Persona 1 [JRPGs Told Long]

when it comes to persona as an overall series I've always felt that each game has provided at least something of the others hadn't before that is to say I feel like each game as a couple aspects they do better than any of the others in the series you know like I would think that persona 2 has the best characters persona 3 is the best plot persona 4 has the Nanako and we're Sona 5 has a whole lot of little things like the best dynamic the best aesthetics and arguably the best soundtrack though that's mostly just my personal preference but of course that list leaves that one specific example when somewhat maligned when compared to the others in us here it's been ultimately still a strong game in its own right of course talking about persona q fine fine persona 1 [Music] welcome them my name is Philemon Sona Juan was released in 1996 in the PlayStation none of the title revelations persona and was the first in this now long-running series although it is kind of a sequel to Shin Megami Tensei if in the broadest of terms anyways it was SM T's first real foray into a more broad market appeal as such however this was also the first installment in the series meaning it wasn't exactly a tried and true formula at this point so the game had did let's say some questionable design choices I mean properly so certainly when I start these videos I like to tell you that if you're able you should try to actually play through these games before watching the videos as most of the time I'm a summary like this can't quite match the full experience of the game but you're probably fine just watching the video this time no no I'm not trying to say that persona is a bad game it is it I mean it's the worst persona but that still doesn't mean it's bad but having played through later installments and enjoying such luxuries as being able to attack an enemy without worrying if they're one square too far away for your incredibly short acts to reach or traveling through a dungeon and actually knowing if you're headed in the right direction you might find persona one that had frustrating to actually play through well whenever I played through all of that so that you could enjoy it so sit back grab some popcorn because this is gonna be a long one let's go through persona 1 [Music] [Music] so our game really does not beat around the bush as it takes no time in immediately introducing us to the majority of the main cast who are hanging out in the classroom after school just for simplicity sake I'm gonna refer to everyone by their nicknames all right so we go around the room and we meet everyone first up there's Mark and Ernest but slightly temperamental boy who tends to be one of the more compassionate members of the team he does have a bit of a short fuse though and has got a bit of a thing for tagging oddly enough but you know unless of a vandalism and more of up this is my art sort of way next up there's Brown probably the most REM anxious and outgoing of the group he's highly confident in a bit of a show-off making claims akin to being God's gift woman and the like but when the chips are down he's fairly reliable he spends most of his pastime hitting on women and getting turned down by women after that comes is a your difficult airheaded valley girl she acts pretty much exactly how you'd expect overly cutesy and particularly quick on the uptake when hard thinking is involved she also has a tendency to be very dismissive when she comes across things or people that she thinks it beneath her that being said while she doesn't outwardly show it she does have a very strong attachment to her friends and deep down probably needs them more than anyone else in the group does then we have Ellie the first of the future persona two party members that will come across she's the full package beautiful elegant and quite intelligent that being said she's also a little quirky having interest bordering on an obsession with subjects such as mythology in the occult she's also a bit prone to daydreaming after that we have nan Joe who's definitely the most different from his persona to counterpart born into a rich powerful family he is straight-laced pragmatic and a little cold he's logical to an extreme always aiming to do things efficiently and correctly however this strict adherence to logic can oftentimes lead him to making decisions that are quite harsh on others still despite his cold exterior he is probably a fair bit kinder than he likes to let on and then we have the final future persona to member Yukino cool-headed and quick-witted she's a bit of a natural-born leader she faces every situation with a level head rational thought but unlike Nanjo she also knows how to show compassion when it's necessary thus she's earned quite a lot of respect from her peers however deep down she does have several insecurities that she would rather not be found out by those close to her and finally at the center of the room stands the last party member present he's silent and expressionless void of any sorts of thoughts or emotions and yet he somehow managed to win the affection of not one but two of the prettiest girls in school yep you guessed it it's our player character and I've affectionately nicknamed him bland for now the group here seems to be making a bed about the existence of it phenomenon known as persona Brown claims that if you perform a ritual of sorts then you can summon your persona a mythical other part of yourself that can provide mystical powers unbeknownst a man mark is skeptical and non Joe and Yukino aren't particularly interested but thirst of the crew seems pretty on board with the idea and the sights try out the persona summoning ritual for members each stand in a different corner of the room and one-by-one chant persona personnel come here for walking over to the next person and repeating the process but it's a strange sensation I feel the hills of the universe self is converging on this very spot my existence be born anew a new side a new face could it be Oh Browns photo [ __ ] should have figured he'll get a ritual like that be so simple any God who came up a bad sort of harebrained scheme would have to be a complete idiot I'll be litigated will you well it takes only lightning pitch here of course you meet the one in the only that woman who apparently used to take fashion advice from Kimberly from FMA Brotherhood anyway see tells you the same stick he tells everyone how her persona resides with a new of variety of masks that we people have gone for the many different personalities within us blah blah blah blah blah before sending you back on your way awake in the school infirmary to the voices of Nanjo mark and Yuki know as well as the school nurse it seems they too had the same dream you did of the man in the white mask and it's not too long before another familiar face appears it's the psycho one of your teachers and a pretty damn good one at that time to a false and caring with the strong motivation now for students anyways she's here having heard there's a lot of you collapse and suggest that you check into the local hospital everything's probably fine but it wouldn't hurt to make sure Plus while you're there I'll check in on Mackey so the four of you decide why now hot and head off for the hospital and after a brief run-in with Don Jose Butler heiresses him a little you arrive at the hospital seeing as you all seem pretty okay you decide to immediately check in with Mackey it was a friend of all of yours he's been confined to the hospitals in the past year this certainly can't have been easy on her as when you meet with her she complains about a few things notably when Mark asks her about her mother she claims that she doesn't care about her but she says that suddenly Mackey doubles over and paint a lot of you rush out bringing Mackey to the ICU but there's not really much you can do aside from wait outside and hope she gets better but as you wait suddenly an earthquake strikes the hospital doesn't last for long but a lot of you are nearly knocked off your feet by the violent shuttering of the building when it's over mark rushes towards the ICU door to see if Mackey's okay I need to find that the ICU is no longer there but we literally just watch this door open and Mackey go inside of it but before you can really question the situation scream echoes that done the hallway and a lot of you rush off to see what the commotion oh god