Board 8 > Anagram Ranks Anything* Persona-related (spoilers)

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- Gasp! The Enemy!
Toaster Aigis
Shadow Okumura (Boss Fight)
Lotus Juice (Rapper)
Urban Fantasy (Genre)
Heartful Cry
Other RPGs Mimicking Persona's Calendar System
Koromaru
BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle
Hiimdaisy Persona 4 Comic Dub
Magic Spell Names
Fictional High Schoolers Dating Adults in Anime
Haru Okumura
Harems Compared to Canon Romances in JRPGs
Renaming S-Links to Confidants
Shitty Adults
Principal Kobayakawa
Playing Coy with the Year P5 is Set
Erebus
Forced Romance (P3)
Thieves' Den
Failure to Make Persona 5 Arena
People Saying Any Jazz Song Sounds Like Persona
Persona Q Weddings
Mr. Edogawa
Afterschool Clubs
Hatsune Miku
Mementos

- All You Do Is Eat Away At My Life
Kyosuke from Danganronpa 3 resembling Yu
Marin Karin
Protagonist Death Game Overs
Ichiko Ohya
Fusion Accidents
Endless Rereleases Changing the Games
Kasumi and Sumire
Yosuke in the Camping Trip
Tartarus
Variable S-Link Point Dialogue Choices
Ken Romance
Nozomi Suemitsu
Remaking Persona 4
Burning Men's Soul
Fishing Minigame
Yosuke Goes Through a Breakup (Video)
Metis

- Please Beat The Shit Out Of Me
Fuuka's Original Voice Actress
P4G's Prolonged Vita Exclusivity: I mean, MGS4 is still PS3 exclusive. Can you believe that? That has to be the highest-profile game that never got ported or rereleased or anything. At least P4G EVENTUALLY got put onto Steam. I wouldn't have played it if I'd known they would one day remake it P5-style, but c'est la vie.
Persona 6 Development Time
Uncontrollable Party Members
Persona 5 Tactica
The Answer (P3)

- Veto
Persona Q: A rare veto! But I've never played any of these games, and it's like I said, if you're not available on Steam or Switch, you're not getting played by me. These look like very simplified JRPGs about dungeon crawling that have nothing to do with normal Persona gameplay? Reminds me of that one shitty Danganronpa spinoff about vacationing during the summer.

Alright, let's end this topic at 300, so everyone will get 2-3 more nominations before it's over.

Justice arcana

Akiba (Persona 5)

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/0/0da54f5c.jpg

yes, they messed up a pronoun in "I am thou, thou art I". which is fine fuck cases all my homies hate German

January (Persona 3)

How Well Nyx's Arcana Quotes Fit the Series' Characters

Quotes here
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Quotes/Persona3
https://www.deviantart.com/haimerejzero/journal/Persona-3-Nyx-Battle-Quotes-239871489

NFUN posted...

yes, they messed up a pronoun in "I am thou, thou art I". which is fine fuck cases all my homies hate German

Eh, it's for dramatic flair, I'm fine with the human subconscious not caring about those kinds of details.

"Thou art me" doesn't have the same punch to it

Also nominate Ryotaro Dojima

Persona 5 cast codenames

"Thou art I" is fine for effect. I was referring to "I am thee"

Adachi

- The Means By Which All Is Revealed
Social Links
Calling Cards
Japan
Elizabeth
Shoji Meguro
Personas (Summons)
Rivers in the Desert
Persona 5

