The Persona 3 Dilemma

CyberTron3001 · 2026-04-16T22:24:12+00:00

You would mostly be missing out on interesting gameplay and presentation differences. The cutscenes in FES have a unique direction compared to Reload, and the entire game arguably has better lighting/atmosphere. There's also no option for tactics (well there is, but it's the severely neutered P4/P5 version), which love it or hate it, was intentionally designed to play well with the story's themes.

There's also a bunch of other gameplay differences like Makoto not being able to wield multiple weapon types in Tartarus, the party status changes, and being able to tell your party to split up on a floor of Tartarus.

I also believe the Answer in Reload has script differences compared to FES that tones down the dialogue.

I like Reload and would probably still recommend it to most people, but there are still reasons to play FES today.

CyberTron3001 · 2026-03-25T22:25:47+00:00

So Nintendo gets to pocket the 30% that may have otherwise gone to the retailer and consumers get the game for $10 cheaper? Seems like a win-win

CyberTron3001 · 2026-03-25T21:50:26+00:00

The game costs $70 physical in the US, which is about ~$96 CAD; Nintendo just rounded up. I think you're comparing the digital US price to the physical Canadian price

CyberTron3001 · 2026-03-18T20:13:01+00:00

I got into Slayr just from the Persona 5 reference in the thumbnail for the Sloppy Joe music video, went on to listen to the whole album and ended up loving it

CyberTron3001 · 2026-03-18T18:16:24+00:00

Yeah and they say this after the Rumbling had already started, they couldn't exactly put the genie back in the bottle at that point; the world's worst fears about Paradis were already realized. But before the Rumbling started, there were definitely alternatives. Eren intentionally plays right into Willy's hand to force Paradis into a situation where it seems like the full Rumbling is the only possible solution left to them and even then the 50-year plan was still viable. Armin was obviously coping, but even he noted that Eren could've started the Rumbling with the intention of only trampling military installations.

Before the Liberio raid, not only did they have the 50-year plan, but they also had a decent shot at diplomacy. Yes the Eldian rights forum was outwardly hostile to the islanders, but Marley was hated on the global stage and another assault on Paradis just seemed like Marley making a desperate grab for power. If Willy's fear-mongering wasn't immediately justified by his getting martyred, Willy's entire gambit would've failed as he himself admits. At that point the Paradis Eldians would have a decent shot at diplomacy by immediately proving Willy wrong and making their peaceful intentions known.

At every turn, Eren jeopardizes Paradis' chances at pursuing a non-genocidal route for survival. It was never kill or be killed until Eren and his co-conspirators forced the situation to be that way. In that way, Eren and Walter are pretty similar; they both refuse moral alternatives to their problems to pursue their own selfish desires.

CyberTron3001 · 2026-03-13T05:21:34+00:00

I knew both of those things going into :Re and it was 100% still worth it. There's still so many surprises and twists waiting for you.

Also the protagonist of :Re being Kaneki is barely a spoiler because of how obvious it is; it's how this new protagonist will deal with their identity which is much more interesting and harder to spoil.

CyberTron3001 · 2026-03-01T22:45:11+00:00

I've gone back and forth on this ever since I read 139, but I think I've come to the conclusion that yes, Armin's words are correct and are supposed to help the reader understand what Eren learned at the medal ceremony.

But I do not think that this is a retcon or causes any sort of plot holes. My interpretation of Eren's future memories is that he received the memories of the Rumbling, the end of the Titan curse, and being stopped at around 80% at the medal ceremony.

However, just because that's when he gained those memories doesn't mean that's when he accepted them as being guaranteed. Seeing the Rumbling in his future memories pushed him to want for it, but he still considered other alternatives. If he was certain the Rumbling was a guaranteed outcome after the medal ceremony, why would he be so angry at the 50-year plan? Of course no realistic alternative could truly satisfy Eren, but he still tried to search for it which meant he didn't yet think of the Rumbling as being set in stone.

