Discussing and Reviewing Persona 5 Strikers 

Fither and Flair calling Zenkichi Dojima, but not calling Sophia Aigis is upsetting

No matter your opinion, we can all agree on one thing. Haru having more screen time is a good, good thing.

Kid Konoe: Stabs father P-Thieves: "this is so sad!" Akechi: "Dood, that's hilarious!"

You guys missed the mark with the Sapporo jail. The comically evil guys were punished. They had their hearts changed by hyodo, it's mentioned by zenkichi near the beginning of the city and later when they find the owada evidence in Okinawa. Hyodo needs to be stopped because for as much some people need to be changed, she's mostly ruining normal people's lives in an attempt to save the city as she sees it. The theme of the jails is the thieves don't want always want to stop the monarchs cause they can see the monarchs side of the argument

Yes! Flair is back! I missed him so much! It’s not the same without him.

Okinawa was way too fucking good, the music, the atmosphere, the design, the mega p1 energy, it has everything

I really don't like it when people compare Kasumi and Sophia because the whole redhead bless user thing is a very surface level analysis. Not only do they serve different roles in combat, but they are completely different people from each other. I think Kasumi has the better arc, but Sophia meshes better with the gang, which makes sense since Kasumi technically never becomes an "official" member since she doesn't 100% agree with their methods but she still respects them.