- Mine for the Slammin'!
Benjamin Franklin
P5 the Gacha-Killer
Kamoshida as a Villain
Goro Akechi
Persona 5 Strikers Box Art
Suguru Kamoshida
Tohru Adachi: Possibly the most obvious murderer in any detective story ever. Columbo would have figured this out in about six seconds. The fact that Dojima never once even suspects Adachi is a mild strike against him, but it's fine. I said this when I first played this game, but Adachi is basically 4chan personified. This cynical, useless man who thinks he's better than he is, and is frustrated with not succeeding as much as he wanted to, who is perfectly pleasant in normal life, but secretly seething at everyone, especially attractive young women, behind their backs. I suppose you can argue that his position is somewhat a Frankenstein thing, where it's like, how would Adachi be if he wasn't reassigned to this nothing town and was allowed to keep his more interesting job in the big city and still be trusted, did he become this way because people thought lowly of him, so he responded to that, or was he always going to be a bad guy? Well, I can't say how I would react to suddenly being given amazing magical powers, but I would like to believe I wouldn't turn into a serial killer. But yeah, as I said earlier, another of Adachi's strengths is suddenly turning into a wackjob with silly faces at the end of the game, it's VERY memorable. Also memorable is Dojima's reaction to realizing Adachi is the one behind the murders, he still cares about him and wants him to be safe, and in like a one-second moment of reflection, Adachi doesn't know how to react and turns away in shame. Great understated moment. What I don't like about Adachi is his appearance in P4AU, where he's like almost heroic now? That had to be about his popularity with fans and everyone wanting to see more of him, and the writers not knowing how to integrate him into that, so Adachi is like almost on the heroes' side now? It's very strange to see a serial killer reinterpreted to be sympathetic.
The Subway Slammer
The Journey (P3)
October 4th (P3)
Persona 3
Velvet Room
Hiimdaisy Persona Comic
Junpei x Chidori
Mara
Evokers
Ryotaro Dojima: The OTHER guy who takes care of you once you move into his house at the start of the game. Is he better than Sojiro? Yes. Is he better than Ikutski? Yes. Dojima is sort of the reliable, supportive pillar once you move into Inaba, which is funny to say, because he's also defined by constantly flaking out and missing things with his daughter. But it's the fact that Dojima is always, ALWAYS completely reasonable and sort of in the right even when he rides your ass that makes him compelling. You're supposed to feel bad for Adachi when Dojima constantly chews him out, but here's the thing: even before you learn what Adachi really is, Dojima is just unambiguously correct every single time. Adachi really is a garbage cop, and Dojima really is working with nothing, and all of his criticisms of everyone are 100% in the right. He has the most bog standard reason ever for being a single father and vaguely depressed ("my wife died in a car accident"), but that's fine. I think we needed a Dojima to represent the town and be this likable, intelligent, reliable guy whom we connect with and want to help, in order to keep the audience invested in figuring out the case. Him and poor, innocent Nanako. I think it's a little funny, though, that once Dojima realizes you are in some way connected to the grand mystery going on, he'll still trust you, but he still can't figure out what's going on. I mean, it's not really a strike against him, he had to deal with both Adachi hiding evidence and obstructing things, AND the actual murder method involving an alternate dimension of magic. No, it's that you have the option to just tell Dojima about the TV world, and he of course thinks you're babbling nonsense, but one game later, Sojiro, who is a restaurant owner and not a detective, has a similar scene where he figures out that you're involved in the grand mystery, gets you to tell him what's going on, and he just believes you about the most insane shit in the universe. He is like mildly surprised when you tell him about a meowing cat sounding like normal human language to you, but just accepts everything and starts helping you from then on. More on Dojima is also in the Adachi writeup.
Persona 4
Tarot Cards
Masayoshi Shido (Boss Fight)
Menus
Nyx
The Reaper
Mitsuru Kirijo
Sojiro Sakura
Persona 5 Strikers
Makoto Stalking Joker
P3/4 having dedicated Enemies, P5 having Personas as Enemies

