Saeko Takami, the homeroom teacher from P1 in Japan, was known as “Miss Smith” in Revelations: Persona, and is now named “Saeko Smith” in P2EP. Luckily, the party lingered and recreated humanity by changing the timeline so that they were never friends to begin with, though they had seemingly reunited in the final scene.Įternal Punishment begins… with me feeling relieved, as I gradually discover that most of the character names were carried over intact from Japanese original to English PSX! They didn’t change them! I was certain they were going to change them! As far as our first session is concerned, it seems the only names that were changed are either minor or were related to the original Revelations: Persona translation of P1 on the PSX, including a few weird hybrid cases. He then used his wish to wipe out all life on Earth. The two were trying to test humanity with this scheme, and Nyarlathotep ultimately won their bet by killing Maya to activate Xibalba. After getting Jun back on their side, the party confronted Hitler, only to learn he was never a rumour demon, but Nyarlathotep in disguise, and also that Nyarlathotep is the evil counterpart to Philemon.
Unfortunately, he made the apparent mistake of summoning a rumour-army of robot Nazis (yes) including a rumour Adolf Hitler (yes), who ultimately ended up seizing Xibalba in his place. His ultimate plan was to use rumours to create / “revive” the ancient Mayan underworld, Xibalba, which could be empowered to grant him any wish. In the island town of Sumaru, rumours began to come to life, and the player party (Tatsuya, Maya, Lisa and Michel, as well as P1 character Yukino for a while) discovered that this was being manipulated by a former childhood friend named Jun, now gifted with supernatural powers and going by the alias “Joker.” Joker tried to exploit people’s ideals via supernatural means, establishing a pattern with P1. It’s a few years after the events of the first game. Luckily, the player party saved the day with their own Personas, guided by a god-like figure named Philemon, but then had to do mop-up by defeating the remaining fractures of Maki’s personality. Unfortunately for him, he seems to have been manipulated into doing so by his own Persona, which appeared as the Lovecraftian Outer God, Nyarlathotep. Kandori manipulated a fractured and autonomous aspect of Maki’s personality to take control of the alternate reality, and empowered himself as a god. Central to this plot are the supernatural Personas, which are manifestations of the psyche. An evil corporation called SEBEC, run by a man named Kandori, strapped a perpetually ill girl named Maki into a magic machine and used her to create an alternate world powered by her ideals. P1’s plot isn’t anywhere near simple, but it’s still the easier of the two. P2EP’s story pulls from the events of both P1 and P2IS, so I should maybe summarize them in case you’re coming here from scratch, maybe as a fan of the game from back in the day who’s never played P2IS or whatnot. As in, “How did they even have the gall?” But they had the gall to create the original English version of P1 on the PSX, so why not? As we go along, keep the release history in mind: international fans had to play this game in 2000 with no idea what happened in the original game, and some of them certainly never knew the original game existed to begin with! And that’s unfortunate, because wow, this is far from a stand-alone sequel.
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Check the first post of P2IS for full details, but in short: Kyle and I have no choice but to play the PSX original version of EP, released in 2000 (we played the digital version via the PSN on PS3), as EP’s PSP remake was never localized into English.
Persona 2: EP picks up right after the events of Persona 2: Innocent Sin, but god forbid I be allowed to say just that, because the game has such a complicated release history. Here I sit, at the end of our first session, and before I go to bed, I force myself to stay awake another few minutes, because I know I have to open the Journal with: “Oh dear.” Welcome to Persona 2: Eternal Punishment.
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