Junko, realizing what she and Jun have done, dies protecting Jun from an attack by the Fuhrer using the Spear of Destiny. The group agree, and a new timeline is created where each character's life has been improved, though their friendship is forgotten. Jun, manipulated by Nyarlathotep into believing Maya had died in the fire, took on the mantle of the Joker to punish his former friends and make people's wishes come true. The characters were designed by Kazuma Kaneko and Shigenori Soejima. Despite this, features such as the ability to switch soundtracks and the Theatre Mode were praised. a room with no demon encounters), each party member can be conversed with. Maya is then fatally wounded by Okamura using the Spear of Destiny, the Oracle is fulfilled, and all the world but Sumaru City is decimated. The flower the original Joker holds, an Iris, symbolizes revenge, and connects directly to the Joker's true identity. [5][6][7], Innocent Sin takes place in 1999 in Sumaru (珠閒瑠), a fictional seaside city in Japan with a population over 1.28 million.
More fun with the HoYay: After eating (for temporary stat boosts), when Jun gets hungry again, he invites Tatsuya to dinner.
Sumaru City is then raised into the sky as part of Xibalba, a spacecraft manifested through rumors surrounding Kashihara's writings, fulfilling part of the Masked Circle's plans. Considered to be a smart student in class.
A direct sequel to Innocent Sin, Persona 2: Eternal Punishment, was released in 2000 in Japan and North America. Lisa goes with him to face Eikichi and it's revealed that the letter was a ploy set up by Eikichi's friends to get Tatsuya to join their band, Gas Chamber.
They are King Leo (Tatsuya Sudou), a deranged man whose eye was burnt out; Prince Taurus (Ginji Sasaki), a record producer who manipulates Lisa's budding girl group for his own ends; and Lady Scorpio (Anna Yoshizaka), a former student at Seven Sisters who is brainwashed by the group.
This was done as an experiment by the team to gauge audience reaction to such a relationship, and an attempt to appeal to fans of yaoi anime and manga. [11] The theme of Innocent Sin, as with the previous entry, was exploration of the human psyche and the main characters discovering their true selves. [5] A key gameplay and story element is the Rumor system: if the party hears a rumor from an NPC, they can spread that rumor using the Kuzunoha detective agency, making the rumor become real and creating effects on the environment.
[40] GameSpot's Peter Bartholow, reviewing the original, gave the game similar praise, saying "[Innocent Sin]'s story is darker, stranger, and more involving than most of the fluffy fantasy fare crowding today's marketplace.
However, Tatsuya literally defied this in the last second, which caused him to not be erased from existence due to the new timeline. [19][47] The game, along with Eternal Punishment, received a spin-off manga titled Persona: Tsumi to Batsu (ペルソナ 罪と罰, Persona: Sin and Punishment), featuring new characters from Seven Sisters.
Persona 2: Innocent Sin is a role-playing game where the player takes control of a group of high school students as they explore the fictional city of Sumaru. The game's main party holds up to five characters. Whenever the party is in a "safe" area (i.e.
Stamina: High. Following after the events of Innocent Sin, Tatsuya is the only one who recalls the memories that he and his friends had forged in the past.
These Persona summonings and fusions take place in the Velvet Room, a special location separate from the rest of the game's environments.
Can tank hits from both Nyarlathotep and Philemon, who are the creators of all human souls that ever existed since the beginning of time, and each human soul have the power to recreate the entire universe), Hax: Reality Creation (Can easily create a new universe just from thinking), Subatomic Disintegration (With the fusion spell "Atomic Breakdown"), Black Hole Creation (With the fusion spell "Black Hole", can create a singularity), Power Negation (With various status effect moves), Space-Time Manipulation, Sleep Inducement, Stat Augmentation, Enemy Stat Manipulation, Automatic Regeneration (Via Unknown Power), Damage Nullification (Limited to certain Personas and certain kinds of damage), Damage Absorption (Same case as with Damage Nullification), Resurrection (Both individual and on his allies), Healing (Both individual and on his allies), Death Manipulation (Depending on the opponent's vulnerability to light or darkness, able to be 100% effective), Paralysis Inducement, Emotional Manipulation, Nuclear Damage, Battlefield Removal (Via "Another Dimension" spell), Resistance against mental ailments (With various Personas), Durability Negation (Via various other fusion spells, Almighty spells and the fusion spell "All 1", which reduces all enemies' life to 1 regardless of defense), Time Stop (Via Apollo's "Nova Cyther"), Immunity to Existence Erasure (Is effectively a paradox, literally willed himself to become immune to existence erasure, can also exist in a nonexistent state). The party wields the power to summon Personas: they are defined in the game's instruction manual as "another side of [the protagonists]". [7] RPGamer's Zach Welhouse said that the game "uses its grand, cosmic backdrop to magnify the adolescent concerns of its protagonists until they pop with energy.
These events were so traumatic that everyone but Sudou willingly forgot them.
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It is revealed in his scenario that he is actually borrowing the body of the Tatsuya native to the new reality in hopes of sealing Nyarlathotep away to atone for his mistake in not holding out for his promise to forget his friends.
[14] Another key element was the "power of Kotodama", the Japanese belief that words can influence the physical and spiritual world, with this power manifesting in the world of Persona 2 through the spreading of rumors.
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They are eventually brought into conflict with the executives of the Masked Circle, a cult led by the Joker who are gathering Ideal Energy using assigned crystal skulls. His appearance as a demonic clown was inspired by his actions of absorbing people's dreams. [15] Terms and concepts used in the games, including Persona, Shadows and the character Philemon, were drawn from Jungian psychology and archetypes. Meguro had also asked Tsuchiya due to his involvement with the original version, but he declined.