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Doe posted...

I completely agree. The god stuff is the worst stuff in Persona 4, and is just aggravated by Golden. But of course the friend hanging out stuff in Golden are great additions to be clear.

Maruki is everything a Persona protagonist should be, absolutely excellent and brings the story back down to something personal and emotionally powerful. It expands the themes of the original while putting a new great twist on palaces, and frankly it's the first time an ending choice in modern Persona actually convinced a lot of people to choose different options.

I've actually pretty much expressed your feelings about Maruki vs the Giant Eye Ball in a topic(s) before and how the former is so much more effective than the latter, and how the latter totally sabotages the confrontation of the narrative's human antagonist in 4. Although a lot of responses I got were like "errrm the god's name is dropped in this one text box four months earlier in the game, so it's actually smart and well written"

The P4G animation handled Adachi and Yu so much better tbh. It gives much needed depth to the conflict and "mirror" between them. Introspection is ultimately what motivates both of them throughout the story, with Adachi coming to a conclusion of Nihilism and Yu coming to one of optimism as a result of their experiences. Even Yu outright rejecting Adachi's ideology is refreshing. They are incompatible ideologies with one another and Yu being damaged emotionally by not being able to get through to somebody for the first time is a nice touch that should have been in the game. But yeah, you're 100% correct. P4G is a game built up on the strength of human interactions. To throw all of that away to set up a series of God battles just felt so meaningless. You still have solid interactions with your friends, but discarding the strength of Persona 4's storytelling feels like such a strange overall decision.