Chapter 7: Sae Nijima, Envious Prosecutor and Gambling Sister to the Queen. October 11 to November 19. Forty days.
So like with the palace rulers before him, lets talk about Darth Burger and the tropes associated with him. So like with Smeargle, Darth is an abusive parent and I would argue worse. Smeargle may have been a very greedy man but he did care about Yusuke deep down. I learn this during the Yusuke confidant. Smeargle is still a terrible person mind you but at least, he didn't sell Yusuke off to a clear sexual predator in the form of Robo-Giorno.
I know his name but the game really doesn't tell you that. So if you never played Royal before, you wouldn't know about Android Haru who is completely loyal to her father. I mentioned this before but after taking care of his number 2 robot, Darth sent out his daughter who he'll let blow up after just two turns. He does care about Haru deep down like Smeargle but that wasn't revealed in this game. It was revealed in the "sequel".
To be honest, I'm not sure if Strikers counts as a sequel to Persona 5. It isn't one to Persona 5 Royal due to reasons that will make sense in due time. So unlike Royal, the reverse happens to Darth in the anime where he does makes a genuine apology to his daughter before he gets killed by that masked murder. He also has memories of him and her during the good days rather than the bad days. Wish that happened in the main game but oh well.
A possible nickname I had in mind for this masked murder is from Code Geass and it's Zero. If you have never seen Code Geass, you would probably think I'm talking about Zane but nope. I'm talking about a different Zero. I'm also trying to avoid who Darth's killer is so Code Geass's Zero works right? I may not use that but go with another name instead. It's either going to be the Supreme King ,from a series about an entire school dedicating to a children's card game, or Darkblade.
The other name may be more likely since well, it's more obvious later on. You'll see. So if it isn't obvious by the way he dresses and his whole palace gimmick, Darth is a very big fan of Star Wars and sci-fi in general. I'm more of a fantasy guy myself but hey, he's a lot like Darth Vader. I'm not the biggest expert on Star Wars but Darth Burger is a lot like him except Vader's child gets screen time and not have taking by a talking cat.
So it's often mentioned that Darth treated his workers badly and would be something of a nightmare for any employee. However, this isn't shown in game to my knowledge. Going to Big Bang Burger on Central Street doesn't show the employees acting up or anything like that. Compared to the visible crimes that Smeargle and especially Kamoshita, Darth is a saint. He also owns a yacht. I just find that interesting to note. Play the dancing game to find out more.
Lets talk about Darth's death. His death and the whole mental shutdown cases is similar to a scene in Persona 3 according to the wiki. I may not like Darth as a person but he didn't deserve to go out like that. His death was broadcasted LIVE and well, I'm sure a couple of kids were scarred by this and there was a lot of vomiting. People were cheering for this at first due to him being a criminal but this changed and poor Haru.
She did care about Darth despite him not showing that he felt the same. She saw her father die on live TV and well, she really needs a hug. So like I mentioned before, I mentioned how I would fix Haru and here it is. You would think I would done this before her dad's death but well, I wanted to put it right after. To let his death settle in just a bit. I wouldn't have done this for Eggman by the way. Lets begin shall we.
As Kawakami mentioned on October 11th aka Darth's final day, she mentioned how Joker had to go see Maruki for counseling before he leaves. He has been here since May in game so why not have Haru show early for that reason as well? We even see her even before the doctor at least in Royal. It doesn't have to be the same reason as with Maruki but maybe it should go something like this. I'm not an expert story teller or game designer so take this with a grain of salt.
Kawakami is worried about Joker not making any friends due to his past getting leaked by Mishima thanks to Kamoshita. She could think that he may do something like what Shiho did earlier. She does care about her students despite well, not the most active teacher in the world. This whole scenario happens way before her confidant and during the mission for Kamoshita's palace by the way. This could be a good reason to how you could introduce Haru earlier.
Not sure if Eggman would agree to this but who cares what he thinks? He is dead now and having Haru help Joker won't affect Shujin's reputation at this point. Kamoshita's crimes weren't made public and the Eggman's attempt to cover it up weren't either. We could also have her be the opposite of Makoto who was seen as a very confrontation senior or nosy to put it gently. She could be this kind and gentle senpai who doesn't judge Joker because of the rumors like Shiho.
I don't see Haru judging someone for rumors and it would be nice for Joker to have someone other than the blonde duo who likes him at school. This changes once Makoto and Mishima become his friend but this scenario takes place in April. Have her and Joker work together on the rooftop flower bed and maybe get to know her as well. This would be a great way of giving Haru some extra screen time which I really feel like she deserves.
Strikers did Haru good in my opinion and maybe the other two spinoffs did as well. Perhaps have her subtlety hint toward her forced engagement with Robo-Giorno, her liking cats with her seeing a cat who looks like Morgana, and maybe her issues with her father. This could be how you start her confidant but not complete it fully until she joins later. This way of ranking up the confidant is very similar to another member later down the road and how Sojiro's confidant worked as well.
Like with Sojiro, we can stop it at 4 or 5 until the events of the story. I think that's a good number. This is just something that could be done to given Haru some screen time but not too much. Don't have her appearing all the time since well, we would be sick of her by the time she does join the thieves. You could have done like how Kasumi and Maruki are entwine with the story of Persona 5 Royal. Back to the game, going to bed leads to you see the twins and the crypt keeper.
The crypt keeper has some words for us with him being proud of the work to take care of Darth but something went wrong. He does know that the Phantom Thieves didn't do it but does the general public? He does believe in us to overcome this predicament and well, we get a rank up in the confidant with him so yeah. To bring up how the general public sees Darth's death once again, one guy on the way to school the next days wanted to see it live.
I usually don't judge people for their kinks aloud but wanting to see a guy die on stages is a little creepy and you should go see someone. Maybe Maruki. The big news on campus is that Darth is dead and that the police are here at Shujin. They're here due to the deaths of both Darth and Eggman being with a month of each other. They did find a calling card, connecting the Phantom Thieves to both deaths so good for them.
At least Sae sees this as a good thing and wants Haru to tell her anything she can about the Phantom Thieves but doesn't force her to say anything. She won't since well, Haru trusts the thieves right? Back in the interrogation room, Sae ,in the present, knows that the thieves didn't go after Darth's life and says that the calling card in the principal office was the work of someone else. I really wish we saw that card since well, we could see if it looks like Yusuke's work.
The artist of the group should be able to tell his work from a copy right? Sae knows that Joker isn't lying but the concept of a Metaverse sounds rather far fetched. Without context, it does. She doesn't see Joker as the murdering type and well, we rank our confidant with her as well. With the deaths of both Darth and Eggman, the oh so fickly public changed their opinion once again. Due to the truth serum, there are some side effects and shows that the police in this game aren't the best people.
