i want to leave a really long review but i keep scratching it i really don't know how to word what i want to say
this game is not homophobic or transphobic kanji is still a bisexual king yosuke is just projecting and naoto is still a based unlabeled genderqueer god just the game is from before enough people would really know what that meant so i think it gets a pass.
considering the time i actually think kanji is some of my favorite lgbt rep still and people just heavily misinterpret him. naoto somewhat similarly. the games could definitely do more and itd be cope to pretend they'd actually do it better if the game got a remake. but i think i can accept them as maybe at their cores just being a little ahead of their time.
when it comes to yosuke i joke that he's projecting when he makes homophobic gestures to kanji but like really. i just think he has it worst in terms of the like, character assassination he gets at points in this game. he's supposed to be a great guy at heart and just all talk but the game really throws this away in favor of letting him be a bit of even just a pervert at times and it sucks.
the game does this a lot with a lot of the characters though. teddie sometimes comes off more like a middle aged creep and it sucks because he's supposed to just be this young, innocent, whimsical soul. when this game wants to be weird and fanservicey it throws character development out the window and it really really sucks, cuz it even puts you as the player sometimes into scenarios where you have to say or do shit you wouldn't want to do so it's some pretty bad illusion of choice sometimes
i definitely have a history with persona 4. there's so much about the characters and setting and everything that still clicks with me so much and i adore it. but regardless it has problems. the gameplay gets repetitive and sometimes it doesn't balance the visual novel by day jrpg by night gameplay well enough to keep you engaged.
so there is undeniably still a lot of parts that are incredibly uncomfortable. but to be honest, these are things that are also just sort of unfortunately a given with the persona series. i wish it could be better, but until atlus miraculously decides to make a change these games will unfortunately always be plagued with this stuff :/
this game is not homophobic or transphobic kanji is still a bisexual king yosuke is just projecting and naoto is still a based unlabeled genderqueer god just the game is from before enough people would really know what that meant so i think it gets a pass.
considering the time i actually think kanji is some of my favorite lgbt rep still and people just heavily misinterpret him. naoto somewhat similarly. the games could definitely do more and itd be cope to pretend they'd actually do it better if the game got a remake. but i think i can accept them as maybe at their cores just being a little ahead of their time.
when it comes to yosuke i joke that he's projecting when he makes homophobic gestures to kanji but like really. i just think he has it worst in terms of the like, character assassination he gets at points in this game. he's supposed to be a great guy at heart and just all talk but the game really throws this away in favor of letting him be a bit of even just a pervert at times and it sucks.
the game does this a lot with a lot of the characters though. teddie sometimes comes off more like a middle aged creep and it sucks because he's supposed to just be this young, innocent, whimsical soul. when this game wants to be weird and fanservicey it throws character development out the window and it really really sucks, cuz it even puts you as the player sometimes into scenarios where you have to say or do shit you wouldn't want to do so it's some pretty bad illusion of choice sometimes
i definitely have a history with persona 4. there's so much about the characters and setting and everything that still clicks with me so much and i adore it. but regardless it has problems. the gameplay gets repetitive and sometimes it doesn't balance the visual novel by day jrpg by night gameplay well enough to keep you engaged.
so there is undeniably still a lot of parts that are incredibly uncomfortable. but to be honest, these are things that are also just sort of unfortunately a given with the persona series. i wish it could be better, but until atlus miraculously decides to make a change these games will unfortunately always be plagued with this stuff :/