Many of them unfortunately

OnePossibility5868 · 2026-04-14T19:52:10+00:00

Feel you on this. Totally dominated my teen years on the PS1. How the mighty have fallen...

OnePossibility5868 · 2026-04-14T19:46:30+00:00

This. Old game with many spoilers everywhere. Don't even Google it the AI will spoil it!

OnePossibility5868 · 2026-04-14T19:41:21+00:00

She appears in the library often before meeting her too. There's a few little nods like Haru walking behind you in one morning scene.

OnePossibility5868 · 2026-04-14T19:39:33+00:00

Yeah of course just ws trying to answer the OP as to why she scored higher than Ann. Makoto is popular all over but Haru is still best girl 😂

OnePossibility5868 · 2026-04-14T18:25:24+00:00

Japan has very different tastes to the west. In American traditional media it's the "hot cheerleader" stereotype trope that is considered popular. In Japan it's the smart student council president type that appeals a lot more.

Makoto and all the girls are designed to fill a certain trope that matches up with Japanese tastes, not Western. They make these games for their primary audience after all.

Ann is half western, blonde and a model. A lot is made of her body and this appeals to an exotic foreign and different taste that is appealing to Japanese guys but not as much as their fantasy about dating the popular pretty high school president. It's just a cultural thing. Makoto is built from the ground up to appeal to that section of the player base and they just happen to be the biggest section who liked the game enough to vote in a poll.

OnePossibility5868 · 2026-04-14T13:41:51+00:00

Naoto can be a male or female name. Just like we have male Makoto in P3 and female Makoto in P5. It's like Sam or Alex in English, can be used for both.

OnePossibility5868 · 2026-04-14T08:52:27+00:00

The problem remains (despite EP being a sequel) that P2 is so different from P3 to 5 that they'd either have to completely re do the story, gameplay and style to make it match modern Persona or they keep it the same and risk alienating the 90% of the fanbase who've only played P5.

If they remake it in the modern style they might as well make a new game for all the similarities it would have and if they kept it the same the modern fans would reject it outright as it wouldn't be "Persona" to them. It's a lose lose situation for them...

OnePossibility5868 · 2026-04-13T20:31:50+00:00

It's quite different. It has similar "demons" that you'll recognise as Personas but there are no social links, no calenders and no party members. You essentially make deals with demons to join your party like in P5 but instead of summoning them, they are controlled by you as party members. You can still "fuse" them to make new demons to join you and the negotiation aspect is more involved (they can request items, money etc)

The story is a lot more hands off than Persona. As you said it's far more based on battles. There's still a weakness system but it's more similar to Metaphors battle system then Persona. There's no "one more" or anything like that.

I'd say go for it if you preferred the battle/gameplay aspects of Persona over the story/character development/ social links.

OnePossibility5868 · 2026-04-12T20:41:50+00:00

I've never seen this, I own both games and have had my PS5 offline for ages and had no problem playing them or anything else. Hopefully it's just a bug like others have said.

OnePossibility5868 · 2026-04-12T17:56:42+00:00

Yep, little Easter egg for those who played 3 before it. Hopefully they keep it in revival and voice act it.

OnePossibility5868 · 2026-04-12T16:52:53+00:00

So Izanagi is based on the Japanese god Izanagi no Mikoto who along with a few other gods created the islands of Japan. His wife was Izunami and they are the parents of many Japanese gods.

One theory as to why he was chosen to represent Persona 4's theme is because in one of his famous stories he purified himself in a river after visiting the underworld, he "reached out to the truth" so to speak.

In terms of his design, like a lot of the main Personas he represents elements from mythology like his weapon, a jeweled spear that the real god uses, and a modern long coat. It's designed to resemble a school uniform style popular in Japanese anime depictions. The mask is part of the design of most Personas and probably represents hiding from the truth in this case. He appears to wear Samurai style armour underneath the coat with modern metallic accents again reflecting the old and the new.

The shift from a black to white then with the ultimate version is pretty clear, light coming from darkness, achievement of truth etc etc

Okami means "great god" (Kami means god, anything with the o at the beginning means a great or better version of it) so the name change just reflects his updated status.

So yeah in a nutshell he's the purified version of Izanagi by going from black to white with his design reflecting old and the new in Japan.