Before passing out, Sae says that Joker needs to tell his side before it ends and both of them will be in trouble if Joker's testimony isn't good. The thieves' next objective after Darth was one who they decided would prove them innocent and that target is Sae Nijima. Like with most things in this game, this shocked me on my first playthrough. I was shocked to see that Makoto would allow the thieves to go after her sister but well, there is a reason.
We'll learn that reason in time since Haru's well being is what we need to focus on. After fixing up the laptop we got a long time ago, we get access to another shop. This shop is Shady Commodities Tanaka and this character is from Persona 3. As the days go on, the public's opinion on the thieves goes down like a slide and Haru wants to talk with the thieves after school. That won't happen since we need to make sure that the SIU Director looks shady.
Like with Akechi, the public has treated the thieves like gods before striking them down hard. He also says that she'll be next. Oh and like Eggman, we never see the director outside of his office. Is this another connection that the Bald Man Squad share? His office does have a better view than Eggman's did though. Back at the base, a man giving a speech is going on and Haru is later to the meeting. The public is starting to say that the thieves killed Darth and here comes the Thief hunt.
I based this name after the witch hunts back in the day and it fits sorta of. It was shown pretty well with Akechi earlier but the public is quite fickly about who they love. Haru shows up despite her still grieving over the death of her father. It's about the death of Eggman and if the thieves were involved with him. This didn't happen due to the thieves taking a vacation. Haru says that she only brought this up since a card was seen in his office after Sae's associate mentioned it aloud to Sae.
This happened in front of Haru but I doubt Sae cared. So Makoto noticed that things have been going at a fast than expected rate after Darth's death. She suspects that the real culprit has set them up to take the fall for their crimes. Tensions are high so making any moves is banned. Time to be normal students which means doing confidants. Oh and midterms are next week. Futaba has something on her mind and well, this may be important.
So a person on the packed subway mentions a man named Shido and how he is with Akechi on those menaces known as the Phantom Thieves. Akechi's hate boner could be like Jameson's hatred for Spider-Man but he hasn't asked for any pictures yet so we'll be good. So in time, the exams begin and well the Phantom Thieves are the main topic still. I get why but still, it's annoying. Do they not have anything else to talk about?
Oh and the Phantom Thieves's poll is going down below 50%. They also talk about Akechi and how he was brave for sticking it out despite the public hating on him. He is but still, come up with another topic. They do mention how they think the thieves are students since they killed Eggman. By the end of the exams, the Police come by and Haru goes to see Maruki just like the other thieves before her except for Yusuke.
Him being the last one to get examined by Maruki makes sense since well, he's the only one who doesn't go to Shujin but it's weird. It does make sense for Haru to go see Maruki right now given what's going on her. Before we go to the Phantom Thieves meeting, we help Haru with her rooftop garden and this is the start of her confidant. Yes. This is a damn shame. I mean she's a main character not a side character plus she has a green thumb.
Like with art, I'm not a expert in the slightest but I'm pretty sure that growing a tropical fruit in a ritzy house like Haru's is impressive. So Ryuji failing his midterms makes sense this time around given what has been going on. Oh and that speech giver is back. The reason why Futaba was acting strange is about the Medjed that she banned was a fake! This confused the thieves until she explains it. A code is like your fingerprints.
The coder's personal traits will appear in it even if you try and hide it. The Medjed's code was similar to the Phantom Thieves' first calling card due to it being cut and pasted together with no pattern. It was also done by someone who has no interesting in being a hacker of justice. So with this, both Futaba and Makoto sees that the fake Medjed member used the name to make the Phantom Thieves popular. Fake Medjed's fingerprints were all over the Phantom Afcionado Website.
With this in mind, this means one thing. Mishima is the one responsible for this or someone tampering from the outside. It's probably the latter since well, Mishima doesn't seem like the evil type. Futaba says that the hacker made the access counter higher than it really should be especially during Darth's rise at the top. So with this in mind, Makoto says that the reason for targeting Darth was because of the public and the ranking. It was the perfect target and timing.
So was this the SIU director and his boss's master plan? Or is there more to this story? Lets find out shall we? Ryuji wonders who they pissed off and well, he becomes a paranoid wreck. The thieves need to find some clues so maybe they should call a crime solving dog and his humans. Before we could do that in my headcanon, the SIU director shows up with Sae and offers up an interesting promotion. She is in charge of the Phantom Thieves case.
Everything is available to her much to her shock. So if she succeed, she'll get a higher promotion but failure will bring bad luck. She accepts this promotion which pleases him and well, Sae is focused on work much to Makoto's worry. So the SIU or the Special Investigations Unit is basically for large cases like government scandals who make headlines often. They also haven't lost a case in over twenty years which means that I would want to have them on my side if I ever go to court.
Not planning on doing anything criminal since well, I could be up against them if I went to Japan. So is there any country not governed by law? Things are looking bad aren't they? I really do miss the days where they were on our sides and things are looking really bad. I mean the percent is lower than 30 at this point. So the school festival got moved to the 25th because of the whole affair. It could have been cancelled but it's better than nothing despite it being on a Tuesday in game.
Oh and the police are beginning to interrogate the students of Shujin. This means that 3/4 of the Thieves are in trouble but the other two are safe. Speaking of duo, the duo of Ann and Joker get interrogated at the same time. It may be because they sit next together or they're main characters. I like to be believe that it's because they're dating and the police somehow knows this. I mean they know that Joker hangs out with Haru and Yusuke.
It could be possible so don't ignore that possibility. So the police aren't joking anymore. They want to find these damn thieves no matter what. Makoto brings up that they need to be cautious about how you spend your time at school. This makes sense so why have the blond duo and Joker be on the festival executive committee exactly? I mean that would only draw attention to them right? She says that it will be a good way for them to meet up and blend in would only do the opposite.
That does make sense but still. It seems off to me and despite us seeing Makoto's home life, something seems off with the queen. Oh and the SIU Director seems to be making things even harder. Whoever he is working for seems to be rather cruel. I wonder who that could be? Oh and despite Ms. Usami saying that math doesn't kill, I disagree. Math can kill or is it science? The point is that knowledge is power and deadly in the wrong hands.
After class, the Shujin thieves and Morgana help out Makoto with the questionnaires. This is to determine who the student body wants to see as the guest of honor. Due to the date being changed, they need these results tallied up and fast. I wonder who the student body wants to see. I mean it could be really anyone. Maybe Atlus could bring back some old characters and have them interact with the thieves?
It could be Yukiko Amagi who runs the famous Amagi Inn in Inaba, the gumshoe who managed to take down a bear Akihiko Sanada, Yukari Takeba who plays Featherman Pink while in college, Rise Kujikawa who has been seen a couple of times throughout the game and maybe brings along a certain protagonist whose voiced by a soul reaper over in the west, or the original detective prince Naoto Shirogane herself.
