Persona 5 Royal is a turn based JRPG initially released on PS4 in 2019-2020 and soon to be released on all other consoles/Steam October 31st of this year. It was developed and produced by Atlus and falls under their Shin Megami Tensei franchise. Royal is an expanded edition of Persona 5, which released in 2016-2017. It includes a third semester with new characters and a new final boss.
P5R follows the story of the Phantom Thieves, a group who use the Metaverse (not that one) to change the hearts of people. The game opens with the protagonist being put on probation and sent to live with a family friend in Tokyo, after defending someone being assaulted. He transfers to Shujin Academy, begins meeting others with similar power, and they form the Phantom Thieves to challenge corruption in the world.
The gameplay is half exploring dungeons and fighting demons and half social simulator. The dungeons, known as Palaces, are unique to each major villain with guards, puzzles, and items that match their overall aesthetic. The social simulator aspect involves going to school, spending time with people, working part jobs, and going to many unique locations. There's also a side dungeon called Mementos where you can do side quests, which has a more traditional, procedurally generated layout.
The music is more jazz influenced than past Persona games, but still maintains rock, rap, and electronic influences too. Some of the now series-iconic songs have come from this game, Beneath the Mask (rainy day version) being one of my favorites.
What I appreciate the most about this game are the overarching themes that drive the story. The main cast have different traumas in their lives that ultimately brought them together, but one by one they work through that pain. It made me so much more invested seeing characters work through things that many of my friends and I have struggled with too. Watching the cast slowly grow their confidence and look to the future gave me many emotional moments and made this game feel worthy of a mega.
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lmao the bank made a bunch of errors in our finalized loan application - my name was listed with a hundred variations on my wife's alternative names (my last name has a space in it so people get really confused), her social security number was wrong, but the absolute funniest is that they slapped on unmarried addendums to the loan because obviously we're just friends (THEY WERE SUCH GOOD FRIENDS).
we absolutely disclosed that we're married and referred to each other during the negotiations as "my wife". and yet, Sappho and Her Friends strikes again. the funniest part? they're only technically wrong. we only got married for insurance reasons. we're not sexual partners - though we are definitely, really partners in other senses of the term.
WE'RE SUCH GOOD FRIENDS
Persona 5 is a 2016 role-playing video game. It takes place in modern-day Tokyo and follows a high school student known as Joker who transfers to a new school after being falsely accused of assault and put on probation. Over the course of a school year, he and other students awaken to a special power, becoming a group of secret vigilantes known as the Phantom Thieves of Hearts. They explore the Metaverse, a supernatural realm born from humanity's subconscious desires, to steal malevolent intent from the hearts of adults. As with previous games in the series, the party battles enemies known as Shadows using physical manifestations of their psyche known as their Personas.
Bobby, what in the hell are you playing in here? :Bwaaa:
Talked to some PSL folks at the grocery store, they seemed okay. When I walked up they were explaining to an old lady that they don't like Brandon either and she seemed receptive to that, so that was funny. Might go to their meeting later this week and see if they're doing anything of consequence.
We’ve somehow managed to keep a locally sourced and produced mom-and-pop candy store in business around here and it’s so amazing. Mass produced “chocolate-flavored candy” is shit
stumbled onto a vid essay talking about Come and See and this guy was talking about like how the atrocities in the movie was based on real atrocities but this guy just had to point out that the soviets did loads of war crimes too
:cringe:
Dave Chappelle's extra-transphobic special was nominated for an Emmy. What the fuck, Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
I can't stop drinking. Everything is shit at every scale. Except that the U.S. is probably collapsing. That is cool and good but it sucks to be in it as it happens. Alienation has ruined me. So I keep binging. I know I should stop drinking and find an org but what can I say, I'm a doomer. It is no t going to get better only worse. It is true of the world and of me.
ripley: i got you you son of a bitch
me watching, knowing that there's 15 minutes left :yikes-1::yikes-3:
"bimbo" is the vocative singular form of the Polish word for tram/streetcar
so yes i support bimbofication