it's worse than I could have possibly imagined Michael Jackson's Thriller zombies [Music] a zombies turd on you but unfortunately for them it seems the lot of you really did awaken to the power of persona as one by one your team call forth the other mask within themselves and easily dispatch the zombie org but unfortunately before you were able to stop them it seems the zombies dealt a fatal blow to non Joe's Butler no not him you like had a scene one time and he hid behind a vending machine I mean that's literally all he's done in this game duh truly so many memories well anyways with your new power freely at your disposal your group quickly make your way to the entrance of the hospital although for some reason the lair to the hospital itself has completely changed still eventually you do make it to the entrance and after helping a nurse trapped under a vending machine you happen upon a familiar face Ellie who it seems also gained the power of persona it looks like Brown's little ritual really did work after all well after dealing with another group of zombies Ellie informed to you that the world seems to be overrun with demons and to make matters worse a strange barrier seems to have surrounded the town making escape impossible but on the bright side the school seems to be demon free so far so you figured you might as well head over there but says you're on your way there you spot something near the entrance of a nearby shrine it's a mysterious butterfly it's golden alert gently shimmering wings they're almost hypnotizing I just need to rest my eyes let's focus and get going all right Ted go shake things up [Music] yeah yeah it's Philemon what do you expect he talks a bunch of choice and consequences but really all he's saying is if you act kind of nice you don't get your ultimate personas anyways after waking up from your dream you noticed that for some reason Mackey's mother is beside you after she comes to her senses she basically spoils the first act of the game she just says the president of sabacc command named Ken Dori has built a device known as the diva system that was meant to alter reality but what she find out what the device was truly capable of Maggie's mother tried to stop him and was promptly hindered by Kendall riesgo she find him going to the police but they're currently infested with demons so she instead leaves it up to you to sneak into Sebek and gives you a keycard as well as directions to a secret entrance the scheme really does not beat around the bush one paragraph of text and bam it got a villain an explanation for the weird events going on and a destination for her to go and stop it anyways before you head off to confront Sebek you have to take Mackey's mother someplace for treatment mark and nan Joe decided to dump that responsibility on you and the girls while they run off to look into this whole Sebek thing meanwhile you and your lovely ladies carry miss Anna Murrow over to the last safe haven the school so after giving what is frankly the best secret password ever conceived the group of you enter the school and leave Mackey's mother in the capable hands of Miss syuko and the nurse with that done you can onl he also ditched you to go help out around the school well after you safely seen to it that Mackey's mother is safe and sound you head off to check out the large hole that's appeared in school's back wall I am sayin another girl are there and I say asks you're going to head out and deal with Civic oh well yeah forget that sort of tingly sensation down the back of your spine oh whatever is a mentioned that Ellie went out into the hall and damn it I'm gonna let my girl Ellie go off on their own to do a demon infested wasteland let's go trash that but before any of you can make it far who should appear but Macky surprisingly it's obviously a bit of a shock seeing as she just kind of disappeared from the hospital but I mean because she seems cheerful enough maybe too cheerful whoops she always this upbeat but before he can question that further Nanjo suddenly appears in the hole behind you he's surprised to see Mackey as well but pushes out a side claiming that mark was captured by demons at the police station and he needs you to help free them so the three of you quickly head off towards the station along the way you talk a bit the oddity surrounding Mackey began to grow well it's true that she has been locked up inside hospital for a year now she seems weirdly ignorant in the world outside he doesn't even know what a police station is what's more she seems to think that she never was in the hospital much less for a year non-jew and you whisper amongst yourselves could she have amnesia or something but you can't talk for long as a demon suddenly jumps out at you and lunges for Mackey but fortunately if unsurprisingly Mackey too has the power of persona within her and she's able to easily repel the demon before any harm befall sir so Nanjo and you decide to for why any questions you have for Mackey yes she seemed quite capable and would be an asset in your goal of rescuing mark and eventually confronting Sebek the three of you hurry on toward the police station and find that it too is transformed into a labyrinth of its former self and is full of demons much in hospital so you grind your way through a variety of Dombey cops and Agathe eons until you eventually make it to the basement where the police offices holding cells are there you find both mark as well as round oddly enough it seems the two of them were trying to prepare some weapons in order to help fight off the demons but were cut in the process and sure enough as he's discussing this a small contingent of zombie cops appear before you looking to throw all of you into your own cell fortunately most of you have experience kicking demon bought at this point and even brown to his persona as well after the battle mark forces his way into your little party probably wanting to keep an eye on Mackey and Brown s to join - yes sorry dude but this whole expedition was set up to find Ellie and apparently there's like a 5-man limit for some reason in you know mark called shotgun so gonna have to ditch e here anyways you bum in Delhi the subway and after filling her in on everything that happened so far the five of you head off to the secret entrance into semuc upon your arrival you happen to run into is a who's quite happy to see you she claims that the entire school just up and vanish your party is surprised at in his but ultimately decide that kandorian his diva system is what caused the school's appearance and stopping him would ultimately prove to be more beneficial than just looking back at the school also I as I asked to come along but you explain to her your arbitrary five people propriety system and she goes away so you begin your journey into this epic office building and it's a long complicated mess of winding floors and dead ends infested with a variety of angels zombies and your garden-variety food up to mention the arch he homie I'm sorry anyways eventually of course you make it at the top of the floor where you find Ken Berry's office and Ken Dory himself and well if you're like me and you play persona 2 before you have a play persona one you might remember Ken Dory is coming across as this sort of mysterious all-knowing and nygma the man here he's just kind of a rich [ __ ] basically like a Captain Planet though one anyways it looks like Nanjo and candor II know each other somewhat personally seeing is the two come from rather prestigious business families but it doesn't seem to be the most wholesome of relationships as Kent Dori orders his goons to deal with you while he turns to leave and Joe tries to stop him but candor reveals that he has a persona of his own as he hurls Homer a key at your party before bailing but his goons are not a particularly difficult obstacle and it doesn't take long for your party to deal with them and give chase after candor II after a mad dash into even deeper depths within Sebek you eventually managed to catch up to him he's standing before a massive machine it would appear that this is the diva system that's causing the world to go out of whack the group's shout to candor just stop this foolishness but he doesn't really listen and he enters the massive machine along with one of its head scientists however surprisingly enough it seems of a scientist who went in with candor he had a conscience of sorts as