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[chemicallovver]

Sooo uhmm... I finally decorated my 3ds today 😳😳😳😳

I was planning to do this since 2 years but procrastinated A LOT but I'm so happy how it turned out!!!! Because I have black 3ds I decided to go with more like jirai kei aesthetic and my favorite Sanrio character was always Kuromi 💕

Wanted to show it here because it looks so cool imo

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Just got my first physical megaten manga ❤️❤️

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Okay but am I the only person who kinda feels indifferent about P4Re? I mean, don't get me wrong I'm still gonna buy the game (preferably physical copy too) and play it but I felt like P3Re annoucement was making me way more excited back then than today's annoucement

Maybe because my expectations aren't that high this time when I already played P3Re (with some Theurgy features that kinda broke the game lol) but idk anyways we'll see soon I hope

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Metaphor Re:Fantazio Euchronia vs SMT IV Mikado comparision - my autistic ramblings

Okay so idk if anyone will be interested in my (in form of mostly free thoughts) notes about that subject but the fact those two kingdoms are so similar to each other in some aspects give me the weirdest autistic brainrots actually. I finished Metaphor like a week ago yet I still need to talk about this and I have a need to compare both of those fictional atlus kingdoms as I see many similarities between them actually

Like i said its more in a form of notes/free thoughts than a serious meta so if I missed anything or I got something wrong i'm sorry lol, I hadn't read each and every supplementary material and gamedevs interview for M:RF or SMT IV, most are the informations you can find in games (in the plot or notes in games)

Of course heavy spoilers for Metaphor Refantazio and SMT IV under the cut:

Similarities for both kingdoms:

-BOTH ARE LITERALLY PLACED ABOVE POST-APOCALYPTIC TOKYO

Although with SMT IV we are sure Mikado is around the same size as Tokyo, in MR:F it seems like Euchronia itself might be not necesarily above Tokyo but perhaps above entire Japan since the journey from one place in the kingdom to another took days, meanwhile in Mikado you could travel from main capital to villages like Kiccigiorgi within a couple hours/the same day

What we know is the fact you could enter Tokyo (in fact Shinjuku) from ruins on Virga Island but we were never given an opportunity to leave the building and actually go into the ruined city (unfortunately)

The difference is of course the state of everything underneath it. While SMT IV Tokyo was post-apocalyptic but still there was people who were trying to live their lifes there, M:RF Tokyo is completely desolated for any form of life except "humans" (aka the refantazio monsters). There isn't any time anomaly between both places as well but that's understandable since there wasn't any Masakado to make a barrier and protect people of Tokyo in this story (where as we know, time anomaly in SMT IV was happening due to the barrier between both places)

Also I just found lost Shinjuku in Metaphor was a reference to Etrian Oddysey, I didnt know that lol I never played that game. Yet the fact there is Tokyo under the kingdom just like in SMT IV - still sus for me

-Both kingdoms are theocratic

We know in Mikado the religion is Catholicism/Christianity since it's the place that YHVH (Christian Father God and Jewish God as well) made, guarded by his angels and by his will

In Refantazio, the main religion of Euchronia is Sanctism that seems to share a lot of doctrine and imagery with Catholicism as well - mostly the fact they are worshipping one God who created everything, similar hierarchy with the presence of "pope" (Santifex Forden) and "bishops" (like that Joanna woman) also similar looking churches and some other imagery like religious robes. Honestly, Santctism feels like Catholicism but under different name and symbol (also fun fact: the Santicsm symbol is inverted triangle, meanwhile Father God in Christianity is often depicted with a triangle as well). We never got an answer to in Metaphor if the God Sanctists are worshipping is YHVH as well or not tho (unless Atlus will make some sequel to Metaphor one day lol)

Nevertheless, both kingdoms are strictly controller by Monastery/Church, where in both places the Church has the last saying in everything and is placed even higher than the king himself

The difference is that in Mikado everyone seem to worship the same faith, while in Euchronia there are pagans like Mustari tribe that believe in multiple gods and dragons existence (even if they are marginalized by Sanctists and people in kingdom in general, some other alternative religion exists)

-Inhabitants of both kingdoms are genetically modified in some way

We know that at the beginning of Mikado, the god kidnapped children from Tokyo (involving Akira's sister) and then genetically modified them with demonic gene to make them stronger than regular humans

And then Akira and his people came to Mikado and started breeding with original inhabitants which made the demonic gene started to dissapear over the generations so Mikadian people look no different from Tokyo people now. I wonder how they'd look like if Akira never came to Mikado tho...

