Thread by @shutupnochi

FYI: I AM livetweeting #Persona5Royal, there WILL be spoilers, and this IS your only warning for them. See you in half an hour!

[vibrates]

oh no it's cool

OH??

New font's weird. I'll probably get used to it, but: weird.

Kasumi why does the your spine do that. That can't be comfortable.

More font nattering: would probably be fine if it was bigger? Makes it hard to read Shadow names as-is

I have absolutely been making Metanav jokes every time Tom Nook installs something on my phone

Alternately: K.K. Slider runs the Velvet Room

Appreciating the fuck out of auto-advance dialogue

"I should reboot my phone just in case"

That's a new face!

I refuse to document all the new sprites, just assume I love them unless otherwise noted

There's still something very Miyazaki about some of these expressions and animations.

Ryuji still cannot say fuck, uninstalling

Having tiny baby health after my ng+ stats is upsetting

I know I say this every time, but I just...I just really want Kamoshida to fuck a barbed-wire fence.

Final thought before bed: Mala and I got the first trophy within 9 minutes of each other and it's the closest to in-sync we'll be for the rest of the game

There's something in the first menu being in the subway (underground, hidden away) and this one is in the streets (visible, in-your-face) but I can't parse it

I miss the Inaba kids

"God it's hard to be a kid in Inaba" try dealing with these little fuckers

Guess which of these is a protagonist

The school questions are different, that's cheating

I KNOW HOW TO FIGHT THINGS MORGANA LET ME LIIIVE

Persona awakenings: still extremely satisfying

I know it's just his new smiling sprite with the mask on but I still really like it

Also he has a lil fang

Okay I know what I said but LOOK AT HER she's so PRETTY

There are flowers falling on the chat screen 'cause it's spring that's so stupid I love it

okay this one's weird

Reading texts makes my eyes hurt now :(

I've got a whole living room between me and my TV, which might not help

But also

I want a manga of Morgana looking for them as a cat

Also I fucking love the delivery of most of Ryuji's lines. They're just so good.

Even if 90% of the time I want Ryuji to shut his big dumb mouth

My boyfriend is doing Animal Crossing voices for the Shadows and I can't decide if I want a divorce or if this is why I'm with him

The weird Ann sprite is reminding me of the art from something else but I'm having so much trouble putting my finger on it

Fall in a hole and die

This was probably not MEANT to sound like an accusation that I am a bisexual disaster, but that is in fact the case and so that's how I'm choosing to take it

Hello???

My absent-minded ass appreciates this so much

I don't remember if I said this before but: this game actually forcing you to fuse your starter persona vs 4 where I held onto Izanagi as long as possible bc I'm a sentimental fuck

Something something releasing old parts of yourself to make room for new parts and when you come back to the first part you're OP as fuck and it makes you basically invincible

This metaphor may have gotten away from me

The visual upgrades to Baton Pass are pretty cool, I like the flame decals

S1 RWBY fire graphics, but make it fashion

WAIT I don't need to unlock Baton Pass anymore?? I thought that was just for the tutorial!

And the camera control while hiding...ty atlus for my life

this is horrifying

My roommate said from the start that Ann's mask looked more like a fox than a cat and now even with the front view it's all I can see

THIS HAND OF MINE GLOWS WITH AN AWESOME POWER

MORGANA GIVES ME ADVICE ON HOW TO NEGOTIATE

THANK YOU ATLUS

(I never remember which ones like which) (it's the same reason I play Pokemon with a type advantage chart pulled up)

Me: remember Kamoshida?
Kiddo: ?
Me: with the crown
Kiddo: oh. eugh.

disco variant shadow

This is either Narnia or Fillory, and I'm not sure which would be more fucked up tbh

Cool, I'm sure seeing Larry, Curly and Moe down there won't startle me every time I open my map

Also it makes me think of Dishonored. Which isn't totally a complaint but it's a hell of a tone shift

Yes, I COULD grappling hook across the castle roof, but I also have the Camera Strap on Ryuji which means he gets HP/SP each turn during an ambush and he desperately needs it

I gotta do Ann next

I miss my SP Patches

That dramatic fucking flip onto the roof

Joker pls

I enjoy the little scattering of leaves as a hint you're near a will seed

So, things I thought about re: Kasumi:

She is not a Phantom Thief, but she was in Sae's palace. Futaba didn't recognize her, but Akira did. They've fought together before, but without the others. They apparently become close enough to have a promise between them.

I am HOPING she's what Akechi's social link wanted to be. (I also still hope Akechi's link has improved.)

I just got...something? for ambushing 30 shadows and I'm very confused. I can't find it in the menu, it just showed up at the start of the battle. It wasn't the trophy popup, either. What are you, weird gold coins icon thing

You know what, of course. Of course this is guarding the last Will Seed. I hate Kamoshida so much.

I'm not gonna use the Lust Crystal thing (eugh) as a constant equip, but it'll be nice to throw it on someone when I need extra heals briefly

wait

wait

I can do stuff after going into a Palace?? Morgana doesn't scream at me to go to bed???

I CAN MAKE LOCKPICKS IN BULK?

...are you okay

I SWEAR there was another locked chest in here, but now I can't find it. >:( I gotta go work on stuff anyway. Still kind of annoying.

relateable content

I love the way this is posed. Ann doesn't look at him the entire time, presumably because she'll put him through a door otherwise. Even when his shadow version pops up she only looks over her shoulder.

She's got the "I can and will defenestrate you" posture but she's not letting herself bc they committed to a way of doing things and she's sticking to that

Also he's already BROKEN RYUJI'S LEG in "self-defense", who knows what he'd pull on her

This is an Ann Takamaki Appreciation Account

Well that's new and horrifying

There is a cat on the wall of the diner next to LeBlanc that STARES AT ME from between the buildings where I can't interact with it

Souji is that you

So now there are multiple options for the Sunday shopping show, and multiple items that make it MUCH more worth the price

...parents are apparently telling their kids they'll have mental shutdowns if they don't study. Unfortunately this is completely plausible.

