Now he’s offering Joker a choice: fight him and restore the real world-a world in which Akechi is probably dead, and all Joker’s friends still struggle with their traumas-or to keep Maruki’s false world. For Joker, this chance at happiness meant bringing Akechi back to life for the opportunity to give the two of them the resolution and friendship they didn’t get the first time around. Maruki, and, while the real world is still melded with the cognitive world, Maruki takes the opportunity to replace everyone’s trauma: Ryuji never broke his leg and is still running track, Madarame genuinely nourishes Yusuke’s artistic skills, and Haru’s dad isn’t trying to sell her off to better his company. Scattered throughout the first two semesters are counseling sessions where you watch your companions confess their problems to Dr. Takuto Maruki, local heartthrob, klutzy counselor, and wielder of a Persona powerful enough to distort reality. So, what happened?Īs soon as Yaldabaoth died, a new god of control stepped up to take his place: Dr. Every grievance and character trauma has been resolved in ways that simply don’t make sense in the context of the game. All the dead parents your confidants have cried about are alive and well. Early in the new year, things start to get very strange. Here’s the catch: it’s not actually Akechi. Seeing Akechi this late in the game is a surprise-a one-time Phantom Thief who betrays you and then, in an attempt at redemption, sacrifices himself to let the rest of the team escape, Akechi is presumed dead until this very moment. This time, if you’ve made all the right choices, Goro Akechi-Joker’s fated rival, the other wildcard Persona user-will offer himself up in Joker’s place, agreeing to reveal himself as the perpetrator of the mental shutdowns and to testify against his father, Masayoshi Shido, who ordered the shutdowns. Previously, this was the day Sae Niijima asks Joker to turn himself in. If you make it to the third semester (which can be missed if you don’t make the right confidant choices), the game shifts dramatically on December 24. A fairly bittersweet ending, but an appropriate one for a game that lets you know in the first five minutes that it is a “truly unjust” experience. When it’s time for him to leave Tokyo, his friends pile into a van together one more time to take him back home. He gets out around mid-February after the companions and the confidants you’ve befriended petition and protest for your release-the moral here being you don’t have to be a phantom thief to change the world, you can change hearts just by being you. After saving the world from imminent destruction, Joker must confess to being the leader of the Phantom Thieves to put away the corrupt politician Masayoshi Shido, and be placed in a juvenile detention facility as a result. The game doesn’t end in that moment of triumph. Of course you’re going to fight him to save humanity. The wrong endings are easily avoided and getting the original true ending is a pretty clear-cut experience it was easy to feel like you were making the right choice when deciding to fight against Yaldabaoth, the false god of control, because you don’t know he’s the game’s antagonist until about 80 hours in. This itself isn’t new to Persona, and there were a few different endings to the original P5. The third semester brings two new endings-the “true” ending and the “bad” ending. There’s been some (rightfully) mixed reception for the new true ending’s epilogue cutscene, which lessens the Phantom Thieves’ involvement in favor of highlighting Royal’s new characters despite this, the new ending choices are phenomenal and definitely make Royal worth playing, even for those who’ve played the original Persona 5. It’s been a couple of months since Persona 5 Royal made its western debut, which is enough time to grind your way through the 80 to 100 hours of explaining the concept of the Metaverse to every single person in the game, putting together a nice harem of age-inappropriate love interests, killing a false god, and finally getting to the BRAND NEW third semester.
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