*SPOILERS for the original* *Persona 5 and Persona 5 Strikers* When you think about it, Persona 5's ultimate antagonist was frighteningly proven right in the end due to what happens in Persona 5 Strikers. And I don't see Strikers' endgame arc as just a "rehash." That original antagonist and his ideologies being reborn in Strikers are proof of that. (Persona 5 Royal's added story proves this too, but that’s a different discussion.) The culmination of Persona 5's entire storyline (even with the addition of Royal's 3rd-semester epilogue) was finally delving into the depths of the general public's Palace that had been out of reach for the entire game up until that point. When the Phantom Thieves finally arrived at Mementos' Depths they were met with a distortion taking the form of a Prison of Sloth and a Treasure (going by the Holy Grail) that was given life through the people's intense desire to be controlled. All of the masses craved order, control, and the freedom not to think so much that the Holy Grail became a God of Control to fulfill everyone's ultimate wish. This god, going by Yaldabaoth, became so powerful that he set all of the events in Persona 5 in motion and acted as the story's puppeteer so he could prove that humanity truly wanted to be controlled and nearly completely fused the real world with Mementos if it weren't for the Phantom Thieves that he ironically helped create. The Phantom Thieves went up against what most of the world truly wanted and wished for. Even if Yaldabaoth was seen as malevolent, the reason he was that way to begin with is because that's how humanity wanted and envisioned a ruler deep down: one that feels like they have no errors in judgement and exercise absolute authority. Yaldabaoth was the way he was because humanity is the way it is. Even if you, me, and the Phantom Thieves can look at Yaldabaoth's world and say how wrong it is, deep down a part of us secretly wants order and control like that. That's what makes Yaldabaoth's point compelling... because we all know we agree with him to some extent deep down. Even if the Phantom Thieves (and the player) argue freedom is ultimately better than security, they were going up against what humanity wished for nonetheless. Even if the god was defeated by his own creators (humanity) and his creations (the Phantom Thieves), deep down Yaldabaoth's point wasn't entirely wrong. In fact, his point would ultimately be proven if humanity were ever to relinquish freedom by allowing someone or something else to control them once again... Persona 5 Royal and Persona 5 Strikers both present different continuations of Yaldabaoth's argument, but, in the end, both games' stories arrive at the same destination of the God of Control not being totally inaccurate. And what I love about Royal's added story and Strikers' story is that the two games never outright say "Yaldabaoth was sort of right to some extent all along." It's up to the player to realize and piece together the similarities (though Lavensa does point out how similar Strikers' endgame events are to the previous year's events). Despite the Phantom Thieves' hope and belief that the world was above what Yaldabaoth believed it to be, the masses ended up relinquishing their freedom to make decisions in favor of life becoming easier and their happiness being preserved. Royal with [REDACTED] and Strikers with EMMA. Half a year after the Phantom Thieves' ideology won out against the general public's/Yaldabaoth's, the world has turned to an AI to solve its problems. EMMA obviously doesn't exist in our world, but it's clear to see how it is a stand-in for our own technology and services we use (such as something like Google). The world of Persona 5 wanted EMMA to give them all of the answers and wanted it to be there for them when they were lost and needed guidance. The public wanted EMMA to do the thinking for them and as EMMA became more widespread thanks to Madicce, more and more of society started to rely on something else thinking and making decisions for them once again. And then once it was taught cognitive psience, EMMA was finally able to fulfill its prime directive: to fulfill humanity's ultimate desire. Similar to how Yaldabaoth was brought into existence to fulfill humanity's ultimate desire, Ichinose created EMMA to help the world attain its wishes and help it be happy. Which, unfortunately, is still to not make decisions. Despite the Phantom Thieves fight to restore humanity's freedom last year, the public once again gives absolute power to something which morphs into a being that is able to fulfill their desire for control. EMMA, just like the Holy Grail, is given power through the general public and transforms into a symbol that the world sees as holy: the Ark of Covenant. It's no coincidence that EMMA turns into another symbol of divinity and that the Jail of the Abyss looks like Mementos 2.0 (fitting for an AI). Each Monarch has their Jail appear a certain way to reflect how they feel and what they desire. Why is it that EMMA's Jail looks like the Prison of Sloth with the addition of some technological aesthetics? Well, it's because that's what humanity's desire for control incarnate was the first time (with the addition of an AI being in control this time, hence the "2.0" descriptor being apt). The Jail is the way it is because that's the way the public wants it to be, just like in the original Persona 5. If the public wants it, EMMA will make it a reality for them. The music and setting for this Mementos-esque Jail make me unnerved simply because of what it represents: the rebirth of something the Phantom Thieves, and the player potentially, thought they were better than and fought against (almost disappearing from existence in the process)... only for it to be reborn anew. It's the idea that the entirety of what Persona 5 was building up towards was never truly gone completely so long as people remain slothful. The Phantom Thieves recognize the Jail's startling similarities to Mementos' Depths and even comment how familiar them staring down the Ark of the Covenant was to them encountering the Holy Grail last year. This all comes to a head when EMMA/the Ark of the Covenant gets enough power from the public to transform into a god (just like what happened with the Holy Grail). The striking similarities and resemblances are... unnerving to say the least. Could the God of Control be back? Did he somehow plan the creation of EMMA months after his demise in some convoluted way typical of lazy sequels that bring back villains in an unnatural way? ...luckily, the answer is no. The Phantom Thieves truly killed the God of Control, the plot in Strikers wasn't his doing. This time the god born from the masses is named the "Demiurge." ...in case you didn't know, in Abrahamic Mythology and Gnostic Mythology another name for the Demiurge is, well... Yaldabaoth. "Could this be the second coming of the evil that rent me asunder? That locked away even my master?" - Lavensa, Persona 5 Strikers The Phantom Thieves truly killed Yaldabaoth, but not the idea of him. Just like how Mementos' Depths were reborn as the Jail of the Abyss, how the Qlipoth World was reborn as the Tree of Knowledge, and the concept of the Holy Grail was reborn as the Ark of the Covenant, Yaldabaoth was reborn in a sense as well once EMMA was given enough power from humanity to turn into the Demiurge. Even if he was defeated, the world still wanted a being like him to control them once more, which ended up leading to his resurrection and rebirth of sorts. I love villains that have a long-term impact even after they're gone (kind of like Shido inadvertently inspiring Owada to follow in his footsteps), but what I don't like is when they're recycled in an unnatural or lazy way. Strikers, however, brings back and builds upon Yaldabaoth's plan in a way that falls in line with the logic already established in the previous game. It isn't just the same old Yaldabaoth returning all according to plan nor is it simply recycling ideas. This wasn't Yaldabaoth's plan, he just ended up being proven right in the end with his second coming of sorts. It's up to more people other than Phantom Thieves to prevent Yaldabaoth from being reborn once more by wanting to live for themselves even when life gets tough. That's why I don't see it as a "rehash" because it expands upon the original ending and reinforces the idea that people need to continually live for themselves. It brings back and expands upon Persona 5's concepts in a natural way that falls in line with the Persona universe's established rules. It isn't some contrived garbage in an effort to copy the original Persona 5's story. Let’s just hope Yaldaboath or any sort of “reborn” version stays gone for good this time after Strikers, since I'd personally like to move beyond Persona 5 (as much as I love it).