- OMG! We Are SO Awesome!
Character Titles (P4AU)
Takuto Maruki
School Concert (P4G)
Shooting Yourself in the Head
Mass Destruction
January (P3): Ah, the last month of P3. Here we get the girls in kimonos, which every single game treats as a Moment, I never totally understood why. We get to meet Takaya and say "I will stop you" "No I will stop YOU." We get to finish the Aigis s-link and tell her that we're into Mitsuru instead. And finally, we get to spend 90 minutes on Nyx's final boss fight. I can't imagine that last dungeon crawl if you skipped doing Tartarus the entire game, someone must have done it, and it must have been brutal. The game's done everything to build up so far how you kind of just can't fight Nyx, you will lose no matter what you do. Man, imagine how audacious an ending that would have been, if you literally can't beat the final boss fight, and the game just ends with a meaningless 'DEATH IS NOT A HUNTER UNBEKNOWNST TO ITS PREY' screen no matter what you do. But no! It turns out you can't beat Nyx, but you can seal her away at the cost of your own life. Like, this atmosphere of sorrow and uncertainty and not really knowing what to do has all built up to this moment, where you finally know what to do, but you can't really do it. And it's great. P3's and P5's climaxes are much more memorable than P4's, sorry P4 fans.
Dating Every Girl
Thanatos
Zenikichi Awakens His Persona
Akinari Kamiki
P5 Tarot Art
Aria of the Soul
P3 Characters in P4AU
Akihabara (P5): I've never been to Akihabara, but I have been to a similar place in Osaka. It was exactly what I expected. I appreciate P5 including real life locations in its setting, it really lends the series a personality that just straight-up doesn't exist in fantasy settings. It also increases the series' Japaneseness, which as I said is as important to the games' identity as Britishness is to Harry Potter. I like how it's unlocked by Futaba, because none of the other characters are into this nerd shit. I like how the NPCs in this area have a lot of fat ugly nerds, and no one comments on it, that's great, and I like how it's got a maid cafe, I bet THAT'S accurate to the source. Like, it's well-done, and it's fun visiting a famous real life shopping district in a video game. But since there's not actually a lot to do here (I can't remember ever coming here besides to get the maid cafe achievement and to do the arcade kid's confidant), I can't really rate it THAT high.
President Tanaka
Negotiation (P5)
Rise Posters (P5)
Hot Spring Scene (P3)
EMMA
Persona Kart (Hypothetical)
Battle for Everyone's Souls
Mementos (Smash)
Joker (Smash)
King's Game
I am Thou, Thou art I
Persona Fusion
Kanji Tatsumi
Never More (Song)
Justice Arcana: Alright, let's check these out... This is Chihiro, Nanako, and Akechi. Quite a cast of characters! I like Akechi and Nanako, but Chihiro is just alright. Very different interpretations of justice between these characters: Nanako is too small to really understand anything except being good and helping people, Akechi is a whole lot of boiling neuroses bent on vengeance and hatred, and eventually on controlling his own life, and Chihiro has to learn to speak up for herself because she was wrongly accused of stealing. I mean, fine, but she's definitely the weak link between these characters.
Memories of You
Adolf Hitler (P2)
Lovers Arcana
Magician Arcana
Maya
Akihiko (P4AU)
Optional Romance Choices vs Canon Romance
P3 Persona Awakening Cutscene
Sadayo Kawakami
Yosuke Hanamura
FeMC (P3P)
Funky Student
Cosmic Tower Burger
P4G Bike Ending
Tae Takemi
Haru Despising the Police: ASAB, all shadows are bastards. It's very lucky she never met Teddie.
The Fox (P4)
Shiki-Ouji
Codenames (P5): Completely useless in the game, where they protect the heroes' identities literally zero times and are constantly misused by accident (how many times do they just use their real names in palaces), but that's fine, because the logic of the Metaverse is just about themes and vibes. It's about feeling like you're a rebel and matching the image of one more than things strictly making logical sense, and this plays into that. It's actually crazy to me in retrospect that none of the Phantom Thieves dresses like that iconic 1980s Japanese delinquent look, with the long black cloak and greaser haircut, it must have been a conscious decision not to use that.
P5 Using Igor's New VA as a Plot Point
Akira Konoe

