I'm happy to announce that P4G Anime Music Project has finally been released! This mod enhances the events in P4G with a large selection of new music from the Persona 4 and Persona 4 Golden animes. Here's a fun little trailer for that!
A colossal amount of work has gone into this mod (I've been working on this for about... half a year now or so?), so please check it out and consider it for your next P4G playthrough!
hey look, another mod post! this time, it's a mod I released a few weeks ago, Restored Margaret Lines! this mod restores some of Margaret's original P4 voice lines that directly reference Elizabeth in relation to the events of Persona 3.
It's interesting how P4G "censors" the original dialogue from P4 to be much more vague; I assume it was done to avoid people being spoiled on P3 (because everything combined is a very blatant spoiler for both P3 and the Answer) but personally I just can't imagine anyone playing P4G NG+ before playing P3.
hi! it's been a while since i used this site. i still tend to use twitter more. but I'm gonna try to post a bit more here again.
anyways, I worked with fellow modder Dexxtrip on a pretty cool mod, P4TA Animated Cutins! This mod replaces P4G's critical cutins with animated cutins from Persona 4 the Animation. I think the video does a pretty good job of demonstrating that lol.
Download for P4G here! Or use this download if you're one of 2 Vita players who want to mod P4G on Vita for... some reason lol
Over explaining why this image is wrong and what it gets actually pretty right point by point because I have too much autism for this man, from the discussion "Dojima is a terrible father"
"He let's his 7 year old daughter drink coffee," So? It's not like he's giving her black straight out of the machine, she canonically likes hers cream with sugar, and he doesn't give it to her every day, not even every week, it seems more like a special occasion where he gives her some coffee with cream and sugar and what I definitely assume is less caffeine, kids 4-6 can have around 45 mg of caffeine in coffee, sugar and cream can make caffeine less effective aswell, It's fine to give your kid a coffee like that once in a while
"He often exposes the kids to second hand smoke," I give one (1) point to you for this, but then again at least we never actually see him smoke it, he just kind of puts it in his mouth and doesn't touch it
"He occasionally comes home wasted infront of the kids," another point, but I'm going to put less blame on him for being a traumatised single father in 2011 because that's rough buddy
"He has a problem with Nanako going out after dark even with supervision of somebody who's almost an adult yet he's fully okay with leaving her home alone," Whooboy are you fucking stupid? Of course he'd rather Nanako be home alone than going out in the night, yes, Yu is 16 at the start of the game and 17 depending on when you do Nanakos social link, but let's see this from Dojimas perspective : There is an active murder-kidnapping case that primarily targets people aged 15-16 that happens overnight, do you honest to god think he'd be comfortable with letting his 16 year old nephew go out in the night alone with his 6 year old daughter while that is happening? Are you that stupid? But I continue, leaving her home alone is bad but at least she's home, that's somewhere automatically more secure than outside, even if she is supervised (by someone who's 16,) One point taken away from you because you're dumb
"He's quick to distrust the protagonist after being sent a threatening letter," Again, from Dojimas perspective : There's an active murder-kidnapping case, everytime someone goes missing, your nephew doesn't come home until evening, comes home exhausted, seems to know they're okay before he's even told, constantly visits one location, snoops around scenes of the missing people and ALWAYS after they're rescued, he's friends with them: Now he sees Yu receive a letter saying "Stop rescuing people or someone close will be put in and killed," combined with his pre existing worries of Yu being involved, this would be and was the nail in the coffin, Yu had just received a letter saying "Stop getting involved or I'll kill someone you love," that IS suspicious, you have to understand that Dojima doesn't know he's in a fictional game, he's acting like a real person would in this situation, he's angry and confused because Yu isn't telling him anything, and when he asks about it, Yu either lies to his face or says "I go into the TV and rescue people with my Persona," which also sounds like a lie to someone who doesn't know they're in a Persona game, Dojima is 100% in the right here from a fictional perspective, even if we know that Yu is the hero, Dojima was doing everything he could to keep Yu safe, Additionally, he never leaves Yu's side at the police station, he's right outside the door when your friends come in, Dojima cared about Yu which was why he was distrustful, another point taken because you're dumb
"He leaves Nanako home alone after being sent the threatening letter," Finally something smart, yes this was a dumbass move, I know that he was stressed out for Yu's safety but that isn't an excuse to put Nanako in danger, even if she doesn't open the door for strangers, he should have taken her with him or called a babysitter. You've earned one point back