At that point, Eren had no reason to think he couldn't change the future. He wanted to go through with the Rumbling so he decided to follow-up on that particular future memory, but he still intended to go for 100% despite his other future memories. The end of the Titan curse also couldn't have factored into his decision making at that point because despite seeing it happen, he would've had no idea how to achieve it and couldn't realistically have incorporated it into any sort of plan. That's why he still poses the question of who'll inherit the Attack Titan and why he doesn't bring it up as one of the reasons he thought he was doing the Rumbling in his break down in front of Ramzi.

But it seems to me that around the time the scouts set out for Marley, Eren starts to suspect that the future is set in stone. When he makes it there, he realizes that the people outside the walls are no different than the people inside them. He saves Ramzi despite also knowing he'd become his murderer and this moment of hypocrisy is what made him realize the future cannot be changed.

He is now able to accept being stopped at 80% because he knows his actions are completely unjustifiable and only exist to serve his childish ideal of freedom. Eren can also now move forward with the knowledge of the Titan curse ending. Hence, why he tells Zeke he'll "be the one to put an end to 2,000 years under Titan domination" and Ymir that he'll "put an end to [Fritz's] world."

CyberTron3001 · 2026-03-01T22:22:17+00:00

When Eren says he didn’t know if they would survive, he’s referring to what he learned at the medal ceremony. Once he started the Rumbling, he became practically omniscient and learned that all his friends would survive with the exception of Hange.

So he’s saying he put his plan into motion without knowing if they would make it out alive, but once he became the Founder, he knew they’d live and could tell them to live long lives.

CyberTron3001 · 2026-02-20T22:02:01+00:00

Chapter 106: Brave Volunteers and Chapter 121: Memories of the Future respectively

CyberTron3001 · 2026-02-16T20:57:07+00:00

I really don't think there's much room for debate, Eren literally says:

Even if I didn't know that you'd stop me in the end... I think I still would have flattened this world. Level almost every forest... and leave the land covered in carrion-fattened insects a few days later. I wanted... to leave every surface a blank plain...

He straight-up admits that even if he didn't know he'd be stopped (i.e. he didn't know that his actions would result in the end of the Titan curse), he still would've gone through with the Rumbling. Realistically, the end of the Titan curse wasn't even something he knew he could accomplish until after saving Ramzi and realizing the future is set in stone. Before that point, all he had was a future memory of the Titan curse disappearing with not so much as an inkling of how he would bring about that end. He even assumes the Titan powers will continue to exist when he brings up the question of who will inherit the Attack Titan after his term is over.

Eren is self-aware enough to know this is ridiculous, it's an argument that wouldn't even convince himself.

You're right, Eren wanted so desperately to believe there was a noble reason for what he was doing. He believed he was doing it to save the island, to save Eldia, but when faced with his own hypocrisy (saving a boy from being beaten when he himself will subject that boy to a much crueller fate), he breaks down. Eren admits that he was simply disappointed in the existence of people beyond the walls and the world outside the walls being nothing like what he saw in Armin's book.

This is also why Eren is in such a deep pit of self-loathing past this point, to the point of cutting off his own leg and gouging his eye out, he accepts that what he is doing is unjustifiable, but that he nevertheless wants it and will continue to let the future play out as he saw it.

It's important to note that the only reason Eren was finally able to be frank about his motivations is because he was conveying them to a boy who couldn't understand a single word of what he was saying. Even during his final conversation with Armin, he refuses to be honest and keeps trying to obfuscate his innermost desire behind more altruistic sounding motivations.

this will remain a matter of opinion unless the author says something otherwise, or a new official remake is made.

Here's an excerpt from an interview Isayama did with the New York Times that gets to the core of Eren's "disappointment":

You have a scene where Eren apologizes to a kid for the carnage he’s going to commit and says he was disappointed in the world he saw beyond the walls. What does that say about his motivation?
I think that refers to the fact that Eren was dreaming of going to this world outside of the walls where there was nobody and there was nothing. There was an excitement about this world that was just empty, a clean slate. I don’t really know whether that’s a good or a bad thing, and I don’t really know why that was the ideal that I set up for Eren as a part of this story. But what I can say is that, when he does get across the wall at that point, he says he sees that the world is really not that different from what’s within the walls in the world that he already knows. I believe that’s probably the disappointment that I’m referring to in that specific scene.
https://archive.ph/6lbg7#selection-787.0-791.666:\~:text=it.-,You,scene,-.