Despite all of the choices I mentioned above being really cool and would be awesome for older fans to see, who do you think the student body wants to see? All of them seem to have a hive mind and they want Goro Akechi so I was right a bit. A detective prince will show up and I can bet that the Phantom Thieves will be mentioned. Oh and Ryuji doesn't help at all. I don't blame him and well, everyone thinks that the thieves are killer.
So Akechi wins but who is second and third? I mean I'm curious to know who got second and third more than the guy who has done nothing but talk about the Phantom Thieves. I mean why not mention one of his other cases? Oh and I agree with Ryuji. They should ask a singer or idol. I wonder if a certain character from the previous Persona game fits that description and maybe brings along a certain senpai with her.
Nope but I can dream. The Shujin thieves could lie about the results but well, he won by a landside and be shocked to see him not win. Before we can invite him, Akechi says that the Phantom Thieves are not just which is a shock to no one. That man talks about the Phantom Thieves more than Mishima so he's their biggest fan. He does believe that the thieves aren't responsible but I doubt that. This was back in my first playthrough since well, he doesn't talk about them.
He's far more obsessed with them than the public was for a while. He also goes on a hiatus from the media. How suspicious since the public seems to think the same. Oh and Akechi is going to the school festival despite him being a massive danger to the thieves. She says that they need information since Sae isn't giving her and that leaves only Akechi. Despite me being against having him there, this is for the plot to progress so he's coming to our school.
I agree with Ryuji on this since Akechi coming to Shujin is only asking for trouble and not him being petty about Akechi. The next day, Kasumi shows up and mentions the school festival. So in most school based anime/light novels/manga, each class does something. I wonder what Ann and Joker's class is going to do. Oh and all of the students can see Akechi coming from a mile away despite him not wanting to be in public right now.
However, he can't turn down anything to do with those pesky Phantom Thieves. Joker is also at the top of his class for grades so that's good. Akechi still hasn't replied to Makoto but well, he will reply to Joker. We also meet Shido in person and well, he looks familiar doesn't he? I mean his voice is familiar as well but look at him closely. He doesn't have any hair which means that he's a member of the Bald Man Squad.
Said representative claims that the people of Japan are lazy with them letting the thieves run wild and I can say this. Calling them lazy won't be winning you any votes unless the other candidates suck. He also says that because they've only targeted prominent figures, the government refuses to do anything about them. I find this strange since well, how is Kamoshita an important figure? Everyone else I can get behind to an extent but a gym teacher?
It's strange to consider him as prominent compared to people like Darth, Porky, or Smeargle. Kamoshita was a Olympic medalist but a hasbeen. Oh and Shido has a fan in the form of Pompous Male Customer so good for him. He claims that he'll be the one to solve the Phantom Thief problem and I'm sure that he will. Oh and Akechi seems to react to this guy as well. It isn't because he hates politicians or anyone but the Phantom Thieves.
Akechi will never stop mentioning them will he? I keep bringing it up because well, it's something that I take issue with it. He doesn't deny being a Phanboy when asked so my theory about him being the Phantom Thieves's number one fan makes sense. He also decides to go since well, plot and Joker will be there. Yusuke will be going as well mainly to see Maruki since well, it had to happen eventually. The school festival is how.
Before that, we learn that Caroline can't handle Clara the maid. Just something to bring up since the festival seems lively despite everything going on. Akechi, Eggman, Kamoshita, and the Phantom Thieves made the school popular especially with the police. I get what Makoto is talking about but she needs to relax. The only one who is going to be talking about the thieves is Akechi and he's working with them so we're good okay?
After some fun school festival hijinks involving VR and a Haunted House, the group arrives in front of a maid café aka what Ann and Joker's class decided to do. Head canon here but I bet this was Joker's idea since well, Kawakami will never escape the maid life. Due to their maid café being well dead, the thieves are left ordering some questionable Russian takoyaki after Ryuji make a scene. A rumor going on is that Kamoshita is being treated like a victim and Eggman was targeting for knowing too much.
Excluding Akechi's popularity and said detective loving being at the center of attention which has been a constant theme, I can say this. One of the rumor about the Shujin staff is false with the other one being correct. The takoyaki arrives and after hearing a microwave go off, this probably isn't too fresh. One of them is obvious red so I bet this is the one which gives it its name. Haru decides to go for the special one which earns her points in my book.
Before either she or Joker could eat it, Akechi shows up despite the panel not being today. He is here mainly not to look like a complete idiot tomorrow. Smart idea and well, he's excited. Despite saying that he is here not to make any mistakes, he makes a big one by taking the red one. This makes Ryuji a happy customer so good for him. So Akechi hates spicy stuff. Good to know that the detective prince has his weakness.
Yusuke is also acting paranoid along with Makoto. She's also the one going to be asking him questions and I'm sure things will go somewhere. Akechi also made another mistake as well and it's how everyone is here. This makes no sense at first but it will in time. Yusuke also finally goes see Maruki so all of the thieves excluding Morgana have been to see him at one point. I wonder if this means anything at all and yes. I'm not at all being subtle about it.
After playing the Train of Life, the panel begins alongside the interrogation of Akechi. I really do wish we had a singer or mascot appear rather than Akechi but nope. The Phantom Thieves x Akechi is what the public wants. While Makoto tries to get the dirt from Akechi, said detective brings up the fact that he knows Makoto's older sister quite well. This is something that the crowd finds funny but hey, comedy is subjective.
Up above, Ann, Joker, Ryuji, and Yusuke are watching the press conference while Futaba and Haru are in the crowd. I'm not sure where Morgana is but maybe he's with Haru or Joker. Oh and Akechi seems to know who the Phantom Thieves are. He doesn't tell the police about this at all but he was more than willing on telling students about this. This would be a problem but since the police don't know shit, he can say since it's only his opinion.
He claims that it's the truth which is quite cocky and Makoto calls him on his bluff. Before Akechi can spill the beans, his phone rings. Saved at the last second but only for a second. Akechi wants the gang to meet with him in the PE faculty office aka the place where Kamoshita probably did some less than pleasant things. Akechi set this up and shows pictures of the Phantom Thieves leaving Darth's palace by appearing out of thin air.
I'm sure about two things. The first thing is that these pictures would be great yet confusing evidence for Sae since they could be easily altered and look confusing. The second thing is that I'm sure that Akechi wasn't the only one seeing this. It's out in broad daylight after all. Akechi also has video evidence and this would be bad news for two thieves. The pictures showed Ann and Yusuke but the others were safe at first.
That damn video evidence seals the fate of the other thieves though. He also knows about the world thanks to him getting the Nav on his phone probably way back when we were first shown Darth's palace in much great detail. He was drawn into the world in a similar manner to Ann, Makoto, and Yusuke's first time. They didn't have the Nav but were brought into the world by someone who did. The Nav works like a virus except you need to enter the metaverse to have it installed.