he's had enough of Ken Dory's donis ways he rigged up the diva system to destroy both Ken Dorian himself and in the process return the town to the way it once was but of course that would come at the expense of the scientists own life as well as get Dory's your grouper stunned I'm sure what to do when suddenly Mackey emotion sports the machines control panel she claims that the blue button will increase the machines output effectively killing the two inside faster while the red will shut the system down it's curious why exactly Mackey knows such a thing but you really don't have time to dwell on it in a flash you make the decision to save the old man and try to deal with candor yourself but it doesn't seem to work no matter what you do the machine seems to go on for a while before suddenly going quiet and that's why a very young girl dressed all in black appears before you Hey hey guys over here yeah so I don't literally all of you immediately just figured out that this girl has something to do with Macky but just remember that this was the first persona they weren't really sure how to make a big reveal yet they were still learning so later on in the game when there's this big reveal that this girl was somehow involved with Macky he got act surprised okay so I understand a whole bunch of nice things for you and it's only fair that you help them out a little when they need it got it got it okay good good right where was I right so it's a little girl in black she claims that she won't let you interfere with her daddy's plans it seems like inside the Machine things have calmed down as you can make out Ken Dory maniacally cackling the group take a step forward to see what's going on but before he can make it far the little girl holds something high above her head the world begins to go white oh well yeah forget that sort of tingly sensation down the back of your spine whatever the girl next I as I mentioned that you can I went back inside the school to help out in damnit I ain't gonna let my girl you you know carry everything by yourself I need to go help her out well let's go search for her as well explore the school a bit while you look for Yukino as you go about the place you run into a bunch of interesting faces such as a weird kid with an obsession for the occult who goes by the name devil boy the principal and vice-principal who you know he looks like the kind of guy who would die in a clock tower anyways some drama students and mr. McKenna the president didn't pay you even run into an odd cameo with the main character from Shin Megami Tensei F which I guess was also a persona too but it feels really odd anyways a common part of discussion between everyone seems to be about this one rumor that's been circulating around the school for generations apparently the school used to put on this play called The Snow Queen but every time they did the girl who played the lead part the titular Snow Queen would die in some sort of freak accident every girl except for one that is anyway is after rooting around for a bit hearing a whole bunch about this rumor you eventually come across a box hidden away behind the gym well that seemed perfectly normal let's take this totally not cursed item with us as you head off Mattie hen you come across that hole in the back of the school just in time to watch as Mark and Maki went off through it with is a Yuki now standing back calling after them the two of them fill you in on what happened apparently Mark Brown and Ellie just kind of brought back nan Joe had been injured by some demons outside but just as I arrived Maki appeared seemingly from nowhere she and Mark had left to go investigate seven as you're talking this psycho appears and the three of you quickly fill her in and what's going but as you talk to her she suddenly notices the mask you've got in your hand it seems she wore the mask when she was younger when she took part in the play this is Snow Queen she feels he went on the story of The Snow Queen which I'm not gonna tell you fully in detail as it's really not important you really just need to know that there was a play with a Snow Queen character anyways the one playing The Snow Queen had to wear this mask but as you already found out there was a rumoured curse on the play that whoever wore this Snow Queen mask would die a rather gruesome death but Messiah Cole after the absurdity of it after all she was the Snow Queen once she wore the mask and she's fine so she playfully puts on the mask to prove her point whereupon she's possessed immediately her doing so since a wave of frigid air through the school covering everything in a sheet of ice and rendering escaped from the school impossible the demon now possessing Masako calling itself the Snow Queen claims that it wants to bring about something known as the eternal night wherein the entirety of the world would remain eternally protein and ice a beauty reserved for all time but well it's been stuck in a rather boring existence inside a box for the past decade or so so it figures hey why not play a game eternal nights are gonna take some time to set up so why not play with her in the meantime there are three towers surrounding the school and within each of them is a demon working for The Snow Queen should you defeat each demon in each tower before the clock strikes twelve shall free syuko in the school and things will return to normal with her piece said Snow Queen vanishes leaving you you know and I say to ponder how to proceed but you're not alone for long before who should show up by an old fellow Mohan here to basically tell you that a there's some mirror shard shadow throughout the towers you climbing in if you collect a bunch of them you'll fix the mirror new bill to use that to defeat The Snow Queen and save miss I echo game doesn't Peter on the bush that being said three people might be a bit short heading to fight several towers full of demons so you hadn't decided the school to see if anyone's well you hand first up you come across le hanging out with devil boy of all people I guess they share a passion for the occult anyways le has already proved herself pretty capable in a combat situation so your group recruit her in your quest to save my psycho after that you head into the cafeteria where you find Brown trying to talk down a rather chubby student named Toro he is having a bit of a breakdown because apparently he recently confessed the ISA and let's say she didn't let him down gently [Music] [Music] anyways taro sadness mixed with the insanity of the whole ice cream situation has caused him to go a little loco let's say as he says things like I'm gonna eat all the food and watch you all starve around me while laughing maniacally also he apparently has a persona because I guess back in the day Philemon really didn't have much of an interview process and just gonna throw those persona powers out willy-nilly anyways Toro has lost his mind so your group with the help of Browns that have to forcefully calm him down but I mean I don't want to be that guy but really kid you want to take us on alright what kind of power do you have [Music] okay everyone take the rest of the day off I'm just gonna Oh God oh-oh-oh kill it go it out just just get rid of it Oh anyways you have your five man army now you should be able to tackle those towers so after stocking up on supplies used because somehow the ice queen teleported some weapons and armor shops into the school you head off into the first tower the hypnosis our crude for so in one form it's a confusing maze only this time the experience has improved because the ice queen gave you what time limit yay because nothing improves a long truck glitters with ridiculously high encounter rates like a ticking clock reminding you that if you take too long you have to do the whole damn thing again from the start well you eventually make your way through a good portion of the tower and come across the sleeping bodies of several people from the school including the two leads from trimmin coming Tensei if the school nurse and the principal or vice-principal but no matter what you do a lot of them don't seem to wake up so you're forced to keep trekking and the hopes of finding a way to save them well sure enough you eventually come across a strange door with a butterfly on it seems the stores put there by Philemon once again appear before you and basically explain to the towers control by persona code