Yaaaaaaay, I can bail my friends out in class agaiiin

HE'S DILIGENT
HE'S INTELLIGENT
HE'S SO DAMN UNDERSTANDING

Heyyy new confidant skills, hello Stealth Dash

Sojiro's complete refusal to acknowledge current events is weirdly endearing

Tell me about his government work, game.

You know what, I take back what I said about Ann post-game, she becomes a food blogger

She learns how to make crepes specifically so she can have them whenever she wants

thieves den THIEVES DEN

This child has Velvet Room attendant eyes

Incidentally, this is apparently what the icon I couldn't figure out earlier was

I'm not taking pictures bc I don't want the Atlus snipers to get me but all of this art is so good

I do not understand Tycoon

lmao I beat Morgan's pair and he yelled "I'm being bullied!" Morgana is from Tumblr confirmed

This is actually a very realistic reaction to this kind of situation, in my experience

oh NO I was skipping through a scene I already knew and forgot to check for Makoto's new sprites! Shame on me, this is the only one I caught, at the very end

I will start a ng+ with full proficiency just to dodge the motherfucker throwing erasers at me

...yes,Iwai, I WILL take this free gun

Tae: "people can get medicine whenever they want here in Japan. There aren't many countries like that." just fucking call us out why don't you (no seriously please do)

see this sounds like a sex thing but it's just ryuji being strange

Oh hey, it's maybe-attendant kid. he absolutely has an eggshell on his head.

"I learned hunger can make a person turn grumpy. [gives cookie]" I need this in my real life

His fucking clown car horn, I love him

Okay, now that the game has allowed me to save...more of this tomorrow, as I try desperately to get my Guts up so I can do fun stuff to my guns

Kiddo voice: nooo, I'm jokiiing

You overdramatic child, I love it

I wish, as I have always wished, that the "navigator" dialogue didn't overlap with battle dialogue

At least p4 turned off voice lines during Rush

I can't believe this small child is doing acupressure on the collective unconscious

I think mementos might be tired of my bullshit

Mementos is extremely tired of my bullshit

(I wanted to find the kid again bc I didn't want to waste my flowers! You brought this on yourself, game)

Plot twist: the gang actually gets therapy

This is a Ghibli dad

That's the laziest fucking arcana name, come on Atlus

I absolutely thought there was going to be a swerve and Ann was going to talk about something stupid, but she actually the thing. Good for you, Ann

There's my maladjusted boy

I was thinking they were building up Yusuke following Ann around for longer than the original, but if they're sticking with him having seen her from the car I'm wondering now if it was Akechi

fuckin Akechi

Look at this stuck-up little motherfucker, I love him

Wonder if I'll be able to buy the shitty statues from Madarame's museum for the Thieves' Den

Being able to do stuff at night most of the time now makes it even more galling when Morgana tells me to go to bed

Ryuji: don't do anything perverted
Yusuke:

Yes, I WILL make this joke every time I play through this scene

Ryuji: he's a plagarist and an abuser
Yusuke:

You would THINK the Traits thing would make persona bullshit even more complicated but I actually really like it

I never noticed Joker's little knife flip/head rub on the results screen when he's solo, he's so fucking cute

Oh that's cool/creepy, if you stand outside the Will Seed door you can hear Madarame spouting his bullshit; internal justifications for his behavior.

Also his door is covered in old dead leaves, vs Kamoshida's which was very green

And now I stop, to wait and see if my house gets blown away overnight.

My house did not get blown away, I just haven't had access to the PS4 for a while. Let's see if I remember what the fuck. #Persona5Royal

Man, I still hate the "nude painting" angle. Pressuring Ann into it definitely wasn't acceptable, but he legitimately just wanted to Do An Art

Stop Assuming Naked Bodies Are Inherently Sexual 2kForever

At least Ryuji, even with all his teasing, was ready to bust heads if he had to

"I'm more scared of screwing up and having Ann yell at me!" a wise child

I'm now doing this while Kiddo has an evening Zoom kindergarten class in the other room so I can hear approximately nothing

Yusuke in physical pain from being betrayed by Madarame T_T leave my son alone

MAN Yusuke's smile at the end of his awakening cutscene. feral art son

SCOUNDREL EYES it's just an evasion up but it sounds fucking cool

You tried A Therapy, Ryuji, good job

Dr. Manhattan with a conch shell and a GoPro

Ty @Mentarnes for telling me about the massive free p5 dlc bundle. I forgot about it until I was back in Madarame's palace BUT once I get back to my room it's over for you bitches

It feels like the social links are sped up and there's more to do once you finish a Palace but I would like ONE DAY of proper downtime, game, there is shit I would like to do. Also I have stats to grind.

redundant

where is my paragon interrupt to punch the slimeball

(this game would be amazing with paragon/renegade interrupts) (every game would be amazing with paragon/renegade interrupts)

Yoshizawa why do your legs come to a point at the end? How do you gymnast on those ankles?

"I'm on the cooking crew" hope there's a restraining order against chie and yukiko

Mishima nobody invited you here, please just fucking leave

Like, the city. And my life. Just go.

I hate every NPC child in this school

Haru early-bird cameo!

Did they just fuckin do the glitter meme with maruki

This one

Was that necessary

I'm changing my handle to "elephant tusk trafficking"

she's so cute tho

I figured it out

she's spider-man

Kasumi where are the rest of your stars

Her confidant guide says she goes to ten

Kasumi what the fuck

This game is trying really hard to make me hate Makoto. I know I'll love her once she's actually on the team but right now...hoo buddy.

I can't go into mementos because I ALMOST have all the intel on a target but not a solid request.

Requests are a fringe benefit of Mementos! I want to level grind! I want to take this creepy skull shit to the kid! xhsjsjsnns LET ME LIVE, MORGANA

Alright, BOTH of these say ID'd. Is it because I've been ignoring Mishima? Because fuck him, I want to DO THINGS

This would probably be less annoying if I hadn't been trying to do mementos for four days but the game kept throwing other time-crucial stuff at me

aaand I can't up Guts in the library anymore, either

you were doing so well, game, why are you like this all of a sudden

me: plays tycoon with Yusuke
Yusuke: it'll distract from the hunger.
me:

Wait, my glasses are fake?

