Persona 5 Royal | The True Culprit [English] [No Commentary] 

Joker was like: you may have outsmarted me but i have outsmarted your outsmarting!

Joker: Gets rank 10 confidant with Sae The game: Congratulations, you can now create *Satan.*

Joker saying 'It was a breeze' in response to all the drugs he was given makes me think; maybe all the clinical trials with Takemi helped him tolerate the ones given to him. Consider how often Takemi's experiemental drugs rendered him woozy or unconscious

Anybody else thought they got the bad ending when joker got shot 💀

Fun Fact: I almost quit and restarted my game when I saw Akechi shot Joker; I thought I got the bad ending. *The Phantom Thieves' plan was so fucking clever it can even fool the player!*

Perfect timing at 43:47. Sojiro: Is this for real? Akechi: Yes.

18:45 if you look closely, half of Ren’s face has his hair form a shape like glasses. The other half of his face looks like his mask in the metaverse.

i knew naming joker "jesus" was the right choice.

This went from being the “joker” in a deck of cards to being a reverse UNO card

That's why Akechi wears gloves. To cover/protect his fingerprints.

I honestly feel bad for Sojiro, he asked what happened and he gets told of the metaverse, the cat can talk, ETC. I get that it's a way to explain to the player and audience what happened but the poor dude couldn't wrap his head around any of this

I’m kinda glad they gave Akechi a real confidant because getting Rank 8 here was awkward as hell

@17:32 Akechi: Foolish woman... Players: No u.

You just *know* Joker was laughing his ass off when the plan worked.

Assuming even Akechi's plan succeeded and Joker died, I think Sae would have noticed something was amiss. For a high school detective prince, Akechi really doesn't know the meaning of subtlety 16:15 So they let some High school kid interrogate a notorious murderer without any kind of supervision, and then a few hours later he "killed himself."

The reason this is such a masterpiece is HOW they found out akechi was abit strange. The pancake remark Il the game explains it, but the fact that they just play it off as "haha funny meme line" is so perfect, it doesnt hit you that THATS whats off until this point Then the fact that after joker's "death" ryuji just smirks as if pleased, because he and ALL the thieves know that their gambit worked. And finally the scrne with our trickster just sitting there, smirking like a dumbass because he outsmarted akechi at every oppertunity is just... Perfect Best twist in a persona game ever imho

Ryugi’s “we got em” is the greatest thing in the world

I love when he says have you finally peiced it all together and Akira just sits there unbothered 😂

His persona is the great gentleman thief, and after reading some of the Arsené Lupin stories this is something he would have done in this situation! Awesome way to really show Joker’s cleverness

In another lifetime, L defeats Kira, and lives.

Ryuji: *chuckling* We got'em. Me: *evil chuckling* Everything went well according to plan.

Akechi: I tricked the trickster Joker: I tricked the trickster tricker

This part was so well told, going in, we all knew Akechi bad. What we didn't know was if the Phantom Thiefs knew and how would they outsmart him even if they did. I had totally forgotten the pancake scene earlier and honestly, Futaba being that bold to install an app on Akechi phone infront of him was beyond what I thought you could do.

Akechi disliked this cause he got duped. Actually in retrospect, he should have known something was off when Joker didn't fight back, or attempt to save himself.

"Akechi is merely a tool." -- Actual thing Makoto has said

33:07 : i like this part he was so smug

Something funny, perhaps even ironic that could’ve happened was after Akechi shoots Joker he just starts whistling Last Surprise

Remember kids, if you ever play a persona game never ever trust a detective that starts with an "A" and ends with an "I". (especially if they are a male)

so the changed dialogue was just marketing... makes sense, but it would have also alluded to the fact that doing Akechi's Confidant is optional

Those people on the Phan site are painfully accurate to real social media trolls. "High School age criminal kills himself in custody" Some Fucking guy: "What a sore loser"

Imagine how different this would've gone if Joker had Arahabaki or Rangda equipped.

The plot twist, twisted even further.

