If you think of taking maruki's way just think of Edward Elric last quote " There's no such thing as a painlessness lesson, they just don't exist. Sacrifices are necessary. You can't gain anything without losing something first. Although...if you can endure that pain and walk from it, you'll find that you now have a heart strong enough to overcome any obstacle. Yeah... a heart made of Fullmetal."

4:36 this is where I disagree Sumire would have improved greatly if Maruki stuck to conventional therapy, methods or used his power to inhance them rather than forging his own path. Especially since he did not actually address Sumire's core problem. Sumire was probably clinically depressed long before her sister's death. I think this is why pretending to be Kazumi didn't work.

I did not wake up this morning thinking I'd write a whole essay in the KZfaq comments. I recognize that this video is meant as an analysis solely for Maruki and the third semester arc of P5R, but its structure compares it to the original game and its antagonist in a (wrongly, imo) dismissive manner. Maruki was a well done villain and I buy into this interpretation of his character, motives, and the message the game presents regarding his arc. But you open and close the topic expressing a fundamental misunderstanding of Yaldabaoth's place in this story, despite remarking on the major building blocks that form his role. From how this video explains Maruki and his role, I feel this stems from viewing the game's critiques through an individualistic lens, rather than a systemic one, the same mistake the Phantom Thieves themeselves come to realize. I believe that while Maruki's arc was smart, interesting, and a pleasure to play, it doesn't compare to the original end sequence immediately beforehand with Yaldabaoth, and that the game's core themes as recognized by this video resonate stronger with the original ending. Persona 5 focuses around "rebellion against an unjust status quo," which is something the Phantom Thieves continually grow to understand throughout the story. This is definitionally a systemic topic, and so trying to critique the game's delivery through its individual antagonists isn't only ineffective, but misses the point entirely. This is something the Phantom Thieves themselves are forced to realize as the game accelerates to its finale. The video remarks that "most of the villains in Persona 5 were generally just evil for the sake of being evil," but an analysis that stops here condenses everything revealed from the Shido's defeat onwards as "Yaldabaoth was the true baddie the whole time." If that's the only thing taken away, then I'd have to agree that Yaldabaoth was underwhelming. It's a good thing the plot's twist was so much more than that. The near-endgame sequence in the Prison of Regression and Velvet Room immediately after shows what this video's framework for analysis fails to acknowledge: that the the Thieves' reduction of the unjust status quo to individuals with malicious intent was shortsighted. The Velvet Room events specifically go multiple steps further. First, they reveal that not only was the Phantom Thieves' rebellion misdirected, but that it was actually intended by the system they wished to rebel against, the system imposed by Yaldabaoth. Second, the regathering of the team hands us the understanding necessary to move forwards, with Makoto's scene in particular hitting it home. "Victory against a single criminal is meaningless. The true enemy is society itself." Her realization that no individual person, but a system, had defined the rules and direction of her life as well as others, is what reignites her rebellion and frees her from her prison. The god she goes on to fight in the name of that rebellion was literally birthed by the masses as a whole, willingly. I find it impossible to look at the endgame of Persona 5 and walk away with the understanding that Yaldabaoth was just a pure evil twist villain, and that the adult antagonists were too flat to make up for it. Yaldabaoth was society's evils personified (heh, persona-fied). The adult antagonists were flat on their own merits, but they all lived in a system that encouraged their initially problematic behavior to flourish. Kamoshida got away with abuse because his employers were forced to only care about prestige and cover the tracks of his wake. Madarame maximized profit over talent because the art world rewarded financial connections over the art itself. Kaneshiro could only extort students because society would punish the students for falling for the trap instead of the mafia for blackmail. Okumura abused his employees because capitalism rewards that behavior. Sae prepared a false case because the beaurocracy and propagandistic pressure the she faced from the SIU offered no alternative. Shido murdered Wakaba, Okumura, and others, gaslighting their family along the way, because politics encouraged corruption and sabatoge over the honest methods of Yoshida. These antagonists then go on to play the further symbolic role of failed struggles against society when we learn how they broke free of the Prison of Regression. They wind up right back in it because they only tried to live on top of the system instead of challenge it. They were thrown back in the prison by the Thieves, whose formation and actions were the will of Yaldabaoth in the first place. Yaldabaoth is a systemic enemy, designed to be the final confrontation of heroes who wish to fight against a systemic issue. I love Maruki's role in Royal and this video has helped me solidify my understanding of it and its relation to the core game, giving me far greater joy in experiencing it. But the way he is contrasted to a reductive, dismissive representation of Yaldabaoth and the adult antagonists does the game a disservice, as well as blinds us to taking Maruki's analysis to the next step. We can't compare the starkly different buildups and executions of totalitarianism Yaldabaoth and Maruki provide. I really encourage a stronger look at Yaldabaoth and the themes of Persona 5 if we want a full understanding of how Maruki's philosophy fits into it all.