You also need be an important character and not so face-less husk. Oh and Morgana is here as well but can't be seen due to the character's profile pictures. Akechi knows that all of them are the Phantom Thieves due to him having the exact same power or when Joker claimed that Ryuji was one of them back in July. It would be funny if it was the second reason but it's most likely the first one. Akechi says the only reason he knows that the Phantom Thieves didn't kill Darth is because he saw the real killer.
He claims that he doesn't know who Darkblade is mainly due to that mask covering his entire face. It's the opposite of the Phantom Thieves whose identities are super obvious. In this scenario, Darkblade's mask makes him like Batman and the Thieves's mask make them like Superman. Both Batman and Superman's identity may be obvious to pretty much anyone outside of the comic book work but in said world, their identity are a mysterious.
I really don't get how this would be possible since well, Superman doesn't wear a mask and looks like Clark Kent with a few minor difference. Batman does wear a mask in most costumes and doesn't show off that he is Bruce Wayne. So to prevent jail time, Akechi strikes up a deal. He asks for the thieves help in finding the truth and if they say no, the thieves go to jail. It's pretty much blackmail as Ryuji puts it perfectly.
Akechi points out that Sae and the higher ups only want this case to be over with so Sae is under a lot of pressure. Even if they don't have any proof, they'll arrest the Thieves regardless which is bullshit. He wants the Phantom Thieves disbanded after this. After seeing that we need time to think over, there is only one real choice. Akechi leaves and the Thieves are pretty much left with no choice on this so welcome to the party Goro Akechi.
I would say we're glad to have you but I'm not. You're not really a part of the group for a couple of reasons but one of the more petty ones is this. You upset the gender balance of the group. I told you that this reason was going to be petty. Noticed how Akechi noticed Morgana talking prior to seeing him talk in the Metaverse but in reality instead. This will be important for later. You also may noticed that both Joker and Morgana stay behind to have a conversation which can't be heard.
My theory to this happening is that this is due to the drugs Joker has been given. So since Akechi is leaving earlier, he is being replaced by rakugo and this isn't a fair trade. So while trying to get info from Akechi, he played the Thieves like a fiddle and there is a way out of this deal. Break Akechi's legs or take care of him if you know what I mean. As this is going on, Sojiro is watching the news about the Thieves since they don't talk about anything else and has a calling card in front of him.
This is one that was given to her by Futaba and we don't see how he managed to find it. I don't think they show how in the Anime either but my theory is that he found it by cleaning Futaba's room. This is what the anime shows. Before Joker can leave, it's time for the post-festival party. The only reason we go to it is because of Kasumi who shows up and invites Joker. Morgana is there too but nah. This is a P5R exclusive by the way.
Just another reason why I thought Kasumi was the main girl on my first playthrough mainly due to the fact that she had all of these exclusive scenes with Joker. She had that whole magical girl transformation when she awoken to her persona and now this. I later learned the truth on who is the main girl since it's no one. Also that Joker can dance. I wonder if this is a reference to the Persona dancing game which I think is canon to the series as a whole but I could be wrong.
It's the main costume I used since well, I really like the battle theme. That and the P4 costume for the same reason. Music can make something better after all along with voice acting. After the dance, it's time for another event. You can go on a school date with any confidant who goes to the school so that means six lucky characters get to be your date. These characters are Ann, Haru, Kawakami, Makoto, Mishima, and Ryuji.
On my first run, I picked Haru since I had no other choice on that. It was fine but nothing special. I think I did this for my second playthrough since well, you need to be rank 10 for any of the choices except for Haru. The boys will all go together as a group but the girls require you to be in a relationship with them first. This is just like the Hawaii date and all of the items you get do the exact same thing so it's up to personal preference.
These five items are Ann Cream Puffs, Makoto Donuts, Ryuji Dog, Sadayo Taiyaki, and Sakura Amezakiu. This is my middle school mind talking but I think three of these items have suggestive names and I don't need to tell you which ones. Just add 's to them and you'll figure it out. With that in mind, all of these items restores 100 SP to a singular character. Like with the Hawaii Date, I went with Ann and it's time for the Student Sharing Special or Triple S.
It could also be Quadruple S if we add Shujin to the title. So I get why everyone thinks that the thieves are students but they could be teachers for all we know. I mean it would make some sense since Kamoshita was the first target and he was a faculty member. It's food for thought and makes you wonder who would be the Phantom Thieves if they were adults instead of teens. Maybe use the adult confidants like Sojiro or Kawakami.
There is an AU comic series about this concept which I put a link to here and also this as well. After the date, Futaba is outside and Sojiro is there waiting for them. Before this can happen, we see how the SIU Director is putting more pressure on Sae mainly due to the media having a field day with this. He does threatened to fire her so yeah. Sae is trouble just like the thieves are. My theory about how Sojiro found the calling card is stated by him in game but we don't see it happen.
So Sojiro is pretty smart here since well, he noticed Futaba's sudden change from hermit to a more social person. She left her room so suddenly and wanted to go to the beach of all places. The calling card is all the proof he needed and you can't avoid a former government man's eye. He was pretty much the man who went to Wakaba for the research she had. Futaba can't really say anything about it much to Sojiro's growing anger and looks to be having a panic attack.
However, she tells Sojiro what's going on and we learn more about Sojiro's past with Wakaba. He also notices that Joker is connected to the thieves as well due to the first incident being at his school and Yusuke coming over for a visit. The man decides to listen to his daughter and well, he learns that both of his children are the Phantom Thieves thanks to Futaba blurting it out. So I will probably mention this later but I'm going to mention it here as well.
At the end of each Confidant excluding the Phantom Thieves, the confidant learns that Joker is one of them or their leader. Sojiro is the only one I'm sure is an exception to this rule and here is why. He does react more toward the news worse than the others though but this is due to the connection Sojiro has with Joker. In its place, we do get a good scene between the whole Sakura family plus Joker. We also learn why Sojiro took in Futaba and I presume Joker as well.
To make amends for not investigating into the death of the woman he loved or at the very least cared deeply for. All he did was run away but things changed. He won't report them to the police so we get another ally though but tells them to back out of a fight they can't win. It's too late for that since they entered into a fight that they have a disadvantage in. The next day, we learn more about Shido and that is his first name which is Masayoshi.
Sojiro also seems to know about him which makes sense due to his government past. Speaking of the government, they put up a bounty of thirty million yen for information about them. This would be about $ 264,283.41 and shows how serious things have gone. So excluding the police, who are the victims effected by the Phantom Thieves? The Palace Rulers or maybe those effected by the mental shutdown cases. Probably the latter but it could be the former as well.
