As Atlus revealed more about on every full moon after announcing the game, I jittered with excitement the closer it got. My favorite Persona game would be getting 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:full 3D animation, more voiced scenes than 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:any other game in the series to show off the new 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:English voice cast, and extra cont✤ent featuring characters we didn’t get to see a lot of in the original iterations of the game.
Among those were the members of Strega, the antagonistic group in Persona 3. It consists of three members: 🙈gothic Lolita navigations expert Chidori, operational brains and yes-man Jin, along with their leader and skeletally thin Christ allegory Takaya. They’re all that remains♏ of a group of more than 100 children forced to awaken to Personas – and any Persona not awakened to naturally will eventually kill its host.
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In this light, Strega’s live-for-the-moment attitude and rampant pessimism feel natural, even if their murder-for-hire plot is a little hard to defend. In older versions of Persona 3, they’d mostly pop up only when thei𝓡r paths crossed with SEES on Full Moons, their strings of fate becoming entangled completely by the end of the story. It was as poignant as it needed to be – first, you hated Strega, then you kind of understood them, and by the end of the game, it was a mixture of both frosted with a nice, thick layer of pity.
But Persona 3 Reload promised early on that we’d see additional scenes with the members of Strega, and as eager as I was to see the flashy new animation and smooth voicework, I was also nervous. Original versions of Persona 3 felt like just enough of Strega to leave you straddling a line between feeling bad for ꦍthem for everything they’ve been made to endure and wanting them to be punished for their crimes.
I worried that too much Strega would tip that scale, and thankfully, I was wrong on two of the three members. I always♛ thought Jin had been somewhat underutilized, and it made sense to see a bit more of him, even if he was kind of snivel𝔉ing. Chidori, meanwhile, has always deserved more, and the passion in the scenes between her and Junpei after a beautifully revamped battle in the remake is palpable.
Takaya, though, is a bigger twerp 🦄than ever. In older versions of Persona 3, he had a murky mysteriousness to him and a twinging madness that felt like it was simmering just beneath his surface until the end of the game. In the remake, that mani🥃acal side is no longer just simmering, it’s bubbling over.
As the leaders of two rival groups, Takaya occasionally pops up throughout the year in Persona 3 Reload to talk to your protagonist,🧸 increasingly so as you near the final Full Moon operation in November. He’ll speak in languishing, wordy taunts disguised as civil appeals to your protagonist about how SEES should stop trying to eliminate the Dark Hour. Every time he shows up after Strega’s introduction in Reload, though, my sighs only😼 got heavier.
Takaya has always been the evilest of the group, a charismatic shepherd herding other scared and mistreated kids into a life of crime and apathy as a substitute for what their lives could have been. Now, he&rsquoౠ;s indulgently so. Between those extra late-night chats with the protagonist, angled shots of him during the Dark Hour villain-laughing against the greenish glow of a nearly full moon, and even more chances to plod through poetically explaining what he’s trying to accomplish, this time around, Takaya feels less nuanced and more like a nuisance.
Strega makes for pretty 🐓compelling villains, but giving their leader more time to giggle about being bad diminishes the chilling air they used to have. I could maybe have excused an excess of hedonistic monologues in the original games – it was 2006, after all, and villains explaining their entire diabolical plot wasn’t anything new. But to double down on that by over-exposing a villain who’s always been best left to lurk in the shadows, in 2024 when “subverting 🅠expectations” is all but expected in media now, feels like a misfire.
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