Time for the big one, "He claims that his problems stem from his dead wife yet he decides to stop pursuing the guy who killed her... He's basically letting someone get away with vehicular manslaughter because 'Revenge is wrong,' even though he's a cop and should look for the guy who committed murder," This is where I realised you're fucking stupid, let's go by it one by one. ONE — He didn't decide to stop pursuing her murder (see image below,) he just decided to do it as a cop and not as a father, he was wasting his life away on a case with no development, he also says in his SL that every other cop has given up too, but he still hasn't, he's still looking. TWO — "Revenge is wrong," isn't the point of his SL, not even his SL10, the point of his SL is that he's unable to accept that things have changed beyond going back, Chisato is dead, her killer will probably never be found and Nanako is growing up, he won't be able to develop as a person until he can admit he's stuck in the past and move on, that is the point of his social link. I'm taking away two points because you're dumb
"Maxing out his social link doesn't matter because he seems to forget that revenge is wrong when Nanako dies," Good god I didn't know people came this unintelligent. Let me remind you what happened : Nanako was kidnapped while he wasn't home, he drove desperately to save her and was in a severe car accident that left him still injured a year after (According to the P4G epilogue, see image below,) She's then missing for days with the presumed killer until she's found, but she's in critical condition and is barely conscious, then without warning, he's called into her room, but right before he can get there, his daughter who had turned seven only two months ago dies, and he didn't even get to say goodbye. Her killer is still alive, and because of the lack of evidence behind the first murder, unprovable method and lack of motive behind the second and a genuine probable claim to insanity because of his talk of the TV world, he would most likely either be sent to a mental institute or go free and Dojima knows this, he's a cop. Just imagine what that could all do within the span of a few days to one man already dealing with trauma, why on earth would he go "I need to think about this rationally and not do anything in haste," Of course he wouldn't say that, at this moment, he probably wanted NOTHING more than either bringing Nanako back, or bringing her death to justice in his own hands, he is not a rational man in this moment because in this moment, he is undergoing ALOT of trauma and pain, physical and mental, he doesn't care about the law at this moment because Dojima valued his family above anything else, and the last of it was just stripped away from him so suddenly without a goodbye. One point down because you're so dumb
Overall : This review as to why Dojima is a terrible father gets Negative Three points, but I'm not done with tearing into this, let ME give MY points about why Dojima is a flawed person after defending him,
He leaves his six year old daughter home alone, making her cook and do all the chores, I understand busy work especially in the police force, but she's SIX, and Dojima is pretty well off considering he gives Yu 10,000-50,000 yen for just doing well on an exam, he could definitely hire a babysitter or at least send her to the daycare center in Inaba, your original post didn't touch upon this enough so I'm saying it
He's hot headed beyond reason, even to Yu, snapping at him and telling him to shut up, scolding him when he's drunk even if it is for a good reason, not only that but he's physically abusive to Adachi (and yes I'm going to admit it even if I like Adajima. I like my yaoi a little toxic,) for accidentally revealing information about a case or yelling at him when he doesn't get his coffee, although we never see him snap at Nanako like this
He leaves Nanako in the hands of Yu too often, in Nanakos social link where she runs away from home, although Yu and Dojima find her together, Dojima makes Yu talk to her because he thinks that's what she needs right now even if this whole ordeal was caused by Dojima not being there for her, he's a neglectful father at worst and this is where it shines
thought of this again today but i hate the way getting sumire to rank 10 reverts her design to her "kasumi" look
they make a big deal out of her being her own person so idk a new design or even keeping the rank 6-9 design would've been nicer :') like at the very least if you're gonna make a reveal that she is not who you think she is, commit to the new look you introduce instead of reverting it!
I think her honoring her sister is a great concept but reverting her design is super disappointing...
most of the western persona merch on shop atlus is kinda mid lol, but I would be lying if I said I wasn't thinking about getting this shirt. it looks really stupid in the best way 😆
PERSONA 2 INNOCENT SIN SPOILERS AHEAD! DON'T READ THIS IF YOU'RE REMOTELY INTERESTED IN PLAYING THE GAME AND HAVEN'T BEEN SPOILED ON IT!!