Oh and the reward is because of the SIU director who may get a nickname like Eggman. He is doing so much behind that desk unlike Eggman who tried doing this with Makoto but failed. The Thieves don't take this well and it makes its perfectly clear. They were set up to take the fall and were lead to take down Darth by an unknown party. This unknown party didn't interfere with Makoto and Yusuke but they did after Porky.
Kamoshita was also ignored. Ryuji is not taking this well and I really don't blame him. Yusuke as well and you would think that there will be another fight but nope. Sure Haru was in danger but did that unknown party care about Darth's daughter and what was going on with her? Nope. They need a scapegoat and the thieves were perfectly. Ryuji almost swear but nope. We won't get that for a while and it will be amazing.
This only happened since they were focused on what the public wanted from them. Nothing is wrong about finding a place to belong but clinging onto fame because of it. No one is taking this well and this is just reality slapping them in the face hard especially with Ryuji. Joker doesn't give up and neither do the other thieves. We also learn that Ryuji wanted to be a phantom thief not for fame but to be depended on and it went straight to his head.
After this, Akechi decides to have a meeting with the thieves about what to do and there is only one option available. Playing the final chapter of Train of Life obviously. Before we can have that talk with Akechi, we see Shido once again and talks about the Phantom Thieves. I wonder if this guy is going to be important or something. The day goes by and the meeting begins. Before we can begin, Akechi wants coffee which he doesn't get.
There is no longer time to play games since the cops aren't either. Is it weird that only Akechi could figure out their identities? I mean beside the obvious reason of how their costume hides nothing of their identities, there has to be some sorta of a link right? The police also don't care if the evidence they have is real or not. They only want the evidence. It's revealed that Sae has a palace which means one single thing.
She will be getting a nickname for me and this will be the first female palace ruler to get one. Shadow Futaba didn't get one but Sae will. She will also be the target for this unknown criminal and their hitman Darkblade so they need to enter Sae's palace and change her heart. It's also the last heist of the Phantom Thieves which is a good thing. Akechi catches the real criminal and the thieves don't go to jail. Don't tell Akechi that since well, I rather not let that smug prick have his ego raised any higher.
Akechi's reason for seeking justice is because of sickening human beings and it's a rather strange reason but very personal. Ann may say that he's similar to the thieves since all of them have been hurt by an adult but well, these sickening human beings could have been children. It isn't that but it could have been. So after this, Makoto reveals something as well. She knew about Sae's palace from the start from the very start of her being a thief.
Oh and notice how Akechi is taking over the role of leader. Suggesting they check out the palace and calling off the meeting. You're the rookie here detective. After this, we go back to Sae in the interrogation room and learns about her having a palace. She also learns that Akechi decided to sick the thieves on her after learning about the Metaverse thanks to Darth. She noticed that Akechi had changed and lied to her.
Joker is slowly losing focus after all of this and Sae learns that she was nothing more than a puppet in all of this. Nothing more than a puppet for them to use. Like the conversation back at the school, we don't hear the full conversation between Futaba, Joker, and Morgana. Dang truth serum and after school today, we go to the courthouse and begin the palace investigation. So the courthouse is just a part of the government office district Kasumigaseki.
It consist of the Police Department, Ministry of Justice, Public Prosecutor office, and Public Security so it's pretty much the government's main base. The Diet building is also there too. So on the 20th, there will be an investigation at Shujin and the Sakura residence. That's our dead line or at least very close to that date. Before they can enter the metaverse through Akechi's smartphone, Futaba decides to take a closer look at it much to his confusion.
After we enter her keywords, we enter her palace and it's a casino. Everything is coming full circle and this casino is where Joker got arrested. It's weird to see buildings like the police station next to a flashy as all hell casino though. We also give Akechi a codename and it's Crow. He suggested Karasu and on my second playthrough, this made too much sense. His costume is rather tacky to say the least. I mean it's so white and that mask. It rivals the Crypt Nose's nose.
It would make a good piercing weapon though and well, it sticks out for a reason. Akechi says that it's because he is someone who sticks to their justice or in other wise, he doesn't want to be a rebel but a goodie two shoes. While I'll admit that Akechi has a huge hate boner for the Phantom Thieves, he's totally going steady with the concept of justice. I'm pretty sure that Akechi says justice or Phantom Thieves in most of his dialogue.
Oh Haru pointed out how pointy his mask is so good on her. Akechi is also too excited about this and keeps interrupting much to the queen's annoying. As we investigate the palace, we get some really good music. Probably my favorite palace theme and I want to mention something. I've stated that I tended to use different costumes for the thieves to wear and well, Akechi is the same. If you're playing on a second playthrough or new game +s, there is a certain costume you can have him wear.
I won't say what it is but I didn't use that costume. It's either the dancing costume, the chibi outfit since it makes me laugh, or the Hazama's uniform. I just think the latter fits the whole white costume but has dark colors as well. Not too long in, we meet Shadow Sae and I can say this. She looks the best out of all the Palace Rulers. I mean it may be because she's a attractive female compared to men who don't look attractive but I'm thankful we have a more risky looking palace ruler.
The nickname I had in mind is Gothic Manager but nah. I'm thinking something else. Maybe something involving the devil and her outfit. I'm not sure. I could keep calling her Sae but nah. We don't get a chance to go after her before we need to get a membership with said casino. A Shadow shows up and we see Akechi's Persona. His Persona is Robin Hood and well, it fits the thief theme better than his outfit does.
Its color scheme is similar to Akechi but unlike Akechi, Robin Hood was considered to be a thief by those he stole by and a hero by others. He and Zoro were the only Personas whose history I knew a little bit about before this game. After taking down the first shadow, we have to leave but it's time to begin the palace officially. It's also around Halloween in game so there will be in costumes during this time and on Halloween, Joker takes the twins to Persona Disneyland.
I mean that's what it is and it makes sense unlike seeing the crypt keeper wearing mouse ears while holding a stuffed bear. We also unlock the final Confidant and it's Haru. Like I said many times before now, I really wish we started this one sooner. We can start to work Makoto and Ryuji's Confidant within the chapter they joined the party so why not Haru? After this, we head to the Palace and unlock my favorite showtime.
This showtime is basically wrestling involving Haru and Makoto. I just love this because of how silly it is and well, I'm comparing it to every other Showtime. Despite me liking the music of this palace, I do think that it's the least interesting to me. It isn't a bad palace but compared to the Burger Star or Kamoshita's palace, I don't know. It's just a casino to me just like how Porky's palace was a bank or Smeargle's palace was a museum.
It's also because I know what happens by the end of the palace. Oh and one thing I also wanted to mention about Robin Hood beside its look being very superhero like. It's also the only Persona that comes with more than two elements at the start. Bless and Curse. You would think that he would be an all Bless user given his outfit and how he's the opposite of Joker who was the Curse user. I guess Kasumi would be the Bless User in this game.