Wow. The Konoe scene got straight to me. I'm shocked how strongly you guys were taken out of it.

Im pretty sure they said Konoe stabbed his dad like 20 times or something so that’s actually pretty metal

Yes , Kasumi and Sophia share their elemental spells , but outside of that they're really different , Kasumi is a Light and Physical damage dealer while Sophia is a healer

I think Ichinose was very, very close to being a disaster, but she ended up really good. I really hate this whole "The person I've been the entire game wasn't real, so the character you liked doesn't exist and your attachment to them was pointless" thing, and I think Persona tends to either narrowly hit or miss on that (Ikutsuki was 100% that, but Adachi wasn't, and then Akechi was in vanilla but wasn't in Royal), and Ichinose in the endgame signals really hard in that direction, but then I love how her arc isn't "Oh I can be a good person too" but more "Oh I guess I actually was a good person all along deep down and I've been telling myself I'm not to run away from my emotions", which is so much more interesting than "nice lab coat lady was evil all along"

I disagree with your thoughts on the Sapporo Arc, it was arguably my favorite. Hyodo was a very well developed villain, and her relationship with Haru was fantastic. But I gotta say, I agree with the Konoe bit. The fact that we don’t actually see Konoe himself getting beaten really took me out of the experience.

This game is 10/10 just because Ryuji finally says the F word. I'll post the second half of my review in the morning since it's midnight where I live.

The game didn't outright say phone bad more than phone CAN be bad. Sophia outright says at the end that it comes down to how we use AI/phones. I mean how could the message be phone bad if we have soneone like Sophia in there? I got a little upset when you guys said that you believe the devs were just dumb enough to do it when in fact you didn't get it. Just wanted to get that out there, I don't dislike you guys and don't want to be too negative so I wanted to add that I do like your content

Hello in Mariko arc, the corrupt mayor who pin blame on Mariko already being arrested after his confession on corruption

Igor was probably not in the game cause the actor passed away like awhile ago and they've just been getting by reusing his old lines which I imagine wouldn't have worked here. Japan's real weird about recasting when someone dies

I don't get the "don't put a stop to them, their a victim" thing Yes the monarchs suffered royally. But they *also* brainwashed a city's population to a disastrous degree. Innocent people got caught in the crossfire and were suffering as a result. The monarchs did bad things, whether it be driving people to bankruptcy over wanting their stuff or working EVERY government worker to harmful degrees. And Sapporro was definitely my favorite. The scene where Hyodo wanted to resign but was stopped by the dead child's mother stopped her made me cry. For the sins: Alice, lust. Natsume, vanity/greed. Hyodo, gluttony. Ubukata, sloth. Akane, wrath. Konoe, pride. Ichinose, envy. And The Ark of the Covenant has at least differences to the Holy Grail. The tendrils are different meanings; the grail had veins extending to the farthest reaches of Mementos, him exerting his influence on humanity. The Ark's were roots (as shown with the Great Tree) converging into the ark. Humanity exerted their desires onto EMMA. And no it's not "phone bad". It's to show we can't rely on an outside entity to think for us, an honestly unnerving parallel to real life. AI makes our lives easier, but to a point where it may be easier to just listen to AI rather than deciding on things ourselves.