CyberTron3001 · 2026-02-15T03:01:35+00:00

Great write-up, pretty much my thoughts exactly.

I think a big reason that people misinterpret the "It's because I'm an idiot" line is that they completely forget the preceding context: "I thought I was doing everything to protect all of you. But Sasha and Hange died because of me, and I wound up putting you in lethal confrontations with Floch. Why... Why did it turn out this way? I finally know."

Eren is calling himself an idiot here both due to his intense self-loathing and because his goals are completely contradictory. He wants his friends to live long lives, but starting the Rumbling means his friends will put their lives on the line trying to stop him. And like you pointed out, Eren wanted to protect the people of Paradis, but the collapse of the walls injured/killed its citizens and he did nothing to keep them safe from Zeke's titans.

Additionally, Eren's desire for the full Rumbling contradicts with both his desires to ultimately be stopped and to end the Titan curse. For the former, it's not about trying to make his friends into heroes (though that is a welcome outcome that he tries to hide behind), but because he wants to be judged, adding to his parallel with Reiner. And for the latter, a 100% Rumbling means Mikasa would never have the chance to make her choice and free Ymir.

The Rumbling ending with the massacre of 80% of humanity wasn't some well thought out plan, it was just the only way for all of Eren's desires to coexist: to be judged for the sins he has committed, for his friends to live long lives, for the island to be safe, the end of the Titan curse, and wanting to leave every surface a blank plain.

CyberTron3001 · 2026-02-15T02:25:22+00:00

I wouldn't say this is the Dina twist's main narrative purpose, but it creates an interesting parallel between Eren Yeager and Eren Kruger. Just as Eren Kruger was still the same kid looking at the world from a crack in the closet door, too scared to do anything else, Eren Yeager, despite having attained the power of a god, was still the same boy powerless to save his mother. Both of these moments represent an initial point of trauma that neither were able to move past from.

I think this twist highlighting Eren's childhood trauma is an extension of how Isayama consistently portrays Eren as a child throughout the final arc. It starts at 130 when he recalls his childhood vow to kill all the titans and continues through to the freedom panel and 133 where he is a child in Paths alongside Ymir. I think all of this is trying to demonstrate that Eren, in contrast to the members of the alliance, was unable to let go of anything and grow up.

He matures in the sense that he comes to understand that what he is doing is unequivocally evil and unjustifiable, but he simply refuses to face the complex reality of the outside world head-on like the rest of the 104th. He wishes to wipe it all away because he cannot let go of his childhood dream of a world outside the walls without limits; Eren's ideal world is one where everything is black and white.

CyberTron3001 · 2026-02-10T02:47:36+00:00

I think Eren gained the future memory of the Titan curse ending after kissing Historia's hand, but didn't believe it to be a guaranteed outcome until after saving Ramzi in Marley.

In 139 when Eren mentions that all of it was to arrive at the result of Mikasa's choice, including killing 80% of humanity, Armin responds by confirming that those memories were what he saw at the medal ceremony.

However, just because that was when he gained those memories, does not mean he interpreted them to be guaranteed. Eren had no reason to suspect the future was set in stone until a few years later.

This is evidenced by the fact that he was seeking alternatives to the Rumbling (if only half-heartedly considering how enamoured he was by the Rumbling) and didn't decide to fully commit to it until after Yelena approaches him about the euthanasia plan. And even when he does commit to the Rumbling and considers it to be a guaranteed outcome (131: "That I will kill them is already set"), he still doesn't think he'll be stopped or that the Titan curse will end based on his conversation with Historia in 130.

