And I think, from what I can remember, we knew that Akechi was somehow going to be in that third semester. I’m sure most Persona 5 fans would agree that the most anticipated thing about Persona 5 Royal was a third semester. He doesn’t change, but your feelings towards him almost certainly do and this is exactly what Atlus wanted. You slowly start to care more about Akechi, despite however you felt while playing the original game. Their bond is deeper and it feels like much more is on the line. There’s an element of childish competition that it brought up throughout the arc… it’s like Joker gives Akechi a chance to be a kid again.
The relationship between Akechi and Joker in Royal felt more like a friendly rivalry than arch enemies like it sometimes did in the original game. You got to hang out with Akechi and get to know his personality a little better. Akechi’s confidant arc became something that the player had to spend time on. You’re meant to know what is going to happen, and you’re not meant to like him. The game wasn’t trying to hide that from you it was trying to hide his intentions, which I think it did well. You were always meant to know that he was the traitor. His confidant arc just naturally increased as it would when bumping into someone repeatedly. After playing the game for the first time, I was able to appreciate how well Akechi is written in the original game. I think he just oozes manipulation and it make me mad. He was the first character to make me genuinely angry, only rivalled with Zenkichi at the beginning of Persona 5 Strikers. So, in the original game… I hated Akechi. Spoiler Warning: This post contains spoilers for Persona 5 and Persona 5 Royal. Sidenote: Josh wanted me to write a post about who is the best Goro out of Akechi and Majima but it would literally just be ‘Majima’ so I’m not doing that. I pre-ordered Royal as soon as I could because I was so excited, and I was very surprised when my feelings towards Goro Akechi changed, so I’ve been overthinking this for a while so now I’m writing this to try and make some sense out of it.
Persona 5 has been my favourite game for over two years now, and I feel like I know enough about the game that I can write a lot about it (I swear if any of you watch our streams and comments about Ganesh… I will cry). For those who don’t know… I write about these games a lot because they take up about 70% of my thinking time each day, if not more. Hey, Gamers! This week we’re making the well needed return to Persona 5 Royal.
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