The lyrics of english Persona tracks never sound particularly idiomatic. It never gets into incomprehensible territory but more often than not it sounds a bit awkward. Persona 4, however, uses this to it's advantage to have the lyrics really mirror the contents of the game's themes and narrative. The vocal tracks in P4 tend to have a clear aim but when you actually look into the lyrics you realize how little it actually says about what it's trying to cover.

Let's take the main battle them for example. "I reach out to the truth of my life" is one of the first things you'll hear every time you enter a battle so clearly the song is meant to resonate with the game's themes of truth and lies. However if you actually read the lyrics to Reach Out to the Truth, you'll quickly notice that a majority of the lyrics are nonsense that only connect to that core theme of "truth" through some pretty extreme mental gymnastics. This connects to the game as a whole because Persona 4 is very clearly trying to make a statement on topics such as truth and identity but when you actually read into the text at a deeper level you'll find that the game actually has fuck all to say on any of these subjects.

Reviewed on Feb 22, 2023


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