My Persona 2 Eternal Punishment Journey 

Katsuya Suou, the character of all time. A cat-lover who’s allergic to cats. A baker, A sweetheart, a detective of the justice arcana. Of course Crystal would love him

Fun fact: Katsuya cameos on TV in Persona 3 and 5, though he's only recognizable if you already know him.

The PS1 English voice acting for this game is pretty wonky in places ngl, but there are some gems. One of Katsuya's win lines is "Can you apply the penal code to demons?" which is just so on brand and one of Ulala's intro lines is "Don't underestimate me you f*cking bastards" (There is an actual censor beep censoring the line) making her the first persona character to say fuck in a voice line. Iconic.

I love how Baofu is just a Yakuza character dropped into a Persona game.

the twitch chatter who said that what if persona 5 was about tatsuya reminded me of the fact a lot of persona 2 fans headcanon joker from p5 as the adopted son of tatsuya and jun which i find quite cute

Being Tatsuya is Suffering

End of the first game: "we are never going to forget our friendship" Start of the second game: everyone immediately forgets lmao imma sadge

58:15 Evil Katsuya be like: yeah, my brother's fine on his own, I don't gotta worry.

This oddly feels like a perfect finale to your Persona journey, the stakes never felt higher, knowing that failure means that everything after Persona 2 will cease to exist. Out of all the games I've seen, Eternal Punishment's ending hit me the most, I've had so many emotions running through me because I felt terrible for Tatsuya

And so, Persona 2 ends in the most fitting way possible. With motorcycle noises.

“You can’t just push your feelings out of a blimp you know” That really got me for some reason 😂

Fun fact, the first Persona fanfiction available online is about Katsuya liking Maya and how he feels guilty 'cuz Tatsuya and yeaaahhhhhh

This game is so iconic to my life. In Innocent Sin, Tatsuya Suou and Sudou have similar names because Jun was trying to recreate the Masked Circle from his childhood as best he could. In Eternal Punishment, the three Tats' names are so similar because Daddy Sudou probably just named his son after him haha No story reason, though lolz

I remember back in the days when Atlus was trying to actually connect the games there was this head cannon that "shadows" from P3 and P4 came from the erased world, and the mayonaka channel was part of it. It also kind of links together the dates of the big reset with the accident of the P3 protagonist previous to the game events. There are also a lot of re-used themes in P3 that hint at the villain trying to recreate the oracle of Maia or a little side story from a Japanese magazine where Baofu was implied to be in charge of finding Ken's parents, Aegis being created by a company owned by Nanjo from Persona 1, Mitsuru (P3) and Nanjo (P1) being business partners, or even Philemon losing a lot of his power appearing only as a butterfly guide in Persona 3, 4, Q and Q2. It also meant that if Philemon ever regain his true form Nyarlo also would came back. Sadly, this may be left as nothing forever, because if we go by the official timeline most Persona 1/2 characters would now be 40-50 years old, and we know modern Persona games don't have adults in important roles.

I love how every other game she finds a new akechi-adjacent character to obsess over, it's truly a blessing and a curse also, thank you so much for playing these! it's good to at least have an idea what these legendary games are about

One thing that you probably miss out on playing the PSP fan translation is how Katsuya's voice clip when starting battle is "You're under arrest!" As though arresting a demon means literally anything, especially towards the end when the world is on the brink of ending.

Tatsuya is such an underrated Character he just goes through a lot in these 2 games.

And after seeing every Crystaahhl's Persona run, I've came to the conclusion: - Tatsuya is the protag who suffered the most. He's literally the one who lost everything, even having it at the palm of his hand.

Baofu really is best Boi. He's like a snappier, more justice-y Futaba who throws goddamn coins lmao. I love him, he's my spirit animal.

The Persona 2 Duology was so important to me when i was a bit younger, I'm so glad you enjoyed it. I actually did a school research paper on the ending song to Persona 2, "Change your Way", more specifically about the singer, Elisha La'Verne.

