Persona 5 tactica, Jungian Pokemon, the loop
I got into a weird place with Gaiden-- more on that latter-- and then Persona 5 Tactica came out and I got into that, and then, rather than take on the last battle-- which looks to be a pain in the ass-- I fired up Persona 4 (which I’d never played) and, while Persona 4 is, at the risk of stating the obvious, no Persona 5 it sure is a hell of a sharper hit of the ol’ Persona 5 juice, and really put into focus this idea that I had been sort of ruminating on throughout my Persona 5 Tactica experience, which is that Atlus is a bunch of assholes who can get fucked. What Tactica makes painfully obvious is that, since Persona 5 came out, Atlus has done enough (of certain kinds of) work – between Strikers, Dancing in the Starlight, and all the whistles and bells in Royal-- to have put out another actual damn game (weather it would follow Joker + the gang (Persona 5.5) or just do it with different folks (Persona 6)) but didn’t, not even because they figured out there was more mone...