Early persona reload thoughts and an early trilogy wide things i'm looking out for

So to ground this in the context of my current playthrough this post is being written directly in the aftermath of the tutorialized run of the first floor of tartarus so the specifics that are purely about 3 are going to be early impressions of sees adjacent characters. First of all for me is Yukari easily my favorite of the non pc characters partially cause we get the most out of her early on. remain baffled that a reveal as big as the hospital scene post our character waking up wasn't the start of a social link. Now onto Junpei amiable and fun if a tad annoying but not much more than that at this point tbd. Gonna put Mitsuru and Akihiko into the same convo cause they feel very 05 x-men to the all-new all-different team generationally. I find it kinda sus that Mitsuru was so easily on board with discretely monitering us sans consent but i'll excuse due to probable child soldier esque trauma. Lastly the chairman feels nice but in a way i find unsettling maybe fake almost.

Now onto the macro stuff. now if i have an early thesis statement for the three modern persona games is that the games may do urban better than the suburban and that the camera focus may end up being too narrow post three to the detriment of the later entries like i can't imagine 4 having a scene like Yukari's in the opening sequence not in terms of content but perspective. I'm interested to see how p3 handles interpersonal conflict cause it struck me thinking about it recently that what bugged me aside from the consistent choice to go with the most cis hetero normative option possible is that we as players get to see these potential vectors for conflict that social links have with other characters so little cause the pov felt so locked into the pc on most occasions. I hope the fatphobia and queerphobia in general is a thing of the past in the remakes 

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