Hypno's is keeping everyone locked inside their dreams and you need to head inside the store into the world of dreams in order to wake them up so you go into the rooms and you find the nurse dreaming about her boyfriend who apparently dumped her and the vice principal and principal dreaming about having their roles reversed and a shin megami tensei protagonist and her boyfriend having a dream about being a super happy lovey-dovey couple you know I'm I'm not really sure what the point of this section was either well whatever you managed to save everyone so you move on and had deeper into the tower until you come across hypnose himself and the one controlling him seems hypnosis isn't so much a demon as Jona and the persona of this girl who's named to me hero say she was one of the girls who played the role of The Snow Queen in the school play and died as a result of putting on the mask but rather than actually dying per se instead they were actually brought to this tower given in persona and tasked with guarding it by The Snow Queen Kumi it seems was quite happy to oblige after all this is a tower one can live eternally in their own dreams and isn't that where we're truly the happiest to prove her point she decides to show you a vision from her past showing just how cruel the real world can be and how much better a life of dreams is in it we see that cooming was a big fan of acting and was delighted to receive the title role of The Snow Queen but as the days went by her drama club members began to harass her claiming she wasn't taking the role seriously that she was just a stuck-up nerd only cared about her grades meanwhile her father was simultaneously berating her for goofing off seeing as her joining the Culture Club it cost her grace dropped slightly from the best in the class all the way down to third best in class that is like in any event no matter what Kumi did somebody wasn't gonna be happy with her and isn't that unfair she was trying to do her best on both sides but no matter what people were just upset with her really you know dreams are the better place to live so you could just kind of look at her and go yeah so your life was kind of shitty that any excuse for pulling this [ __ ] for some people to live in their dreams and I mean yeah they're not wrong but I don't know there's something just hilarious about how blunt the persona 1 cast is there is absolutely no epidemiologist kind of call Kumi out for being weak and get ready to kick her ass I mean I just say straight up just calls her a nerd personally by the way I would give anything to see the persona 1 cast mentality get brought into modern games you know like a catchy when he gives his big long speech about how he was an orphan and lived a shitty life moving from foster home to foster home we just cut back to the Phantom thieves at all just like [ __ ] your face makes children cry anyways it's time to kick kumys butt and conquer this tower so she sends forth her persona Hypno's who is a bit of a pain in the butt as you might expect he loves to spam that sleep status effect but after a bit of time you do eventually defeat him with Hypno's finally defeated Kumi starts to see the error of her ways that simply blaming everyone around her for the shitty situation she was in rather than doing anything wasn't the best course of action and she's able to pass all I'm thankful for you're somewhat aggressive browbeating and even leaves one of the shards for the meter in your care and so with the tower defeated you head back to the school where you its rye-oh uniform and little sideburns oh it's adorable right right important things I get it the next tower is called the Nemesis Tower even more powerful phones await you here this time however you're greeted almost immediately by the guardian of this tower once again it's a high school girl though one seemingly a lot more confident than Cooney was she introduces herself it's Michiko Matsudaira and unlike Kumi who seemed to at least believe that she was somewhat helping people Michiko seems quite happy to toy with others as she pleases as she openly boasts about how much fun it'll be to kill a commoner like you and with that she disappears taunting you to come find her wherever she may be so you give chase through an even more confusing labyrinth of pitfalls and blue foxes but eventually you may get to a room where once again you find several members from your school toro and devil boy however unlike in the dream tower it's even smitty KO is literally torturing the two of them forcing toro to drink a constant and limitless stream of milk and devil boy to do push-ups over a bed of sharp spikes as you look over the grim scene Michie KO once again appears before you claiming that she did this to these two because they're ugly and ugliness has no place in this world he snap at her to free them but instead she gives you two bits of info firstly if you want to free them the keys at the top floor and the door to the top floor is just on your left secondly though there's also a mirror shard somewhere down the door to your right are you going to rush to save your friends as quickly as possible or are you gonna make the mirror your priority uh well I mean these guys could probably wait a little longer I mean come on what's another twenty or thirty minutes of torture while we take this incredibly circuitous side path you you can bear it right what I'm not a bad person six and a half hours later okay okay we got the mirror shard doesn't matter right that milk was falling I'm guessing he only took on like an extra thirty liters or something it's not a big deal I'm sure he could survive that let's go to the top of the tower and after some time you do make it to the top of a tower where you find me Chico's room inside you find that warm gentle cozy feeling that only massive grotesque faces can provide we've already seen how our crew reacts when dealing with somewhat sympathetic villains so they really don't pull any punches when it comes to an actual [ __ ] like Michiko so not really beating around the bush Michiko calls for Thor persona and nemesis and once more you're thrown into the heat of battle she's a bit easier than hypnose was though throws around the petrify status which is pretty annoying but eventually she does fall having been defeated Michiko tries to get a bit of pity out of you by telling you her sad story you see when she was little everyone used to pick on her because she would always use her wealth to get her way like when she had the girl who was originally supposed to play The Snow Queen expelled and took the part for herself for how she used her fortune a bump up her grades and social status wow she's literally just not redeeming at all huh but you came to the wrong place get the [ __ ] out of my school well anyways with that done you get another shard and complete another tower so there's only one tower left that's Thanatos tower then we can finally go and deal with The Snow Queen upon entering it much like Blast two you come across a high school girl you've never met before but she seems different than the other two Kumi was introverted and withdrawn and Michiko was loud and haughty this girl seems bubbly I guess would be the best word she introduces herself as everyone's favorite idol Yuriko Yamamoto anyway she happily tells you that the only way to proceed is to blow out one of the two candles in the room it's suspicious but it's not like you have any other way to proceed so you go ahead and blow out one of the candles head what the hell happened right right that girl in the black dress she sent us somewhere actually this kind of looks like our school act are we doing here mark Mackey nan Joe and Ellie all eventually wake up as well and groggily get to their feet as you get your bearings a girl suddenly rushes into the gym and spotting Mackey claims that a guy named Yosuke got seriously hurt Mackey upon hearing this rushes off leaving the four of you to ponder apparently Yost gay and a girl named Joe Soto were very close friends with Mackey but the two of them had mysteriously went missing two months prior most people just kind of assumed that they had eloped or something but I guess they're back now well whatever the four of you decide to follow Mackey back to the school but as you go along you bump into a few people and things start to seem a little off for one thing all these people keep talking about this girl in