BF: okaY THEN
Me: they're in sparring together!
BF: uhuh sure

Also I am in Mementos now (finally) time to play dressup

The Karukozaka High uniform is...a very bold fashion choice

Kind of baller battle music tho

Oh, I have to have the dance clothes on to get the P4 battle music???

And now I have to negotiate with a cat terrorist

Okay that was actually extremely relateable and very sad, thanks for that game

Is the music different on different floors of Mementos now??

Ughhh I keep clicking through too fast and not hitting "you can do better than that". Stupid fat fingers costing me money.

I MIGHT have forgotten about the DLC Personas until just now, and I MIGHT have only grabbed the prettiest ones, and I MIGHT still go back and get Izanagi bc forever son

It was a giant ball of holy death-light, how did it MISS?

Okay, if you (accidentally) try to recruit a persona you already have (while trying to extort money from them) you get xp for that persona. That's pretty cool.

Also Jesus Christ at the number of treasure demons. Not a complaint, just...jeeze

"that's a rare one!" it is the 57th one we've seen in the past ten minutes

GUYS

Y'all are gonna have to hold your collective horses, I need sleep.

Oh my god, I can take the twins on field trips

"failing to join the clean plate club is a grave offense"

"[pickles] were not food from this earth. they were clearly some sort of alien spawn." tasty, tasty little alien spawn

I need art of Caroline and her toy spaceship immediately

Oh no, I figured out who they make me think of

"I can't believe the openly affluent and probably sheltered students of our academy would be targeted by a criminal organization looking to manipulate children into doing their dirty work for them"

.@Mentarnes made the point that the principal is trying to invoke the Absurdly Powerful Student Council trope and it's not working because he's asking teenagers to do the police's job

We, the humans playing the game, know why he doesn't want the actual police involved, but putting everything on one student by leveraging her sister's intentions - and her own sense of responsibility - just makes him a giant shitty blobfish man

"nochi is this just your inner bitter gifted child rearing its head"

(he's still just also really shitty)

Why did you take them to a 3D movie?! They have no depth perception!

They changed Bossy AD's actor. I spent 45 minutes last time trying to figure out if he was Matt Mercer, he is clearly not Matt Mercer this time

Fuck off, Akechi

fuck OFF, Akechi

The only issue I have with darts is that I keep letting go of the R2 button too soon

Which is a me problem, not a problem with the minigame

I enjoy that there is a designated Mona Bag

If one more person tells Ann she'd make a good wife I will throw them into a swamp

I'm already throwing Ryuji and Morgana into the swamp for trying to look up Ann's skirt

Ryuji you are a Good Boy, stop being like this

"so you're just the good-girl type of pushover" push you over a bridge

dark P5R give me the sojiro lore

ryuji you fucking loudmouth

"it's very suspicious that the people affected by Kamoshida's actions were meeting up" have you heard of support groups

BF: my name is Makoto Ono, I'm here to break up the party

Yusuke gets left out of so much by not going to the same school

I have been assured Akechi's social link is much gayer now

I still don't wanna

https://twitter.com/SpiritPringle/status/1257357486249717762?s=19

why are they so fucking cute

I like the new opener very much but my brain still goes WAKE up GET up GET on OUT there every time I start the game up

and probably always will

Also Futaba tackling Ann is so fucking cute

(y'all it is 7 am and I did not sleep a fucking wink this is going to be disjointed as fuck. consider yourselves warned.)

Huh, tourists. They may very well have been there before and I just didn't notice, but it's a cool little detail.

(tourists don't have eyes or noses)

Oh noooo it's the scene where Makoto goes from subtly scary and threatening to having all the tact of a Buick meeting a brick wall

"I'd report him to the cops if he wasn't related to her" do it anyway

I love them interrupting themselves to judge the people on stage at karaoke

Yusuke chugging his soda before they leave bc otherwise it's wasting food is EXTREMELY me and I feel VERY called out

Everybody shut the fuck up, I'm trying to read the subway signs

"going in in our uniforms is probably a bad idea" OUR nothing, Ryuji, you are the problem here

They changed the line after they run from the cops, too - "it ain't my fault we had to deal with that detour" to "it ain't our fault". I remember bc I always yell "it literally is your fault, you're the idiot in your school uniform"

which is probably why they changed it

This is MUCH better than the "predatory gays" from the vanilla game. Well, I say that, I don't know if "kidnapping people into drag" is a negative stereotype. But at least it's not homophobic!

However I still do not have the option to not lead Mishima on about the meeting with Ohya. I dislike both of them, but that doesn't mean they need I need to be a dick like that

Speaking of being a dick, here's that scene where Sae loses her whole shit on Makoto

They re-recorded it, though; Sae was very flat and cold the first time. This time she *sounds* like she's at a breaking point, and honestly upset by what she just said to her sister.

"I'll be eating dinner out from now on" sounds more like "I'm removing myself from this situation before I fuck up worse" and less like "I don't want to be here with you".

Makoto Niijima and the terrible, horrible, no good very bad idea

Me: hey! why does that guy get to say fuck?!
BF: because he's not Ryuji

.@Mentarnes says the group collectively fell in love with Makoto when she drove Johanna through the door of the bank but I think Akira decided he was gonna marry her the instant she threatened him with juvie

"She scares the piss out of me. I'mma marry her."

Ann and Makoto's conversation in the student council office

They end it with a crepe date, okay

HA and then I finally dodged the chalk missile, eat shit asshole teacher

OH! Do I get the fancy thing now?!

Why mementos dark. Dislike.

???

I discovered this bc the spider-man game RUINED me for ever knowing where the menu button is in any game. It's just so convenient to hit that big middle button and BOOP there's the map.

