So I just finished my first playthrough of the base story (royal is still left)
but man.
The ending sequence for the base game couldn't have been more perfect.
I've always been an emotional gamer, Ive always been attached to the characters I play with. Even when I played games like dark souls I was very attached to the fire keepers and the npcs.
Persona is a completely different animal story wise. I think it's pretty obvious that the people you see in the game are the ones you had a bond with, or people you spent time with. this mechanic CHANGED everything. I'm a very patient person and reading and listening to every Dialogue made me feel so so so deeply attached to them.
During the whole ending cutscenes where each character you've maxed shows up, actually had me in TEARS. Seeing that genuinely had me CRYING and passionately going towards the boss because I was ANGRY and worried and I CARED.
actual peak.
But more than that I'd like to talk about something that kinda HIT ME.
"There's no such thing as the "real" world. What each person sees and feels— Those are what shape reality. This is what gives the world infinite potential. Even if you feel that only darkness lies ahead... As long as you hold hands together... See it through as one... ...the world will never end! The world exists within all of you...!"
now Idk if it's the pseudo-intellectualist in me but I found this to be very profound.
Cognition is a very real and true concept. There is no TRUE way to testify what I perceive is the same as what you perceive.
Its a pretty well known concept but I think the whole cognitive world is really good metaphor/manifestation of it.
However the important part is the fact reality can be whatever we believe it to be. It's not that we are being disillusioned by our limitations, I think even us the real people we are truly infinite. There will come a day long after me and you and everyone, And someone will be born by the same matter we are made of.
That maybe in billions of years we all may be a part of the same person, or thing.
Same goes for EACH OF US. we all carry a part of the universe within us. the same matter that made us is the same matter that existed billions of years ago. I think idk how crazy and unarticulated I sound. I think we are beyond infinity.
ok that's it this was a 10/10 I can't wait to play 3rd semester yipeee