black who appears from time to time bringing armies of demons with her he also run into Yukino who when you bring up how the lot of you have recently escaped from the hospital she seemed unaware what the heck you're talking about eventually you do catch up with Mackey who managed to track down Yost gay and he thankfully confirms your suspicions he claims that this appears to be a completely different world than the one we're from there are a lot of similarities sure but it's definitely a different world most notably being that the hospital and police station in this world don't exist it looks like when Yosuke and shadow disappeared from our world two months ago they somehow accidentally came here more surprisingly though it turns out that Macke that is to say the Mackey we've been traveling with so far was actually originally from this world she hadn't realized it initially but it looks like all our claims of not having been in the hospital and not having a mother were true because in this world she'd never had those things unfortunately though your conversation is cut short as a young girl's voice echoes throughout the school claiming that she's trapped everyone inside and it's gonna destroy all of them Mackey anos can make it clear that this is the rumored girl in black that has apparently been terrorizing this world for some time now well time to go show that girl what for the five of you head off only to find that the school itself has transformed into a twisting nightmare of a place and demons happily roam the hallways so after making your way through wave after wave of lil um's Decco matas and literal livin and data me dolls you make it to the central courtyard where sure now if you find the girl in black and what do you know it's the same girl in black who helped out Ken Daurio earlier after effectively taunting your team she calls forth her ultimate weapon the truly horrible terrifyingly ungodly super-powerful it even has its own wacky theme music well but ever done bound into the dirt after what is a long but not too difficult battle and with her tongue Cup Howard terror thoroughly crushed the girl in black quickly retreats leaving a ribbed stock gun what to do fortunately Yosuke shows up claiming that he's been working with this one guy who believes that he came from a different world a strange kid who goes by the title hello boy no wait it goes by the name of Satomi he just goes by his own name where have I heard the term devil boy before whatever anyways Tsutomu claims that you should talk with Philemon so you do and he basically tells you what you already know now this is another world created by cat Dori and you have to go after him if you want to get back to your old world so that's what you plan on doing but of course it's not gonna be that easy trials will send in your way and Philemon warns you of a demon that will block your path sure enough as you begin to make your way towards can Dori stronghold you come across the beasts of unimaginable horror an elder God a cosmic entity a horror beyond human comprehension the one the only yog-sothoth junior little guy who's the lure at the threshold you are yes you are well that dumb puppy continue on your way to confronting candor EBIT first stop by the local market to pick up your usual affair you know guns medical aid manifestations of your inner self oh when potatoes are on sale - hmm there's a lot of afros around these parts well whatever guess this is a different world maybe fashion never really made it past the seventies here fully supplied we can go on our way - right fully supplied we can finally go on our way - on our way - on our weight hell well for some reason it seems impossible to leave the market no matter how hard you try you visit the only restaurant within the market to find a sordid little bunch of people at all look at you with a smug understanding it seems like a woman known as the harem Queen rules this market has decreed that no one may leave once they enter oh heck - that noise let's go kick this Queens teeth in after all all that stands between her and us is 7:4 so some of the most confusing holes as I never conceived by man thank goodness for game facts anyways after a trek of pitfalls and ye too many random encounters you eventually make it to the harem Queens chamber where you find that the harem Queen is in fact true Sato the one girl who's friends with Maki that everyone assumed eloped with Yosuke it looks like the little girl in black gave her the power to control this market in the form of a strange mirror it also looks like she had quite the inferiority complex Tamaki as she goes on a long rant about how much she truly hated Maki how much better true Sato is than her your group of course back Maki up claiming of the girl in black is just twisting her emotions but Sato won't listen she orders you to go back and think about who truly is better between the two and teleports you back to the beginning the dungeon arrived odds were rich asados fighter to find your face riddled with moles it seems like the more she uses the mirror the more she gets for some reason anyways once again she asks you whether she or Maki are better only this time she turns Nanjo mark and Elly to stone leaving the answer entirely up to you of course he respond truthfully that Maki is better leaving Chisato to shake her head in disappointment before she gets ready to turn you to stone as well but before she can the little girl in black appears behind you basically says that it would be better to just kill us instead Chisato fully corrupted by the mirror and the girls influence at this point agrees and turns to face you and Maki loaning it's a difficult fight with just the two of you but eventually you do manage to bring her down afterwards the girl in black braids Chisato for losing such an easy battle telling her her daddy called her a useless pawn and even if she loses she was never worth their trouble to begin with she disappears abandoning her claiming her face will never be fixed Chisato is at a loss but surprisingly Mackey steps in and claims that we will go and make sure that that girl comes back and fixes her face Machado is stunned for a moment before snapping back at Mackey to stop with her [ __ ] why would she try to help her after all of this surely nag thinks that she deserves what she got but Mackey being a kind girl claims that despite everything she still likes to Sado that even if she hated her she still enjoyed being her friend she thought it was taken aback and reveals that she's always been jealous of Mackey that Mackey was always able to get people to like her by just being herself while chato had to constantly put on for stairs just to be accepted surely once Yosuke is seen all the terrible stuff she's done and her new complexion he'll hate her and leave to chase after Mackey but says she says that who should appear but of course Yost gay at first Chisato tries to turn him away but eventually she realizes she just needs to be honest she tells him of all the terrible things she did in the name of jealousy how he should leave such a horrible girl like her go back to his true love hacky Yosuke claims however that well yes at one point he probably did have feelings for Mackey but by now those feelings have long since passed and they're replaced with his love for her Chisato no matter what she's done or how she looks he'll always love her holes and all it's a cute scene and so adorably cheesy it causes the mirror to shatter from embarrassment with the mirror destroyed its magic begins to fade removing all the moles from through Soto's face and returning her friends back from there dony prison anyways we've wasted a lot of time in this dungeon so after saying your goodbyes to Chisato and Yosuke the five of you continue on your way to candor each stronghold fortunately it's not that far of a journey and you quickly arrive at the outer gates of Kent Dory's castle at the entrance yarn into that girl in black once more who basically just taunts you at how impossible it is to enter their castle before casually mentioning if you had that one in the forest maybe you could get in and disappearing well what that one in the forest means is a complete mystery but there does appear to be a pedestal with the weird imprint of sorts and there is only one forest inside the city so might as well go and check there and after making way through your fair share of Barrett's