Persona bc while I COULD be watching She-Ra, if I do a show right now I will fall asleep and it's not even 11 yet

8D

this is EASILY the most extra thing this game has ever done, I love it

The fact that I have Morgana in the sheep costume from Catherine and Ann in the Yasogami uniform somehow makes it even better

I appear to have found Hawkgirl's mace and given it to Ryuji to use

I just really enjoy farming money off of High Pixies

😀

High Pixies are quick to cast Diarama on themselves AND to call in more of themselves when you pester them for money long enough. It's like SOS chaining in Pokemon Sun/Moon,except the shiny is money.

Having broken 1m (for context I started with like 700k) and accomplished precisely 2 things in Kaneshiro's palace over the course of two hours, I am going to bed

I just backflipped out of the way of a potential ambush for the first time and it's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen

The fact that you can literally pay to open the shortcut door

Velvet Room red. Why red. Dislike.

"push you into performing executions" I literally stopped what I was doing TWICE to go make new Personas and clear room in my stock, I do not need encouraging

I absolutely am not going to pay attention to this 99% of the time. I hope they know that.

Okay, getting an accidental status effect machine was pretty cool

8D

This whole scene is cute, he just wants Makoto to think he's cool

ma'am this is an arby's

Oh we're just starting with the pig robot this time, okay

That one lonely coin falling from the sky was fucking hilarious

Also using Stagnant Air/Evil Smile/Ghastly Wail to kill the bodyguards felt very, very good

don't kinkshame

JUSTINE NO

Kasumi's bright yellow sweater is symbolic of SOMETHING, I just don't know what yet

This feels inappropriate

I'm using a guide for social links and I just. I have no context for this but I'm pretty sure I've read this fic.

if Light and L had a baby

The logistics of Yusuke having zero money with his housing dependent on him regularly producing art and likely having to source his own supplies....

I hope someone set him up a gofundme, is what I'm getting at

Ryuji...Ryuji is that what you came up with for your and Makoto's showtime...Ryuji

As Makoto has her legally-mandated high school existential crisis

Every sentence in this cafe scene feels vaguely threatening. I'd say it was just bc Akechi's here if I wasn't also getting it from Kasumi.

I feel like there's a whole conversation happening under the skin of the conversation I'm actually hearing

I hear you posing as that random hallway student, Yukiko

Maruki what are you up to. Maruki you're making me nervous. Maruki.

8D

also: "I have a favor to ask" "Sure, you need money for food or something?" Yusuke's friends keep him fed, it's canon

It's not all the time, but sometimes I feel like if you made Yusuke's voice just a little bit deeper it'd just be Gilmore. This is not a complaint.

"I'm gonna ham it up and make some real cringey comments so they can't use any of the footage" ryuji no that's how you become a meme

This is how you stop them using the footage

Morgana coming out of his bag to shame Ryuji

someone order Yusuke a pizza

Sojiro's a GOOD DAD he's doing his BEST in a VERY DIFFICULT SITUATION

I haven't seen any actual discourse about this and I'm not going looking for it, I just have to yell about Futaba and Sojiro sometimes

Ah yes, my inability to wipe my ass without Morgana there to inform me of its presence

Now what kind of bullshit have they added to Futaba's palace for me to dig through

Ryuji: you guys were lookin' too, amirite?
Yusuke and Akira:

Well that was a cute, oddly short social link that I'm sure won't impact the game at all later on.

I FINALLY got my Guts up to where I can call Kawakami, come do my laundry Kawakami

how does she pronounce the heart emoji

haha, my favorite anon message finally popped up. QUE ES FANTOME THIEF

I feel like the bandit town has been overhauled visually? I could also be full of shit, but it feels that way.

Ryuji and Yusuke's showtime is AMAZING and also me when I am interrupted while eating

me every time a new persona happens

This makes me think of that slider/elevator puzzle from digital devil saga

fuck every puzzle in digital devil saga

titty obelisk

titty weak to fire

did they threaten to kick Futaba's door down in the base game? do I just not remember?

Futaba's palace is the closest in spirit to a p4 dungeon, but goes better than any conversation btwn a person and their shadow in p4

"I won't let those distorted lies deceive me anymore, and I won't be led astray by others' voices, either. I'm going to trust my own eyes and my own heart to distinguish the truth from the lies."

Also heavily persona 4

Also also I listened to MCM again this evening so pls appreciate all the references I'm NOT making

Forgot before I started this that Wakaba is a four-hour bitch of a fight even without my ADHD going haywire

GUYS

"I let the art patron guy buy me sushi! I'm a filthy sellout and a fraud!" Yusuke. My darling boy.

Hifumi's dress is cute

Akechi's taking me to a gay bar

...and now I have that song stuck in my head, dammit me

[Travis McElroy voice] Jazz is all about the notes you DON'T play!

Why Sojiro growl when hawk moth mentions the government

Give me the Sojiro lore

(he has a name, it's Shido, it's right there on the screen, but it's fucking Hawk Moth)

Also given Current Events parts of this game hit differently

Makoto: How did you find out about us? Why do you hack so good? Why can you metaverse?
Futaba:

Akechi: stress is the enemy of beauty
Sae:

my girl

Do I have three different versions of this tweet? Probably. Will I stop? Highly unlikely.

Aaaaand then the power blinked. And least it was just cutscenes. Plus I think it autosaved when I got out of them? I don't know how the system save works.

Futaba's Palace music is called When Mother Was There and I'm just gonna go sit in the corner and cry if that's cool with everyone

You know that feeling when someone is throws the Reverse Draw 4 and you're mentally gauging how long you could stand being in jail for murder?

That translates into someone throwing a Revolution in Tycoon. Just so everyone knows.

brb making this my wallpaper

Okay, everything paused while we tried to figure out what monster Kiddo was describing. It was from one of the Minecraft series she watches on YT. Life may resume.

Has Yusuke never used one of those 3D poser things before? Same concept.

Okay I got distracted by potential persona 4 golden on Steam??? now life may continue

(man I really gotta finish 4)

"I worked up a sweat" because you were in an arcade in a SWEATER VEST, you fucking nerd

She is fourteen. And she looks even younger than that!

