LogFAQs > #943243559

Man, the parts with the new characters added in royal really feel like they are written by someone else, someone better than the initial writer. I think thats what made my earlier opinion the way it was. The contrast between kasumi and maruki's thoughts and conversations is stark between everything else. Maybe it's because they expect most of the people playing royal have already played persona 5 (which i haven't) so they assume their audience is more familiar with the story and it's concepts. I couldn't help but wish I could interject in the early july conversation between kasumi, akechi, and joker.

Then you have maruki coming in even further from the other side so joker's opinion is right between them. It's perfect really. I especially like how Maruki's approach FEELS wrong but at least thus far, theres no logical problems with it and you'd potentially save lives. However, just being able to take a pill to ease heartache goes against our understanding of personal responsibility, but kasumi highlights that what the phantom thieves do also goes against the exact same understanding of personal responsibility, but the cases you actually deal with are so extreme it FEELS right to step in so you just hit some big cognitive dissonance at that point.

Of course the actual difference is that the phantom thieves don't care what happens to their targets, stealing their hearts isn't a way to help them, it's a way to help people hurt by the target. You even go so far as to risk the target outright dying which effectively makes it vigilante justice that is justified by the police being shown to be incompetent. Still, the whole thing is fascinating and the way they constructed this 3 way ideological standoff is very impressive so far.

Still, theres plenty of game left for them to ruin all this and JRPGs should be famous for how often they set up a thought provoking moral conflict only to completely pussy out and subvert it by making one side into comic book villains. Hopefully that doesn't happen here.

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