I gotta say, this might be the first time I generally don't agree with their views on persona. Especially things like the velvet room, Kanoe and the p5r stuff

An hour long Fither and Flair video? what did we do to deserve this blessing?

Every enemy in the game can be hit with ailment. Even. Bosses. Yes even the reaper who I have frozen and inflicted with dizzy . And since frozen can cause technical damage off phys and dizzy can cause tech damage off basically anything, its one of the few ways to break reapers shields and hit home with all out attacks. Ailments are not useless in fact they've arguably never been more useful. Some enemies resist certain ailments. For example, shadow hyodo resists freeze but she's capable of being hit with dizzy and burn. And with dizzy and sleep, even almighty attacks can break shields since they cause technical damage off them. Which is why lucifer with dormina and morning star can one shot almost any mob and melt through bosses.

I concur with others in the comment section that I think you missed the mark with Hyodo and the Sapporo Jail. It wasn't my favourite, but her story was about as consistent as the rest. Obviously, the focus on the antagonists in this game is a deeper dive in the idea of trauma. Cognitive Distortions are real things in psychology and are typically a result of trauma, but Persona 5 kind of inadvertently slipped into the notion that only the world's biggest scumbags have them (even suggesting Futaba was a rare exception to this rule), it was nice to have an entire game challenging the PT's beliefs and help them realise that people who aren't bad still fall into a neurodivergent mindset that massively warps their perceptions. Trauma isn't all-encompassing or universally relatable, so in my eyes it's good that you see them as 'hit or miss', because different people resonate very deeply with different Monarchs. In my case, I see a lot of people say that Natsume's story was weak, but as a Creative Writing student who was labelled an oddball through school and college, I really teared up when Yusuke said that it was a lonely endeavour and that the greatest talent of all is the ability to keep pushing on. In Hyodo's case, her story is masked slightly behind the responsibility culture of Japan. It's not really 'relatable' to a lot of us, but her taking responsibility for a subordinates' malicious acts and losing her way trying to root out 'evil' feels like a very natural escalation. After all, it's mentioned in P5S that Konoe gave them their Jails in their time of need, and 'if you're desperate, you'll take what you can get'. So to call her a cartoonish villain feels a little bit unfair.

Something that makes Akira's Trama cell scene or whatever it's called funnier is the fact that Akira dad was voiced by ProZD

I always love the discussions you all have, they’re very thought provoking! Here’s some things I was thinking about while listening. For the Konoe back story, I felt the Japanese dialogue really sold the emotion and back story for it, I’m sad the English dub made it more of a meme. I was also very surprised Meti forgot Ichinose’s name, her being one of the stand out characters for me. Sophia by herself makes the game worth it. Her entire story was fascinating and leads to such an amazing pay off. Zenkichi is an awesome character too and offers a unique perspective and interesting interactions with the rest of the phantom thieves. Seeing their growth all the way to the end was so worthwhile to witness. UGH I can’t agree more on how underused Lavenza was.... no Igor was disappointing too. The music is one of the best parts of the whole franchise and Scramble/Strikers has some of my favorites. The gameplay is also great but I wish bond xp was a little more generous, even with the exploit you can use in some of the towns. One last criticism I could think of is I wish the character portraits from royal could have been imported to Scramble/Strikers.

I just realized that Igor’s never in the spin-offs. He’s not in P4A, P4D, P5D, P3D, P5S, PQ, or PQ2.

Have you played new game plus? You can use Zenkichi from the beginning, which is really cool.

