Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth - Pull the Trigger | Reacting To Video Game Music! 

This song has no right being as smooth as it is for a side game.

How come no one has sent Mass Destruction or Aria of the Soul yet?

Yeah she's great in every song I've heard her on. It's really sad that she only has a few songs on a psp rerelease version that not many people have played. I'm always disappointed when I see she's not going to be performing at the persona concerts. It would have been great if she was the main singer for a game.

@@iasar718 She seems to prefer being out of the spotlight. It would have been great to have her in the upcoming October Persona concert but sadly not. Edit: she actually said recently that she wasn’t able to be a part of the 25th anniversary concert due to looking after her child, but she still wants to perform Persona music in the future.

To be fair at the time it was the most popular of the PQ2 songs before the channel it was most popular on was deleted sadly. It’s an amazing song and the best of the 4 PQ2 battle themes, which is funny since she’s the voice 90% of the community has prob not heard singing since 3, 4 and 5 are played a lot more than the psp port of P3… but I guess happily her game will be reported to Xbox and Switch instead of Persona 3 the answer (the original Re-release of the game, though it’s neat they are re-releasing the only option that lets you pick your gender

Especially in this case he seemed very pre-disposed against it (maybe not just the vibe at the start) and ends up grooving.

he could literally be rapping about bananas and i’d still think he’s spitting a banger

Mhm, it’s really a great battle theme that represents P3 FEMC. Those lyrics you specified really works too representing how deep down she’s just like the original protag underneath the bubbly exterior.

PQ2 has more focus on the P5 cast, rather than giving a choice between protagonists It starts off with the protagonists somehow getting from Mementos into a superhero movie starring a hero named Kamoshida Man and a couple of the P5 cast members get taken prisoner

The music changes depending on the cast I think. I remember the music changing in every encounter(Q2)

On that note I’d absolutely love for him to hear P3P tracks like Wiping All Out (After Mass Destruction of course) but man the exclusive tracks in P3P for female route are great too. Honestly pretty much on par with the original.

In PQ2 the music changes based on your settings. By default it picks P5’s battle theme, but once you meet FeMC it switches to shuffling between main battle themes (Her P3P theme here and P5’s), and you can also override this in the settings and have it shuffle between a wider variety of songs from the other games (IE: Early purchasers could get songs like Reach out to the truth, or Blooming Villain as free dlc initially and use them as additional battle themes). Considering the larger cast in this game, shuffling between each casts very in-theme battle track just makes sense. Thankfully they’re all fantastic tracks that wouldn’t be out of place in their characters games of origin and any love PQ2 can get is rightly deserved. As an aside, I hope someone requests “Nothing Is Promised” or one of the other Lotus Juice heavy tracks so he can get a real good example of just how good Lotus Juice is with his rapping. The man is crazy good at it, and that’s from someone who normally is kinda “ehhh…” on rap.

@@TheMongral Right, just like you pointed out I seriously love how the battle themes representing each game sound in a such a similar direction to the way he composed tracks in each game. It’s the love and care and dedication go stuff like that that really helps elevate the OST

I can confirm, as I heard at least one of them through PSO2.

Wait and see is a bop

@@tabithadickson36 I agree. I am biased though.

@@Nitram4392 persona 3 is my favourite video game always you don't know how excited I am for p3p on the switch i never owned a psp so it means a lot i still own fes on ps2 and my 2 still works perfectly so i still play it it will always be my favourite its like my baby p3 sorry I can geek out so much over it

@@tabithadickson36 P3 is also my favourite. It''s theme of accepting death/mortality is close to my heart.

Perfect ranking although Pull The Trigger above Light The Fire for me, I also think the P3 Light The Fire is the best one.

Persona 3 is my favourite too has since I was really young 2007 i was nine. Its my baby and most important game too me. I love how its Not about death but accepting loss in all forms and the characters are all amazing yes i love fuka and ken. And stand by the answer. I think it shows grief quite well just because you accept something doesn't mean you're not grieving and in pain that's what people don't seem to see in it

I wouldn’t be surprised if it was because of how absolutely fucking difficult these games are. Like holy shit I barely scraped by Kamoshidaman, before I was like ‘fuck this shit, I’m gonna just watch the cutscenes.’ And that’s what I did because I absolutely couldn’t stand it anymore. Constantly having to restart the floors because I couldn’t find those things that allowed you to skip forward was the biggest pain in the fucking ass

@@TheDeathOmen the Etrian Odyssey games they are based off were extremely difficult as well, especially if you had a suboptimal party build Btw the Q comes from Meikyuu which means Maze in Japanese and is in the Japanese titles of the Etrian Odyssey series

Also to note: I guess it's not really an "instead of" thing since Persona has some similar instrumental tracks as well, but the way the Outtakes versions are handled is very characteristic of EO, so I always think of that with them first lmao

Not really but the first time they had a blank female protagonist.

@@BARALover96 yea persona 2 eternal punishment had female protagonist

P2 EP had a female protagonist too. Tho I do prefer this take on the idea.

@@hollyfindlay4051 I personally prefer if the persona characters where not silent protagonist and were actual characters

@@BARALover96 I don't.

I’ll love Q2 just for making FeMC canon character finally

I also love it because it actually helps play into my personal fan theory about why the FeMC was non-canon for so long. On top of it also being a fun, if relatively typical dungeon crawling game, definitely a good send off for the 3ds at least. (Theory TLDR: Her non-canon status was required for other lore/canon reasons. Specifically, so she could take the Male MC’s place without disrupting/ruining any alternate realities. Can’t ruin a reality if you don’t have a reality that “exists” to ruin. I’d need a lot more text to elaborate more but that’s the gist of it.)

@@TheMongral My theory is that FeMC was P3MC's sister that died in the car crash, in the female route of P3, FeMC was sitting in the other seat that day and P3MC died instead.

@@VainerCactus0 That’s Certainly a theory I can also get behind and support, easily. To elaborate on mine a bit more… Mine is a bit more of an overarching one spanning specifically Elizabeth’s actions over several games. The long + short of it being summarized thusly: “P3P is Elizabeth’s Answer to the Events of P3”. FeMC behaves similar to Elizabeth in terms of outward behaviours (while still fitting the p3 protagonist role), so the theory assumes “What if Elizabeth based her off herself?”. Theodore’s existence (as he originated from P3P) means the Velvet room, and by extension it’s residents, exist Outside of the Canon (which honestly makes sense, being the velvet room and all). Thus, someone who “Exists, but does not exist” can be the perfect way to release the MC’s spirit from his duty, while keeping a being powerful enough and selfless enough there to maintain things, without dooming an alternate timeline. Thusly, a Non-Canon FeMC is actually *required* to protect the rest of the Canon persona timelines. (This also is why P3P doesn’t need “The Answer” because it is not a necessary step in creating “FeMC”.) This is still a super stripped down version of my theory, but it’s much more detailed than my initial tldr. It’s kinda out there, but I’d like to think Atlus has a reason for keeping the FeMC non-canon for as long as they did.

@@VainerCactus0 I’ve always seen the p3mc as a single child, since at the beginning of p3 they say only their parents died. They could’ve also changed it portable but they didn’t. And it also kinda screws up the story since the sister or brother are exactly the same person but with a slightly different personality. Oh yea also the fact that pq2 completely disproves what you said, since they say they are the same person in different realities and they don’t immediately go “Is that you brother/sister?”