giant pink serpents and whatever these are you come across the end of the forest where you find a gingerbread house inside you find white looks like she and the little girl in black are two parts of the whole the black slid off to follow Kat Dori while the white remained here in hiding it looks like the two of them hold two halves of a compact a magical compact compact that grants wishes a contact that allowed these girls create this world yes it seems the girl is my and a key my a key my key remember I said pretend to be surprised we still haven't reach the big reveal yet anyways it seems my in a key created this world but now kandorian a key are using it for nefarious deeds so after a bit of convincing my decides to give you her half of the compact that you can go and confront can Dori well there's been a lot of [ __ ] standing in her way but we can finally finally go and deal with can Dori once and for all you head back to the stronghold fit the compact in the pedestal and enter of course though this is exactly what Ken Dori wanted he needed your half of the compact as with the full compact repaired he would be able to fulfill us ambition to become a god and bring judgment down upon those pathetic and sinful humans with the help of my and the car he summons forth a castle but not here instead back in our own reality he no longer needs the diva system now with nine compaq he's the power over all dimensions with cackling Glee he disappears leaving behind a pawn slow chase after quickly dealing with the green brainy boy your group decide how to proceed kandura obviously has returned to our dimension but how do we follow him well what about the Haunted Mansion apparently people were rumored to disappear there so obviously also a dimensional portal am i right look the writer srothas hop into a corner so here I have a magical portal to chase after tandoori whatever so you head to the Haunted Mansion and what do you know there's a magical time portal here for us weirdly enough you also come across Mackey's mother who somehow stumbled with the portal on the other side and came here anyways for some reason the portal is unstable so Mackey's mother needs to stay on this side to keep it open but you all agree that you'll come back for her when this is all over whatever let's get going through this thing already and show that dick can Dori what we're made of oh we're just being driven into my brain the hell happened to me right look at the candle well it looks like by doing so Eureka somehow managed to erase your power of persona entirely no matter how hard you try you just can't seem to summon it Yuriko giggles gleefully at your loss before disappearing leaving your weakened party behind to chase after her it's tough going without a persona seeing if you take hits about as well as an arthritic nine-year-old in a wheelchair but eventually you make it to a strange door outside it's it's a demon Cerberus at least Shin Megami Tensei its depiction of Cerberus being a lion rather than the usual three-headed dog most would expect anywho Elly quickly deduces that since Cerberus is guarding the store this must be the door to the line of the dead Tartarus sounds like toothpaste what's more our chances are Yuriko took your persona here since her exact words were I'll take your other life meaning she probably took it to the line of the Dead Surfer is a surprise that Ellie's deductions were so spot-on but claims he's not really working for Eureka or anything and he's fine letting you enter or Targa race if it's just to get your personas back so that's what you do before long you're finally back to full fighting form but there's still a whole lot of tower between you and Eureka win just like the other two towers there's still a kickin flock saw reach the top eventually you come across a room with a pair of chests in it Yukino is wary of them at first but before you can really look into them Eureka once again appears before you in her usual creepily chipper tone she informs you that one chest is a mirror shard in it but the other is a trap and while you might think that there's some sort of clever twist or something here nope it's literally just a coin toss you pick the right chest you get a mirror shard you pick the wrong chest and you get sent back to Turkish with no shards yeah anyways having picked the correct chest Yuriko can gradually to you before sending you on your way fortunately for you it's not too much farther and you quickly make it to her room but contrary to her unusually cheerful demeanor the place is downright creepy eerie voids rendered by skulls the group call her out looking just to finish this damn thing and Yuriko obliges for getting in the business though she directly addresses the girls in her party she claims that when she put on the Snow Queen mouse back when she did the play it killed her but not for any sort of malicious reason no no no it killed her so that she could preserve her beauty forever if you keep on living eventually you end up growing old and ugly but if you die young you can stay in this tower forever and never lose that perfect face and figure that adorable look so she offers the same deal to the woman in your party particularly is a but of course even she's not dumb enough to believe of eternal Beauty is worth killing yourself over rolling up as a part of life and something everyone will and should deal with Yuriko is frustrated at your scorn for her offer and drops the cutie act calling forth her persona Thanatos and you see weirdly easy fight you'd think an army of tentacles would be annoying to deal with but honestly that are weaker than like 90% of the basic enemies you've run into so far and Thanatos herself ain't much better well whatever having dealt with Yuriko she surprisingly for persona 1 at least learns the error of her ways she shouldn't have believed the snow Queens Candide words that she shouldn't have put so much emphasis on young beauty and just lived her life until she died naturally she even admits that she had fun playing with you all through the tower even if it was sort of a battle to the death situation so cheap thanks you from freeing her from the tower before disappearing and even your thug life crew was a little touched by her goodbye alright we got most of the meter completed and most the towers are destroyed it's time to go and confront the Snow Queen herself head back out to the school courtyard where the masked and frozen miss syuko still stands like philemon instructed you show the mirror to her and sure enough she seems to react the ice around her starts to melt away before long the mask separates from syuko but surprisingly from it comes another girl you've never met before one with a hideous burn covering half her face before he can really do anything the mask and the girl leap at you and attack your party it's surprisingly powerful but your group is strong enough at this point to whether her onslaught and eventually defeat it well I mean I guess it was a little anticlimactic but hey you defeated the mask and save miss syuko oh crap how is she the group helped her to her feet and she seems to be fine despite being frozen and ice for the past several hours of gameplay the first thing she asks is where is Tim ohmy it seems that strange girl with the burn was named Tim Oh me and she was the last person to be lured in by the curse of a snow queen mask and was also close friends Masaya Kobach when they were in high school it looks like she was the one who was currently controlling the mask the one who had frozen the school and sent me one that ridiculous fetch quest but why exactly would she do all that why specifically mrs. Hayek oh I thought you guys were supposed to be friends so miss psycho explains apparently back in the day psycho and tamami we're rivals of sorts and competed for a variety of things including work in the drama club they both weren't of the part of The Snow Queen and eventually tamami got the part however after some time she sort of become suspicious that perhaps syuko had lost on purpose after all they competed in the drama club many times before for roles but psycho I'd almost always won so why this time with psycho of chosen to lose at first tamami thought that she was just being considerate letting her take the leading role for their final year in high school but then another thought wiggled its way into her brain maybe psycho had lost on purpose because