Honestly the thing that surprised me the most was how good the writing is bar the bathhouse scene, it’s really damn good lmao

The miku snow statue from yakuza 5 was the one that crushed the kid in strikers

The boys are back and meti too

ya know for Persona 5 fans you seemed to have missed a lot of the context for why Alice and Mariko were Monarchs No, Alice is not a bad person because she treated her producer like crap, she's a bad person because thanks to the bullying she received she can't stand seeing women in happy relationships, so she stole desires of men specifically to destroy their relationships The douchebags who blackmailed Mariko already had their hearts changed by her and confessed, Zenkichi says as much, and he also says that what Marko's been through doesn't absolve her of brainwashing people to keep herself in power Guys I'm not mad I'm just disappointed, apparently asking Persona 5 fans to pay closer attention the plot of persona 5 spinoff game is asking too much also your complaint about Lavenza is a side effect of the social simulatoraspects being cut

I wish they added a set of Lavenza requests where you have to face every shadow thief one on one. It would be amazing to be a true test your endurance and mastery with every character. Also allowing the 5th palace to have 2 boss fights you can redo would be amazing.

I really don't think Royal and Strikers clash that much. We don't really see confirmation of Ann and Ryuji's school status, Sumi wasn't really a phantom thief and she was probably busy with her training, and Mona was always inconsistent on being a cat(in the third semester mementos dialogs he has a few where he denies being a cat). All they would need to do to is address why Sumi wasn't in Strikers.

I've. Been. Waiting. For this.

In short Yusuke is the storm that is approaching Sophie is a precious treasure, Like Aigis before her Zenkichi is the best And the music slaps, as usual

i loved literally almost everything about P5S. i definitely saw the similarities with Royal's new content, and yeah the IDEA of the final boss was kinda dumb being yaldaboth 2 but i genuinely enjoyed almost everything else

I personally think that fusing is BETTER in this game than in base P5 and Royal since now you auto register any unregistered persona you want to fuse and if you need a persona you don't have for a fusion but is in the compendium you pay for them right there instead of having to go get them from the compendium

How did you guys not talk about the the Jack frost army scene? Or the Haru driving scene?

Just seeing the thumbnail i has a weird feeling you guys misunderstood stuff, and the review was gonna be negative as a result. I’m unhappy to discover I was right

I was just happy to play a P5 game on PC and the fact that there's a godlike being behind it all is pretty much a persona standard by now, its more about HOW it fits in thats inportant. As for Lavenza and Igor, Igor not being present is a standard for persona spinnoffs, he also does't show up in the dancing or the PersonaQ games. That said, she does say something cute once u unlock game plus Mode,but like all the other attendants keeps herself in check. And be honest, we all just love redhead girls ;)

Royal definitely did the fusion system better, the results based fusions streamlines in for the tone strikers took but I’d be really sad if the next mainline game stuck with it rather than just having me throw shit together

I need links to the illustrations at the credits PLEASE

I enjoy some of his content but some of the takes reaaaally make me wonder if we played through the same scenes. Idk, maybe its just me. I get different opinions but man some things seem so arbitrary enough to be nit picks but there is so mich unnecessary time spent on them. Eh, idk

P5S feels like a true, good sequel to P5, even if it may not be as in-depth as it's predecessor. It expends on the characters inways that feel natural, and the characters it introduces are fairly well written. Although, there are still 2 specific points in the story where you just get a semi-lazy-feeling exposition dump (And if you've played through P5S, you know what I'm talking about). Those two parts were probably where it felt the most rushed for me, which is a shame, because the game could really use more endgame content. The final 2 dungeons are extremely small, which is a shame considering how much they could've done with them.

Bro I had enough of the skeleton gif in the morning stream why is he back

Zenkichi legit has my favorite stand in the series. Its not a spoiler its in the opening.

I figure it should be mentioned that all the Jail Monarchs dealt with their own villains and, uh... kept going with the changing hearts thing but got a strange addiction to it, getting all that power.

