They had the obligatory title drop! They had Marie profess her love live on TV just to rile up Rise! If you have the ball you have to run with it, Persona 4. I thought we were fully embracing the ham and cheese. If anything disappointed me about this episode, it was that. I believed in the power of love! That is, I was fully expecting Yu and Marie to go full SEKIHA LOVE LOVE TENKYOKEN during their big scene, but alas, they didn’t hear the cries (or didn’t want to make things weird for Kanji). In fact, for a while I was almost brought aboard the Marie ship. After our descent into anti-climax last week I had my fears but luckily they were mostly unfounded. I’m glad that they let the effects budget have a final day in the sun, at least I can forgive a lot of things as long as it’s shiny enough. At the very least it had the correct shape of an ending, giving one last hurrah before wrapping things up and leaving a sense of closure. I’ll buy anything.ĭespite all my nitpicking, I must reiterate that this was not exactly a bad ending. ‘Now, I am the master!’ she says, and that was that. It doesn’t really matter, I suppose, because ultimately Marie ex machina happens and breezes the conflict aside. For that matter, the whole ‘people are weak’ –> ‘people prefer to be lied to’ –> ‘turn on the fog machines!’ logic isn’t really fully developed either, but that’s a fault carried from the game. ‘ If you kill me you’ll also kill your friend!‘ is an old chestnut, but it was only tenuously linked to the greater overarching theme about accepting the truth and all that. The final confrontation unfolded fairly similarly to the game or the original anime (albeit Marie-flavoured) and that was not really a big twist either. Players of Golden probably already pretty much knew how it was going to go down. Even though P4GA tried to paint the ‘truth’ as something profound and shocking it was never ever anything surprising. I’m sure everyone expected an ending more or less along these lines. And so we come to the end, not exactly with a bang but at least not with a whimper either.
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