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Persona 5 Royal: "Yeah actually, fuck that 100+ hours we spent crafting a beautiful ancom story. We're now libertarians and status quo warriors that believe people should pull themselves up by their bootstraps and stop being a burden on society."

Royal ruined Persona 5 change my mind.

Maruki did nothing wrong and is a precious boy who deserved better.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Can I play Persona 5 Royal and just skip that stuff easily?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Yeah but its not the real ending anymore

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Real easily. I own it and straight up missed that content.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nice. I assume it's all side story stuff in the third semester then.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Yup. If you don’t achieve that, it’s essentially base game with minor differences (to my understanding)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Wasn't maruki's whole schtick trying to make some kind of twisted brain-in-a-jar stagnant utopia that robs human agency?

I wouldn't know because I put my playthrough of P5R on pause like last year because I can't be bothered to take time waiting to charge my controller and play in the same day

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Aw shit glad I never got around to Royal then

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Is this seriously what happens? You’re telling me now for the first time

The good news is that P5’s late game was such a slog that I have no desire to go through it again with Royal

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I read Maruki as an anarchist-adjacent critique of the dangers of forcing everyone to conform to the same idea of happiness and good. Not too far off from some of the anarchist critiques of MLs I've seen.

I don't think it's libertarian really.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Lol yeah probably, I always jump to weird conclusions

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

what? maruki had good intentions but his reality was viscerally uncomfortable in a way similar to the pleasure cube comic. i dont see how stopping himm makes the phantom thieves "libertarian status-quo warriors"