The web’s been buzzy of late for the freshly introduced Persona 5 spin-off recreation, Phantom of the Evening (P5X). Followers have been intrigued by the brand new characters, however they have been additionally excited to fulfill their previous favorites once more. However once I regarded on the screenshots, I seen one individual lacking: Goro Akechi. What provides, Atlus? You possibly can’t simply faux that Persona 5 Royal’s most important antagonist wasn’t additionally the collection’ most compelling character. He was a real member of the Phantom Thieves group, and his haters can die mad about it.
Goro Akechi is a highschool pupil who acts as a rival for the principle protagonist of Persona 5. Within the authentic recreation, he’s identified for betraying the get together after pretending to be their good friend. He additionally does this within the enhanced Royal launch, however this 2019 replace of the sport provides extra scenes for him. These social interactions make Akechi really feel extra like a deeply troubled good friend, relatively than a shithead cop who had a change of coronary heart on the final second.
Like most RPG antagonists, Akechi has a tragic backstory. His mom died when he was younger, and he grew up as an orphan (who typically face appreciable social stigma in Japan). Akechi needed revenge in opposition to his neglectful and merciless father, so he cooperated with him in an effort to get shut sufficient to assassinate him. Sadly, his father additionally deliberate to assassinate his son all alongside. Akechi finally acknowledged that the protagonist is an identical individual to him, and selected to sacrifice himself to make sure the escape of the heroic Phantom Thieves.
It additionally helped that in Royal, gamers obtained to spend extra time with him in a wholly new arc. The post-game added a brand new semester through which actuality has been fully modified. On this altered Tokyo, each character has their private tragedy undone, and every individual lives a contented life. That is the one state of affairs through which Akechi may be saved. Nonetheless, he rejects the factitious world and the false happiness that comes with it. Since he’s implied to have died within the authentic plotline, defeating this world’s proprietor means he’ll stop to exist. He doesn’t care. For him, dying is preferable to dwelling below the thumb of some increased energy.
However I needed him to dwell! If you pursue the ending through which the factitious world is destroyed, Royal teases the likelihood that Akechi may need survived. And so I held my breath for the potential of having the ability to see Akechi once more within the sequel recreation Scramble. I by no means ended up ending that musou recreation regardless of finishing so many others. Akechi wasn’t in it, and that was positively a part of the rationale. I wasn’t terribly invested in a P5 through which he didn’t exist.
I hoped that it was a fluke. Akechi is nice, and he deserves to seem in different spinoff video games. Now it looks as if P5X may let me down too, and I’m beginning to lose hope that Atlus remembers who he’s. That is homophobia, and I gained’t stand for it. Atlus, give us my feral hen son or give me loss of life.