Having played the PS1 version of this game, which has english lines for Katsuya, you should know that he charges into every battle acting like he's about to fucking arrest the demons! XD Charging into Battle: Katsuya: "You're all under arrest!" Winning the Battle: Katsuya: "We'll hear your excuses down at the station" I love this guy. XD

I don’t know how but Atlus knows how to write some of the best detective characters for the Persona series. With Akechi, Naoto, Zenkichi, & finally The Chad himself Katsuya

I'm pretty sure tatsuya suou/sudou and Maya amano/okamura have similar names so that you compare them. I believe they're meant to be foils. I think also bc then at the end of innocent sin they try to make you think that Maya Okamura (ideal sensei) is the Mayan maiden who's going to die since she claims as much and knew about the Oracle of Maya and all and then just when you think you've averted the crisis--BAM, Maya Amano dies instead.

48:23 this scene right here is what made me understand the main message of this game specifically The responsibility of adulthood

I’m glad you finally played persona 2 part 2: eternal boogaloo

Are there any other Tatsuyas I should know about?! Morgana (As Tatsuya): Meow...

When Katsuya did that flip, I felt that

31:48 Kandori: I have a gun. Tatsuya: FOOL! I HAVE THE POWER OF GOD AND ANIME ON MY SIDE! AND THIS KATANA!

Given everything that happened in 2022, the one thing that got in CrystAAHHL's grill the most...was the fact that Katsuya Suou, Tatsuya Suou, Tatsuya Sudou, and Tatsuzou Sudou were so similarly named...**and there was no narrative payoff involved.** /well, if you don't count developer trolling and red herrings //congrats on playing the whole Persona series, btw

19:20 “we know now not to use fusion spells” the exact opposite of what you should be doing lol

I haven't played this game, but watching this makes me wish that they carried over more things into 3,4, and 5. I love that there are adult persona users, for one. And that the whole party participates in Velvet Room stuff. Also, I like that all the weird stuff is happening in the real world. I love the (Dark Hour/Midnight Channel/ Metaverse) but it's cool seeing civilians involved in the crazy shit

Eternal Punishment is a RIDE. I'm still hoping for a full remake with both games so people can learn about bestest of best girls Maya.

Um so, about other Persona games being about Tatsuya... There is a quite popular theory that The Reaper from modern Persona games is actually Tatsuya Sudou: Reaper has very similar clothes with Sudou, wears a bag mask, and not to mention it doesn't have one eye - the same eye that Sudou gets injured in both games. Basically theory says that Sudou became Reaper, which is a Shadow/Persona similar to how people in this game turned into Joker, or because he was mostly influenced by Nyarlothotep and thus turned into Shadow forever punished roaming around & looking for prey. Some people also theorise Reaper uses two guns because to Tatsuya Sudou, Maya was the person who ruined his life the most, so he decides to adapt her weapon of choice. So while it's not Tatsuya Suou, technically all modern Persona games have possibly connection/cameo of A Tatsuya.

I think its a crime how Atlus dont care about Persona 1 and 2, P2 duology is amazing...has the best lore in the franchise IMO.

You ever wonder if... for some random January, Tatsuya's friends all remembered him and they all shared a peaceful month, and then that fake reality dissapeared? That's gotta be a double whammy for Tatsuya, coming all the way from P5R

18:30 - start of the best battle in gaming history

Honestly still one of my favorites of the series. I'm glad you went back to the older ones!

The JP voice acting is so much better than the cheesy English dub from the 2000 PS1 version. Also, this is the only Persona games with an adult main cast.

If you choose Eriko instead of Nanjo, you get a lot more of an idea on what happens to Naoya, as well as his relationship with Elly. It's really interesting to see how much of an effect Naoya had, he's such an underrated protag/character. (not even gonna mention the cat boss fight)

Girl, you got me crying laughing! Heavy silence is indeed how silent protagonists communicate.

When I first saw Akechi's true form in Persona 5 I thought "Is that a goddamn JOKER!?" Sadly not the case unless Atlus states otherwise, but that would have been pretty damn cool.

I heard once that in this game kandori was creating artificial persona users, whivh paired with nanjo, is two direct ties to persona 3…

You simp for Katsuya, I simp for Maya. Maya Amano has to be the most lovely and endearing character of all the series. ' And she's a journalist just like me!