So the plan was basically this: Get Sae to show Akechi the smartphone which causes him to unwittingly enter Sae's metaverse. Since Sae had just seen Joker in the interrogation room, her cognition would reflect that, leading to Akechi unknowingly killing the fake Joker and sparing the real one. While it's a good plan on the surface, the jig would have been up if: 1. Akechi tried to call Shido before exiting the metaverse. The call would not have gone through since there's no signals there. 2. Joker's shadow disintegrated immediately after being killed in front of Akechi's eyes. I seriously don't know why it didn't. 3. Anyone bothered to check the body. (I understand everyone involved was in Shido's pocket, but seriously, you're telling me not a single person bothered to check the body? Nobody wanted the confirmation? Hell, nobody was even curious?)

Akechi first mistake 42:15

Aight hear me out for a sec. Akechi shot Joker in mementos, right? Now what if Joker has a persona that Rpl gunfire? Akechi would've shot himself lmao😭🤚🏻

18:33 *surprised anime face*

When joker showed back up he just says to them “I lived bit€#”

I feel bad for the people that already figure out all the details behind Akechi's treacherous motives and then the game basically insults your intelligence

9:48 Nijima: Hey I was about to think " *Coffee good for you?* "

A bit of an "oops", probably on the developer side at 42:55 Original persona 5 showed the image of Futaba with the gang outside of Sai's palace during that part. Here they show the bedroom with no Akechi to take the phone from...oops.

Akechi was undermined by the one thing he truly loved; pancakes.

28:43 seeing Ryuji's face turn to a smile was the biggest holy shit moment I've had in a long time

When I heard that plan about how he survived, it caught me so off guard I screamed

why didn’t these dudes ever bring sojiro into the metaverse for a few seconds so he can understand morgana?

(13:41) *Sae:* I can’t believe this. I felt like such an idiot now not realizing that it wasn’t you who was the culprit. The true culprit is him. Isn’t it?

To the arguments saying Akechi being the traitor is super obvious because of [reasons]: 1. It's not that obvious if you've never even played the other Persona games, let alone P4 2. It's also not that obvious if you're not someone who typically watches a lot of anime and can recognize anime tropes from a mile away 3. Even if it was super obvious that Akechi was the traitor, him being the true culprit isn't because the game throws a g**damn red herring at you by making the true culprit's costume and Akechi's COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. Which isn't even explained until like two more hours into the game 4. The one clue that the game DOES give you is played off so casually, it just makes it look like it's just a minor plot hole that gets buried away with the other 70+ hours of story before it actually becomes relevant. The first time I watched that scene, I didn't even realize only Morgana said "pancakes", because I thought I also heard it from Ann and Ryuji. That kind of Mandela shit happens because the game deliberately makes the whole scene rather unremarkable and not even worthy of the player's attention That being said, that's to say I didn't have suspicions of my own though. Because of the fact that Akechi was really the only one who even "saw" the true culprit at the scene of Shadow Okumura's murder, it was virtually impossible for anyone else to verify his story, so he could literally make up any story he wanted. Added to the fact that, even though we saw him near the Phantom Thieves vicinity as they went into Okumura's palace for the first time, the game doesn't immediately bring it up like it did with Ann back when she was accidentally pulled into Kamoshidas castle for the first time. So I still found it odd that the game would just NOT show us Akechi following the Phantom Thieves the whole time they were in Okumura's Palace.

20:08 Akechi is making a call to the real Shido. How did he return from metaverse then? The exit should be upstairs where Akechi and Sae met.

18:41 Have you pieced it all together? I AM KIRA

Brilliance....this is Atlus' version of Sherlock vs Moriarty, save for Akechi not committing suicide.

The music change in the interrogation scene is genius. The way it uses that track throughout the game builds it to when you hear it in this moment and you know shit is about to go down!

33:13 Damn! This is like the usual suspects. What a twist. The crook really had us fooled!

Should we call it the pancake plot twist plan?

I had a feeling from beginning something was off with Akechi. After this happened i shouted "i knew it!".

38:50 what's with Joker's new reaction compared to the vanilla one?!

So Joker just pulled a GIANT Uno reverse card

Ace detective? More like Goro asskechi ace defective

28:42 is one of the coolest moments in the game

33:15 lupin the third be so damn proud

What would've made this scene even better imo is all the phantom thieves (except Joker) met up somewhere with looks of despair and devastation, they look at one another, they smirk and all say, "we got em"

42:15 THEREFORE, he was eavesdropping.

