I think it's because working life for the average Japanese person fucking sucks so bad that for a worrying number of Japanese folks high school was the last time they really felt happy and free and unalienated from their fellow man.
Of course this isn't Japan-specific anymore. From my times visiting family in Korea, I've started picking up the same shit over there from among my family and strangers I've talked to.
Which also explains why quite a few Korean manwha is also tends to be escapist power-fantasies as well.
Well in p5 you roflstomp a sexual predator, a celebrity plagiarizer, a gangster extortionist, the CEO of Japanese McDonald's, the president, and the demiurge. And I think that's pretty neat.
Also I really enjoy playing tycoon in p5r. Really fun and quick cardgame. Oh yeah and you get to be friends with Japanese Bernie Sanders.
don't get me wrong. persona 2 is definitely not misery porn. its just that, well, without spoiling too much you don't get to sigma grindset your way out of a world where the history channel exists.
well, what do i know i think the social link thing started with persona 3. which i also didn't play :edgeworth-shrug:
i won't judge people for indulging themselves with 'east asian isekai/time travel success at life porn' since i'd be lying if i pretended to be above that sort of thing. but my impression is that persona 2 is old enough where the people you play as just have the informed trait of being cool. its not a game built from its foundations as a way of saying, look at this person, he's you, he's so cool and here's all the things you can do / people you can be friends with if only you were cool and stuff. the latter is more depressing when you think about it.
I think it's because working life for the average Japanese person fucking sucks so bad that for a worrying number of Japanese folks high school was the last time they really felt happy and free and unalienated from their fellow man.
Of course this isn't Japan-specific anymore. From my times visiting family in Korea, I've started picking up the same shit over there from among my family and strangers I've talked to.
Which also explains why quite a few Korean manwha is also tends to be escapist power-fantasies as well.
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Well in p5 you roflstomp a sexual predator, a celebrity plagiarizer, a gangster extortionist, the CEO of Japanese McDonald's, the president, and the demiurge. And I think that's pretty neat.
Also I really enjoy playing tycoon in p5r. Really fun and quick cardgame. Oh yeah and you get to be friends with Japanese Bernie Sanders.
you should try persona 2. nobody is happy in those games. clearly the superior persona.
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don't get me wrong. persona 2 is definitely not misery porn. its just that, well, without spoiling too much you don't get to sigma grindset your way out of a world where the history channel exists.
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well, what do i know i think the social link thing started with persona 3. which i also didn't play :edgeworth-shrug:
i won't judge people for indulging themselves with 'east asian isekai/time travel success at life porn' since i'd be lying if i pretended to be above that sort of thing. but my impression is that persona 2 is old enough where the people you play as just have the informed trait of being cool. its not a game built from its foundations as a way of saying, look at this person, he's you, he's so cool and here's all the things you can do / people you can be friends with if only you were cool and stuff. the latter is more depressing when you think about it.