- I Am Thou, Thou Art I...
Mr. Urshimaru
Burn my Dread
Persona (Carl Jung)
Hawaii Scene (P5)
Reach Out to the Truth
Ambushing Enemies with Attacks in the Overworld
Pancakes
How Well Nyx's Arcana Quotes Fit the Series' Characters: I feel like these were written assuming you paid any attention to Mr. Edogawa's lengthy explanation of how Tarot works, which boy oh boy, I did not. I only just realized that Nyx doesn't go through literally all of the Tarot, she's missing at least a few. I mean, the quotes are fine. I have no strong opinions on these. The thing about Tarot is that part of the reason it's cool is that, like astrology, everything it says applies to everyone and everything, so "it requires great courage to look within oneself and forge one's own path" applies to every single character in the series besides, like, that one woman who hates her stepson or whatever.
Dungeons (P4)
Adachi Cube
Munehisa Iwai
Sae Interrogation Framing Device
Nihil Hand
Dancing Spinoff Games
Futaba Romance
Labrys
Arsene Lupin
Persona Pokerap
Weaponized Golf Clubs
Cheesing the Game with Overpowered Special Personas at Level 1
Morgana
Hifumi Togo
Shadow Labrys
Morgana saying Go to Sleep
Meat Dimension
Loki
Jack Frost
Operation Babe Hunt
Navigators
Ending Fights with All-Out Attacks
Silent Protagonists
I'm gonna renovate your ass!
Green Persona 6
Yu Narukumi
Void Quest
Persona Evolution
Nominative vs Accusative Cases
Junes Department Store
P4G Shuffle Time
Heritage Palladion Liberator
Nanako Dojima
Gentle Madman
Deleted Yosuke Gay Romance
Cut P5R Harem Ending
Benjamin Franklin (Musician)
Vanilla P3 Protagonist's Ability to Equip All Weapons
P5's Translation
The Fog (Song)
Battle for Everyone's Slams
Orbit: You'll Never See It Coming
Tatsumi Port Island

- Gasp! The Enemy!
Toaster Aigis
Shadow Okumura (Boss Fight)
Lotus Juice (Rapper)
Urban Fantasy (Genre)
Heartful Cry
Other RPGs Mimicking Persona's Calendar System
Koromaru
BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle
Hiimdaisy Persona 4 Comic Dub
Magic Spell Names
Fictional High Schoolers Dating Adults in Anime
Haru Okumura
Harems Compared to Canon Romances in JRPGs
Renaming S-Links to Confidants
Shitty Adults
Principal Kobayakawa
Playing Coy with the Year P5 is Set
Erebus
Forced Romance (P3)
Thieves' Den
Failure to Make Persona 5 Arena
People Saying Any Jazz Song Sounds Like Persona
Persona Q Weddings
Mr. Edogawa
Afterschool Clubs
Hatsune Miku
Mementos

- All You Do Is Eat Away At My Life
Kyosuke from Danganronpa 3 resembling Yu
Marin Karin
Protagonist Death Game Overs
Ichiko Ohya
Fusion Accidents
Endless Rereleases Changing the Games
Kasumi and Sumire
Yosuke in the Camping Trip
Tartarus
Variable S-Link Point Dialogue Choices
Ken Romance
Nozomi Suemitsu
Remaking Persona 4
Burning Men's Soul
Fishing Minigame
Yosuke Goes Through a Breakup (Video)
Metis

- Please Beat The Shit Out Of Me
Fuuka's Original Voice Actress
P4G's Prolonged Vita Exclusivity
Persona 6 Development Time
Uncontrollable Party Members
Persona 5 Tactica
The Answer (P3)

Anagram posted...

He has the most bog standard reason ever for being a single father and vaguely depressed ("my wife died in a car accident"), but that's fine.

It's a little more than that. It's that he couldn't ever figure out who did it, which just drives the knife in a little deeper for him as a detective. But yeah, Dojima is great, and literally nobody calls him Ryotaro.

Also nominate Heaven

The theme for the P4 dungeon, not the dungeon itself

Elizabeth (Superboss)

Having to select Persona 4's culprit from a list of people in the game

I'm getting a sense of deja vu, but...

Nominate the Hermit arcana.

Exams

Ryoji

Man, imagine how audacious an ending that would have been, if you literally can't beat the final boss fight, and the game just ends with a meaningless 'DEATH IS NOT A HUNTER UNBEKNOWNST TO ITS PREY' screen no matter what you do.

NGL, that would be metal as fuck.

Leonhart4 posted...

It's a little more than that. It's that he couldn't ever figure out who did it, which just drives the knife in a little deeper for him as a detective. But yeah, Dojima is great, and literally nobody calls him Ryotaro.