Futaba:

Theory: Ann is so used to being manhandled into clothes as a model that she doesn't think anything about adjusting Futaba to fit in the swimsuit better

Akechi: I have a sad backstory about being an orphan
Me, knowing exactly what's he's up to:

"We seem to share some kind of bond" walk off a cliff and die

It's so weirdly incongruous with how gay the actual link is

Ughghgh the whole beach sequence. Just. All of it.

I do prefer "pushy drag queens" to "aggressive pedophiles" tho

And now the regular kind of pedophiles! I hate this beach episode.

https://twitter.com/shutupnochi/status/1135603397720195072?s=20

return of my favorite gif I made of this game

Huh, I made that gif almost an exact year ago

Is there a way to permanently toggle the Thieves Guild stuff off? I get tired of telling it "no" every time I load up the game.

Sojiro telling Akira and Akechi to take a bath together

Stop encouraging this

WHO YOU ARE WORKING FOR

BECAUSE YOU CRAVE HIS APPROVAL

I hope you trip getting out of the bath and land on your dick

Futaba gets in on the all-out attack!! I'm disproportionately pleased by this

The money reading from Chihaya only works if I win via All-Out Attack, and I managed to make an Izanagi Picaro with nothing but regen/null passives so I don't wanna switch, so my whole role rn is switching people out to hit different weaknesses

I haven't gotten the skill from Hifumi where I can switch out on anyone's turn, just mine, so I'm just The Delegator right now. It might be the most strategic I've ever been in this game.

I'm just very broke, all the time.

I know it's bc it's getting closer to the eldritch abomination level of Mementos, but I h a t e Akzeriyyuth's design. Just. A lot.

I take more pleasure than I should out of backing out of a Velvet Room menu before the twins have finished their spiel

I'm still not over this. I will never be over this.

Was Morgana this passive-aggressive about the Hawaii trip the first time?

I thought cats were supposed to snub AFTER you left for a while

"Is that all you're bringing?" His suitcase is bigger than yours! Be nice to Ryuji!

The amount of leeway they get in Hawaii is astounding to me. Idk if it's a Japan thing or just for the narrative, but they'd have American high schoolers on leashes.

Like maybe not a club or team, but the class in general? Nuh-uh.

Makoto's salt at shitty school administration is relateable content

I think they are massively overestimating what an American flight is going to let them take back

Also we spent a solid five minutes trying to identify the sunscreens on the shelf behind Ann and Makoto

Me, every time Akechi shows up on the news: [Dojima voice] oh, and he's on the damn TV now!

"[...] including damage to a statue depicting Mr. Okumura" stop being topical

Now I'm just sad

"it's a lever for the elevator!" you pull it, what if spikes fly out of the walls?

(today in Jokes Only Mala Will Get Theatre...)

Haru's whole intro is so awkward, it colors everything else about her. I hate it.

I hate everything about the "Mona runs away" bit, it feels like a hamfisted way to get Haru into the story proper and I just. Ugh.

"Morgana always looked after me, but now he's not here" Akira you're making me sad, stop it

He really did have this constant companion for five months, though, aside from the Hawaii trip. I understand his preoccupation and sad.

"This girl! She has protagonist hair!"

Makoto! Tact! We've talked about this!

"why're you singling me out?!" because you're the one who fucked up!

Ryuji: "I want to say, from the bottom of my heart: my bad."

"you found our cat" I see you claiming Morgana, Sojiro

https://twitter.com/Mentarnes/status/1271242742899683328?s=19

ANN/YUSUKE SHOWTIME

I will concede that Haru's awakening speech is very good

"I know there's an alarm on, but calm down, Inmate!" hehehehehe

Just hitch a ride on a fucking UFO with a grappling hook, it's fine

I! Hate! Girimekhala!

Rage + Reflect Physical? Using Mudoon twice in a row?? Fucking unacceptable, go to jail

("then why do you keep jumping the strong enemies" bc money)

I just realized that Yusuke talking about overadaptation means he's been researching abuse since he got away from Madarame

And now I'm sad. Proud, but sad.

Noooo the airlock puzzle I HAD BLOCKED IT FROM MY MIND

I hate how big this Palace is. Not just that it's multiple areas, but everything's spread out so it takes forever to go btwn objectives.

Student: jogs up beside Akira at the end of the "walking to school" scene
Me: RUNNING GIRL

Maruki you are doing me a concern

Akira: in danger of getting sent to juvie
Also Akira: gets neck-deep in a yakuza deal

I think I just found my new ot3

Also: Yusuke. Pot. Kettle.

That settles it, it's canon.

(I know it actually means the confidant links, let me have this)

Haru/Morgana Showtime?!

"Just you wait, Leader." wrong protagonist

Okumura looks like Evil John Oliver

Fuuuck that fight, as soon as I can save I'm gonna go wrap my hand; I always end up clutching the controller too tight during unnecessarily stressful fights 😔

Go sit on a cactus

YOU GO WITH HIM

hey kasumi

hey kasumi whatcha doin there

where y'goin kasumi

Solas???

(I think this is where big spoilers start so heads up for that)

hey game what the fuck

I can't understand any of the weird echoey voices so I'm just gonna assume they're saying bad stuff

Magical girl persona

"it's not like it's a palace we've been after, so I guess it's no big deal" the random palace that the previously-unknown Persona user randomly found that she clearly had a personal connection to...nah, ur right, fuck it

(MORGANA.)

Welp, we gotta kill her

COME AND BE A MEMBER OF THE MIDNIGHT CREW

"Get to work, y'little gun nerd." I enjoy Iwai.

Iwai :(

It's both refreshing and endearing to have a "tortured mobster past" character that genuinely turns it off at home, not the "tough love bc I don't know any other kind" stuff.

That's right, you sit back there and mind your business.

MARUKI

WHATCHA UP TO, MARUKI

MARUKI YOU ARE DOING ME A BIG CONCERN

[kill bill sirens]

You. Cactus squad. Go.