(oh there are also traitor spoilers for P5 in here, but I feel like anyone who has played P2 has also played P5 already lol)
so last night, I finished P2IS. the ending still hurts by the way lol. but i've had a bit of time since then to think about the game in retrospect. so i wrote up a thought dump with sort of my "initial" thoughts on the game on twitter. afterwards, i decided to repost it here but with more detail since i'm not constrained with a character limit the same way I am with twitter (it's still gonna be in bullet points bc I don't really want to structure this like an essay haha)
this game's ending really was brutal. this is the main thing I've commented on ever since finishing the game, but it truly is awful. Maya is stabbed and killed, Lisa can't even heal her with Dia no matter how much she tries. the Earth is destroyed by suddenly stopping its rotation, causing the resultant inertia to instantly kill everything. in the end, it just turns out to be a rigged game between Philemon and Nyarlathotep (god that name is hard to spell lol). and then the entire cast is forced to go back in time and forget their memories with each other and everything to prevent the world from ending again. it's truly a cruel fate for them, I really did want them to have a happy ending so it just really hurts. 😭
a lot of this game's moments hit hard due to how good the OST is. this has honestly gone up to being one of my favorite Persona OSTs, and given how strong its competition has been, that's a noteworthy feat.
the gameplay was ass lol. I can't pretend it was good, it's worse than P1 in some areas which is wild (still liked IS more overall though, 1 has some very questionable mechanics)
now apparently this is specific to the PSP version, but man the menus were so slow. thankfully I was playing on an emulator so I even had this option but I genuinely just sped up the game somewhat frequently just to get through the menus more quickly
it was also probably the easiest Persona game I've ever played. P5R is genuinely harder. i'm not even kidding. I've gone on and on about how easy P5R is (on twitter), but P2IS makes P5R look challenging in comparison.
the characters were great. i didn't think I'd care about them as much as I did. they all had wonderful bonds with each other. personally I felt like yukino was the "weak" link, and like she doesn't have the bonds the other do so it only makes sense. and even then? she has some great moments and is genuinely well written too. I had played P1 before this but yukino wasn't in my party so she essentially disappeared; it's nice to actually get to know her.
that said, I don't rly like how P1 and P2 both kinda hide extra character details behind very optional dialogue that's easy to miss. it's not nearly as bad in IS though bc they get more characterization in the main story, so a lot of the characters in IS resonated with me more on a first playthrough than 1's characters did.
I've heard some people say P2's shadow encounters are better than P4's. I'm not sure I agree with that at least just from IS, but I thought they were pretty competent. I did like that they built up to the shadow encounters throughout the game, it's an interesting approach.
...personally I still like the P4 shadow encounters more overall. I just also really like the way the IS shadow encounters were handled too especially in the context of the story.
the dialogue about personas and masks was really cool. I wish the new Persona games did acknowledge that everyone has multiple masks they put on. the only characters from P3-P5 who really explore this imo (as far as I can remember) are Rise and Akechi, and even then, it's not nearly as substantial as 1/2. Rise's arc is more about her accepting that she can have multiple selves that are all her, and with Akechi, while he has two different masks that represent both the facade he presents to society vs his true nature, it's just a case of facade vs true nature, whereas IS acknowledges that everyone has multiple masks they present to society that form a full self.
I personally wasn't too invested in the romance options, and the game clearly didn't consider them super important either seeing as they barely affect the story or interactions, but I really did like that Jun was presented as a genuine, serious option. also it's not like P3-5 where it's kinda subjective, I feel like Jun just fits the best especially in retrospect.
I now truly understand why newsona's mechanics (calendar, s.links, etc) wouldn't work at all. there's no room in the story for that.
I didn't think the pacing was the best tbh. it feels like not a lot happens at first, then they throw a ton of story at you halfway through the game, then a lot more near the end. it could've been distributed a little better. I hear EP is better with this though.
I do have a few issues with the way the plot was presented. tbh it was just a little absurd lol, and also revealing that the whole story was Philemon vs Nyarlathotep (again, tough name to spell lol) at the very end was kinda mid. maybe I'll like it more with the context of EP. but what really made the story for me was ultimately the characters and their development, not so much the actual events in the plot itself, if that makes sense.
I love the ending theme, kimi no tonari. when you realize that the sumaru city (and a lot of songs in the game) share the same general leitmotif it just makes you sad to hear them in retrospect 😔
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