The web’s been buzzy of late for the freshly introduced Persona 5 spin-off sport, Phantom of the Night time (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Followers have been intrigued by the brand new characters, however they have been additionally excited to fulfill their outdated favorites once more.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 regarded on the screenshots, I seen one individual lacking: Goro Akechi. What offers, Atlus? You’ll be able to’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 unique sport, he’s recognized for betraying the social gathering after pretending to be their pal. 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 pal, reasonably 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 as a way to get shut sufficient to assassinate him. Sadly, his father additionally deliberate to assassinate his son all alongside. Akechi ultimately 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 received to spend extra time with him in a wholly new arc. The post-game added a brand new semester wherein actuality has been utterly modified. On this altered Tokyo, each character has their private tragedy undone, and every individual lives a cheerful life. That is the one situation wherein Akechi will 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 unique plotline, defeating this world’s proprietor means he’ll stop to exist. He doesn’t care. For him, dying is preferable to residing underneath the thumb of some larger energy.
However I needed him to stay! If you pursue the ending wherein the factitious world is destroyed, Royal teases the chance that Akechi might need survived. And so I held my breath for the potential 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 undoubtedly a part of the explanation. I wasn’t terribly invested in a P5 wherein he didn’t exist.
I hoped that it was a fluke. Akechi is sweet, and he deserves to look in different spinoff video games. Now it looks like P5X would possibly 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 loss of life.
