/pg/ - Persona General

Is Rise performing at his inauguration?

Phantom is from Sumaru City!

Fiction being comfy or hopeful isn't actually a bad thing.

It's not a bad thing to have some works of fiction that aren't comfy or hopeful either.

Persona 5 The Animation - Joker plays the Crane Game- m.youtube.com/watch?v=PYIqhHPA7F8

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Sure, but I don't see much merit in being grimdark and shocking just for its own sake.

i really can't agree to any of that honestly, not even for the sake of argument. taro's writing doesn't prompt the player to think, it tells them what to feel, it's pure melodrama. subtlety is a strength in any kind of art, the old jazz saying that "it's the notes you don't play that matter', the unasked question hanging and lingering more powerfully than the asked question or the explicitly addressed element.

i don't think he's an incompetent or an overrated hack, i just see his style undermining itself at multiple turns within what are intended to be big masterstrokes

This, but when you're on a board about a game that gets off on being comfy you can't expect everyone to agree

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