The web’s been buzzy of late for the freshly introduced Persona 5 spin-off sport, Phantom of the Evening (P5X). Followers had been intrigued by the brand new characters, however they had been additionally excited to satisfy their outdated favorites once more. However after I seemed on the screenshots, I seen one particular person lacking: Goro Akechi. What offers, Atlus? You may’t simply faux that Persona 5 Royal’s principal antagonist wasn’t additionally the sequence’ 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 authentic sport, he’s recognized for betraying the occasion 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, 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 usually face appreciable social stigma in Japan). Akechi wished revenge in opposition to his neglectful and merciless father, so he cooperated with him with a view 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 particular person 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 by which actuality has been utterly modified. On this altered Tokyo, each character has their private tragedy undone, and every particular person lives a cheerful life. That is the one situation by which Akechi will 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 authentic plotline, defeating this world’s proprietor means he’ll stop to exist. He doesn’t care. For him, dying is preferable to dwelling underneath the thumb of some larger energy.
However I wished him to reside! While you pursue the ending by which the synthetic 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 explanation. I wasn’t terribly invested in a P5 by which he didn’t exist.
I hoped that it was a fluke. Akechi is sweet, and he deserves to seem 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 gained’t stand for it. Atlus, give us my feral chicken son or give me demise.