Which leads us to Metaphor Refantazio, where after the apocalypse, humans seem to get genetically modifed with magla (which tbh sounded like the same substance as magatsuhi in smt nocturne and V for me btw) into the nine tribes we know from the game. Since we have tribes like Eugief or Nidia (in original forms) which looks completely different from humans it seems whenever modification there was, it was much stronger than the one from SMT IV. We have to remember though, that original Tokyo people aka Elda tribe were forced to live in isolation, besides couple exceptions like Will - our protagonist, there seem they didn't really bred with other tribes, so maybe it's not the fact the modification was stronger but perhaps it just never dissapeared like in Mikado case? Who knows

Differences between two kingdoms:

-All the stuff I mentioned above

-Geopolitical situation

While we know that the reason that Mikado was able to remain a peaceful kingdom without war was due to the fact they hadn't any neighbors, the situation is a bit different in Euchronia. Sure, now they are one kingdom but there were 3 separate kingdoms before the war. There is still a lot of tensions between the muncipalities (former separate kingdoms) that can be seen trorough the game. In Mikado there is no case of this as it has no neighbors whatsoever

And a lot of small differences like for example:

-different currency - in Mikado people use Macca which is demon's money and in Euchronia the currency is called Reeve

-different language - it seem that Euchronians forgot Japanese language, as in shop in Eht Ria we can find out some of the weapons got named in the "ancient language of Old World" and we can also find out from Eupha that the name Shinjuku is in "ancient language" as well. So it seems after the apocalypse, people of New World made their own language they use ever since. I personally wonder if Elda tribe as "keepers of Old World secrets" were still able to speak Japanese at least a little tho...Meanwhile in Mikado (probably due to Akira's influence) people still were speaking Japanese language and only write in english alphabet/romanization of japanese

-Euchronia's style in both buildings and clothing look more like if someone mixed 19th century with medievalism, there is a lot of steampunk vibes and there are also stuff that couldn't exist in medieval times like the lanterns in Grand Trad for example, while Mikado look proper medieval and more of 13th/14th century style

Anyways my conclusion is that both kingdoms are quite similar to each other, despite their differences. Euchronia seems more like how Mikado could have develop if Akira never showed up there (and SMT IV events like Masakado making a barrier hadn't happened as well). Is there some hidden connection between both places that we don't know of? Maybe, but I guess we'll never know it

Anyways congratulations if you safely got trough my autistic ramblings, here's a cookie for you 🍪🍪🍪

[ifellinlovewithpersona]

Problems with my Raidou game continues 😭😭

Was in store today to pick it up turned out they have IT system error and couldn't print me receipt a.k.a couldn't legally sold me the game 😭😭

Gonna probably start PS2 OG version on emulator to cope 😭😭 and I'll never buy from that store again lmao

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Me playing Metaphor: "Huh, this protag guy looks like Minato Arisato"

Me playing Devil Survivor: "Huh, this protag guy looms like Minato Arisato AGAIN"

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Not me somehow remembering all VA's voices from Raidou 1 remaster so well that right now I'm just reading the text in their voices so I'm playing the only dubbed copy of Raidou 2 known to mankind so far 😆😆

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Ok so like honest vent post I might just delete later but lately I have no idea what's going on with me? Before, I was super passionate about megaten games and wanted to try each and every one of them but my last two games I'm FORCING myself to finish (or even pick up in the first place)

Like I liked ReFantazio and the game left postive fandom brainrot (btw I hate how this word suddenly became negative because of certain app and now I need to clarify I'm talking about positive fandom meaning of this word lol) in my mind (I started writing that one fic btw lol) but I already had so so much problems with finishing it? I eventually did, but I had to force myself to beat final boss tbh

Now with Devil Survivor I have the same situation again but even worse? I'm not even able to pick up the game for the long periods of time (2+ weeks) and when I actually pick it up, I'm just forgetting what the game was even about in the first place and tbh I'm thinking about dropping the game cause I kinda don't see a point into playing a game if I don't remember the plot anyways and don't really enjoy it. Perhaps it's also a fact that game is tactical RPG genre which tbh isn't my cup of tea

Idk, idk what's going on. Not sure if I'm depressed and that's why I dont enjoy things anymore or just I'm picking bad games (in a sense bad for me personally, not objectively bad so pls don't attack me for that). I'm feeling like I'm in a sort of a gaming "slump" lately :(

Any ideas how to deal with this gaming "slump" guys?