The Promised Day - Part 3
Man, I left this for a while. God. Too much to do, too little time, and work is fucking exhausting. But let’s talk about the ending, finally.
Where last we stood, the Great Seal was cast, and everything faded to white.
Probably the closest any of you will ever get to seeing the Sea of Souls.
It’s crushing, how upset they are that everyone made it but one person. Honestly, I get the sense that any number of casualties would have been too much. This was an all-or-nothing fight. It was supposed to be that everyone goes home, or no one does.
But no, the one person they lost was their leader. In the end, there was nothing they could do.
…….it’s not the Sea of Souls, it’s the Universe. Oh god. Of course he can hear them.
Stop talking like you and Nyx are the same. T_T You’re not!
He does sound proud of them, though.
SEES is returned to the front of the school, Tartarus dissolves into light, and Minato walks out of the now-normal building so that everyone can hug him and cry all over him. If I didn’t know how this ends, I’d be really mad about ten minutes from now.
I do like that, after the timeskip, this version of the ending starts the exact same way as the other one, since they still don’t have their memories in this version.
Man oh man am I popular, though. This isn’t even all my social links, and look how many people want to talk to me!
It’s morbidly hilarious that this game literally started the trend of “walk around and talk to everyone the day before the ending”, but Minato’s the only modern protag who wasn’t going to leave. Not by choice, anyway.
You and your girlfriend can’t both have amnesia, my guy. Get it together.
We find out that Kenji is excited because apparently there are going to be three new teachers next year, and they’re all hot. So he has learned nothing. Lots of social links sent letters, because the end of their link was literally them leaving town.
(Minato wasn’t going to leave, everyone else was. Inverse Persona ending. X’’’D)
The Gourmet King is gone (no tears here). Maiko’s dad says she’s doing well but also says I’m absolutely not allowed to marry her. We’re able to give Akinari’s mom the notebook with his story in it. Mamoru and Kaz are doing fine. Bebe, tragically, has decided not to come back to Japan right away. He’s gonna stay with his uncle for a while so they can grieve his aunt together.
Ms. Toriumi is taking the accidental revelation that I’m her MMO buddy very well.
God I laughed so hard.
All the cats I saved from Tartarus are vibing in the back alley!
I think I saved eight total? I wonder if there’s more. Secret cat ending. Fill the whole alley.
And…
...can I listen to my music box now? Please. T_T
As Mitsuru makes her graduation speech, SEES starts to remember, and rushes for the roof, where Aigis and Minato are already skipping the ceremony.
That’s a long time.
I ended up dating Aigis just because I actually maxed her link, and I think the only other girl I maxed was Yuko? Maybe? And Maya, but that wasn’t a romance option, which I still think is weird.
So, the credits. They, uh, didn’t have to do that. Like, it’s brilliant. Having his silhouette sinking deeper and deeper and gradually fading away to represent him doing the same. He vanishes completely and only then does it end, and we get to see SEES reach the roof just barely too late. Beautifully done, Atlus, I started tearing up, how dare you. X’D
And then the main menu is no longer the Dark Hour.
So, overall, other than some nitpicks, I think this was a really solid game. But as a modern remake of a preexisting game, I think they could have gone further. Why NOT just make your male teammates possible social links? Why NOT include Hamuko? Why NOT include The Answer with the base game? Why lie and say you want the “core” (read: original base game) P3 experience, but then add new things?
Why make Ryoji tell you he wants to be more than friends and then not give you a third dialogue option?!?!?
(I know the answer is money. It’s always money. I am just salty.)
But I could forgive more of that if they hadn’t nerfed the final boss. I did some googling, and pinpointed some other things about the Nyx Avatar fight that didn’t line up. Before, he could attack twice per turn. This one can’t. They gave the Death Arcana an extra thousand health, but the old version automatically took half-damage from EVERYTHING except almighty. They took away Moonless Gown, and therefore took away his ability to become invulnerable. Apocalypse can reduce your HP to 1%, but if he’s not attacking twice per turn, someone always has time to heal, so who even cares?
(Shoutout to the Fandom wiki for being like, “It is strongly encouraged to heal when it uses this skill”. No shit, guys. Wow.)
And yeah, they buffed his spells up a level, but ultimately, all the things that might have actually made the boss genuinely hard got nerfed.
It kind of sucks. They gave him a cool new color scheme for the final arcana and then weakened him. Why even.
Anyway, gonna do NG+ on hard mode to finish all social links and the compendium, and also probably going to do something really stupid like solo the Avatar with my level 99 Minato and Thanatos just for giggles.
Because hell yeah. :D
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