I did every single request except for the morgana one that i didn't knew you could miss because the site didn't mark it as you could miss it and i realized it at the end of the game after beating the reaper

I don't think I've ever seen the two of you so painfully miss the point of something, while yes they are distantly victims the sheer scale of the desire stealing they were doing had to be stopped. In terms of just pure volume, the PTs stole 5 hearts and restored one during base game and that took a year. Each Monarch could do that in an hour. During a meetup? at least one per minute. Two, each one consciously recognized something was going on and used it to shortcut their careers all the while their trauma was being used to ensure their shadows didn't leave and form a Palace (not the purpose but an effect nonetheless). Three, it was showing the Phantom Thieves becoming a support pillar of their respective counter part in someway. Ann as a model is supportive of Alice being a light for those being bullied (her own dream in a different flavor), Yusuke helping a fellow artist out of the path his own mentor took and Haru returning the support to someone she considered a hero as a child. I think people keep forgetting Shadows in P5's metaverse are the SUPRESSED aspects of person. Aspects of their personality they are ashamed of and hide away from the world. They are essentially half a person so of course they are caricatures (more so here in Strikers as they actually keep that in mind). So people who aren't bad, do bad things to shortcut to the actual goal and got lost on said shortcut. Alice took the shortcut to become famous faster but got too invest in that fame and forgot why she did so (and had to be reminded, that reminder causes her Shadow to return to Alice in full), Ango used it to get his story out there but took several wrong turns (the power, plagarism and negligence of his actual writing ability) and his Shadow returns after Yusuke supports him as and artist and vows to read his next book. I can't quote the line, but Yusuke says something along the lines of 'Even if only one becomes happy because of your work, it is worth it because that person smiled.' or similar enough for the nuance to not matter. Mariko wished to remove corruption from the local government because a child died from said corruption, the entire arc being about the desire to get to that position and stay there being why her Shadow is so gluttonous. Haru being Haru causes her Shadow to return. They aren't bad, and the thing they are doing could literally change the entire country by force (the only times the PTs did something of that scale was to REVERSE a same scale change) Oh the seven deadly sins thing...yeah that is blatantly false, in terms of predominant sin they all fall under gluttony, pride and envy in someway so they don't fill out that roster (at least overtly). Obviously Alice would represent the sin of lust but...one scene of masochistic tendencies and a monstrous form of her real life outfit are your only real points of evidence. Of note all of their pasts don't consistently relate to said sins either, so there is no tonal through lines for the sins to be a theme of the story. Alice's origin lies in envy but becomes "lust". Ango's orign is in Wrath (spite) but becomes Pride (over-laping with Akira Konoe) and Ango is Wrath to Gluttony. So not only are there no sin based through-line, what sins they represent clash. Basically, you literally shoehorned it onto the story and then have tried to call the story on this shoehorning. It annoys me that this has happened when you are usually really good at analyzing things, even things I disagree with you on I could listen to you speak about them because they are well founded. Edit: Spelling

I just platinumed p5 scrambled eggs last night, and damned if the whole experience wasn't great. Good on atlus for giving haru alot more screentime now, lol. If there was any one thing that stood out in this game, it's the godlike music. Like, holy shit, lyn just gets better the more osts she sings in. Top two favs are definitely make a wish and counterstrike

The fact Goro didn’t get involved is making me think they’re saving the Goro Shlock for arena

Just beat the game today after getting it mid november. I also had zenkichi, sophie and joker on my demiurge team and on normal mode it took me 45 minutes to beat him because they had almost no sp and no sp healing items so I beat him using joker and wolf gun attacks alone as well as all my hp items and futaba’s small sp recoveries.

This game was an absolute hit for me! Loved the monarchs and their boss fights. I loved the character interactions. I loved the music and gameplay. I loved the story front the beginning all the way to the end. Ichinose is a babe. Sophia is a more interesting Aegis. I can't wait dor the sequel.

yo now that persona 5 royal and strikers are out, can there be a revised SEES vs IT vs PT with the inclusion of the new elements added

About the whole lavenza bit, it feels like it was on purpose that she didn't get ... much (to not say anything at all) like she's animated as little as possible, the bare necessary for her idle stance and for walking, it's even more on the nose when you have an accidental fusion where the aftermath is her just standing and as much as I find it funny that really makes me think that the folks at omega force tried to cut corners as much as possible dev time when it came to making side quests and/or anything related to lavenza. I guess not having any time management to handle and by extension confidants is a factor as to why.... kinda ? Well at least there was the reaper.... even though he's kind of a joke.