I didn't notice that no one uses his first name, that's a fun touch.

redrocket posted...

NGL, that would be metal as fuck.

I wonder if this has ever been used in any game ever, to actually have an unbeatable final boss and normal game over screen every time you try.

Some indie game has to have done it before

Masayoshi Sutou

Yggdra Union is kind of close to having an unwinnable final boss like that - the final boss is impossible to damage under normal circumstances and is immune to status effects and instant death so anyone attacking her always loses eventually so the canon ending is actually to not fight the final boss at all.

Though the final boss is still actually beatable under very specific circumstances (which you probably wouldn't figure out without a guide or at least a lot of trial and error) and there's an ending for beating her which unfortunately feels like it's going against the plot/theme of the game somewhat to include that ending so it would probably be better without it.

Gun ammo replenishing after every fight in P5R

Mr_Crispy posted...

Yggdra Union is kind of close to having an unwinnable final boss like that - the final boss is impossible to damage under normal circumstances and is immune to status effects and instant death so anyone attacking her always loses eventually so the canon ending is actually to not fight the final boss at all.

Though the final boss is still actually beatable under very specific circumstances (which you probably wouldn't figure out without a guide or at least a lot of trial and error) and there's an ending for beating her which unfortunately feels like it's going against the plot/theme of the game somewhat to include that ending so it would probably be better without it.

That sounds fun, but not quite not quite the same as I described, I was going for something that has no formal ending at all, and leaves you feeling completely betrayed and pointless.

Culture Festival (P4)

Aigis

Persona 3 game over screen

Inaba

Adding a cheat button to look up the answer to the quiz questions in persona 5

- The Means By Which All Is Revealed
Social Links
Calling Cards
Japan
Elizabeth
Shoji Meguro
Personas (Summons)
Rivers in the Desert
Persona 5

- Mine for the Slammin'!
Benjamin Franklin
P5 the Gacha-Killer
Kamoshida as a Villain
Goro Akechi
Persona 5 Strikers Box Art
Suguru Kamoshida
Tohru Adachi
The Subway Slammer
The Journey (P3)
October 4th (P3)
Persona 3
Inaba: It's between Inaba and Tokyo for best setting in the series. They're definitely better than Tatsumi Port Island and all of the cities in Strikers. Inaba has infinite atmosphere as this shitty dying town caught in some kind of mysterious fog, that can be seriously threatened by one crazy serial killer, that has a police force so tiny that one evil cop can throw off the entire investigation, that can be seriously threatened by one mall moving in and pushing all of the mom and pop stores out of business. The rural streets, the shitty one-story houses, the fog, everything combines to create this perfect setting for a Scooby-Doo gang to go on a magical wacky adventure together. But Tokyo is sleek, it's shiny, it's got style for days, it feels like a unthinkably massive behemoth that only sort of cares about your shenanigans, where you can just be forgotten about after the next big thing happens. It's tough, it's tough. But I definitely like Inaba.
Velvet Room
Hiimdaisy Persona Comic
Junpei x Chidori
Mara
Evokers
Ryotaro Dojima
Persona 4
Tarot Cards
Masayoshi Shido (Boss Fight)
Menus
Nyx
The Reaper
Mitsuru Kirijo
Sojiro Sakura
Persona 5 Strikers
Makoto Stalking Joker
P3/4 having dedicated Enemies, P5 having Personas as Enemies