Just something I noticed while writing this and wanted to bring it up. So since I recently bought something, I think Taro Tanaka is a reference to Tanaka's Amazing Commodities but I'm sure I'm some how wrong. Remember this card since well, it will be important and Futaba is right. It's time for the newbie to do the grunt work like picking up the trash. We eventually make it to the next floor with the gothic devil is waiting for us.
The nickname is still in the works since well, I want it to have something to do with the casino. I guess Queen Dice could work since it could be a reference to Cuphead's King Dice who ran the casino for the devil. His song Die Hard ,not the movie, is sung by a woman but I'm not feeling that one either. So Sae is here to tell that in order to fight her, the thieves need to keep winning until they're number one like she was.
So I'm may sound sexist here but Sae is different from other palace rulers so far. They usually use brute force but Sae is using her noggin. Shadow Futaba was similar except she didn't really try to stop the thieves. Oh and Akechi seems know how to gamble since he likes to be a winner. Makoto suggests that her palace came to be after their father's death and how she was trying to fight in a male dominant industry which makes sense.
I'm not too familiar with the world of law but I can say this. I don't know too many female fictional lawyers off the top of my head. So after some research, I did managed to find some. There is Elle Woods from Legally Blond, She-Hulk, and the show Drop Dead Diva. That's three but well, I think of Daredevil, Lionel Hutz, and Phoenix Wright as famous fictional lawyers. She-Hulk I know for other reasons and her lawyer status doesn't come up as the first one.
There is also the single female lawyer from Futurama but I don't think that counts. Oh and this palace really shows that the thieves are being manipulated into what Sae wants them to go through. If this isn't fitting for how the story is going currently, I don't know what is. Oh and all of these games are rigged due to Sae want to be a winner rather than a loser. Akechi says that defendants in Hapan are prosecuted at a 99.9% success rate so don't do anything criminal over in the land of the sun.
If it isn't obvious, this is very rigged and any case of false accusation is rather rare. All of these games are rigged in the house favor so it seems we need to find a way to change the odds to our favor. This is the only way to win and there just so happens to be an open vent to the back room. You can try to earn 50,000 coins naturally but well, the odds aren't the best. We eventually find the room where they are doing said rigging and Akechi has an idea.
He comes up with an idea to get all of the coins in one room and it involves rigging the dice in our favor. This is similar to how you can cheat those classic video games you can play in your room if you read a special book. Futaba managed to rig one of the rooms to our favors but the others are left unchecked. Even after this, we managed to get only 3,600 coins. Before we leave the dice room, Akechi needs Skull for something and it involves Ryuji being used to carry all of those coins.
I do feel bad for Ryuji but well, he's the brawn after all. This helps boost the total by 3,000 and makes 6,600. If only we had 66 extra coins. In the slot room aka the one across from the coin room, the guests only care about themselves and want to win. They don't care and things are only going to get worse from here. Oh and I should mention that some of the items aka the present have coins in them so smash everything.
This room also has bunny girl shadows so yeah. Very fitting for a casino. I mean the other shadows are card dealers but this is normal for shadows. Like with Sae, I'm sure that the bunny girls are the most attractive goons for obvious reasons. I mean you could like the knight ones from Kamoshita's palace but most people like bunny girls. I mean I learn this is just fact and can't be denied. Pretty sure that most franchises have a female character dressed as a bunny.
Do remember that people were upset that Lola Bunny wasn't sexy in Space Jam 2. Personally, I didn't care since I didn't see Space Jam in full until Space Jam 2 came out. My favorite version of Lola Bunny is the one from the Looney Tunes Show. Back to the game. Keep an eye out for any terminal because this is important. We eventually find the best slot to use and while it may cost 5000 coins for a single spin, the rewards are pretty nice.
Getting all cherries earns you back the five thousand you spend, BAR gets double what you put in aka 10,000, and triple 7s gives you ten times what you put in aka 50,000. We need to get this working in our favors so it's time to find the red and green terminals. One is at the start aka the red and the one is back behind the screen aka the green. Upon finding the last terminal, Akechi wants to change the odds for favor.
Futaba can do that but it does have a chance of failing two times out of ten. This doesn't happen since we get triple 7. With this in mind, we have enough to exchange them for a member's card. You probably show buy that right now before buying the soma and bead chain. Before we go up to the next floor, Sae stops them and says that she's the victor. After talking down one of her elite guards aka Norn, we make it to the next floor after Sae calls them losers despite us winning.
I'll admit that this palace is more fitting for Makoto than Porky's palace since Sae and her are sister. It also brings to light how Sae only sees the trials as nothing more than gambles. The next level is the High Limit Floor and we can't go any farther thanks to the shadow preventing that. We need a reservation to enter which is all he says and this shadow's voice is totally Kanji Tang. I can just hear it but well, we need to get a reservation.
Thanks to Akechi, we need to get into the courthouse somehow. Akechi also figures out the cognitive world rather fast while Ryuji struggle for a bit. Futaba suggest that Ryuji should go piss off the police which doesn't work but we just need to attend a trial that Sae is attending. Akechi has some connections in mind so lets leave up to the rookie and we have to leave the palace. Luckily, Sae is participating in a trial tomorrow and we have to go there tomorrow.
No choices on that manner. It's pretty much open house at the court house and well, it's rather boring to say the least. I doubt most trials are interesting like Judge Judy. Futuaba noticed that Saw has an aura of a capable woman which makes her stick out compared to the other palace rulers. This trial is about the personal use of government funds and said politician went on a vacation to a hot springs with his mistress.
Haru brings up the fact that Sae is supposed to be busy with the Phantom Thieves investigation but she still has other cases to work on. Another prosecutor would take her palace but Sae isn't one to let someone else to do her job. In time, Sae does notice the group which doesn't bother her and we head into the palace shortly after the case. Upon arriving, we managed to get a cool thousand coins but this is chump change to our goal this time around.
We need double the amount we had on the last floor and it's a cool hundred thousand. To earn a crap ton of coins, we'll need to fight for our lives in both body and mind. Lets starts with the house of darkness aka the battle of the mind. On this floor, we won't be playing any games of chances but using ourselves in order to get the coins. Entering this house requires 1,000 coins but winning gets you ten times the amount of them.
You can leave the maze if you want so trial and error is the way to go for this floor. Upon entering the house, everything is dark but we have a way to cheat. Pressing the L2 button opens the third eye aka the way to see past the darkness. You could also use a flashlight or Fire based abilities but nah. This room also doesn't play the casino floor music so yeah. You can see other people inside here as well but they don't have the power of the third eyes so they're lost in the darkness.
Hopefully they don't have any heartless beings running around here. After making our way through the darkness, we fight against the snake king or Raja Naga. Taking down this snake earns a cool ten thousand so off to the battle of the body. We first need to collect the will seeds which are really easy to find and at the end of it, you find against Baal and this one is one of my favorite Persona. I just love how it looks.