Katsuya best boy fr. 👏

I love Katsuya so much, I’m happy to see your enjoyment of him hehehe

No thoughts, only Katsuya

The way PPSSPP handles saves is just like a real PSP. If you go into the settings, you can change the size of the memory card. Best thing is, since the PSP lets you access the memory card by plugging it in to a computer, you can easily transfer saves back and forth between the real system and the emulator

"OUTRAGEOUS!! WHAT IS THIS GODDAMN INFLATION!?" As someone who lives in the Philippines, I felt that hard. That made me cackle, Thanks Crystal

Also, the point of characters' names being alike IS a plot point in these games. Tatsuya/Katsuya Suou are similar just because they're brothers as well as Tatsuzou/Tatsuya Sudou being father and son. However, the two Tatsuyas having same name and similar sounding surname is intended as Sudou is kind of an "evil parallel" of Suou, it's especially made clear in Innocent Sin as Jun thought Tatsuya Suou killed Maya, when in truth it was Tatsuya Sudou. Not to mention the game also points out Sudou was a student in Seven Sisters. Now what comes to Takuya, it's likely to parallel how in IS world, Tatsuya Sudou attacked Tatsuya and Maya and in EP world his victim in same incident was a boy named Takuya, not to mention her sister sees him in Suou.

Ok should we tell her about the postgame dungeon that has a convuluted unlock method without using a code this time? Cuz she would love the end boss

this p2 journey was so much fun and emotional to follow on stream, thanks

I really love how connected the games are, that's just really cool!

22:29 crystaahhl accidentally describes the one electron universe theory

23:00 i kinda skim the tatsuyas scenario stuff because its stuff i havent seen before and im not in the mood to deal with new stuff at the moment, but i caught this moment and its SO COOL that they utilized his personas power to stop time like that! holy fuck! thats so clever, i LOVE how their personas and their powers are actually used in the main plots of these games so much! great detail!

Bruh I literally just finished watching your other Persona 2 video. Lucky day I guess lmao. Love your content on these RPGs.

Can't wait to see Crystaahhl correctly guess all the major plot twists

Of all the talk of remaking Persona 3....these games are in MUCH more of a need of a remake, imho. Second only to Persona 4 in terms of my favorite cast of characters. I think it's attachment to 1 may make that difficult, but maybe make that an excuse to remake 1 as well?

Plot twist: Nyarlathotep actually returns on P6.

Watching you play P2 was such a blast. So glad you made it through the whole series!

I started mine recently and man i was not expecting on enjoying the gameplay and the *GRIND* in innocent sin i had so many mental breakdowns during combat but In eternal punishment it's a different experience

Katsuya my beloved

Maya is so gorgeous shes pulling the string of the the brothers tatsuya and katsuya lol.

This seems more of a fever dream than first half

i dont know if your going to check out erika path but just in case - - - - - oh you missed out a whole completely different mission with Eriko one best for ulala. she get into the roast off with the boss that your fighting throughout that dungeon. but bascially eriko stalkers appears as re appearing boss and ulala comes in as the knight shining armor. and your missing out on a whole another villain thats just not in nanjo's run

i havent finished the video yet but ive kept an eye on chat, and i saw something that reminded me of one of the greatest moments of the playthrough that had not been touched upon yet, and as a proud member of the 'watched the vods' club i am SHOCKED and APPALLED BEYOND BELIEF by the sheer AUDACITY in this video. how DARE you deprive the youtube fans of the tim saga, you MONSTER? they DESERVE to experience it. from the confusion as it began, to the recurring updates from the chat member who started it all. i cant believe you've done this. you, good youtuber, have betrayed all of us who watched the tim saga unfold before our very eyes with bated breath (unless you addressed it later in the video in which case. um. whoops. sorry?)

Bruh I tried liking the video at the end but didn't realize I already liked it. My body acted with my own interest in mind. LET ME DOUBLE LIKE GOSH HECK IT RU-vid

If this version is the same as the old ps1 version, there IS technically more content. The 7 sisters high bonus post game dungeon where you can choose whose in your party. Unfortunately you need to beat the game again, this time using Eri. After you've done that (beat the game going both the Nanjo then Eri route or vice versa) you should get an option that allows you to Play said dungeon where philemon is the boss, and he's arguably harder than Nyarlythotep.

TY FOR BRINGING UP THE SIMILAR NAMES OF ALL THESE DIFFERENT CHARACTERS NEVER BEING BROUGHT UP, THAT’S SO CONFUSING AND FRUSTRATING

I can honestly say I've enjoyed every single SMT/Persona video you've done.

This amazing game deserves a remake!!