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That's a very interesting perspective. Personally, I was convinced that accepting Marukis world was the right choice and the implications of the game did not make me reconsider that stance. After I chose to rebel to see what happens, I had the opportunity to look closer at what Maruki did. When you talk with various NPCs, you don't just see them avoiding tragedies, they live a life where everything goes their way - and they notice. They stop striving for anything and also quickly stop appreciating what good that world has to offer because of that. Even when you look at his therapy sessions, his approach is deeply wrong. He strives to solve the problems for his patients which is not the job of a counselor. The job of a counselor is to enable people to help themselves. Maruki doesn't do that. Out of compassion, he infantilizes people. One thing that is very relevant to this interpretation is his palace. One thing about the story about the Garden of Eden is that there is a big paradox there: if you live in perfect tranquility and happiness, why would it be possible to eat the forbidden fruit? Also, why is there a forbidden fruit to begin with? The answer s simple: when Eve ate of the forbidden fruit and could no longer stay in Eden, this was part of humanities Genesis, it essentially is a coming of age story. Maruki sees himelf as God in this story, but he doesn't have the courage to let people out of the garden because he knows how cruel the world outside can be. He's a loving, but overbearing and clingy father. As for the interpretation of Camus: I would argue that absurdism would have been the easiest way for this Utopia to work out. Even if you don't think that Marukis world is real, even if it has no meaning and even if giving your best is completely useless, you can still do it.

Maruki is a wonderfully written character, & his Confidant is not only very useful but even a little heartbreaking

oh the third Semester... after the events in the Shido Palace, i knew something is wrong when Akechi-kun stood infront of me, i thought ''How?! You should be dead!'' and started to quetion everything i encountered, after Christmas eve with Futaba-chan nothing was the same... Giving a person the chance to live out his or her dreams and desires without any doubt sounds like a dream but in reality its a nightmare, knowingly living a lie, created by a gentle Madman like Maruki who couldn't accept the truth about his lost love is just wrong to me, Loss, Death, Failing - these things are part of a human's life, Experiences which are essential to make during ones lifetime, just overpainting them with lies is not right... it's not written if the Acceptance of Marukis reality is ''the bad Ending'' per se, but for me, living a lie, KNOWINGLY, its not to live at all, breaking out from this massive Distortion of Reality is the real true ending in my opinion!

I think my problem has to do more with the perception of happiness. From personal experience, even when nothing is wrong, it won't necessarily mean I'm happy. If everything went my way, I'd be happier in the short term, but in the long term it would no longer matter because it would just become the new normal and would no longer make me happy. Besides this, different people need different things to be happy, especially if they are goal or challenge oriented (something Maruki advises against since it could lead to failure). In any case where granting the wish Maruki thinks will make someone happy is not enough, or any other problem arises, he brainwashes them to be someone that will be happy regardless (the palace's "behavioral therapy").

I wouldn’t say that the villains of base persona five lacked depth, especially when you realize that the core question the phantom thieves are fighting against in Maruki’s has already been told before in the base game. There is a reason that multiple parallels can be drawn between Maruki’s and Yaldabauth’s goals/realities. This is because one vital thing is taken away in both of these realities, Free Will. Yaldabauth wanted to regress humanity into sloth to grant everyone’s desires, and Maruki wanted to remove pain. The only thing they required to do so was each individual’s free will. That was the core idea the phantom thieves were fighting for, to make the decision for them selves weather it was a good one or a bad one.