Sophie was my favorite character to play as, why? Because Yo-yos. Edit: loving the Alice ost in the background

I expected the berserk dynasty game, and i got ff15×persona5 with a dash of dmc

This game was truly amazing

I think igor being gone from strikers is due to the Japanese VA being dead and Japan never replaces Dead VAs, that's why all of igors lines in persona 5 was reused instead of rerecorded.

Another tier list but with the Royal and strikers

The RVelvet room would be so cool!

Who's the artist of rance 10?

Y’all talking about Zenkichi being and adult and having a persona. Me: “You realize that Makoto and Haru are adults in this game, right?” EDIT: *SPOILERS* Other adults showcasing personas: - Mitsuru (P4A/U) - Akihiko (P4A/U) - Yukari (P4AU) - Junpei (P4AU) - Koromaru (P3/P4AU) yes, that’s right, dog-years baby!) - Adachi (P4/AU) - Then you’ve got the Velvet Siblings that are god-knows-how-old whom can summon Personas straight out of the Compendium It’s not exactly new.

My head Canon is that the shop Sophia uses is Tanka's Ama.. I mean Shady Commodities

I kinda like Yaldabaoth 2. It makes Strikers feel even more like a true sequel.

Sophie or Aigis? damn that is a hard one

I'm a simple man: I hear one of my favorite JoJotubers say "P4G bad" I hit dislike on impulse (great discussion tho, seeing Fither and Flair back at it really made my day).

a suprise Meti!

The Rance T-Shirt kills me

Shadow Hyodo turns into a blob monster because - She's actually gluttonous for feasting on ballot votes and popularity in a desperate attempt to take her power back, likewise, her Shadow is morbidly obese and is constantly in a frenzied mood for food. She's also obsessed with making sure Sapporo is "pure white", overworking the civil wards to the point of exhaustion.

I don’t really think that Emma was yaldaboth 2, here is my take. In lore it seems like things are able to take over mementos or the metaverse to achieve some sort of god hood. For example maruki seems to be one of them. We see him attach his powers to mementos to gain power. Yaldaboth is also a good example as we saw that he didn’t become as powerful as he was until he was able to fuse the metaverse with reality. Emma is just another example of that I believe that Emma did open up mementos again. This would explain the cords or wires connected to the arc. We also see the cages that the people in mementos sat in. Mementos seems to have the ability to give things god like power. Emma is one of those examples. Here is a better explanation of each of the examples I gave when talking about mementos. Maruki: attaches himself to mementos using vines that connects to the very bottom of mementos. Gains some godlike power threw his ability to be connected to mementos sense mementos is the collective of everyone. His ability is godlike, changing reality. He also gains Adam kadmon who seems to be similar to a god threw size and though the thieves beat him without someone like satenael it’s shown that they do have that ability and are stronger enough to beat beings like that in strikers threw Emma. Adam kadmon could just be similar to satenael which would still make him godlike. Emma: connected to the bottom of mementos in the form of the ark. Uses the power of people’s desire threw the vines or tube like thing. Gains reality warping ability that is strong enough to fuse both the metaverse and reality together. Becomes a god like being. Yaldy (ima call yaldaboath that from now on): It’s hard to tell how strong he was before becoming the holy grail but he seems to be above egor but not strong enough to warp reality to fuse it wit mementos. He uses the vines. Something odd about him is that he is a god but isn’t strong enough to do what other gods do so I guess that why he needed mementos.. But this was just me speculating on the god thing in p5. So to sum it up, beings in the persona universe are able to use the mementos sense it the collective conscious of the people and threw latching your self to mementos you can achieve some sort of god hood.

