#meaning I'm replaying p5 for the rest of the year

[nyarlylicious]

I hope the achievements for P5R are a buttload on steam. I was sad that it was lacking on PS4, which is probably due to the fact that vanilla was already on the console and a lot of them would have been repeats. But since P5 has never been on steam before, I’m hoping there’s just a...a fucking BUTTLOAD. I want to prove to the world that P5R is my favorite game of all time. Ask me to 100% Thieves Den? I’ll fucking do it. Ignore Royal content so I get the Yaldy OG ending? Fucking FINE. ‘Don’t Talk To The Detective’? Okay maybe not that--

[sillyfudgemonkeys]

Yeah, the P3 cast had their goals but I don't really see what the goal of the Phantoms is that isn't personal. Or maybe I'm just not seeing it, I don't know... *shrug* ... I heard it was all of them but then again, for all I know, it could be just him... well if nothing else, P5 gives good ideas for fanfiction and such, lots of different possibilities and all. I don't know, I feel like they are treating it as a game, P4 didn't get serious (truly) till Namatame - in my opinion. What about in P5?

Ok…….sorry I don’t think I explained it very well….. (also sorry for the late reply, been typing it slowly since you sent it, and had to really delay it cause of the manga uploads ;w;) Also under the cut cause it’s long and vague spoilers

Alright… So P4 and P5 have one goal, catch killer and stop corrupt adults, yes they have their own reasons for joining….but their individual goal is to all strive for that same goal. (I should also note that I kind of equate “self centered” as kinda “I put my own goals before everyone else”)

P3? Everyone has their reason for joining….but they also have their own goals that don’t completely align with the main group goal (at least until the end). There are a lot of times (usually in the morning at the front gate) and they’re always like “What do you think will happen if we do *insert Tartarus or Full Moon thing*” or “What do you think life will be like afterwards” or “Should we do this *insert thing*?” It feels like they’re always questioning what’s going on with the group and it’s like….can we just get on the same freaking page. 8U But then again it feels like this is kind of only the focus for the MC, the MC’s thing is SLs and “Oh I guess shadow related stuff”, everyone else has their own thing. Yukari wants to black ops her way into discovering the truth about…..a lot of stuff, Junpei just wants to do hero stuff and is like “Haha as long as I get to beat shadows and feel validated by my power I don’t care 8U,” Akihiko wants power and only really cares about that, Ken just wants revenge, Shinjiro just wants to repent and let Ken stab him tbh, Fuuka wants to support everyone, Mitsuru wants to burden her family’s issue, Aigis just wants to protect the MC, Koromaru……actually Koromaru is on page with the group goal so he has his crap together (and Mitsuru’s and Fuuka’s goals align with the group goal so yeah). 

Side tangent, P3′s main goal is weird cause it feels like they don’t even know, at first it’s “I guess we can explore Tartarus…..” and then it changes to “Oh I guess we’ll destroy the Full Moon bosses” and then it’s like “OH jk, we get it now we gotta explore Tartarus and stop Nyx we got are crap together now guys! 8U” 

Phew, ok so yeah everyone had their own agency and such, I mean the game should really be called “Persona 3: Everyone does their own thing 8U” At least till the end where they all finally unite. Anyways, this isn’t a bad thing, but it’s def separates itself from P4/5. With P4/5 being “hey we went through this traumatic thing, and I think we should stop that from happening to anyone else!” P4′s being “confronting shadow and/or people getting thrown into TVs (be it just kidnapped or killed) so no one has to suffer!” and P5′s being like “wow we got really screwed over by these people, and so did other people too, let’s stop them and other’s like them so no one else has to suffer!” They all have their reasons for joining (Yosuke not wanting anyone to get murdered like Saki, Yukiko and other’s not wanting to possibly get kidnapped like they were, just no more murders in general, and P5 kids just don’t want the same injustice done to them to be done to other’s), but they all have a common goal from the beginning. The P5 kids are bit of peacocks but they aren’t really self centered, I can’t even say the same for P3 characters (if anything a lot of them have their own self interest at heart, in the beginning, is the best way I can describe it but again this isn’t a bad thing). And again, how take “self centered” P3 kids kind of did their own devices for a good portion of the game, while P5 kids worked together when they were on a team (I should note on a team, cause everyone had their own lives prior to that and of course wouldn’t line up with the teams’ ideals, same for P4). But, P5 kids are peacocks (going off of the Phantom Thief trope they were based off of), and they do have their own justice that they stick to against what everyone else thinks (which…..is a complicated aspect of the game I’m not sure was explored to it’s fullest but I’ll leave it at that, then again you could say P3/4 kids had their own justice the enforced with only Strega and Adachi calling them out on it so….yeah).

I’m pretty sure it was just him (again unless there is a 3rd ending I don’t know about) because it only showed him and not everyone else. 

As for treating it like a game….. Tbh I don’t think it’s fair to say P4 kids weren’t taking it “seriously.” They are more relaxed about it tho (then again it felt like P3 kids were pretty relaxed until Oct 4th (something I noticed replaying P3 this year). It’s really only around that time stuff starts to hit the fan, and people start to evolve (like literally, that’s when 2 people evolve their personas and the rest follow later). Also the P4 kids might have gotten cocky, no one had died (that they had saved, King Moron was a blow but they stepped up to the plate to catch the copy cat killer), which isn’t bad tbh, I mean P3 kids were getting kinda cocky too before Oct 4th. 8U But you need to keep in mind P4′s main aspect when they first started development was “fun”, hence yellow. You are suppose to have “fun” in P4. With P5 is oddly also similar, because of the Phantom Thief aspect. Phantom Thieves are known to play by their own rules, they’re freeing and fun. The P5 kids take themselves seriously, but they can also be cocky and have fun with their missions, I mean when it gets really serious in the mission they’ll buckle down but they also keep in mind to have fun.