Sumire’s situation is an interesting one. She was never going to really recover through Maruki’s method. It was an incomplete solution. Even at her height as Kasumi she never could reach the goal. Her performances would always be a hollow mimicry of Kasumi that didn’t take into consideration Sumire’s physical condition and her own talents. In a sense she’d likely be overwritten again because of the suffering that failure would leave and go even further away from herself. Yet Maruki’s intervention allows her to meet support that would let her accept her weakness, her grief, and stand up again. I liked the conflict and how the game tackled it. Nothing wrong to say on a certain level the main cast is wrong. Many would be happier if Maruki had his way. But it is true that they wouldn’t have gotten this far if they simply accepted the easy route. They were forged through their pain, found connections through it, and their defiance toppled a god. If they weren’t like that the world wouldn’t exist in the first place for Maruki to try and control anyways. There are enough questions about it to leave me conflicted but ok with taking Maruki down. Human choice can lead to suffering and maybe having free will hurts people. But taking away the chance to chase your dreams unless it is deemed good for you seems a heavy price. Yusuke’s schoolmate having his passion disregarded or Sumire having her very identity quashed are just a few consequences of escaping pain. It’s a good conflict. Not everyone can overcome trauma. There’s a high benefit to those that just can’t do it. But for those that matured through their struggles it is only natural to keep on fighting to continue the lives they made for themselves.

Perfect lives. Perfect li_es.

I say that you probably are the first person to mention Albert Camus in a Persona 5 analysis, which is something I agree with since there's the Absurdism in most of that writing and how that relates to most characters. This was a good video and couldn't be more than agreed on it.

Just one thing, atlus intended akechi to survive shidos palace even in royal (due to an unused cutscene with him being alive and talking about aiding joker after his recovery) so, akechi's "existence" inside of maruki's reality becomes even more deep, however, we still don't know akechi's true fate (due to it being an unused cutscene, even if the ending implies that he might be alive), just a random fact that makes it all the more interesting.

Finally I was waiting for someone to tie the themes of Alberto Camus to Persona, I mean them saying revolt a lot was kind of on the noise, I felt kind of alone that no one else spotted it, A+ for that pronunciation of Maruki, I could listen to you say that for hours. As for a few mentioned details is -the vanilla final palace is design to be figuratively the opposite of the inhuman world(the common name for the world without meaning) as in bloodied, veinfilled and alive. It also seems to take inspiration from Carl Jung’s recorded sick dreams -each person gain their persona from having their longing for unity/clarity/meaning against the inhuman world(as in to revolt) -each of the starting Persona’s are figures which failed to revolt physically, as in what ever they were apart of ended poorly for them, as to tie toward a figurative revolt, since what makes someone a absurd hero is not to revolt but to recognize ones revolt is meaningless, and still attempt to find meaning through this struggle. This seems to draw more of portraying the cast as Absurd hero’s as a Persona is just how a person view themselves

This made me fall in love with Royal all over again. Excellent video

This is why persona the series really speaks to me. It really is beautiful when u think about it❤️

Akechi: I’d rather die than to live in this reality. Akechi: Would you fold so easily, over such a trivial thing as a threat on my life? Joker: “This isn’t small potatoes.” 16:39 _time stamp and pause for context_

This video is SO intriguing! Very well done!

What a great video, I’m surprised this isn’t as popular as it should be

This is the best p5r video on youtube. Great job.

Wow Alot of research Amazing commentary A hopeful messege What more could a person need

A correction with Akechi: in the True ending, you see him from the torso down outside the train as Akira leaves. So Akechi is actually alive. Also, in the game files, there's an unused scene which confirms Akechi is alive and went to a rehabilitation facility.

Love this. Great job!

excellent analysis!!!

this series really make such meaningful messages..I already can tell we can't livew without bad events in life

very nice video!

It’s so much better getting the true ending especially the maruki palace that cemented the game as one of my favorites and it’s great how they connected shidos actions to maruki even though I saw that coming it was a great experience and this is an amazing video man

A life without suffering is a life without challenge. And a life without challenge is a life without purpose. Humanity as a whole, move forward by solving problems, succeeding in challenge. Maruki would erase illness, famine, cancer, and at the surface its a good thing. Until you realise doctors, physicians, cancer research, has been rendered pointless. In a world where noone suffers, noone needs to go to the hospital to get their checkups, or their medication. Doctors would be out of the job. It also comes as a mental issue. Imagine you were to participate in a race, and as soon as the gun is fired, you're cheered and awarded first place. Seems pretty good, but then you try to enter competitions and win every single time. You go for the lottery and win every single time. You'd have no need for a job, money becomes a trivial matter, hell you cant even starve so why eat? Now imagine everyone on earth living this life, somehow. Maruki can rewrite reality to solve an economical collapse possibly, but everyone has the equal opportunity to be filthy rich, but they didn't earn it. Anything a person does in marukis world is handed to them, they didn't earn any of it. A lack of challenge in the world is a lack of purpose for people. And people need purpose in order to keep going.

never had I thought I would learn so much from a video game

Incredible video! Makes me want to read Camus' work (idk the spelling 😅)

You deserve WAY MORE subs!!!!