Tanooki or FNAF? I honestly can't tell.

Alright, I've got access to the PS4 for the first time in a couple of days, no expectation of sleeping, and all the post-okumura cutscenes to get through.

Ann still cute

Haru's genre-savvy

Haru senses the other shoe

RIP evil John Oliver

That's what you get for wearing a checkerboard cravat

Man, Haru, tho. Just watched her dad die live on the internet, and now she has to go be a corporate heiress instead of grieving. While still trying to Phantom Thief, grapple with the idea that it's possibly her fault, and deal with all the shit her dad pulled with their company.

Someday I'll actually do her social link.

radical 6

Akira why does your phone go all the way through your leg when you put it in your pocket

Not wanting to use the word "girlfriend" is relateable content

Meanwhile Makoto's in my original save like

About that politician? And his mistress, yes I think I heard about it in the news

don't play 2 persona games at the same time

Something I've never understood is why they wrote saying the protag's name out loud into the spoken dialogue. They knew the name was gonna be customizable, why do that? It just puts weird pauses in and jarring differences btwn the text and the audio.

It's also why @Mentarnes' display name in our group chat was Boss Leader That Guy for a while

On one hand, get out of my house, Akechi.

On the other, I'm so fucking tempted.

He just played along with it, why are y'all so GAY

Get off my fucking TV, Shido

Futaba: what do you do during a school festival?
BF: you festivate

Still not over the instant karma of Akechi stealing their food and being poisoned by it. Hoist by his own fucking smugness.

(I changed my camera settings to get clear P4 pictures and I can NOT get them back the way they were)

man, same

I hate this smug motherfucker with every bone in my body

The Kasumi post-festival party was much better, couldn't we have replaced the Let's Embarrass Haru scene with it

Party MC: Isn't this a hot scoop?
BF: a hot scoop of bullshit

This game (and Erica Lindbeck) get points for accurate attempts to speak while having a panic attack

Also the scene where Sojiro confronts them with a Futaba's calling card is one of my favorites in the whole thing.

"May I have a cup of coffee first?" no, fuck you

"so what do you say?" I say fall in a hole and die

"doesn't he make you think of us?" absolutely not. go outside and spit.

The most unrealistic thing in this game is that everyone says "smartphone" instead of just "phone"

Mosquito-faced motherfucker

I don't know why I find it hilarious that this is the last tweet before I started frantically playing The Last of Us 2 before anyone could spoil it for me

Also sometimes I just let the OP run to hear Kiddo sing along to it under her breath

I see you, Atlus

Makoto/Haru showtime?!

"crow, get rid of this next time you see a garbage can" "why me?" bc ur trash

Game give me the forbidden Haru/Makoto showtime

quick question how the fuck do I play Persona 5

squints in persona 4

I played ff7r so now I don't know which buttons do what anymore

what do you MEAN triangle isn't the interact button? What do MEAN the start button and the middle pad are useless outside of a very specific instance? What do you MEAN I can't randomly attack boxes?

because somebody had to do it

Oh

Oh no

Oh no you rank up Akechi's link with BILLIARDS

There are 8 people on the PLANET who get that but all of them are traumatized rn

HEY. RUDE.

Kaguya made this fight NOTHING. Null Curse AND Light, and repels physical? Eat shit, Akechi

...I forgot about you

Jokes aside, this is FASCINATING bc it's the first time he even hints at his actual personality to Akira. Like his voice is even different - that dark edgy Light Yagami bullshit he gets at the end of the game. And by all accounts Akira doesn't even fucking notice

Did Akechi actually mean to kill us? Was he gonna "oops training accident rip boss leader that guy" to the rest of the team? Akechi what the fuck are you even.

Fellas is it gay to lure your leader/rival/crush into the collective unconscious and try to kill him under the guise of sparring/testing his skills

I would have killed you without hesitation or remorse

Lmao sucks to suck

Yusuke will now DIE FOR YOU

(this tweet is hilarious if you've watched yu yu hakusho)

Welp, gotta kiss her. No, wait, shit, wrong one

Yeah we're really not slick with those

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Rea-per farm-ing 👏 👏 👏👏👏

The despair trick apparently doesn't work in royal BUT I STILL ALMOST DID IT

HA fuck off and die, you Marley and Marley lookin motherfucker

So I was running around slamming the Morganavan into Shadows and using Ryuji's instawin to level up to fight the guy and somewhere along the way I amassed three million yen

I know beating the reaper had at least a little bit to do with that but also: three million yen

You've heard of Scary Anime Glasses Shine, get ready for Dopey Anime Glasses Steam Fog

Welp, gotta kill him

I ask again, did shadow sae REALLY need spiky boobs

The fact that I know what Kasumi's promise is makes her "don't forget the promise we made" even more of a death flag

"there's nowhere to run!" you drastically underestimate how extra I am, sir

I have completed the 135 hour prologue, I'm now allowed to play Persona 5 Royal

I know it's part of The Plan, but consider if Akira had just jabbed the pen in the cop's eye.

And I hate eye gore! I EXTREMELY hate eye gore!

But consider it.

Game: You did it! That was very definitely the final boss. You beat the game. Congratulations!
Me:

Lmao I still remember yelling VERY LOUDLY about the pancake reveal, I 100% did not catch it until the little flashback

Hey, it's not question marks this time!

God, I just wanna throttle him. I know what happens (at least I think I do) and I still wanna throttle him.

Throttle Akechi DLC when

Light Yagami wannabe lookin ass

Oh good, the child was in her room for that part

"do you love me now daddy"

A solid fucking hour of cutscene. Game why are you like this.

huehuehue

[kaname date voice] there's a window RIGHT THERE

"based on connections from my previous job" give! me! Sojiro! lore!

"now, Akechi, bring me their Miraculous"

Ann pestering the legislator about Shido is the most convincing acting she pulls off in this entire game

AKIRA. How did you not text Hifumi yet?! I should not have to direct you in this!

