- Put some research into finding a way to not have 1/4 of the characters be pedophiles
- Turn down the dating simmyness by about 70 %, let the other characters develop interpersonal relationships
- Keep turning the "main character actually having character traits" dial, we can reach 10 % by 2050
- Maybe two fewer Revolver Ocelot voice Mr. President scenes than in 5
- Since we are doing social themes, how about "communism is good"?
- Ska soundtrack
I actually like these games BTW
Or even just don't make an exception in the game's themes for queer people! P5 is like "break free from societal expectations! But not, like, in a queer way" and it drives me up a fucking wall. Though that's still better than P4's core theme of "anything about you that you don't like is just you being delusional and you need to accept the 'truth' about yourself and conform". Naoto accepting the "hard truth" that she can "never pass the barrier between the sexes" makes me want to throw up- and hey, what do you know, it also conveniently makes Kanji's attraction to her not gay, isn't that interesting.
I'm still so confused by how P3 had 2 mascot characters that were relatively inoffensive (Koromaru and Aigis), and then P4 and P5 made two of the most obnoxious mascots I've ever seen (at least it's not a straight "things getting worse" progression- Teddie is by far worse than Morgana)
100%. So much of the social links end up feeling so manipulative- which, I mean, they're clearly borrowing a lot from dating sims, which are Manipulation: The Genre. But still.