Sure Ren Amamiya smiled 33:20 to trick to Akechi. But playable on 3rd semester.

i play games almost 20 years watch a bunch of anime,series and movies and i never will guess akechi was the traitor only realise when the flashbacks comes more clear about the team mate traitor, only could be one guy but how?and why? when it was flashback he hears morgana how i miss that . Amazing foreshadow

I like that yusuke only paited a bird Alone in the world but it isnt giving up from flying

This all wouldn't have happened if he liked cabbages instead... Poor brat.

don’t worry about me, this is just a time stamp for myself 18:54

This whole part was one of the reasons why I was nearly late to work

Fascinating

When you realize the game devs had to come up with a plan like that to begin with 🤭

This was such a great moment.

As the song goes: 🎵 You'll never see it comiiiiiing!🎶

I felt quite proud of myself to discover the twist. It was a darn good twist too

Joker: "You're smart I'll tell you that but don't mess with the Joker"

his slow walking, and then how it looked like he effortlessly cocked the gun outta experience. damn coming back to this video to check out the higher quality 3d animation for akechi killing the guard...it was so smooth and to me looked even better than persona awakenings cus i'm a simp lol (except yusuke that awakening was sick)

22:03 is anyone gonna talk about his death more like a ragdoll?

When you thought you predicted what the twist was but you only had half of it down

Sae: did you die? Joker: sadly yes. But I lived!

The fact that the other Phantom Thieves seemed genuinely shocked other than Ryuji makes me wonder if he was the only one who had faith in the plan...

It's no Death Note but it will do.

I’m so addicted to this game someone help

28:43 At this moment I went “You what?”

29:28 is where they start explaining how the everyone heck they did that.

They basically put him under a genjutsu......LIT!!!

The fact that I could've saw this scene and realised the whole plan angers me because my old PS3 broke. Luckily I'd managed to grab the Royal-Physical version of the game. Buuuut that still doesn't change the fact I was a complete FOOL to not have realised Akechi understood Morgana because Mona was the ONLY one who mentioned Pancakes and for anyone who's actually played the game, is aware of how his voice works. I fuckin' love this game and plan to expand my knowledge of the franchise by playing the older games before this one and games after this one.

So you're telling me all these high school kids who are always hanging out in public in every scene of the crime who all happen to have connections to every case and then act shocked when NPCs find out it's them managed to pull off that kind of master plan?... Also, the fact that Akechi has been telegraphed for about 30 hours of the game to be super sketch was supposed to be a surprise?... Nah but for real this is game is pretty dope and the soundtrack is tits so I'll let all the aforementioned slide this time lol

For each phantom thief they have some sort of bird in there small animation

Me: I had a feeling you were the the one responsible behind the mental shutdowns Akechi. Reina: I had the same feeling too. Seliph: The same goes for me too.

35.09 "Akechi is a tool..." On THAT point, we can agree.

27:13 I know teachers who actually speak like this . I don't know why but something about it pisses me off. Maybe the comparison? Maybe the implication that they'll speak the same about me if I ever dissapoint them?

My chest felt heavy AF during this entire section

It would’ve been easier to just slip sojiro and sae into the Metaverse so they could comprehend Morgana

One of my favorite plot twists in all of gaming.

And I quote Lyn Inaizumi, "You'll never see it coming!"

I got so scared cuz I thought I got the bad ending, and I almost screamed when I saw Ryuji smirk

Joker: I love it when a plan comes together!

This had me fooled so royally I was screaming

Once again, it's stuff like this that makes me wish Persona 5 Royal was available on the Switch. Or at least on PC.

I cried like a bitch the whole time this was happening, I came here just to watch it again and cry some more I was so shocked but then so happy 😭😭

Ryuji is the true culprit and I can proof it.

18:10 lol Seems like the guard had a silenced weapon fetish that he had permission to have one. Good thing he managed to get one otherwise he would be stuck with a revolver that is issued to police, huh

Damn this was a 4-D chess era plan.