The web’s been buzzy of late for the freshly introduced Persona 5 spin-off sport, Phantom of the Evening (P5X). Followers have been intrigued by the brand new characters, however they have been additionally excited to fulfill their outdated favorites once more. However after I seemed on the screenshots, I seen one individual lacking: Goro Akechi. What provides, Atlus? You may’t simply fake that Persona 5 Royal’s primary 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 scholar who acts as a rival for the primary protagonist of Persona 5. Within the authentic sport, he’s identified for betraying the occasion after pretending to be their buddy. 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 buddy, fairly 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 usually face appreciable social stigma in Japan). Akechi needed revenge towards his neglectful and merciless father, so he cooperated with him so as 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 the same 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 received to spend extra time with him in a wholly new arc. The post-game added a brand new semester during which actuality has been fully modified. On this altered Tokyo, each character has their private tragedy undone, and every individual lives a cheerful life. That is the one situation during which Akechi could be saved. Nonetheless, he rejects the bogus 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 stay! Once you pursue the ending during which the bogus world is destroyed, Royal teases the likelihood that Akechi might need survived. And so I held my breath for the opportunity of having the ability to see Akechi once more within the sequel sport Scramble. I by no means ended up ending that musou sport 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 during which he didn’t exist.
I hoped that it was a fluke. Akechi is nice, and he deserves to look in different spinoff video games. Now it looks like P5X may let me down too, and I’m beginning to lose hope that Atlus remembers who he’s. That is homophobia, and I received’t stand for it. Atlus, give us my feral fowl son or give me demise.