- OMG! We Are SO Awesome!
Character Titles (P4AU)
Takuto Maruki
School Concert (P4G)
Shooting Yourself in the Head
Mass Destruction
January (P3)
Dating Every Girl
Thanatos
Zenikichi Awakens His Persona
Akinari Kamiki
P5 Tarot Art
Aria of the Soul
P3 Characters in P4AU
Akihabara (P5)
Aigis: "I will be by your desk after class for easy access." I like Aigis, she has a pretty standard sci-fi "how do I learn to be more human" robot arc, but that's fine. I like how she's burdened by guilt over getting your parents killed, but doesn't understand what's going on and has to rediscover it. I like how she's explicitly designed to look human because the scientists thought it would be a good way to draw out personas, even though the series also has a dog with a persona and a bodyless computer program with a persona. I like how Aigis is also the one character in the game who's like a goofy wacky extreme personality; P5 is nothing but that, and P3 is mostly fairly realistic (by anime standards) characters, EXCEPT for this Data-ass blonde robot who pulls gatling guns out of her arms and doesn't understand human interactions and stalks you when you're sleeping and can talk to animals for some reason. I don't even remember why Aigis can talk to animals, I just remember thinking it was a little too silly even for this game. I like how she's basically unchanged in P4AU, I like how the plots of both The Answer and P4AU involve Aigis discovering new sisters because that's the obvious way to insert new characters. Like, all of the party members feel like they're cut from roughly the same mold of "we don't really know what's going on, but we want to help," EXCEPT for Aigis, who feels like she's from a completely different game And just in case you had any question in your mind over who the canon girl is, Aigis is the one you choose to die with on the school roof. By the way, and I'm just saying, the canon girls are obviously Aigis, Rise, and Makoto. Those three are pushed on the player WAY harder than any of the others. I'm not saying they're the best waifus or anything, I'm saying they are clearly the Yunas to everyone else's Lulus.
President Tanaka
Negotiation (P5)
Rise Posters (P5)
Hot Spring Scene (P3)
EMMA
Persona Kart (Hypothetical)
Battle for Everyone's Souls
Mementos (Smash)
Joker (Smash)
King's Game
I am Thou, Thou art I
Persona Fusion
Kanji Tatsumi
Never More (Song)
Justice Arcana
Memories of You
Heaven (Theme): Like I said, I like it when the dungeons in P4 are themed around some kind of TV genre... But this is good too. Heaven as interpreted by a little girl and a madman, with bright colors and fluffy clouds, and this slow song and a woman singing over it pleasantly. You know, it just occurred to me, the boss of this dungeon manifests because Nanako wants to see her mother again, right? But Nanako is five. Her father is angry that he failed to solve her mother's murder and it eats at him, but like, if Nanako remembers her mother, then that car accident must've happened like a year ago, right? This isn't some ancient case still eating at Dojima, this is relatively recent. I dunno, I'm not going anywhere with this. I like the theme. It's not my favorite Persona theme or anything, but you're allowed one dungeon with a slow, inappropriate-for-the-danger theme like this.
Adolf Hitler (P2)
Lovers Arcana
Magician Arcana
Maya
Akihiko (P4AU)
Optional Romance Choices vs Canon Romance
Masayoshi Sutou: Oh god, another interminable Japanese video game guy name, okay, he made the art for... Persona 3, Persona 3 Reload, and Trauma Center: Second Opinion. You know, how is it that there are only really one big lawyer and doctor series in video games, both of which date to the early-mid 2000s? And Trauma Center died quickly, too. Everyone has the experience of doctors, everyone knows people who want to be doctors, and yet, Trauma Center was one and only series about being a doctor that anyone can think of.
P3 Persona Awakening Cutscene
Sadayo Kawakami
Yosuke Hanamura