Finally I found you this explanation is underrated

This is a great video

I think the problem now is a Majority of people will probably pick Maruki's reality with how this Decade is going

11:44 One of the best moments in the entire game imo. It speaks volumes to how Maruki is playing around with something he shouldn’t be.

Wow, this guy is mad underrated

Ah... Satorl Marsh’s Night theme... I see you are a man of culture as well.

never had I thought that i'd watch a 20 minute video on philosophy

Absolutely loved the story in persona 5 royal!!

I still believe that Maruki was right, but I’m heavily biased. I’ve suffered a lot and I think it’s bullshit that I’m supposed to just “find meaning” in my agonies. To be quite frank, I not only share Bentham’s view but I think it’s outright immoral to conserve pain for the sake of “meaning” or “personal growth” or any other apologetic since the only valid reason to find meaning in pain is to *make it less painful* imo. If you take away pain entirely, it’s intrinsically better. With Nozick’s experience machine, my honest take is that I’d *love* to plug in. If such a machine existed, I’d actively seek it and campaign like Greta Thunberg for to right to permanently escape this unspeakably horrific reality. In fact, the only reason I’m not actively suicidal is the fact that there appear to be no painless suicide methods. I think there is far too much pain in this world which we’ve been conditioned to accept via darwinian evolution. While Joker wouldn’t side with Maruki, I would irl and in fact, I support the radical ideology which seeks to create a world without pain; Transhumanist Abolishionism. Have I grown as a person from my pain? Yes, I have. Was it worth it? Fuck no! Why should I pretend that pain is ok? I feel like the emperor has no clothes, pain just sucks, no one deserves to suffer even a pinprick. The very existence of pain and suffering is an ethical catastrophe of Lovecraftian proportions, no pun intended.

I admire your thoughtful analysis of both sides of this philosophical argument. Whether or not you think the Phantom Thieves or Maruki should win, all weighs on how you perceive life, your values, what you see as the ideal solution to moral quandaries like this, etc. As for me? I believe Maruki was completely and utterly justified in his actions on all accounts. And that’s because we share the same philosophy of utilitarian hedonism. If everyone can be happy without the randomly determined strife to get there, that’s the best possible outcome for mankind. And as for the game’s beliefs about being in control of one’s destiny and living on your own terms, well... that’s just delusional, if you ask me. Every choice ever made, and to be made boils down to simple cause and effect. A person is only truly “free”, if they can do something that is completely illogical. And that’s quite frankly impossible. And so under that lens, the Phantom Thieves believing in governing themselves is just as big a lie as Maruki’s reality. And so their argument against him pretty much crumbles. But that’s just my opinion. And you’re welcome to believe the contrary.

Just finished royal and agree with most of this, but I don't interpret yaldabaoth as so simple as your intro made him out to be.. great video!!

i have found there is 2 types of suffering what makes better and what breaks u down if u survive it u get made better if u break.... u lose some and get closer to insanity

every single thing about this game hit me hard

On the question of whether I'd accept Maruki's reality: I say no in the context of knowing that Maruki's reality as-proposed in-story does not give the vast majority of people the opportunity to choose it. Maruki's reality has to supercede actual reality in order to exist at all. If I chose Maruki and anyone I cared about didn't, then any versions of those loved ones in that reality would definitionally be fake. So anyone who wouldn't want it, regardless of whether that person was me, would have to be forced into it for it to work. At that point, if I choose Maruki's reality, I am effectively taking it upon myself to decide what is best for them. Even if I'm right about what's best for another person, forcing it upon them is still undermining their status as fellow people. Good reasoning does not put me above them or make me any more deserving of the right to decide what form reality takes. Hypothetically, if everyone chose Maruki's reality, I'd he more on-board. But... 1) ...that is presented as not being the case; & 2) ...if it was the case, then all but the most radical changes (such as bringing people back from the dead) would be things we would just collectively agree to make happen in actual-reality anyway.

SUFFERING IS IMPORTANT

0 dislikes. Well deserved. Underrated video.

