rionaleonhart | Koromaru And Akihiko In Ferocious Competition For The Title Of Goodest Boy.

(EDIT: I forgot to mention what this entry is about! It's about Persona 3, you'll be astonished to hear.)

AKIHIKO PRACTISING TERRIBLE PICK-UP LINES ALONE IN HIS ROOM. 'Y'know, the Beef Bowl place... Hey... M-Maybe we could "meat" up there!' What a loser. I love him.

Maya, it strikes me as unwise to send the game developers the logs of your in-game conversations with a teenager about how hot your student is.

Shinjiro believes he caused someone's death and he's coping terribly with it and he is immediately much more interesting to me.

I don't think Ken is old enough to consent to fighting his way up a giant tower full of monsters while repeatedly shooting himself in the head.

Can't believe the dog turned me down when I invited him to the movies.

Wait, apparently you can take the dog to the movies, but it was on a day when I was out with Kenji? Ugh, I knew I should have turned down Kenji's invitation.

I'm going to reload my save. This will not stand.

Okay! Koromaru and I have now been to the cinema together and all is well in the world. Well, we got kicked out of the cinema, so not all is well, but I'm still extremely pleased to have made the attempt. (The dog was very upset until I promised to get him the film on DVD.)

'Have you ever thought of what you're living for?' Junpei asks, and I choose 'No' without hesitation. Kosuke has never thought about anything.

I can't work out whether Keisuke is supposed to be this unsettling. His portraits are absolutely terrifying. (Also, I was not aware that this game would include a Keisuke when I named the protagonist Kosuke. I'm glad Keisuke isn't a major character; that would be very confusing.)

It cracks me up that a question mark appears over Akihiko's head whenever Junpei starts rambling about Chidori. Akihiko just doesn't understand romance! It doesn't cross his radar at all! It's delightful.

For anyone following along without playing: yes, I did open this entry talking about him practising pick-up lines. This was solely because he was challenged to a 'picking people up' contest and he's really competitive; it would never occur to him to try to pick someone up otherwise.

(He failed to pick anyone up, but I'd sort of love to see what would have happened if he'd succeeded and was left going 'wait, what happens now? what are you supposed to do when you flirt with someone and they reciprocate? do you... do you train together? do you challenge them to a boxing match?')

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I don't think Ken is old enough to consent to fighting his way up a giant tower full of monsters while repeatedly shooting himself in the head.

I agree, this seems dubious.

(Ken was in my party pretty much all the time. He, Aigis and Koromaru were my "characters I like/wtf is this party" party. He is very squishy but I found him rather useful! The funniest thing I found about Ken when I first played this game is that the child is the one running around using all the "kill rush", "fatal end" style skills, just for extra "uh, are you old enough for this?" flavour).

(The dog was very upset until I promised to get him the film on DVD.)

I can't believe the cinema staff wanted to leave Koromaru hanging like that!

Obviously I don't know exactly where you are in the game (though I can make some guesses based on a few of your points), but have your opinions on characters changed much? (I'm going to ask you this rather often in this game.)

I actually forgot about Keisuke! His portaits are a tad unsettling. But he is not Kenji, so it's all okay.

Akihiko just doesn't understand romance! It doesn't cross his radar at all! It's delightful.

If it's not boxing or protein or Shinji, Akihiko has no time for that shit.

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I mentioned I'd been playing 13 Sentinels on one of your last posts! I've now finished it, and would heartily recommend it to you when you finish Persona 3 if you've got a PS4. Apparently the sales are not great in the West probably because it's very very niche, but it's very, very you and I think you'd love it. Also it has a surprising amount of identity crisis and/or people who are having a mental crisis, which you tend to like as a theme as much as me. It also has a lot of different protagonists and it's all told out of order so you may experience it in a very different way to other people and you have to piece the plot together as you go (think ZTD fragments, is probably the closest example, but with a lot more protagonists instead of 3).

Here is a trailer to hype you up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b35MVzhr7K8

-timydamonkey

I wondered whether your team was Ken, Aigis and Koromaru when you mentioned it was weird! We've got completely different teams, but poor Shinjiro and Junpei get left out of both of them.

Akihiko turned out to be much more delightful than I expected on a first impression, as I think I've already mentioned, but otherwise I think my opinions on the characters have stayed pretty steady! Junpei has more to him than I expected, but he still doesn't particularly interest me.

You're actually the second person to passionately recommend 13 Sentinels to me specifically! I actually included it when my family asked me for a Christmas list, but of course then Christmas was cancelled for London, so... it's possible there's already a copy with my name on it somewhere, but I won't know until we (hopefully) have an extremely belated family Christmas celebration at some point.

I'm glad that you agree with me as to which makes the weirdest combination!

I hope you get to have a lovely belated Christmas get together with your family at some stage! We were one of the few areas still in tier 3 at Christmas, but this was about as bad an idea as I thought it was at the time given we are, once again, sitting in the top 10 covid areas of the country and the situation at the local hospital is really not very good (as our hospital serves 2 areas, and one of those spent several weeks not only in the top 10, but at the very top of it with sky high numbers).

Gotta say, escaping into videogames and books this past year has been really good for mental health, imo! (Even if it involves characters whose mental health isn't so good!).

> Maya, it strikes me as unwise to send the game developers the logs of your in-game conversations with a teenager about how hot your student is.

I had forgotten about this happening... but that whole social link felt kind of weird to me. I normally wouldn't bat an eye at the student/teacher thing itself, but something about the way the teacher was characterized really rubbed me the wrong way.

It was definitely a bit of an odd one! The social link ends with the teacher learning the lesson 'oh, I shouldn't have just complained about my work all the time to my online friend!' and I'm left going 'are... are you sure there aren't any other lessons you could learn while you're at it?'

Shinjiro believes he caused someone's death and he's coping terribly with it and he is immediately much more interesting to me.

CALLED IT.

I mean, I can't verify that I did, in fact, call it -- but I knew this was coming.

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I like to think that, by being so predictable, I offer a valuable sense of stability to people in these strange times.

Also, yes, Keisuke is very unnerving. Personally, I think he's poisoning the people around him.

But this is something I've always appreciated about the Persona series: reasonably diverse social links. Mishima is a loser and the game leans into it. Keisuke is an unattractive nerd with a chem lab in his basement. Nozomi is such an anomaly that ~~Minato~~ Kosuke deliberately breaks the social link just so he can ditch him. (If you haven't done that one yet, I wholeheartedly recommend it; it is spectacular.) Ayane is... idk, actually five years old and kind of creepy. Mutatsu is a walking bag of wrinkles. The fox is a fox, etc. It isn't just classy, attractive people.

Now if only they knew how nurses actually dress for work!

I love that you reloaded the save to take the dog to the movies. The best choice!

I couldn't have lived with the knowledge that I could have taken a dog to the cinema but missed the opportunity. The rest of the game would have felt hollow.

And you are now seeing why Mrs. Samu adores both Akihiko and Shinji.

Mrs Samu has excellent taste!

SHINJI SHINJI SHINJI

that is all

I wasn't expecting Shinji to interest me at all, but he's pretty great!

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