The web’s been buzzy of late for the freshly introduced Persona 5 spin-off recreation, Phantom of the Evening (P5X). Followers had been intrigued by the brand new characters, however they had been additionally excited to fulfill their outdated favorites once more.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 provides, Atlus? You possibly can’t simply fake that Persona 5 Royal’s principal 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 primary protagonist of Persona 5. Within the unique recreation, he’s recognized for betraying the get together after pretending to be their buddy. He additionally does this within the enhanced Royal launch, however this 2019 replace of the sport provides further scenes for him. These social interactions make Akechi really feel extra like a deeply troubled buddy, 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 wished revenge towards 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 ultimately acknowledged that the protagonist is an analogous 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 acquired to spend extra time with him in a completely 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 state of affairs during which Akechi could be saved. Nevertheless, he rejects the synthetic 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 below the thumb of some larger energy.
However I wished him to reside! If you pursue the ending during which the synthetic world is destroyed, Royal teases the likelihood that Akechi may need survived. And so I held my breath for the potential for with 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 undoubtedly a part of the explanation. 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 seem 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 gained’t stand for it. Atlus, give us my feral hen son or give me dying.