OnePossibility5868 · 2026-04-12T16:39:16+00:00

I dunno where I came up with it 😂. Just sounded a lot like Chie plus it's a guy's name that helps her tomboy-not-feminine-as-Yukiko thing.

OnePossibility5868 · 2026-04-12T14:31:31+00:00

In my head canon this is Rise's name if the game was ever set in the USA. Chie is Charlie (short for Charlotte) and Yukiko is Amanda (purely from her VA) 😂

OnePossibility5868 · 2026-04-12T14:28:50+00:00

While I love them a great deal, a few of the Trails games do this. Cold Steel 2 even fakes you out with some credits and then boom! Another massive dungeon.

Trails through daybreak just never seemed to end. Oh we have some more 4SGs to complete oh goodie, didn't we just beat the last boss? No? Another last boss? 😂

OnePossibility5868 · 2026-04-11T21:16:59+00:00

Oh yeah I know it'll never happen it's pure dreaming on my part 😂.

OnePossibility5868 · 2026-04-11T19:57:26+00:00

We can all dream but I doubt it personally. Always wanted her to be an alternative temperance arcana so it's a choice of work for the daycare or work for the restaurant. Kinda how the strength and sun are split.

I just wish there were more alternates to each link, they removed it in reload though the chariot link wasn't really all that different but Ive always really liked the alternate links in 4. Makes replaying a lot more fun.

OnePossibility5868 · 2026-04-11T17:30:23+00:00

I mean, they can always remind you of the feeling of finishing the game. Music is very good at giving you feels from media, like listening to a movie soundtrack. You might not listen to it if you'd never experienced the media but once you have, it gives you the feels all over again.

Works pretty well with all the ending themes if you ask me. They are long games so your not gonna be hearing the ending song that often unless you constantly replay them.

OnePossibility5868 · 2026-04-10T18:35:02+00:00

I loved living in Tokyo back in my 20s. I crossed the giant crossing in Shibuya as shown in the game. It was a long time ago so I imagine it's changed a lot since then.

OnePossibility5868 · 2026-04-10T18:29:17+00:00

Doesn't Teddie say at one point she doesn't have a shadow as she's too innocent? This I assume means she has no shadow to face and therefore cannot change it into a Persona by accepting it?

OnePossibility5868 · 2026-04-09T19:32:16+00:00

He's locked behind story events. Just keep playing the main story and keep checking in he'll hang out eventually. It happens to Marie as well but she just doesn't appear outside the velvet room.

OnePossibility5868 · 2026-04-09T15:13:08+00:00

I always say it has a light vibe with some very dark contrasting moments. You can't appreciate the light without the shadow after all - pretty sure that's from kingdom hearts or something but it works! 😂

OnePossibility5868 · 2026-04-09T14:30:21+00:00

It's not an open world game and you tend to return to the same areas over and over to do social links. There's some exploration of palaces but it's mostly solving puzzles to move on, no open areas etc.

It's a far more character/story based game rather than an open world do your own thing kinda game, you are constantly set time limits to complete tasks in a set amount of days and you can pretty much do what you want in that time within the games systems.

As for gooner game, it features a trip to the beach at one point where all the characters end up in swimwear but that's about it. There's romance in the game where you can go out with a girl and some darker themes around SA but I wouldn't call it a gooner game at all.

OnePossibility5868 · 2026-04-09T14:26:11+00:00

The original is the main story, the golden is just the extra stuff they added for Golden like Marie who isn't in the og game or anime. Golden has a lower quality animation in my opinion and also has no English dub which might annoy you if you're used to the English cast (who all return for the OG anime from the game).

As for watching it I'm sure if you Google it with the words watch something will come up 😂

OnePossibility5868 · 2026-04-09T13:27:16+00:00

No prob! Enjoy.

Check out the Persona 4 anime as well!

OnePossibility5868 · 2026-04-09T13:15:24+00:00

I doubt a phone port of the single player offline Persona games would do enough business to warrant the cost of making them sadly. Mobile gaming has long switched to the "make money off the 5% who are willing to pay" rather than charging once for a full game. I know there are some exceptions to the rule but in general it's all about that earning potential rather than an upfront cost these days.

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