thoughts post first full block of tartarus in reload

Straight off the block this block is too many damn floors plus a bit overtutorialized. I've been struggling to voice why i find the combat of atlus games so satisfying in contrast to trails. I think the way persona utilizes weaknesses hits a pokemon nerve that i didn't realize actively still mattered to me until this playthrough though I do appreciate the initiative design after in trails after starting rogue trader(ponders getting a switch.) onto the characters first of all Kazushi up until the very end of rank two i was betting on this being about interpersonal dynamics between athletes. The pivot into a story about injury and the way boys are presumably socialized to deal with pain under toxic masculinity has me hyped. Yuko might be a frustrating one for me but I think if she is it would be because of the expectations that come with one of the only non white passing characters in the cast afaik. my mind did also go to that interview between Aja Kong and Darius lockhart on being black in Japan. I don't think the game will go there but even the content we do get about the labor she has to do as manager is making me positive. I also love the texture of having two of our social links having a preexisting relationship in retrospect on the first day. Just in case people ask for my ships i've felt weird about the idea of romancing the school social links since my first partial playthrough of p4 cause i'd rather have a romance with a secret looming over it ala peter parker if i can help it. 
Onto the bookstore owners they're adorable and heartbreaking simultaneously 10/10 no notes. Minor things that make this undeniably a game in a Japanese setting Major use of a public rail system and a non dead mall. I appreciate the sense the game gives of our investigation team colleagues very clearly having lives outside of this with Yukari being in the archery club and Akihiko being in the boxing club Short grind session in tartarus up next next set of social link writeups to follow

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