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The main reason I don’t respect Persona 5 Strikers is that it never tells me to go fuck myself.

Persona 5 keeps hammering home how all this bad shit is everyone’s fault. Kamoshida was able to hurt so many students because all the other teachers and parents pretended not to notice that kids were coming home with bruises. Madarame was clearly plagiarizing from his apprentices, and critics and audiences praised him for his “varied style.” When the final target is “the entire city of Tokyo,” it really makes you feel that you, IRL, are to blame for all the bad things you ignore every day.

P5 Strikers talks about bullying, but it never gets into the idea that you might be a bully. It shows domestic violence, but it doesn’t consider the neighbors who heard and ignored the shouting. The only general condemnation it pulls is some lame thing about how we’re all glued to our phones, and even aside from the old-man-yells-at-cloud aspect, it doesn’t seem to tie that back to how you, the player, are glued to your video game. It feels lazy--why bother putting any thought into our story, when we already know it’ll sell based on the previous game’s name and reputation?

Date: 2021-03-09 06:42 pm (UTC)
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This is besides the point entirely, but I had made it up until now under the impression that Persona 5 Strikers was a _sports_ game, because of some (mistaken) pattern-matching in the title. I know that nothing about SMT/Persona has anything to do with sports, but I just accepted that they'd made a soccer game; it seemed like the weird thing they'd do.

I'll probably play a Persona game eventually. (I've played Mirage Sessions, which was fun, but I understand it's _wildly_ more optimistic than any of the others.)

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