Revelations: Persona | |
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Developer(s) | Atlus |
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Artist(s) | Kazuma Kaneko |
Writer(s) | Tadashi Satomi |
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Genre(s) | Role-playing |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
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Masao: Dude, even you can use a Persona? / Reiji: What? Then you can all...? / Nanjo: That seems to be the case. By the way, you appear to be the real Reiji. / Reiji: What's that mean? / Maki: This place isn't your world. I don't know how else to explain it. / Nanjo: Kandori sent us here, to an alternate world. I take it you met the same fate. That scientist mentioned a young man sent through the dimensional rift... You, I presume? So why are you here, safe and sound? Why are you pursuing Kandori? / Reiji: ...As I was drifting through a vast, empty space, a kid in white appeared... When I came to, I was here. That's all... You don't need to know the rest. / Maki: A child wearing white? / C'mon, drop the hotshot act. We're gonna smack Kandori around and find a way back. [...] / Reiji: What? That bastard's here, too...!? Alright, I'll go with you.
Masao: 'Persona'? Dude, if that really worked and I could see my future, I'd be on easy street. You sure you ain't got the brain rot, Hidehiko? [...] / Hidehiko: Hehehe... Turns out there's more to it than an easy joke! Maybe not seeing the future, exactly, but weird stuff happens. I'm willing to put my money where my mouth is if you are, [Masao]. [...] Yo Kei, Yukino. Who're you guys gonna side with? / Nanjo: Hmp. As if I cared one whit... It's absolute bunk. / Yukino: What he said... This is all you.
Nanjo: Wh... what is..? / Masao: Huh? It's too late now to ask to.. WHOA! / [The group see a ghostly little girl in the room] / Girl: Help me. / Masao: Wh.. what the...?! / Kei: Yukino! [Electric energy crackles around the group, rendering the protagonist, Yukino, Nanjo and Masao unconscious.]
Philemon: Welcome. It's a pleasure to meet you. I am Philemon, a dweller between consciousness and unconsciousness. And now, a simple test. Can you state your name? [Player enters name] Splendid. There aren't many who can remember their identity when in this domain. It seems you pass that test. But tell me this: are you aware of the many and varied selves you harbor within you? The self suffused with divine love. The self capable of demonic cruelty. People live by wearing different masks. Your current self may only be one of those innumerable masks. You though... You have a very firm grip on your identity. I respect your strong will. In return, I grant you this power. Persona. It is the power to summon the selves within you. The many gods and demons you harbor. The time is soon when you will need this power.
Ms. Saeko: Anyway, Eriko and Ayase told me what happened. No helping out for you today! Instead, go get yourselves checked out at Mikage Hospital and head home! / Yukino: So you think something's wrong with us, too? / Ms. Saeko: Oh, not at all. I can tell by looking at you that you're perfectly sane. But I'm worried you might have gotten hurt while collapsing, so go see the doc. / Yukino: So there is something that can faze you, Ms. Saeko... Alright, we'll go. / Nurse Natsumi: Speaking of Mikage Hospital, wasn't a student in your class staying there? / Masao: You mean Maki, right? / Ms. Saeko: Yes, that's right. You should visit her while you're there. She's been laid up for over a year now. I'm sure she's lonesome.
Yukino: Lady? Are you okay? / Nanjo:This is a gunshot wound... Who did this to you? / Setsuko Sonomura: Kandori's... goons... / Nanjo: Kandori?! The president of SEBEC? / Setsuko Sonomura: The alterations to this town... Kandori's behind them all. I... was involved in the development of a certain device... / Nanjo: A device... And you're saying this machine is causing the changes? / Setsuko Sonomura: It's the Deva System... It's engineered to affect reality. But I didn't think it could do this.
Maki: We have to hurry. But what's a police station? / Nanjo: ...This is hardly the time for jokes. / Maki: Excuse you! I wasn't kidding. / Nanjo: It's... a public service that maintains societal order. In this case, it refers specifically to the service's headquarters. / Maki: Oh... I think I kinda remember now? Whoa! What's with the gym back there? When did they rebuild it!? / Nanjo: That happened while you were hospitalized. It's been complete for roughly six months... You couldn't have known. / Maki: Haha, but I was never in the hospital! You're the kidder here, not me.