Ryoji Mochizuki: I remember playing P3 the first time, and being surprised that the game could just casually introduce a new major character with their own unique portrait this late into the game. I mean, you know in one second that he's connected to the Dark Hour and is some kind of magical creature, obviously, but you don't necessarily know the specifics. I like how he's awkwardly with all of the boys during the trip, there NEEDED to be a bonding moment with Ryoji for his later actions to be meaningful. I wonder how that scene is handled on P3P, where you're presumably with the girls? Is there even a scene where you have to like catch the boys peeping on you or something? But anyway, Ryoji realizing what he is, then coming to you and just casually explaining everything, "sorry guys, but it's ACTUALLY impossible to defeat Nyx, you need to kill me and forget everything," and of course you the player know immediately that this leads to a bad end (I assume, I never even actually tried it). Like, Ryoji has exactly the bare minimum of bonding for the player to care about him, and then his 'death' has some meaning. It's not amazing, but he works for what he needs to do.
FeMC (P3P)
Funky Student
Cosmic Tower Burger
Game Over Screen (P3): DEATH IS NOT A HUNTER UNBENKNOWNST TO ITS PREY...
P4G Bike Ending
Tae Takemi
Haru Despising the Police
The Fox (P4)
P4 Culprit Selection List: They really went all out with this, it really does have basically every single named character in the game. Does it have unique dialogue for every possible choice? I've never bothered to check. I'm not sure what to think of this moment. The thing is, this is what everything leads up to. This is THE moment of the investigation, the entire game has led to this -- and it's just a really long list of every character in the game. Like, maybe it could have been images of each character, and you have to select them or something? It's not bad, but again... If you're paying even 1% attention to the mystery, then it's blindingly obvious that the only possible culprits are Dojima and Adachi. From the start, there is no one else who could possibly be the killer, it has to be one of them, and if you know anything about mystery stories, you know it's Adachi, because he otherwise has no reason to exist in the story. So, I don't know, this has strong points and weak points, but it IS one of the most memorable parts of the game.
Shiki-Ouji
Codenames (P5)
Akira Konoe
Cultural Festival (P4): I love the boys signing the girls up for something without their knowledge, so the girls sign them up for the beauty pageant in return. I like how even the NPCs are surprised that Yu would do it, "I thought he was cooler than that." I like all of the boys' drag, and was mildly surprised that Marilyn Monroe was known enough in Japan to be used for this sort of thing? Though the standout is forever Teddie. I love the idea of the annoying teacher entering it herself and being disappointed that she doesn't win, though the fat girl, ugh, maybe the most annoying character in Persona history, she has literally one joke, and it's that she's fat and ugly. This definitely looks more fun than any similar thing I did in school. All I remember is a middle school Medieval Market, where we had to sign up for what medieval job we'd have and then make a stall. I was a wizard, so I made a bunch of magic amulets (made out of aluminum foil) and read peoples' futures with my crystal ball (also made out of aluminum foil). I mean, honestly, this entire cultural festival scene is fun and all, but it's not exactly the most memorable Persona moment. I think it sticks in peoples' minds mainly for Teddie.

- I Am Thou, Thou Art I...
Mr. Urshimaru
Burn my Dread
Persona (Carl Jung)
Hawaii Scene (P5)
Reach Out to the Truth
Ambushing Enemies with Attacks in the Overworld
Pancakes
How Well Nyx's Arcana Quotes Fit the Series' Characters
Dungeons (P4)
Exams: A key part of being in school, so it needs to be in the games, but let me ask, do Japanese schools REALLY put up everyone's grades on the wall for everyone to see? Because if so, that's harsh as fuck. I can't imagine an American school ever doing that. By the way, I look up the answers to these things 100% of the time.
Adachi Cube
Munehisa Iwai
Sae Interrogation Framing Device
Nihil Hand
Dancing Spinoff Games
Futaba Romance
Labrys
Hermit Arcana: Let's see... Maya, Fox, Futaba. I'm not going to lie, this isn't an exciting lineup. The Fox is whatever, Maya is fun but kind of whatever, and Futaba is fun but kind of whatever. Nothing wrong with any of them, but this is a pretty middle-of-the-road arcana.
Arsene Lupin
Persona Pokerap
Weaponized Golf Clubs
Cheesing the Game with Overpowered Special Personas at Level 1
Morgana
Hifumi Togo
Shadow Labrys
Morgana saying Go to Sleep
Meat Dimension
Loki
Jack Frost
Operation Babe Hunt
Navigators
Ending Fights with All-Out Attacks
Silent Protagonists
I'm gonna renovate your ass!
Green Persona 6
Yu Narukumi
Void Quest
Persona Evolution
Nominative vs Accusative Cases
Junes Department Store
P4G Shuffle Time
Heritage Palladion Liberator
Nanako Dojima
Gentle Madman
Deleted Yosuke Gay Romance
Cut P5R Harem Ending
Benjamin Franklin (Musician)
Elizabeth (Superboss): I'm not going to lie to you, I've never beaten any of the Velvet Room superbosses. I've fought them and instantly died, but never beaten any of them. My understanding is that all of them are basically puzzle bosses that require you to have fused a very specific and powerful series of personas in advance, and if you've done that, then they're trivial, and if you haven't, then you just immediately lose. I don't know, I like the idea of the Velvet Room attendants being the games' superbosses, that's a good use for them, but they seem more like they're checking your mastery of the persona fusion system more than your mastery of the battle mechanics? I suppose that's appropriate given what they are, but it's also not particularly interesting to me, I would rather just have a tough fight that doesn't require fusing insane bullshit in advance. That reminds me a lot of FFX's monster arena, where the most basic fights are harder than the final boss, and you can only stand a chance by creating the most bullshit weapons ever in advance of the actual fights... I didn't do the monster arena, either, but I appreciated that it was an option. I'm not a completionist, and the only thing like this I've done in video games is build Pokmon teams for postgame content like BW2's gym leader/champion arena and the subway battles. I wish those were still around in the modern games, they completely gave up on postgame content.
Vanilla P3 Protagonist's Ability to Equip All Weapons
P5's Translation
The Fog (Song)
Battle for Everyone's Slams
Orbit: You'll Never See It Coming
Tatsumi Port Island