The battle of the body is a one on one battle which means its Joker vs the house. This may sound bad which it is but well, winning gets you a hundred thousand aka what we need to cross the bridge. Like with pretty much everything in this casino, these fights are rigged and the Phantom Thieves can't help as Ryuji learned the hard way. Do note that you won't be able to do any All-Out Attack since you're all by yourself.
I'll admit that these fights aren't hard and well, the Phantom Dweeb Joker got this. On my first battle, I had more trouble with Darth's battle but figuring out the type weakness to your enemies is always something helpful. Not even Thor stands a chance against the Myriad Truths. Despite earning the amount of coins, Sae won't allow this and increases the prize by ten. We need a cool million to enter the manager's floor.
A possible nickname for Sae could be sore loser but nah. I'll just go with Sae until I come up with something clever comes to mind. Akechi comes in with the save thanks to Taro Tanaka. Despite Akechi not doing his job, he does manage to save the day. We find Sae's treasure and Sae claims that elegance is needed for victory but well, I call bull. Despite the treasure not being formed, there is a shape in there and it's a police notebook belong to Sae's father.
Makoto says that Sae thinks that justice is meaningless due to her father's death. She wanted to be a prosecutor and grew obsessed with winning as a result. The next day, we learn that we can't send the calling card until time is completely up. Akechi says that Sae is a realist and won't believe that the thieves are really stealing hearts without going to the metaverse. Makoto finds Akechi impressive but doesn't like how he knows Sae more than she does.
So before too long, we get to fight Akechi in Mementos for his Rank 8 Confidant. He points a gun at you and well, it's time to show him how to use a gun. Do note that this Rank has voice acting when most confidants don't have that until Rank 10. I wonder why that is. Akechi also finally admits that he hates Joker and slaps Joker with one of his gloves. In time, these two will duel. So I'm pretty sure that Akechi was DLC in the Persona 5 dancing games which is canon maybe.
I'm sure if the dancing games are canon but I really don't care. I just wanted to mention the DLC costume for Akechi and well, it's easily my favorite one. It's the hat. His Featherman costume is pretty good as well. I mention this because well, it's time for the annual Mementos round where I got seven targets to take care of. This list of targets includes that cheater and this is possible thanks to the duo of Shinya and gun.
Before we eventually face off against Sae, I managed to get the Max for Technical Rank and Baton Pass with every one except Akechi. I'll explain why I ignored him in due time. By November 16th, the percentage is a very small 5 percent. Remember the days when it was nearing 100. I do. Good times but well, the audience is quite fickle. On the 17th, we have a private chat with Kasumi on the roof and it's about the Phantom Thieves.
She is worried about them and all of the bad press they've been. She also points how fast the public changed their stance on them and how it relates to how the public was treating her. She asks if the two of them can go somewhere and have some fun. Despite being in a relationship, I'm sure a man and a woman can hang out with each other without any romantic tension whatsoever. In due time, we eventually reach 18th and send the calling card to Sae.
Before that, we have to say goodbye to our favorite doctor who wants to see us during lunch. I wonder what's going on there. I'll really miss Maruki mainly due to him being he's the only teacher I can easily remember other than Kawokami. I mean there is Japanese Hank Hill but still, we didn't have a confidant rank with him. He's still a dork even after all of this time and well, he says something that caught my eye.
He says,"If your situation ever becomes too painful to endure, remember. It's okay for you to escape your problem.". I'm not a psychiatrist whatsoever but that sounds off to me. I do agree with him on how you shouldn't obsess over your worries. He also wants everyone to have the perfect lie and well, this will be important for later on. Lunch time eventually comes around and well, he gets the best lunch aka tempura bowls from a restaurant that caught the doctor's eyes a long time ago.
Due to how steamy said food is, both him and the Joker are unable to see but that's the life of a four-eyes after all. Oh and Maruki knew about Joker being a Phantom Thief from the very start. Do you remember back in April when I mentioned a brown coat wearing man? That was Maruki and well, he had an introduction shortly after that. This was the same with Makoto but Haru didn't. It took her until September before we could meet her.
I'll always be upset that it took so long for Haru to be introduce and well, I said how she could have showed up early. So do you think Maruki heard about Futaba's mom before she passed away due to them studying the same field? I mean they could have meet each other but well, I'm not sure. Maruki did use the Phantom Thieves for his research and well, I don't think he's a bad guy. He's too nice of a guy to be a snitch unlike Eggman and maybe the vice president.
Not too sure on the latter but the former screams snitch to me. We also sent out the calling card to Sae using Makoto because if Akechi does it, he would be too obvious. Oh and notice how we don't hear the conversation between the Phantom Thieves excluding Akechi. This has happened before and there is a meaning for this. Sae gets the calling card and she isn't too happy about this. She also tells Makoto what she is going to do when she captures Joker which we see.
Oh and we happen to see how Sae is forced onto the sidelines. Right before we fight against Sae in the casino and perhaps go full circle, I managed to get a couple more rank 10s. You may wonder why I'm not mentioned this before the boss fight. This is for a certain reason and well, I'll be sure to mention the voice actress for Sae along with the tropes about her at the start of next chapter. Don't worry about it. I do keep things the same even though the story will be reaching a certain point. The climax if you will.
These rank 10s come in the form of Chihaya Mifune who I didn't expect to get through so fast but I did thanks to Iwai being stubborn, Makoto whom I planned to get rank 10 during this part of this story due to the connection between her and Sae, Shinya Oda whose confidant I managed to get to 10 on my first playthrough, Takuto Maruki who goes to 10 automatically if you get his confidant up to Rank 9 before November 17th, and Yuuki Mishima.
I could have gotten this during the last chapter but time wasn't on my side in that regard. Another reason I got Makoto to rank 10 now is simple. I didn't plan for this at first but I managed to rank 10 Ryuji, Ann, and Yusuke in the order that they joined the party. I want to keep this train going so after Makoto, Futaba is up next and we have a new Persona on the team. This Persona is pretty much a transformer since well, Anat looks like a transformer to me.
This one along with Ryuji's Punk Rock Goku are the first two Persona I managed to evolve on my first playthrough. It will be sad to no longer see Makoto riding her Persona but well, she grew stronger as a Persona and that slap of hers. Don't mess with her is the moral of that story. Lets begin with the voice actor/actress for Chihaya, Maruki, Mishima, and Shinya. Chihaya was placed by Sarah Anne Williams whose roles I got to know after this game.
She plays Akari Nitta from Jujutsu Kaisen, E.M. Pino from Edens Zero, Jack Frost from this game, Jack O' Lantern from this game, Lisbeth from Sword Art Online, Mirai Sarutobi from Boruto, Neferpitou from Hunter x Hunter, Ruka Sarashina from Rent A Girlfriend, Sannokuchi from Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan, and Susamaru from Demon Slayer. A very good amount of roles but the big ones for me are Pino and Neferpitou.
