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- Decided on the Rise relationship. "There's no turning back." It's like the game is trying to intimidate me.
- I like how the thing that made my knowledge jump to max was the Guide to Pests.
- Sorry, Yukiko. I know most boys would like to hang out with a hot girl on Sunday, but I've got a date with an old lady by the riverbank.
- I still haven't started Saki's brother's s-link. A kid runs up to him and me and says "Mr. Morooka said you're filling in for an absent health committee member, so you have to go, too." Jesus Christ, Persona now has ghosts who force you to join after-school clubs? That's an incredibly specific form of revenge for failing to protect someone from a murderer.
- "Hey Chie, I've got this disgusting slime with eyeballs with me, wanna hang out?"
- We go on the school trip. The first thing Yosuke notices is the size of the school. This would be more effective if we'd gotten more exterior shots of the full Inaba school, I'm just saying. I've played both games and never thought either school was noticeably larger!
- I don't know if rural Japanese to urban Japanese counts as a "cultural exchange." If so, I went on a cultural exchange when I visited my cousins in Omaha.
- We meet Chihiro from P3. I wonder how she reacted to Frank Svensson last year mysteriously dying in Aigis' lap? She was one of the like four girls I had a relationship with in that game, but at least she seems to be doing well.
- "Thousands die, and tens of thousands are born. That is the curse upon this country." Have I got good news for you!
- At a club: "Two years ago when I had a show here..." Rise performed at a night club when she was thirteen?
- I enjoy Yukiko's secret knowledge of drinking games and Naoto's attempts to manipulate the situation to gain more information. It's good characterization.
- "It's a fuuma bundou, the market's best-rated claw!"
- Guardian of the River beated.
- Courage rank 5 beated.
- Naoto then tells us that he knows the people who disappear are on TV first, that he knows Yukiko, Kanji, and Rise were kidnapped, and that we rescued them. I like how his detective work is all incredibly obvious, but is played up like he's a super genius. I'm not criticizing the part where the cops ignore evidence because they want to close the case, though, that I get, that makes sense.
- Naoto says "I know you guys are the only people who can rescue kidnapped people, and the kidnapped people were all on TV, and I was just on TV and have an interest in proving the killer is still at large, can you possibly guess what my plan is here, okay bye."
- That night, a blurry version of Naoto appears on the Midnight Channel. By the way, I wrote that sentence before it happened because it was just so obviously going to happen.
- The next night, Naoto appears on the channel in a labcoat in a laboratory, talking about how he'll experiment on himself to alter his body and walk a new path in life. I'm actually curious what that means? Anyway, I like how the narration says "That was definitely Naoto," like I needed to be told.
- There's an NPC named "Guy with a Backpack." That really makes him stand out in this game about high schoolers.
- Yukiko finally figures out how that Naoto got himself kidnapped on purpose, and that Mitsuo only killed the teacher and not anyone else. Yosuke's unfortunately gotten less clever as time has gone on.
- We go inside the TV world and discover that it's grown larger and that we need a hint on how to find Naoto. This is also the first time I've seen Rise's persona up close, I didn't realize it has a satellite for a face, that's incredible.
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Started: July 6, 2005