I finished this game with the starting personas, it’s not that difficult either, the metal trio isn’t a bad fight because Rng is involved. Rng is needed so a battle can have different situations and not the same predictable one especially in a game where it’s easy to revive and heal. There is a skill you can use to shield from insta kill, you can have persona which nullify both dark and light (pretty common in EP) more than anything you should use objects to raise the evasion or magic so you can kill the ones with insta kill faster. There are a lot of ways out and this game is consistently challenging as there is not enough XP to ever be overleveled, final boss is literally level 99 and you need to be prepared as fuck to face him. Anyway this game can become very easy with accessories to raise extra stats when leveling and using objects like mirrors. Also in the end game there are so many broken personas you can destroy everything even with underleveled party. If you think the P3 gameplay is fine but this is not then you are completely insane.

Im so glad that I found your channel today, amazing P2 experience

thank you for bringing the beauty of the persona 2 games to your audience, they are fantastic stories

Oh Katsuya, as in "Cat"-suya.

6:22 that's what I love the most on Eternal punishment, adult characters being adults.

What a banger, Love to see it on the channel finally

"That's why I love him. He's an idiot." It's amazing how having an adult cast - instead of teenagers who get student discounts for lucky cats - doesn't actually compromise how endearing this cast is. The plot is insane, but rewatching I can still understand how unique this experience is.

Tatsuya Sudou, the Leo of the Masked Circle in the original, is named that because he’s meant to be a foil to MC Tatsuya. Sudou was blinded (literally) by his rage and thirst for revenge, but MC Tatsuya is incredibly apathetic and kind of just coasting through life. Both have the potential to go down a dark path, but one doesn’t, and that’s kind of the point. Tatsuzou was also mentioned in the original game as Sudou’s father, who considered his son worthless. He’s just named that, his son is the one with the thematic name relevance. Also, while both Tatsuyas were shown to be taken advantage of, Tatsuzou and many others in the new world purposefully took advantage of others. The main director, the artist, and the writer of both P2 games have stated that Innocent Sin was made to represent a child’s perspective of life, and Eternal Punishment an adult’s perspective. That’s why manipulation is everywhere, and that’s why Tatsuya was acting the way he did throughout this game: he was trying to act like an adult. One of the worst things adults regularly do (as this game shows) is push other people away, so as a result, Tatsuya was slowly isolating himself from everyone and diving deeper into his guilt and pain.

You read my mind i am so happy you play it 😭😭

52:00 this is probably the hardest fight in the game but the reasons you give I don't really agree with. What makes it easier is knowing you can cancel the auto battle at any point and taking full advantage of the combat system, considering there are fusion spells that give party wide buffs (also learning that gaurd is broken but thats just a glitch iirc)

10:23 lol they even repeated this gag in P3 with Mitsuru and Junpei.

"136 damage?!" Oh shit it's a real/cutscene gun!

I was waiting for Persona 2 Eternal Punishment and here it comes...Can't Wait.😜

Don't worry, we are all simps for Katsuya. Too bad he only has eyes for Maya. lol

Maya is so pretty ♡♡

If you took erikos route you could see noaya

WOOOOO THE BEST PERSONA GAME LET'S GO

You forgot the true highlight, Tim.

Mitsuru? Is that YOU? (13:20) Why she sounds like her?

I played through the original Shin Megami Tensei Persona trilogy not too long ago and Eternal Punishment was the one where I got so confused that I feel like I still have zero idea what the actual story is lol And now here I am also replaying 3 and soon enough 4 thanks to them getting ported to Switch Could they maybe also get the Q duology and SMT IV + IV Apocalypse out of the 3DS exclusivity black hole. Four of the best games in the entire franchise and they dont deserve to stay exclusive on a dead console (unless. You know. Yo ho ho if it comes to that)

Shouldn't the EP crew be called the Yinsters cause it's the other side and all?

I love this games so much

Was waiting for this.

The most sad end of all personas I made Ekichi and Lisa remember at the end just to hope they one day back together

So Crystal has a type for Justice Arcana Detective characters... curious

they're soo kept tight on the idea that Naoya supposed to be your self insert that they're unable to bring him into the modern time at all lmao

Rejoice Crystahl! You can simp for these party members since they're not minors! LOL

Did you know the voice actor of baofu is sojiro from persona 5?

Hopefully FF16 does well so they can justify a more ... adult Persona 7. I'm guess it's too late for 6.

So why DO so many characters have such similar names?