I like Pino as a mascot for Edens Zero far more than Space Happy because to me, she fits the whole sci-fi role better than Happy who is a robot but could you tell that from just a single look? Neferpitou is a character who I do like but well, I like a certain cat person whose gender is unknown instead. This character works for a demon who can turn into an egg and is a series which I hope gets a manga release over here in the states.
Next up is Maruki but well, I've already mentioned his voice actor before in Fairy Legion Royal. It's Tyrell's voice actor Billy Kametz and not to repeat myself, he voiced who voiced Asmodeus Alice from Welcome to Demon School! Iruma Kun! and Josuke Higashikata from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Part 4 Diamond is Unbreakable. That was easy so up next is Mishima. He's voiced by Sean Chiplock whose voice I recently gotten to know recently thanks to Edens Zero.
This actor has played Draken from Tokyo Revengers, Guido Mista from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Part 5 Golden Wind, Kiyotaka Ishimaru from Danganropa, Natsuki Subaru from Re:Zero, Shiki Granbell from Edens Zero, and Swamp Demon from Demon Slayer. I did watch Re:Zero but only the first episode. I may have mentioned this before but well, Re:Zero didn't catch my interest at all. It just bored me and well, I'm not the biggest fan of isekais to begin with.
I haven't watch Konosuba mainly because I know the jokes within that series and honestly, I don't find anything in it funny. I'm fully aware of how petty I'm being here but honestly, I'm not a big fan of that series whatsoever. I would still recommend both Konosuba and Re:Zero despite never watching them since they're good examples of isekais I think. If you ask me what isekai I would recommended, I would recommend That Time I reincarnated as a Slime.
Lets move away from the topic of isekai and go back to voice acting. So I would recommened watching both Edens Zero and Tokyo Revengers but more of the latter than the former. Edens Zero is something I enjoy but that's because I'm a fan of Fairy Tail and they share the same author. Tokyo Revengers is just a good series and has a really good protagonist. The series get much better I can promise you and well, I am looking forward to where things are going.
So our final character is Shinya and he has two voice actress playing him. For the anime only, we have Eden Riegel whom I mentioned earlier as the voice actress for Hifumi. In game, we have Barabara Goodson. She plays Ashley Kafka from Spider-Man the Animated Series 1994, Chiyo from Naruto, Enya the Hag from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Part 3 Stardust Crusaders, Marianne Lenoir from Miraclous Ladybug, and the Rita Repulsa from Power Rangers at one point.
Yeah. While I didn't watch Mighty Morphin when I was a kid, I did watch Power Rangers so this was a shock to me. After playing one more game of Pro Golfer Sarutahiko which pales in comparison to Lee Carvallo's Putting Challenge, we begin the fight against the casino boss herself. I do want to mention that you can play Lee Carvallo's Putting Challenge right now and well, I think Bonestorm is a much better game.
It could also be that I suck at golf but nah. That can't be it but well, it's time to take down the queen of gambling at her game. So upon arriving in the manager's office, the treasure is gone and Shadow Sae knew about the Phantom Thieves coming. She asks them to meet her on a roulette wheel and well, we learn that she hated her father's killer from the bottom of her heart. She claims those who are left behind are to clean up the mess and had to endure great hardships.
So it seems that Sae has lost control and she wants to be a winner rather than a loser. Her boss fight is interesting. Like Darth, she doesn't turn into a monster like the other palace rulers. We do see a glimpse of it much to her sister's shock. This isn't because she's lazy or have her minions fight. How she fights is similar to how in a shonen, the characters don't go all out from the start or they're cocky. I think it's the latter in this case.
Her fight involves a game of roulette and the stakes will be our lives. She does mention not to fight her because that's breaking the rules as Walker from Danny Phantom would say. Despite her being against breaking the rules, she's more than willing to cheat and we need to find out how she's cheating. I mean you would think that she would play the rules but nah. She's a dirty cheater and she's doing this with a glass lid.
If you went for red, the lid would put the ball in black and vise versa. We eventually call her out on her bull and she doesn't take it well. She transforms into Leviathan and well, I really like this one. This one was my favorite boss design because she's wielding a chainsaw and she has a gun arm. There is also her pointy nipples because as a guy, I was going to notice that. The roulette panels change and well, it's all of the game elements.
Wherever the ball lands, she gets an attack equal to that element. This fight ends with the duo of Haru and Makoto defeating Sae with the power of wresting. Is it weird that I defeated both Porky and Sae using Makoto and a showtime? I mean what are the odds of that? It's probably better than Sae winning against the Phantom Thieves. So even though Akechi is smart, he's rather dumb dumb when it comes to the connection between Shadow Sae and her sister.
As this is going on, Ryuji and Yusuke grabs the treasure. Makoto tries to remind Sae of who she used to be and I got to be honest. This palace is a much better Makoto based palace mainly due to her connection with the ruler but I won't deny that Makoto's introduction to the thieves is pretty good as well. If only Haru got this kind of treatment. I wouldn't be complaining about it so much like how Akechi talked about the Phantom Thieves prior to joining up with them, I'll keep bringing it up.
So while we did promise Akechi that we would stop being Phantom Thieves, are we sure that he'll know about it if we keep doing this? I mean is he stalking us twenty four seven? So before we can leave said palace, enemies show up and there is a lot of them. Despite defeating Sae with the power of a ddt or just wrestling in general, the shadows are still restless and something is going wrong. The thieves need to leave fast and well, someone has to be bait.
My first pick is Akechi but well, Joker has to take the lead here. After saying goodbye to the team, we go back to the beginning of the game and you know how this ends. It's been a long journey to get here but well, I wonder what will happen next since Arsene mentions to remember everything. The only difference between now and then is that we know everything about the story. It's also voice acted since we know who those mysterious shadows are.
All of them are characters we've grown to like flaws and all. So after getting re-arrested, we're finally finished with the interview with Sae. The drugs has hopefully worn off. A easily 50+ hour interview but well, Sae is hopefully on our side after hearing all of this. I mean we went into depth on what has been gone on in since April where we were fighting against Kamoshita and in November, we were fighting against a gun toting metal woman.
So as we relieve the initial police beatdown, lets learn who voiced Sae. Sae was voiced by Elizabeth Maxwell and I've heard her voice before. She played Leona Miyamura from Yamada-Kun and the Seven Witches which is a series I think is good for its first half while the second half is a more complicated feeling for me, Shakuyaku from One Piece, Urbosa from Breath of the Wild, and Winter Schnee from RWBY.
While I may not know anything about RWBY, I do know that it's a big deal and well lets see how things are going this time. Will it be the same or different? Lets see how things are different between now and then.
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