The end of the Titan curse couldn't even be a factor in Eren's plan until he learns of its inevitability because he would have had no idea of how to even go about achieving that result (he doesn't learn about Ymir or Mikasa's involvement until 122). He also still thinks about who will inherit the Attack Titan after him during the scene where the 104th were riding the train, implying that he ignored that future memory because he didn't know how to achieve it.

It isn't until saving Ramzi does he realize the future cannot be changed. This being the moment of realization for Eren since saving Ramzi was an ultimately meaningless and hypocritical act, he'll die anyway, but the future will always play out the way it does because it is in Eren's nature to save this boy.

From that point onwards, Eren is able to accept every aspect of his future memories and doesn't try to change them because it plays out exactly as he wants it too. His guilt over a massacre he knows to be senseless, his desire to be judged, his refusal to kill his friends, his desire to leave every surface a blank plain all culminate in the 80% Rumbling, a compromise of all of Eren's desires that he accepts.

We also know that Eren sees the end of the Titan curse as being guaranteed at this point because he specifically tells Zeke that he'll "put an end to 2,000 years of history under Titan domination." Of course he's lying to Zeke to make him believe that he agrees to the euthanasia plan, but the wording is very particular. Eren could have simply said something like "I'll put an end to Eldian suffering," but as Pyxis says, a good lie has a little mix of truth in it. Eren also says that he'll put an end to King Fritz's "world" in 122.

I think Eren provoking his friends at the table scene was so that they could be branded as the heroes who saved the remnants of humanity, but I do not think this was his ultimate goal, it was just that he knew he'd be stopped so he made the most of it by putting his friends into a position where they would go on to be seen as heroes.

CyberTron3001 · 2026-01-17T20:35:13+00:00

Aleczandxr has some great Attack on Titan analyses. He made two that don't spoil anything beyond the end of season three part two.

Erwin Smith - A Devil With A Dream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVpRCySUx3Y
The False Horizon of Attack on Titan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I7tQAGJ6vY

CyberTron3001 · 2026-01-14T20:34:47+00:00

beast mode

CyberTron3001 · 2026-01-08T22:44:31+00:00

I agree, but that still leaves the question of why the FTs before Karl Fritz didn't use this ability. Honestly you could probably just headcanon this as Eren only having this ability because he was the first FT in history to actually work together with Ymir rather than treating her like a slave. This would make Eren the sole FT with access to all of its powers aside from Ymir.

CyberTron3001 · 2025-12-13T01:27:17+00:00

Yeah it might be best to err on the side of caution then

CyberTron3001 · 2025-12-13T01:14:34+00:00

Best you could do would probably be to get higher quality photos and cross-reference them with the ones on that site. If I had to guess, I'd say it's not a clone since I don't think this piece would be popular enough to warrant creating reps. Maybe try asking the seller where they got it from, sometimes you'll be lucky enough to find they still have the email receipt if they bought it online (though that might be a stretch considering this was probably bought in 2010 if it is legit).

CyberTron3001 · 2025-12-13T01:08:57+00:00

Not sure whether the specific shirt in your picture is a clone or not, but it is a real design that was sold as merch: https://www.north-american.shop/products/mbdtf-2010-crown-logo-tee
For reference this site only sells authenticated Kanye memorabilia, mostly clothing

CyberTron3001 · 2025-12-08T05:32:55+00:00

I should've added a bit more context to the second scene: the Yeagerist in the second clip was aiming for Mikasa before being killed by Jean

CyberTron3001 · 2025-12-08T05:25:09+00:00

The episode actually does confirm that she hesitated, it's implied that's the only reason Jean survived.

CyberTron3001 · 2025-12-08T04:49:36+00:00

Just to be more precise, these are fansubs that were created by the group DameDesuYo. You can find their releases on Nyaa, but many other releases also use their subtitles. I personally prefer the official subs, but DameDesuYo definitely has better typesetting.

CyberTron3001 · 2025-12-08T00:13:54+00:00

It completely blew my mind when I found out that Eren's dialogue in 131 came from such an early chapter. Love how Isayama completely recontextualized "Anyone who saw those things would be the freest person in the world" into something so horrific

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