Incredible work, you've clearly put a *ton* of research into this, thank you! Do you have a link to the hedonism formula, please? Or at least the paper that discusses it? Thanks in advance!

Tbh I still see suffering as pointless pain after experiencing the game and see maruki as basically a diffrent form of freedom a freedom of pain Vs the phantom thieves freedom form. Of freedom free will Neither are good and neither will make everyone free Think like this in people with severe mental illness due to trauma in the free will freedom they won’t be free from that trauma in most cases they will forever be trapped by it till the day they die In the other reality they nether experienced that trauma they would be free from all of that , people born with obviously limitations are now free The dead are free , people who are reject from society are free many more are free And I would be free Don’t think of marukis world as no freedom no pain think of it as a different freedom with no pain If I was maruki I would simply erase the mata nav and give the pthives no chance to stop the freedom of so many others Just because they don’t personally agree with it ,what right do they have to stop so many from being free and happy ? No right, they have no right to this is why I will always accept marukis reality, the game encourages me to be free?then I will chose the option where I am

My own analysis: The meaning of life according to Viktor Frankl lies in finding a purpose and taking responsibility for ourselves and other human beings. By having a clear “why” we can face all the “how” questions of life. Only by feeling free and sure of the objective that motivates us will we be able to make the world a better place. Sorry if I made any mistakes yeah everyone.

This random thought came to me… Maruki’s power doesn’t make him immortal, does it? If that’s the case even if Maruki got his way, if Maruki dies, what happen to his reality? What would happen to the people who by at some point have become fully dependent on Maruki’s reality when confronted with the real and cruel reality? I can only imagine it would not go well…

I find myself to personally deny Maruki's reality mainly for reason 1: (to achieve something without actually doing it) There is essentially pride behind that reasoning, but my bassline is that choosing pleasure without true suffering stops Rebellion altogether

I was expecting a jungian analysis, this is pleasant to hear other inspirations

Maruki is right. First of all if we never left the garden of Eden, nobody would giving a shit about suffering perseverance.

Top tier

I'm suppose to be playing Persona 5 Royal so irdk why I'm watching these spoilers. I mean it makes me actually want to play it as a took a break! Honestly, in my opinion Persona 5 / Persona 5 Royal / Persona 4 and all the other ones are like the best anime games ever! Like the mysteries and everything it's so fun like when you start to play it you just want to know more and more about it and literally play it 24/7 :D

Here is my thought process, if the people are brainwashed to fix their problems, they did not take responsibility to correct them selfs, it’s a lie. I would say I prefer living in bliss and everyone living in harmony and bliss but when you think that the world didn’t turn out this way because everyone has a mutual understanding and agreement and was just forced into the role even against their will, it just feels fake to me… But that’s just my opinion

Holy fuck dude good job on the video.

What a fucking breakdown

"Villians in Persona 5 are evil for being evil" THANK YOU, THANK YOU

From my point there is no pleasure without pain, Like there is no brightness without the dark. Is it not the sad moments in our life that make the happy ones shine so brightly.

Something i disagree with is the idea that Maruki made a fake reality, which he didn't thats why the song that plays in his reality and when you accept is called Ideal and The Real, its a real reality but its not the correct one.

this is why i never actually engage maruki on the same "tier" of issues and consideration, but instead bring up the possibility of a nyx popping up and destroying the world as an end to maruki's world. you can't engage maruki's world assuming it will work perfectly forever, or else you'll just get dragged around in philosophical circles; you have to use a higher "tier" issue to crush it.

Mood

Great video just wish you threw in the Persona 4 spoiler warning

Yeah

4:30 hell no, Maruki did a horrible thing to Sumire, instead of helping her, he forced his views upon her, only cementing her depression.

The true ending of royal hit hard since they went separate ways they have something special being phantom thevies

As a person fought with depression for 28 years and be healed by Lord Jesus Christ, when I played this game I played this game like a therapist with all character even with Maruki 😂

10:11: My mind: Bonafide Monafide!

i can see your point of view, but i respectfully disagree. if living in his reality meant i could see my best friend again after almost 5 years after her suicide, I wouldn't hesitate to stay, no matter what I'm leaving behind. Seeing her again is too important to me and if i had the ability to, i would, without a second thought

Did you get copyright claimed for this video, I have had issues with the Royal soundtrack. (I did give credit)

Ok so basically, Brave New World? Ima just saying this from the title.