WAIT Ryuji's thing works in Palaces too?! Ohh this is gonna go SO much faster

But...people die when they are killed

Calling social anxiety this now, it's way more accurate

Kawakami not being able to stop coughing hits different in 2020

"if you understand then go home" we're on a boat?!

Oh, go to hell

Self-care is ffwd'ing through the whole "skimpy swimsuit" scene

"just yell if you get into trouble"

"Shido has deep ties to the yakuza" bitch me too, he ain't special

I'd get that as a tattoo, shut up ryuji

how does a bastard, orphan...

I can't believe he died in Vanitas cosplay

I hate it. I hate it! I h a t e i t

I thought maybe the expanded social link would make me give a shit about Akechi dying but the only thing that's elicited any kind of reaction was this one line, and even that's mostly from a narrative standpoint

I also still don't understand why everyone is sad! Like he led a public opinion crusade against you, BLACKMAILED you into letting him on the team, lied to you the entire time he was on the team, SHOT AKIRA, and then tried to kill all of you at once.

"oh no the consequences of his own actions shot him to death" GOOD??? He's a piece of shit? "he was manipulated by a shitty adult" SO WAS EVERYBODY ELSE HERE. It's the whole theme of your group! None of you killed anybody!

tl;dr I hate when games try to give me last-minute emotions about shitty characters, see also Joseph Seed.

In direct contrast, every scene with Futaba, Sojiro, and Akira makes me have to lay in the floor with my emotions

Makoto: Shadow identified. Awaiting Joker's orders.
Me: Ram the Blade Ship

I am STUPID overleveled for Shido and possibly the entire rest of the game

...I fused Mara. And I hate myself. But also.

My roommate, getting up for work:

I like the mental image of Rise standing outside the tofu shop with a broom, chasing off reporters

Sleep deprived Shido fight let's hooooo

Shido: casts extremely big magic with extremely involved animations
Me: [50 dmg]
Me: [absorbs fire damage]
Me: [reflects physical]

I am, somewhat ironically, unfuckable with Mara in front

I choose to believe they hugged Ryuji into submission after they thought he died

God, imagine getting hit with literal decades of memories of the most reprehensible shit a human could be responsible for...and it's you, you're the human.

GUYS

I've been playing p much since 2 pm yesterday, I'm going to take a fucking nap

Oh he worked on SOMETHING in Inaba

welp, gotta kill her

I hate that I can relate to this now.

(Still wear a mask if you wear glasses! Just get one that seals good over the bridge of your nose!)

Wait, Akira doesn't even need glasses! Fuck you, Akira!

Futaba: That flappy part of Joker's coat is so cool.
Ryuji: I feel like one day it's gonna get caught in a door.

This is it, this is the only Mementos banter that's allowed to exist.

'cause I can.' cause it's fun! do we really need reasons?

I will still fight all of you about Yukiko

>_>

I have seven MILLION yen burning a hole in my pocket, can I PLEASE just give it to Yusuke

You can't exam me on stuff I didn't learn, game, that's illegal

squints in kingdom hearts

welp, gotta kill him

I don't have a note, I just really like Sae's cut-in

Iiiiii forgot about this

NO YOU'RE JUST HERE~ FOR A YEAR~

Me neither but I am VERY appreciative

Sudden thought: the skills that cost hp are the same energy as Molly having to slice himself open

(brought to you by my appreciation for them not letting me "Mollymauk myself", i.e. cast from hit points when I don't have hit points)

TIME TO FIGHT BIG GULP LET'S GO

I always forget about Futaba's little ahoge until she's against a dark background

sir I'm going to have to ask you to control yourself

♥

sir this is a wendy's

Hey

Hey what the fuck

Akechi survived and turned himself in but he's still using the creepy faux-Light voice

what's the caaaaatch

I don't trust hiiiiiim

Yusuke what the FUCK are you wearing

Too relateable, dial it back

If y'all don't stop jinxing the new year I'm gonna fight you

Hey

Hey what the fuck

I have had this dream and I hate it

That's cute, at least

Also cute!

Futaba's WHAT

Where's my CAT

Haru's WHAT

where is my CAT

EXCUSE YOU SIR

WHOMST

"drunk on the spirit of the new year already?" I AM NOT THE DRUNK ONE HERE

I'M SORRY WHAT

HIS NAME IS WHAT

Is this this game's answer to Teddie? Did this game need an answer to Teddie?

AND NOW THIS BITCH

Of course he's the Awake one

"it's safest for us to partner up in this endeavor"

I have great rage in my heart

"this old thing?"

....it's Maruki, isn't it

GHIBLI DAD WHAT HAPPENED

Also how did I not see it before

"so you meddle with her cognition for your own wishes?" you don't get to say nothin about what nobody does with anybody else's cognition, AKECHI

Listen, buddy, I worked REALLY HARD on that other reality, give it back

Showtime with WHOMST

Making me WALK? and use the SUBWAY? like some kind of NEANDERTHAL?

Ann hyping up her girlfriend to anyone who stands still long enough

I have to go re-traumatize everyone to save reality :(

why my map got tentacles

checking on yusuke

Feeling's mutual, dickhead

Choke and Die

:(

Ahhhh I've got the TEAM back

Hello best stupidest team

Yes, extremely. Go away forever.

I cannot tell you why this cracked me up as hard as it did. I'm blaming lack of sleep.

Futaba's voice in this bit is fucking heartbreaking

I got a bunch of special themes for clearing the final palace and the preview for the Kasumi one really buries the lede on her gymnast-ing around in the background

I mean

I'm not complaining! It's a nice aesthetic and the movement isn't nearly as bad as the MMPR one. Plus the kid will get a huge kick out of it.

Calls Ann "lady": weird, creepy, not a fan
Calls Lavenza "lady": oddly endearing???

OH THAT'S RIGHT they know about the Velvet Room, that's still weird

"it seems [Akechi] was right" go outside and spit

The theme of this is almost definitely going to be "people have to make their own happiness" or something similar, but also Maruki manipulated all of you emotionally and also the entire world, he at least needs to be contained

(is it the entire world?? What is the scope of his ability? Are we talking Scarlet Witch, House of M levels? Or is it just localized to Japan? Or even just Shibuya?)

