extended a helping hand to me! That’s right, it and no one else! Only the mask understood my profound sorrow! My wretched circumstances!”
: “Tell me, what right does anyone have to pick on poor little me? I certainly can’t understand!”
: “What? But it’s entirely your fault! Is this really why you abandoned the real world to be a minion of the Snow Queen?”
: “Unbelievable… you’ve gone completely round the twist!”
: “I can’t believe this! I’ve had enough! I suppose it was entirely too much to ask. How could you, the poor in spirit, understand my sorrow!?”
: “Hmph! Fine! I’ll give you a win, this once! But I warn you… in due time, the thirst for revenge churning in me will be denied no more! And on that day, I shall once again give you hell!”
: Michiko is never coming back.
: “Remember that! I’ll stand in your way, again and again!”
: And with that, Michiko fucks off forever. She never shows up in any of the other games.
: We also get our seventh mirror shard. At this point, there’s no way we can get the bad ending. That ship actually sailed once we got the sixth mirror shard in Thanatos, because you get one for the boss of Hypnos Tower as well.
: We now have four Ambrosia, but at this point we’re guaranteed to get the last one.
: “Oh, hey! I wonder if Toro and Tsutomu are okay… that stupid Michiko! She didn’t even give us the key!”
: “We should check on 'em once we get back to school.”
: We’re not quite done with this update, because apart from showing off what happens if you go the other route, we need to go to the Cafeteria back at the school and talk to Toro.
: “Tsutomu told me to give this to you. When we were coming back from the tower, we found this shiny thing.. but his muscles hurt so bad that he couldn’t hold it.”
: “So I’m giving it to you in his place.”
: Remember that mirror shard we ‘passed up’? Toro and Tsutomu grabbed it on their way out.
: They also find a second one, bringing our total from Nemesis Tower to 3. If we had accepted Michiko’s offer, we’d only have 2 shards and be locked to a maximum of 11. Anyway, we’ve still got some optional/alternate dialogue to go through.
: First, let’s do the optional dialogue for the room you wind up in if you take the other door. I’m going to make this work as if it’s all one cutscene when in reality, the part about “who’s going to open the chest” is slightly different based on who you have with you.
: “Is this some kind of joke?”
: “Knowing Michiko, this strikes me as the sort of mocking nonsense she’d favor. Still… reaching here from the torture chamber was.. quite an excursion…”
: “Is this the chest Michiko referred to that contains a mirror shard? Dear me… I didn’t think finding our way here would be so strenuous.”
: “Ugh.. I’m like.. gonna fall over and die if I hafta move another inch! Who’s the genius who said we should go get a mirror shard!?”
: That would be you.
: “If it turns out there isn’t one in that chest, we came all this way for NOTHING! And that would SUCK!”
: “It’s an awfully suspicious chest. Any volunteers to open it? I’m 99.999% certain it’s a trap.”
: “I’m kind of shy, not the type to take charge… so I’m gonna pass.”
: “Bitching and moaning about it won’t do us any good! Let’s open 'er up! Even though there’s no time limit, we still took a little too long.”
: “That’s it! I’m TIRED! I have to rest!”
: “Oh man, I don’t wanna think about walking back to the torture chamber!”
: “Mind if we take a short break? I’m quite worn out.”
: You spot a piece of paper in the corner of the chest. It appears to be a letter from Michiko. You open the letter. It reads:
“Ohohohoho! So you’ve reached this chest, have you? What a greedy bunch!”
“It must have been quite an endeavor. Ohohohohohoho!”
“You found what you sought, yes? Unlike you rotters, I keep my promises!”
“And now, as promised, I will reveal my weakness!”
“I’m at my weakest… when you don’t dawdle in getting to me! Ohohohohoho!”
“I do hope this helps! So by all means, hurry to my chamber! I’ll be waiting! See you soon!”
: Next up, let’s do the scene where you take more than 20 minutes to reach Michiko. I should note that both the “20 minutes to 1 hour” and “More than 1 hour” versions of the fight use the same dialogue.
: “Looks like Michiko’s room.. but talk about bad taste. What are these faces on the walls?”
: “Ohohohoho! These faces are all that’s left of those who didn’t obey me… these faces are you future!”
: “Hmhm… five new faces for my collection. Truly a red-letter day!”
: “So, what do you think of my collection? I hope you appreciate it. Well? What took you so long in getting here? I grew weary of waiting.”
: “Ohohohohoho! I must say, I can’t believe you fell so easily into my trap! Removing the tower’s time restriction turned out to be a very good move.”
: “As a result of that, you threw away your only chance of defeating me! It’s too funny! I can’t stop laughing! Ohohohohoho!”
: “Eh? A trap!? What are you talking about? What have you done!?”
: “Huh? We fell into your trap? Whaddaya mean?”
: “Whatever, ugly! You’re just bluffing 'cause we actually got to you and now you’re outta luck! You’re such a liar! Just let us beat you already!”
: “Hohohohoho! Allow me to tell you how this Nemesis Tower works… Anger, hatred, despair.. the tower absorbs these negative emotions as energy, allowing it to grow.”
: “You might say the tower is a living thing. By tapping into the energy stored within the tower, there’s no limit to how strong I can become!”
: “Do you understand now? Hmhmhm… the anguish and rage that hideous pair felt as they suffered.. the doubt and despair that filled their hearts as their friends never returned… hahahahahah!”
: "“Those emotions have fueled the incredible power I wield! Bask in its immensity! I’d never have gained this much if you hadn’t spent so long reaching here. I can’t thank you enough!”
: “Her power is indeed immense… why, she’s merely standing there, and I can feel her strength from here! It must be true then, that Kenta and Tsutomu’s anger and hatred fuel her..”
: “How could I have let this happen!?”
: “What!? Ngh.. this malevolent force..!”
: “It’s coming from Michiko!? But she’s only standing in place! The anger and hatred those two felt as they were tortured…”
: “Their emotions must have enhanced her power beyond what we can imagine…! We’ve been utterly outfoxed! If only I’d been more suspicious about the lack of a time limitation…!”
: “Now, presumptuous whelps.. for your crimes in defying the Snow Queen and making light of me… I’ll add you to the ranks of those who have betrayed me!”
: “Show me your anger! Your regret! Your despair! Your hatred!”
Next time, we’ll finish Hypnos Tower and then it’s on to the end of Persona 1.
