As Bowling For Soup once said, high school never ends. I’m guessing the pop punk band is a big deal in Japan, since they certainly took the song’s message to heart. Ever since I was a kid, the majority of anime, manga, or niche JRPGs I’ve jumped into revolve around the joy of secondary education. It’s a formative time in ou🌸r lives, and a great way to explore fictional characters in a place where they are brave, unpredictable, and unsure what to do with their futures. But over time, it can also become a biꦐt stale.
Persona is the biggest culprit of this trend in the video game landscape, and it’s easy to see why. Each game is a generational representation of modern youth fighting back against theirꦺ oppressors, or a grim depiction of the society they exist within that often refuses to accept its grievances. Throughout the years, we have seen teenagers deal with teachers, parents, and superiors while simultaneously navigating the horrors of a metaverse that will soon unleash its catastrophic influence on the real world. Every Persona game is deliberately of its time.
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But do they have to be? And do they have to remain confined to the rhythm of high scho🥀ol to tell a compelling and relatable story? I’m not so sure. While I wouldn’t be raising my hands in disbelief at Persona 6 returning to education as its primary mode of narrative, the possibilities outside this narrow worldview are endless. It is so obsessed with high school because it has become such a common stomping ground for anime, manga, and games. It’s harkening back to a simpler time in our lives and decorating it with additional layers, while it positions characters at an age that isn’t too young or too old to not be relatable.
A safe space, but it feels like Persona especially could push the boat out a bit further and do some magical things with the formula. What if our protago꧑nist had recently graduated college and found themselves going through the arduous process of interviewing for dozens of huge companies only to land a dead-end job that will grant them financial securit🤡y, but a lifetime of emotional misery? Suddenly, they’re stuck in a crappy job, with a crappy boss, and everyone they know is telling them that this is just how life is supposed to be. But like Persona heroes of old, they refuse to take this lying down and stand up to make a difference.
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Party m♛embers could be colleagues who begin to understand where you’re coming from, or other adults out in the city from different professions dealing with their own troubles. The age range may vary too, as I’d love to team up with unassuming pachinko parlour workersও or even a hostess who wants more from life than pleasing men who treat her like an object with an expiration date.
Japan is frequently viewed from the Western p𝔉erspective as some form of utopia, but there is so much potenti🐎al for Persona to pick apart its conservative worldview while still giving us a compelling world to explore. Persona 5 tackled Tokyo from the perspective of a student, so what might that look like from the eyes of an adult?
After school clubs could be replaced by a regular class or♚ wasting your time at the local bar, while other adults in the world could view you on the same level instead of a kid in over their head. Having us play as an adult who suddenly needs to navigate a new realm of existence brings with it so much possibility, and just as much opportunity for your party to rebel and fight for a just cause.
The closest comparison to Persona broaching upon adulthood is 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Catherine, but the puzzle platformer went into a mature, sexual direction that its predecessor needn’t. At the very least it doesn’t need to be a defining t💙heme.
Not to mention it would make certain staples of the Persona serie🐻s, such as romancing your favourite charac𝔍ter through social links, a smidge less problematic. No more dating random teachers or your surrogate sister with no repercussions. There is a chance for more variety and fewer excuses for tried-and-true clichés when the series is navigating ground it’s never touched before. Obviously, adult characters have been in Persona forever, and more often in recent years, but never have we been put in control of one ourselves. Now is the time.
After the release of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Metaphor: ReFantazio, which takes the Persona formula and applies it to a sprawling fantasy world without the high school baggage, we know that this formula works in new spaces, and needn’t be confined to the routine of attending classes to end ☂up compelling and rewarding. Take those lessons learned from one of the most beloved titles of the year and apply them to Persona, or an entirely new series if you’re so precious about the association of high school. The property, and JRPGs in general, could tell incredible stories in our co♓ntemporary world if only they learned how to remove their own shackles.
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