the Mascis curse at first she tried to push those feelings aside but sure enough when she did try putting on the match to practice with a goal in it cursor burning off half her face in the process so she blamed psychic over causing this for purposefully wasting a curse upon her Messiah Coe herself is sadness she remembers the tale your group tried to comfort her claiming that obviously she didn't purposely try to give the curse - to Tom - Tom - no - to talk to Tom oh me too Tom oh me oh my god but syuko while she admits yeah she had no idea the curse would actually befall her friends a small part of her had given her the role just to kind of rub it in and how much better she was than tamami she can't help but feel guilty that it is her fault that she got this role as your group them all over the rights and wrongs the whole situation though is a comments on how cold it is and that's when something starts to sink in here for you group despite defeating the mask the school is still frozen solid and with that realization a figure suddenly appears behind you the Queen had been living inside the mask the one who attempted all the previous girls who put it on provided to me with the land of dreams need to go with a place to release her hatred Yuriko a life of eternal beauty and Timonium vengeance against psycho the spirit of the mask greets you thanking you for finally freeing it from that wretched mask and the useless humans she was forced to feed off of it claims that it will blanket this world and ice and bring about an eternal night one no one will ever wake from ever again before disappearing well I say we got another monstrosity to deal with might as well get to it we've made it through a bunch of these so far by working together so what's one more elf or abomination hey miss psycho laughs at how much the body you have grown while she was sealed away a night before pushing you luck as you head off in layer of snow and who boy is this A to Z of a level I hope you love identical hallways endless staircases and visible floors and every other annoying cricket dungeon can throw at you and there's a nest ton of them [Music] it's so long I can't keep doing this who thought this was a good idea Oh someone save me from this nightmare of a dungeon wait you came for me you came to help me okay we could do this let's show this snow [ __ ] who's boss eventually after a long string of random encounters you make it to her lair you don't beat around the bush after all there's not much that can be said right now oh you can do it kick her ass it's a tough fight she has several powerful spells at her disposal and annoyingly she constantly cycles her weaknesses and with little weird way turnover works in this game it's hard to guarantee whether you're big spells with the old massive damage or clink off her like mosquito bites still eventually you do enough damage to fully defeat The Snow Queen and save your school having been defeated the school begins to thaw your group I'll let out a sigh of relief but then you notice something standing in her place are a pair two masked individuals the girl on the left is that is that Maki [Applause] [Music] you [Music] god Yukino and the others okay at Yukino how am I tell me my Yukino for you he knows not here are we doing right right all right we need to stop can Dori his castle right we're here to stop kandorian his castle and she had on your way to stop him you notice that the scientist that tried to stop the Deva system before it was standing next to you maybe he can help us but when you talk to him he claims that humanity has no future that ruination is what is right for this world group are taken aback by his sudden outburst one who should materialize behind you but can Dori himself he claims that his will has already taken over humanity with the power of the compact he is but one step away from accomplishing his goal of the destruction of all of humanity but his piece said he disappears taunting you to come find him and his fortress well no use standing around let's go deal with chem norine much like every dungeon in this game it's a twisting maze of a place to get through but after dealing with your fair share of living paintings Cupid's and literal cyborgs bodyguards you make it to the top where inevitably you find can Dori your group get into battle positions ready to face whatever Ken Dori has waiting for you a key who's standing beside him readily stands up probably getting ready to summon another demon to fight for her but surprisingly can Dori tells her to stand out and even sends her away with her gone rather than sending to face you he instead stay seated quietly sipping a cup of tea your group demand an explanation and after a pause can Dori asks you party a question what are you living for your group are unsure how to respond so he continues and talks of life dreams and goals are the reason people continue on the reason for life really no matter how big or small significant or pointless goal is the drive behind life what happens when one achieves all their goals when one has nothing left to do then nothing but empty laughs a vast void of loneliness when it'd be better if people never achieve their desires if they always had open their hearts now that candor II has achieved his goal and this one step away from wiping out humanity what awaits him is not that empty void so he asks you specifically why do you cling to life and so you give him the same response that many a fool has come across the reason to cling to life is always to find the reason the search for the answer is in itself the meaning of life but that said it's chondros turn to speak and he decides to tell Ken Daurio surely by now ken nori realizes that all its posturing and claiming to be a god isn't really his doing nozaki who did it and even then she only did it out of fear of the future for the hell does Ken Dora get off shoving his own fears and insecurities on the whole of humanity so Nanjo says for the love of God stop with this useless paranoia it's clear how weak you really are at this Ken Dory for the first time since you arrived starts to become upset truly angered by none just words he gets to his feet and the battle begin he's strong for sure but he's just one guy your party are pretty quickly able to overcome him with a flurry of attacks until eventually he drops to his knees but rather than Keeling over instead of always seems to come from within him it's the voice of his persona Ken Dory struggles against it but it seems like the power of his persona has started to take him over and before your eyes he transforms from a regular man into food hallo anyways with this persona fully Unleashed and out-of-control employees acts become far more powerful that being said he also becomes weak to guns so you just kind of unload on him anyways finally candor he is fully defeated he laughs softly as he lays wounded on the ground finally admitting that everything Nando said was true so Nanjo asks him where is the real Mackay and again kandura laughs congratulating him on figuring everything out the rest of your party turned puzzled - nonso and can already explains the previous world you were in the one where you helped out Chisato and Yosuke you fought a giant tank mouse the one this Mackay is from isn't actually real it's all of a figment of Mackey's imagination the real Mackey's imagination an ideal world that a girl confined to a life trapped in a hospital bed created for herself not only that but even my and hackie were part of Mackay shadows within her own heart by presenting the light and dark sides of her heart oh oh oh right Wow my and a key oh I never would have saw that coming they're part of Maggie's subconscious oh oh that really got me anyways the point being Mackay though Mackay you've been traveling with isn't real she's an idealized version of the real Matt Keith the pole world over there had been a perfect world to the Mackay on this side doubtless Yosuke and Chisato had been drawn into that world by Mackey's desires as well as she wanted the genuine article when it came to her closest friends this had all been caused due to the fact the diva system had been connected to Mackay while she was hospitalized and clearly her unconscious desires that materialize creating a whole new dimension Mackay hearing this rushes out of the room not wanting to believe the words that she was being told that she was a fake so you