I think my main disagreement with Maruki is basically that I don't agree with Hedonism. I'm a utilitarian but I think what's best for everyone is to struggle and grow

Loved the video? Is Goro really disgusted as you say. I know he doesn't wanna leave under the thumb of another man but at the same time he finally made friends. Felt to me like muraki world gave goro peace but at the same time he knew it wasnt right like you said. That's why he trust joker with the ultimate decision

persona 4 spoiler was necessary for the video

I don't know much about what you can change to an existing video and its stats, but that P4 description spoiler is not sufficient since you can't see it without scrolling very early after starting the video. Maybe you could adjust the thumbnail?

I'll save this for when hopefully they'll port P5R on steam. Someday.... Can't afford a ps4.... And i don't wanna emulate vanilla P5 for ps3. Edit 2022: Well cowabunga it is.

welp i just got spoiled on p4

I love this! I never could put into words why Miruki’s choice made me sick to my stomach. But that is a perfect way to put it; to live under someone’s thumb and be unable to make any REAL choices of consequence is no way to live.

Great Video. Spoiler for viewers but isn't Akechi still alive? Don't we see him at the end of the game walking away from the train?

I like to think of things logically, and Maruki's reality is, in design, an emotional idea rather than a logical one. The fact is, emotionally, nothing is wrong with Maruki's reality. People seek happiness, and if they achieve it, they imagine they will be happy. Therefore, to deny this world using Logic, you simply consider the downsides. What happens when Maruki dies? He is around late 20's, early 30's. As far as Game Logic goes, nothing has described his abilities as being anything besides mentally, so he would inevitably pass away around 80 or 90 years old. Does the world collapse into regular reality once he passes away? If so, people would inevitably be even more likely to suffer when they need to learn the meaning of suffering in six decades. Some children would grow up without understanding how to overcome obstacles on their own, or to reach towards a dream. Secondly, where does Maruki's reality resolve the suffering of people with distorted desires? Where someone's suffering is in not being the wealthiest and richest. It makes it easy to refuse the ending he offers without enough satisfactory answers to questions when they don't answer any flaws in the logic.

Struggle forward

Should have used someone else Robert Nozik has way to mach baggage seeing how he agrees with Garrett Hardon, the guy who proposed the idiotic tragedy of the commons and the life boat analogy as well as a eugenicists.

I didn't think watching a video on P5R would spoil my P4G run that I just started for the first time since it got released on modern consoles. You kinda suck for that man

Oh is it Rant Time already 🤩 The philosophy behind that..... I don't know any. But I do know that technically Maruki is making a good decision. But not only is he just oppressing life itself he isn't even doing it because he's a good person. He's doing it purely so he doesn't have to feel pain anymore. Being a Phantom Thief I've learned that the bad times yeah they suck. And there will always be bad times but that's the only way to truly live life, by embracing the good and bad. Why the Thieves reject Maruki reality is because they want to be able to make their own decisions and believe everyone else should to. Which I'm a technical sense makes them the bad guys. The Thieves never said they were necessarily good guys though. Joker Persona is literally a Demon Thief that turns into Satan. The point is that they follow their beliefs and don't want anyone to tell them what to do. Even if it means having to go through the most depressing events in their lives to do it. In the words of Ryuji.." I was just being defiant". Which I can definitely get behind me😎😎😎

I like this but damn you need to lay back on the long ass words. Sounds like a documentary lmao

Even though he is an amazing character, on 3:31 he looks really stupid 😂

Please add a spoiler warning at 00:45 for persona 4

Wait...this isn't philosophytube. where are the costumes

hrwat video

I want to watch this video but only a minute in and "Mawuki" is already really grating

30k views and 535 subscribers something isn't right here

Man royal so good it really makes base p5 look like shit

great video but please do us a favor and write (SPOILER) or some other stuff to prevent people who have not experienced the game yet to avoid it.

Bro u dont need to see "Mahrudkey" like that... or some of the other names u said like cmon why u sayin makoto like that? Its so unnecessary 😂

Maruki succeeds at being affably evil, and a lot more of an anti-villain.

Next time please put spoiler warnings, I haven't beaten p4 yet and now that reveal is fucked for me

thanks for spoiling persona 4 in the first 30 seconds of the video

Why you don’t have spoilers disclaimer ? Players haven’t played will be spoiled for Royal