Hi February Edit: February was a good month for me as well I got to sub milestone

Personally I loved the story and characters. The main plot was a rehash but it made me care from beginning to end. As someone who didn't like Samurai Warriors I enjoyed the combat. Also playing as the Phantom Theives like Morgana

I am so glad they acknowledged that konoe was a kamen rider.

so thats why the skeleton gif was on the stream

I remember predicting when I learned the dad died that konoe killed him

Good discussion but there were quite a few surprising bad takes for who's talking. You guys got caught up on a lot of surface-level similarities or just general misconceptions

bloodborne daddy is great but Sophia, Humanity's Companion is the best

I will not listen to this man's opinions HE PLAYS STYLISH ZATO.

dumb question. why does phantom joker not have a rematch? everyone else has flippin rematches.

Honestly I love the entire game

24:15 Lmao, and on the villain I couldn't give a shit about, you got like that! Oh, that's funny.

No one else realize that Akria-Konoe was just a mandalorian. He even had a lightsaber

Yo you guys forgot to talk about Goro

I got whiplash hearing Flair reference Gigaboots like that

Why does futaba say she wants to tell her mom about the trip in the fireworks scene? I dont get it.

Oh shit surprise Meti Nice

If I recall, didnt Morgana near the e d had a line that referenced Royal's events as a way to tie both games together?

Does anyone else wish they’re was an adventure mode Equivalent in it

Also Zenkichi being in his 40s makes him Gen X or possibly very early Millennial. Not Boomer!!

I loved Akira's jail it is how I would imagine akechi's planned palace in genral I loved this game's dungeon theming is on par with base p5 Sophia is just Aigis but well written and in my opinion much much more charming Zenkichi is Dojima but if Dojima replaced Naoto the tragic back story of the dungeon owners all made feel for them besides the fat disney prince she was an F tier character

OMG I thought the same thing when I saw Emma was becoming a god. that it was like the version of "I am god" from the creepypasta video. Can't believe atlas stole your idea smh.

just saying that there is a lavenza fight in royal

I love Sophie, she is not Labrys teir but still great

I have a "headcannon" that there are two side stories to P5S. The first is the Royal side story with Akechi and Kasumi. The next is that Takemi, Iwai and Mishima at some point got together and, one thing led to another, and they ended up in the metaverse and all summoned their own Personas and fought through whatever dungeon was nearby.

15:22 paused i need to see this. I missed this.

Apparently the reason the localization took longer was indeed due to the pandemic affecting the dub cast.

Like honestly, I enjoyed my time with Strikers. I had so much fun with the combat. The only issues I had with Strikers would be that Velvet room sucked, not just Lavenza. As you all said was just boring, and the fusion system. This game used just wasn't fun. I don't blame Igor for skipping the Velvet room this game. I thought that everything with the third monarch was fine, until the boss fight... ok this is bad. The music in this game is so good, between the remixes of Persona 5 songs, to the cities music(Some of these have no right being so good), and battle themes. I did feel a bit disappointed when I saw the mementos-like area, but, luckily, it wasn't a complete retread. I frickin love Sophia and Zenkichi, though I must admit my first reaction to Akane was "edgy Nanako." I would love to see either a sequel to Strikers or even another smt action spin-off game.

Zenkichi has the best build-up prior to awakening his Persona. He’s had enough time to interact with the group and bonding with them til the Kyoto Jail comes along.

I didn’t mind the demiurge thing, because yaldabaoth and the demiurge are the same entity mythology wise, and yaldabaoth was the only god to be killed in the main games, Nyarlathotep goes dormant, Nyx is sealed, Erebus regenerates regularly, Izanami peaced out, but yaldabaoth was destroyed, dissipating it’s power, so something coming into contact with that power and being turned into a new yaldabaoth makes sense to me

Hmm . . . .