To celebrate me finally beating this awesome game, I decided to fill out this meme by VGCG. [link] Be warned, this meme and my commentary on it has some serious spoilers! Additional commentary on the various panels may be found below:
1. I dislike the name "Yuu Narukami" :/ I would have loved to refer to him as "Shouma Kozuka," but then nobody else would have known who he was. "Souji Seta" seemed like a nice middle ground, so that's how I'm referring to him here.
2. Gah, was this ever a tough decision! Chie and Naoto remind me of parts of myself I would like to improve, while Ayane reminds me of where I've been. Chie was my girlfriend, but Ayane was very close! Loved Naoto even when I thought she was a particularly girly man. <3
3. I couldn't help but love Mitsuo's retro-styled boss (especially with those menus and pixels!). And who doesn't love bosses with giant eyes?
4. Self-explanatory.
5. If this question refers to game mechanics, I was annoyed when skill changes sometimes didn't change your skills to very good ones. There was also the matter of determining which Personas to fuse when you have lots of awesome ones. But those wouldn't have made interesting panels. :/
6. For Morooka, his jerkiness was proven to me when he failed to give a nice response to "Nice to meet you." >( As for Sayoko, I still don't get why she thinks flirting with me is more important than her job...
7. It was just too much for me.
8. Even the fox thinks she's foxy...
9. If all goes well, you might see "Cat Days of Summer" soon. I mean, how can he spend all day petting a cat...? Not sure why I felt like putting Kanji and Naoto in this panel, but at least it's a silly running gag.
10. And this is why I don't support Yosuke/Chie.
11. When I first saw the video, the thrusting guy reminded me of Yosuke. Things got weirder from there.
12. Couldn't resist the challenge of coming up with my own Persona. Now who the heck is Brigid? She is an Irish goddess/Christian saint, depending on what you believe. As a goddess, she presides over poetry, smithing, and fertility, hence the three heads. The fire over her heads also relates to this (i.e., the fire of inspiration, the fire of the forge, and the fire of life). The thing on her forehead is a Brigid's Cross, traditionally used to bless households and protect them from fire. Her arms were based off the forms of traditional British corn dollies. These "dollies" were used in ancient times as places where the spirits of the corn would be kept over the winter. One such dollie was revered by families as the goddess herself during the festival of Imbolc. As an American with mostly Irish ancestry, I found this all very fascinating to research, so please excuse the wall of text.
You know what...I don't think I have a chara in which I hate. Even all the bad characters - they all have loads of depth behind them which makes them really solid. Although I love Kanji's boss fight. Even if it is a bit much, it's great that it tries to address those kind of stereotypes ;D
That is true, that even the bad characters still have good sides to them, which was part of why I loved Persona 4. However, when describing how bad those characters were, I didn't leave any space to describe their good points. Sayoko seemed like she had compassion for a young patient who she used to care for but died after she transferred to a new hospital. And the fact that Morooka got such a horrible karmic smackdown certainly made me sympathize with him. Proof that even they have good qualities, but that still doesn't get me closer to liking them (though hate is too strong of a word). Was definitely also considering Adachi and Noriko Kashiwagi for "worst."
Sure, there may have been more annoying fights than that, but I couldn't immediately think of any other boss fights that made me have such a direct negative reaction (AUGH, IT'S THE ATTACK OF THE GAY STEREOTYPES! RUUUUNNN!) to it. Maybe I'll appreciate it better the second time around? I'll have to admit to being a little weirded out by gay men in the past. Forays into the local gay neighborhood have improved this somewhat, but not entirely. Not to say that I don't support gay rights (of course I do!), it's just that supporting something from a distance and being face-to-face with it are two entirely different matters. Then again, that is some pretty crazy territory those game developers are diving into. I have to give them props for creativity.
Oh yeeeh I totally forgot about Sayoko's story! I think either way...kudos to the writers writing really solid characters ^_^. I may not like *all* of them but to get me to actually have an opinion on liking or really disliking a certain character due to the character is something! I admire writers like that....one day darn it XD
Woah I didn't know that. Hope your experience wasn't too...traumatic? And I totally agree with you about the difference between supporting gay rights in the distance vs it being in front of your face. I remember when I was house sharing with a gay couple and it got a bit weird XD. Nothing bad happened - it's just that I personally don't it 'natural' for myself and only myself. I had nothing against my gay housemates (they were lovely people!) but when they got cosy together, I just kinda...stayed away XD. Not that I don't disapprove of it of course - I think anyone would be slightly weirded out even if a straight couple had their 'cosy time' in front of others. Awkward moments indeed >_>.
You know what...I don't think I have a chara in which I hate. Even all the bad characters - they all have loads of depth behind them which makes them really solid. Although I love Kanji's boss fight. Even if it is a bit much, it's great that it tries to address those kind of stereotypes ;D
Sure, there may have been more annoying fights than that, but I couldn't immediately think of any other boss fights that made me have such a direct negative reaction (AUGH, IT'S THE ATTACK OF THE GAY STEREOTYPES! RUUUUNNN!) to it. Maybe I'll appreciate it better the second time around?
Woah I didn't know that. Hope your experience wasn't too...traumatic? And I totally agree with you about the difference between supporting gay rights in the distance vs it being in front of your face. I remember when I was house sharing with a gay couple and it got a bit weird XD. Nothing bad happened - it's just that I personally don't it 'natural' for myself and only myself. I had nothing against my gay housemates (they were lovely people!) but when they got cosy together, I just kinda...stayed away XD. Not that I don't disapprove of it of course - I think anyone would be slightly weirded out even if a straight couple had their 'cosy time' in front of others. Awkward moments indeed >_>.
//end rambling! <_<