- Gasp! The Enemy!
Toaster Aigis
Shadow Okumura (Boss Fight)
Lotus Juice (Rapper)
Urban Fantasy (Genre)
Heartful Cry
Replenishing Ammo (P5R): I'm torn about this. On the one hand, it removes one of P5's more annoying elements, but on the other hand, the only use for guns is to trigger weaknesses. Giving you unlimited ammo means there's no pressing limitation on your ability to do so, which means there's no reason to ever upgrade guns. I left all of my guns unupgraded until Maruki's Palace, because why even bother?
Other RPGs Mimicking Persona's Calendar System
Koromaru
BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle
Hiimdaisy Persona 4 Comic Dub

Magic Spell Names
Fictional High Schoolers Dating Adults in Anime
Haru Okumura
Harems Compared to Canon Romances in JRPGs
Renaming S-Links to Confidants
Shitty Adults
Principal Kobayakawa
Classroom Question Cheat Button (P5): Among the strangest additions by P5? I mean, I used it on every single question, and it was always correct, but why would you add this? And it's only on the random questions the teachers ask, not on the exams, so you'll still be looking up stuff online. Very strange decision.
Playing Coy with the Year P5 is Set
Erebus
Forced Romance (P3)
Thieves' Den
Failure to Make Persona 5 Arena
People Saying Any Jazz Song Sounds Like Persona
Persona Q Weddings
Mr. Edogawa
Afterschool Clubs
Hatsune Miku
Mementos

- All You Do Is Eat Away At My Life
Kyosuke from Danganronpa 3 resembling Yu
Marin Karin
Protagonist Death Game Overs
Ichiko Ohya
Fusion Accidents
Endless Rereleases Changing the Games
Kasumi and Sumire
Yosuke in the Camping Trip
Tartarus
Variable S-Link Point Dialogue Choices
Ken Romance
Nozomi Suemitsu
Remaking Persona 4
Burning Men's Soul
Fishing Minigame
Yosuke Goes Through a Breakup (Video)
Metis

- Please Beat The Shit Out Of Me
Fuuka's Original Voice Actress
P4G's Prolonged Vita Exclusivity
Persona 6 Development Time
Uncontrollable Party Members
Persona 5 Tactica
The Answer (P3)

https://youtu.be/TF8o3rhsmbA?si=Famaoc0sJj3LsEqw

Naoto Shirogane

Yukiko

One more (system mechanic)

Counter Strike

https://youtu.be/VpEF9q7aNBc?si=eMPd7q3KKX6J5dqI

Non-important NPCs as Social Links/Confidants

Bitto posted...

Non-important NPCs as Social Links/Confidants

I'm not sure I understand what you mean by this. Non-party members?

Basically any characters that arent in the story at all as a Social Link. I guess what Im saying is how Persona 3 original has mostly NPC S Links compared to, say, Persona 5

Alright, that makes more sense.

The principal of a school asking a teenager to confront the Yakuza

Arguments about canon names for protagonists

Naoto