Nanjo: You said 'this world'. Then this isn't the past, but another dimension, another world, yes? / Yosuke: Yeah, I thought it was the past too, at first. Everything here is exactly the same as it was a year ago. Some things are weird though. The police station turned into a forest, and the hospital is a castle. And Maki there was just like you see her. Yeah... It was practically a paradise...
Kandori: Ngh... I refuse to accept this! I'm supposed to have transcended man! Who am I!? I'm Takahisa Kandori! The man who transcended humanity! Nrrrrrrrghaaaaaaa!? Wh-what the... Something's forcing itself into me...! / Nyarlathotep: Hohohoh... Foolish man who has gone astray... I shall give you the power you desire. / Kandori: N-nooooo! [Kandori is fused with Nyarlathotep, and transforms into God Kandori] / Maki: Wh-what the!? / Masao: Holy shit! / Nanjo: Have his body and soul been dominated by the Persona? / God-Kandori: I am Kandori... God-Kandori...
Maki: Huh? What're you saying? What does that mean!? / Nanjo: You're... probably the idealized self of the Maki Sonomura we know. And the town you live in is the world inside Maki Sonomura's heart... Am I correct, Kandori? / Kandori: Yes... and not only her. Mai and Aki are also shadows within Maki Sonomura's heart... All of you are nothing more than aspects of her. / Maki: No! That's not..! / Nanjo: Maki, Mai, Aki... Simple anagrams. Maki must have conceived of her own paradise within her heart... One modeled off her memories of Mikage until the day she was hospitalized. [...] / Kandori: The trial run of the Deva System succeeded roughly a month ago. But... she was linked to the system even before then. Her wavelength must have synchronized with the system's. Once she had internalized the power to interfere with the dimensions... The paradise within her heart seems to have grown beyond her imaginations. [...] Maki Sonomura... she needs to discover her true self. If she doesn't, she'll share my fate... Go to her... Don't let her go down that lonely path.
Maki: Another me!? So... this is Pandora! / Nanjo: Look! Is that the core of the Deva System behind it!? / Pandora: It was inevitable, I suppose, that you'd make it here... Sss... Hhhrrr... This... is the gate to paradise... And I won't... ssshhrr... give it up... I'll use it to create my paradise... A place where nothing exists...
Philemon: Nothing more need be said. I'm sure you have all discovered by now your true selves. The smiles you wear are no longer false masks. You may find yourselves troubled, or suffering, or lost in the future. But there is nothing to fear. Look to your souls for your true self. No matter what trials you may face, that will be enough for you to whether the storm. Now go forth, into your bright futures.
Tsutomi: You know of 'The Snow Queen', right? Yes... the fairy tale. It's the traditional play performed by St. Hermelin drama club. [...] For some reason, The Snow Queen is usually performed while wearing a mask. Which brings me to my point. In truth, that mask... is cursed. The students who wore it while playing the role all died unnatural deaths. Isn't that interesting? Supposedly, only one girl who played the part ever survived the curse...
Yukino: What the--!? / Saeko: Hahaha... Finally! I've been waiting so long! / Yukino: Ms. Saeko...? / Saeko: Saeko? Oh... I see what's happening. Poor Saeko... Hahahah.
Philemon: A moment, please. You are angry and frustrated, but that will not rescue your teacher. There is only one way to do that. The Demon Mirror. I can remove the source of the mask's curse. However, the Snow Queen has shattered it. The twelve shards are scattered amongst three towers. Take this mirror frame with you. Fit the mirror shards you find into it. If you gather enough shards to reflect your teacher, she can be saved.
Saeko: Wh-What's going on!? [...] / Night Queen: The Tonomi inside me... The Tonomi with human weakness is dead. I am grateful. No longer tied to my host or the mask I was bound to, I am finally free. Now I can be complete! I will become the Night Queen in full! I shall enshroud this world in black and white; void and sorrow. / Yukino: What!? / Night Queen: Foolish mortals who cling to hope... I shall teach you a lesson! I have not yet given up on the Eternal Night. From the heights of this Ice Castle, I shall unleash the snows of despair.