This is the biggest problem I have with the ending, why I hate it so much: it takes the incredible bonds the characters have with one another and renders them trivial. The Sumire we know- the caring, enthusiastic girl we were presented with throughout the entirety of the game up until this point- would have, at the very least, given Joker a real goodbye, if not tried to be in the van with the rest of the crew. This is not the girl who asked for time off from practicing her greatest passion so that she could help exonerate him. This? This is not the girl who ran up to Joker, half in tears from relief when she found out that he’d only faked his death. But, as you know, she’s nowhere to be found between the final few scenes and the ending up until literally that point. I could see her doing that if she’d already said her goodbye to him earlier and really was simply bumping into him there. If you’ve been wondering where the heck Sumire has been this entire time, here she is! In the train station, bumping into Joker, before giving him a weird one-liner that’s not really an acknowledgement at all before walking off… Roses Are Red, Violet Has Been Character-Assassinated There goes all the fuzzy warm feelings of found family and not caring about the boxes society forces you into. Then, instead of getting off and staying with him, or having him get on and driving him home (as they did in the original ending) they say, oh, this is good enough, right? Bye! Have a safe trip! And then drive off, pursued by cops. It only gets worse from there- the van full of his friends pulls into the same parking lot as he's dropping Joker off. Whatever it was that Atlus was trying to accomplish by having him show up this way, it didn't work. The game tells you that this man, who was willing to sacrifice every part of himself to ease the suffering of every person in the world, who clearly cared very deeply about every one of the Phantom Thieves, would casually pull up to them in a taxi, drop Joker off at the train station, then leave without a single word of explanation.īased on all his characterization throughout the games, and what happened to him after the final battle, I simply cannot imagine him doing what he does in the ending.
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