After all this time... persona 5 royal is finally done. March 30th to today, July 20th at 3:43am. What an amazing ride.153 hours and 11 minutes pumped into this game, and I already want to do it all over again. What a fantastic final boss fight with all sorts of twists and turns. I don't even care that who the main villain was got spoiled, or who his persona was, or other things I accidentally saw before. Everything wrapped up so perfectly. However, while I sit here listening to the credits theme, I need to vent my feelings for a bit. This will contain spoilers, so read at your own discretion. I will be holding nothing back.

The final moments of this story are truly speaking to me. Even more so than they did before. This year has been truly murderous on me. Covid, quarantining, distrust in the government, police force, and strangers, and just an utter fear for both my own future and humanity's future as a whole, not to mention the fact that I may lose one of my grandparents this year. Depression came over me, paranoia took hold of my entire being, and there were some days where I felt like nothing mattered anymore and that the rest of my life would be on autopilot for the rest of time. But after seeing the ending of this game... a world where Maruki wants to create a new world where everyone's dreams come true, and no pain can ever exist, taken by down by the heroes because the world does not deserve to live a lie... I admit, I would love to forget this pandemic ever existed, like all of 2020 never happened and to just move on, but that cant happen.

Everyone has to grow from this, no matter how hard it may be. And in the end, we see not only is the world returned to its truest form, despite how ugly it may really be, we still have the ability to carve our own path forward and make our future a reality. We WILL get through this. I dont know in what form we will take once it's over, but in the end we will emerge stronger than ever. Because I'm tired of feeling hopeless. I'm tired of seeing the future as a brick wall. I dont know if I'll ever raise a family, get the job I want, truly achieve all my goals, or even find me a permanent partner, but I believe that I will get through this with a smile on my face. I will take everything I can from this year and cherish it. My work for huracan, my newfound 'religion', our new puppy, my love for game design, the adoration of smite, and this game... this wonderful, blessed game that helped me realize that life is more than doom and gloom.

The game that singlehandedly saved me during quarantine. If it wasnt for this, I have no clue what would've happened to me. I feel like one of the confidants in the game now who's life has been made better... I'll never be able to repay these people who made it. Maybe my hearts been changed too? Who knows.

Now that the mushy stuff is out of the way, can I rave for a sec about how AWESOME this was? Hell yeah baby! I practically 100% completed everything I wanted to! Max rank with all confidants, 100% complete the persona compendium, own my best team of personas yet including a trumpeter with the best magic stats and skills possible, yoshitsune with the best strength stats and skills possible, an alice who instantly kills anything that stands in her way, a gabriel who can exploit the weakness of anyone, a mara who's nigh indestructible due to the skills I gave him, and a Maria who heals me 40% of my health every turn and starts every battle with full buffs! Side note, MARIA LOOKS GORGEOUS.

And I LOVE Sumire and her story and ugh it's so heart warming and a perfect twist, not to mention cendrillon and ella being amazing personas, and AKECHI finally getting more spotlight bc his hang outs are fun and hilarious and hes so vile and wicked near the end! Also being able to use Loki is a blast, and his motherfucking third tier persona ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE A MIX OF ROBIN HOOD AND LOKI WHICH NONE OF THE OTHERS DO EVEN THOUGH IT SAYS THEY ARE. Ok seriously the third tier persona designs suck imo but THEYRE SO FUCKING STRONG HOLY FUCK. I also managed to get max yen and level 99 for good measure, not to mention easily sweeping the reaper and Jose fights with ease due to my build. Also JOSE man, what a bro!

And the final fight against maruki ugh! His palace is awesome, azathoth is a crazy cool persona, and he EVOLVES INTO ADAM KADMON WHO I WAS WAITING FOR THR WHOLE TIME AND FORGOT ABOUT UNTIL THEN HOLY FUCK WHAT A TWIST I WAS WORRIED I HAD MISSED THAT. And the music, omg the music! Take over is a fucking jam man! And I need to listen to those final songs more because they are masterpieces of work! And that ending! Marukis voice actor is so damn good at emotions and seeing him live at the end and move on with life like I am is so damn satisfying, all the new hangouts with friends at the end was great, and the fact that theres still more to come with akechi and more metaverse stuff to come? Take my money, you earned it! Bravo Atlus, bravo Sega, bravo sony for making the PS4, This is without a shadow of a doubt my favourite game of all time and I recommend it to everyone!

Phew, what a rush. I think it's time I head to bed now. I'm glad to be able to enter the internet not without getting spoiled on anything else now that I'm done. I can finally return to the p5 subreddit tomorrow since I left it to avoid spoilers last september, and I can see all the new memes and community stuff! For those of you who got here, thank you for reading this far, and I love you all. Farewell.