quickly chase after her and after a short distance you come across a room containing a key ideal Mackay you'd been traveling with and the real Mackay sana Mara unconscious on a bed fully wired into the diva system you approach the ideal Mackey but she recoils she's disgusted with herself because of her desires her need for a paradise all this suffering came about your group tried to comfort her trying to tell her that none of us could have been her fault but she pushes you farther back she always has been jealous of all of you you all got to live carefree lives going about doing whatever you wanted every single day without a worry in the world well she was confined to a hospital bed she envied all of you and that envy only grew as she felt deeper and deeper into a state of full-on depression her only comfort was an ideal town a dream to keep herself happy and a wish for that town to become reality the real world vanished from existence so don't you see she wished for all this no matter what can Dougherty or the others may have done at the end of the day it was her that caused it all quickly Mackey turns around and with a wish disappears before he back into her own heart back into the land of her own creation the group stands silent unsure of how to react mark rushes forward to where she disappeared before turning back to your group and shouting come on guys we need to go after her but before he could say much more nan Joe walks forward let's think about this logically this was all caused by Mackey like she said being wired in the diva system her desires manifested and as a result dimensions became unstable and demons started appearing but what if we were to destroy the diva system surely that world would cease to be and the world would return to normal sadly chances are the real Mack he wouldn't survive seeing as how heavily she's wired into the system but the small sacrifice for the greater good would be preferable to with a single motion mark brings nan Joe to his knees are you serious I know we haven't always seen eye to eye man but I never thought you could be fist cold yeah what you're saying does have some sort of logic to it but this is our friend we're talking about one who tried to save us countless times one I know for a fact is suffering and deeply wants to break free from this machine and fix everything I believe in her I can't believe you don't - its housing little speech I gotta say Ellie walks forward agreeing with mark sentiment in Nanjo with justing his cravat and rubbing the red spot mark left rowlandson agrees that he was being too cynical and he too will come with us to save Mackey and so the four of you turned follow Mackey into the world she created back on the other side on sure of where Mackey might be hiding you decide to visit the little light side of Mackey that girl named my still hiding away inside the gingerbread house you also happened to run into Mackey's mother there anyways you asked my if she can help you but she claims she can't it seems the girl in black Aki went to awaken the worst part of Magnet subconscious your group were all taken aback of the news of yet another aspect of Mackey but if you think about it it does make sense he had the two little girls representing the two extremes of Mackey's feelings and the Mackey of this side representing Mackey's vision of an ideal her so it only sends the reason that an opposite of her ideal exists Mackey's vision of perverse traits my claims that a key went ahead to wake her up and when she does everyone in this world will die so you have to stop the an idealized version of Mackey pandora but first need to find the idealized version of Mackey if you just goes by Mackey God it's kind of hard to keep straight all these Mackey's that are running around anyways the point is you need to go and save your friend so after agreeing to what Mackey's mother traveled with you you head off deeper into the forest to find Becky [Music] as you might expect she tries turning away can't you see that she's a horrible person can you just get on with hating her already if you're just here out of some self-serving sense of pity that's even worse just admit that you hate her but new group give your real thoughts jealousy is something that everyone goes through and after what Mackey had been put through more than a little jealousy would be completely understandable at the end of the day we're here to save every version of Mackey because they're all a part of who she is and she is and always has been a friend pity you ha ha perhaps we sympathize with you but pity no humankind is nothing without the connections they built to others and while you may be able to put those connections behind you we can't we are here to help Mackey because we care about her Mackey pauses at all your drips comments before leaping from her bed and asking to come with you she apologizes to everyone for all she put you through you nan Joe mark le she even apologized thus her mother for thinking she didn't love her a lot of you simply smile welcomed her back into the grip well that's left to do now is deal with the last bit of darkness with an Maggie's heart and finally rid this world of this mess or turn all of the aspects of Mackey back to her and well you know what that means [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] you hideous monstrosity stands before you the massive limbs sinew and other eldritch abominations the entity claims that it will bring about the end that Maggie cruelly wishes the destruction of the real world the removal of everything that made her so envious but of course Maki Maki we call our friend has moved past all that and a lot of you prepare to face a quivering mass that is Endora despite her horrific form she's rather passive mostly relying us at its effects rather than doing too much damage you quickly whittle away at its health until suddenly it becomes apparent that this never was the true form of Pandora it was more of a [Music] having driven her out of her initial state new form stands before you unlike the hideous monstrosity before this one is almost beautiful butterfly by any other name unfortunately for you though she's become quite a lot more powerful as well it's her attacks shipped from defensive a much more powerful spells more deadly than anything the group is encountered before capable of shifting our weaknesses and incapacitating mostly a party in the blink of an eye she brings all of you to the brink of destruction several times but eventually your tenacity pays off and you're able to defeat the monster the final aspect of Maki Pandora laments at her loss but Maki walks up to her and tells her what she already knows the two of them are just part of a girl called Maki their reason for existing was never truly there Maki has always had friends and now the two of them can go back and be a part of her life and her friends lives forever Pandora silently nods at Mackey's words before slowly fading away with Pandora gone Maki also turns to your party and wishes you a farewell hearing this Marc walks forward now hold on a minute you're our friend as well we're not gonna leave you behind but this Maki simply smiles she too was just an aspect of Maki subconscious another facet of her true self the end of the day she kicked him with you just a part of Maki their party begin to try and argue with her but before they can until mark le are all whisked away leaving you alone with Maki I'll send all of you back to the real world one second thank you I hope you still think about me at least once in a while goodbye I love you goodbye [Music] you nothing more need be said I'm sure you have all discovered by now your true selves the smiles you wear are no longer false masks you may find yourselves troubled or suffering or lost in the future but there is nothing to fear look to your soul for your true self no matter what trials you may face that will be enough for you to weather the storm now go forth into your bright futures [Music] that's right I'm some guy you've never met before whoa big reveal baby [Music] [Applause] [Music] also I love you I love you too really no

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Rating: 4.848053 out of 5

Keywords: Persona 1, Persona Revelations, JRPGs Told Long, For the love of god, Atlus, Bring, Back, Satomi Tadashi

Id: 8ea6oTLgyBc

Length: 77min 38sec (4658 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 12 2020