(I mean he brought people back from the dead, but are they for real back or is it cognitive versions? Mass shared hallucinations??)

Lavenza? Lavenza can phone?

Gotta spring for the unlimited plan

I have discovered a newfound appreciation for Haru

Quick shoutout to my sofa friend, I don't know how or why he got put up here but he is v soft and I have booped his nose many times

The equivalent of "you don't count as people"

Also that's a v cute face

GOD I know what I wanna say abt the "my original power" line and retaining your core self even as you discover new drives and motivations but I haven't slept OR eaten and English is escaping me entirely

But I very much dig Diego's design AND the fact that his name is a revised Zorro reference

Also I think I hit on a theme but I'm gonna wait to see some of the other new ones before I try to words it. And also eat a food.

I can appreciate these changes

Hang on, I have to go Google literally everything he just said about new year's

I looked it up, Shinto continues to be very cool

It's a saferoom, Morgana, keep up

And then she took a nap. Extremely relateable.

God, fuck OFF

...where's Jose?

where is the egg child

nature abhors a vacuum

also is this edda-earth

motherFUCKER the gang finally gets therapy and it's EVIL

fuck OFF, Akechi, if you'd had some (real, non-evil) therapy we wouldn't be in this situation to begin with

"please show me the path you choose for humanity" stop putting this shit on 15-year-olds!

@ gods in the persona universe, stop harassing minors

>:[

Now I will make like a Lavenza and nap

OKAY ONE LAST THING I was watching the video of the kasumi/sumire theme again and idr if I said it in the thread but she's always read more figure skater to me, like mb I've just watched more skating than I have gymnastics but I don't read gymnast from her!

I know the ribbon is a rhythmic gymnastics thing but the poses and even her bit in the opening are figure skatery to me. I am probably thinking way too much about it but also

why is akechi in my theives' den, remove him immediately

again, I have EIGHT. MILLION. YEN. Please let me feed my boy

Щ(ಠ益ಠЩ)

"there's a pretty strict dress code"

TIL! I just picked it bc it was the least stupid option!

Welp, I'm crying

[sobbing] social link...social liNK

beg pardon

it's so CUTE she's so CUTE

Wait so if Kawakami's stuff is still going is she not in Maruki's happy bubble?

Is there a shield around the people I have contracts with??

Ann's room? Ann's room!

oh this one's gonna hurt

I'm into it

also into it

If Maruki really changed their entire career path - their life's path! - based on a slump.........like. Dude.

vm.tiktok.com/ZMJAbk5MH/

The context is he's doing squats as self-flagellation for not realizing the world was broken

But also

Ryuji's a barbarian, confirmed

I HAVE AN INTELLIGENCE OF 6 I THINK I KNOW WHAT I'M DOING

About to start crying over this idiot at 7 am

Hey can the new requests CALM THEIR SHIT PLEASE?

Okay now that I have Ann and Ryuji's new Personas too I think my theory is correct: their ultimate power is the person behind the legend; still undeniably badass but without needing the facade of, for example, Zorro to do badass things.

Ah, I see. Disgusting.

WE'RE GOING ON A TRIP, ON OUR FAVORITE ROCKET SHIP

It's depression. You can say depression.

Mala: cool, Akechi's alive, the gay fanfiction continues
Me: you know that scene in rescuers down under where he threatens to feed him the little boy to the crocodiles? That.

Nothing's even happened, I've been in Mementos, I just hate him SO MUCH

I mean it's probably referring to Sae's behavior when she was distorted/obsessed with the case

but also

Kawakami's winter outfit is Cute

EVERYBODY SHUT THE FUCK UP MY KID MADE LE BLANC IN MINECRAFT

It's obv not a 1:1 but also shut the fuck up, my kid made le blanc in minecraft

Kiddo: [spawning a bunch of cats to try to get a black one to be Morgana]
Me: no if you fill the house with cats it's persona 4

The more sumire talks about the actual kasumi the less I like her. She sounds very controlling.

It also feels like they're trying to push Sumire as a romance and that makes me uncomfy.

1. I was correct!
2. Why are you making me do this, game. I don't want to do this. I have been on Sumire's side of this conversation and it suuuuucks why are you making me do this.

Without Morgana's commentary this could be passed off as Maruki's perfect world where people recognize the benefits of therapy but nope persona 5 royal said go to therapy

"nochi just beat the game already"

Crying About Futaba Sakura Hours

Maruki's Persona is a monkey's paw

A+ pun. A+ creepy poster.

So the Japanese in the middle of the "hellth" poster says "let's keep our hearts in kenzan", and Wikipedia says "kenzan" is a fixture in flower arranging that keeps the flowers centered/weighted down, and I am now obsessed with this metaphor

It's entirely possible this isn't even the correct metaphor but I'm obsessed with the implications

"enter paradise just through the gate" nah I saw westworld, I ain't walking through shit

🎶 gonna throw maruki out a windoooow 🎶

chonkus

Found Agartha

this is just VLR

I Do Not Like The Color Math

That being said, I AM extremely into the aesthetic of this place

Me: I should wait for Maruki downstairs
Me: [disappears into the Theives' Den]

From Kawakami's concept art. I love her expressions so fuckin much

Oh goddammit, Akechi did something endearing. I need a shower.

...I have a save from right before this scene....do I bad end for shits and giggles....

(I never intentionally bad end, I Dislike It) (blame @Mentarnes, they introduced me to reset theory)

EXTREMELY bold assumption, sir

I did not ask for your fix-it fic

Fuck the bad end, good end gets me dead Akechi

MAWWAGE

"why don't we try to help him somehow?" JAILBREAK DLC

ACE ATTORNEY CROSSOVER DLC

marutaxi

I'm torn, I enjoy the Make Your Own Reality themes but I LOVED Road Trip End

@threadreaderapp unroll