You're not supposed to sympathize with him, you're supposed to sympathize with Haru.
Honestly should have been a mementos Target in Haru's Confidant, if not that then just a normal request.
Maybe it would have been too much of a Kamoshida retread, though.
Watch SymphogearCognitive Haru is essentially Okumura doesn’t actually love his daughter.
The naysayers saying he was 100% unsympathetic in Vanilla were completely right about him.
Didn’t have a shred of sympathy for his death after that. Kick The Son Of A Bitch on Akechi’s part.
Whats weird is that the anime which they usually crib new ideas for the games from like the one girl who showed uo in P4 anime added to Golden or Angel Lucifer to go with Alcor being benign From the Lucifer hugging Satan to death, actually emphasizes the man loved his father despite his issues with him. So you'd think they add that since the new editions were generally good in that hot mess of a de-make adaptation.
Well, at least Royal clarified that he was a Piece of shit. He didn't deserve to die for it mind you, but I don't think anyone but Haru is going to miss him.
Its...a very weird type of cognitive dissonance. The audience has no reason to mourn Okumura at all, but because he's Haru's father she obviously has to feel bad for what happened to him...its weird.
Granted, I guess it's meant to be like King Moron in P4; the group agrees that he was an asshole, but he didn't deserve what happened to him.
A lazy millennial who's good at what he does.Ashlay puts it perfectly in top of the page: you're not supposed to feel bad for okumura, you're supposed to feel bad for Haru for losing her father figure, as awful of a human being as he might have been.
"when you stare too long into the abyss, Xehanort takes advantage of the distraction to break into your house and steal all your shit."I haven't played Royal, but OG Okumura at least had a Freudian Excuse where he'd grown up poor and so became obsessed with wealth as an adult. It's not much, but it's more than any of the other targets get.
Or rather, more than any of the other male targets get, as was mentioned above. I'd forgotten that the only two targets that get are allowed to get redeemed are the ladies. Granted, Futaba hasn't actually done anything wrong and is asking for your help, but Sae is 100% unrepentantly part of the corrupt system the Phantom Thieves are supposedly fighting against, but gets a pass because, uh...
Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.Sae has a pretty big FE too if you think a bit about the Japan of the game. It's more based on real world knowledge than the game itself, admittedly.
Sae is being argued about elsewhere and I said this as a way to explain her sympathetically:
Sae: Japan has a real problem with sexism and a woman in a position of power and visibility has a disgusting amount of pressure placed upon her. Results are all that matter and if she wishes to not be crushed under the weight of an entrenched patriarchy that actively wants to see her fail, she has to do anything and everything to prove she belongs here. All while supporting a sister who is still in school.
I have many criticisms of P5 but Sae is not one of them.
OTOH, lots of comparisonsto Ace Attorney were made, Sae being analogous to Edgeworth, and we def see far more of Edgeworth's redemption even in AA 1 than we do for Sae. Sae's reasoning for how she ended up here is mostly inferred and based on a couple of short scenes.
Also it depends a lot on how you interpret her Palace. Did she actively rig cases or was that just representing the overall system? How complicit was she in the corruption of the system and how much was she a victim?
Again, P5 explains all of this poorly and vaguely sowe are left to speculate.
Edited by Nikkolas on Jun 22nd 2020 at 6:02:41 AM
Except that that view of Sae is incompatible with the game's Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse stance. Most of the other targets try to say that Society Is to Blame only to be told off for trying to escape blame.
So, Persona 4 Golden is now available on Steam.
I never actually played P4, even though I watched the anime and watched/read two walkthroughs (one on You Tube and another on lparchive), so I am considering getting this one.
Buuuuut, I have to ask: Is P4:Golden just P4 but more, or is it a different game and story?
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