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SO EVERYONE WHO KNOWS ME KNOWS I love Persona 4.
Everyone also knows I hate Persona 4 with everything I am.
And yet, here I am, with Persona 4 posters on my wall, Chie and Yosuke on my key ring, a Persona 4 desktop background, the Persona 4: The Animation opening as my alarm, making Persona 4 icons more than any other canon, and playing a Persona 4 character as one of my main and favorite characters.
"How the fuck can you hate Persona 4 and still put so much into it???"
Well, flist, I figure I ought to finally explain this, since plurk is down and I wanted to finally explain myself.
You know in high school when you half-assed a paper, but it was okay enough, and you handed it in to the teacher? You were confident you'd get a solid B on it, but you got a D? And someone in the row next to you who couldn't write for shit, with a paper a page and a half shorter than yours with the wrong MLA formatting got a B? And you went to the teacher asking why you got a D, and s/he looked at you and said "Because this isn't your best work"?
I am that teacher when it comes to fiction.
Particularly video games that I manage to play.
I don't judge on how good a game actually is--if that was the case I'd hate every video game ever. I judge on how good of a video game the creators can make, and then compare it to how close they got. The size of that gap is what decides whether I like it or not.
Persona 4 is not a bad video game.
But it's no where near as good as it could've been.
"But, Justyne," you say, "why do you hate it so much but still love Persona 3, which has many separate flaws?!"
There's another thing I judge on--how many risks a work of fiction takes.
SO HERE IS WHERE MY OPINIONS GO:
( the good, the bad, the verdict )
Everyone also knows I hate Persona 4 with everything I am.
And yet, here I am, with Persona 4 posters on my wall, Chie and Yosuke on my key ring, a Persona 4 desktop background, the Persona 4: The Animation opening as my alarm, making Persona 4 icons more than any other canon, and playing a Persona 4 character as one of my main and favorite characters.
"How the fuck can you hate Persona 4 and still put so much into it???"
Well, flist, I figure I ought to finally explain this, since plurk is down and I wanted to finally explain myself.
You know in high school when you half-assed a paper, but it was okay enough, and you handed it in to the teacher? You were confident you'd get a solid B on it, but you got a D? And someone in the row next to you who couldn't write for shit, with a paper a page and a half shorter than yours with the wrong MLA formatting got a B? And you went to the teacher asking why you got a D, and s/he looked at you and said "Because this isn't your best work"?
I am that teacher when it comes to fiction.
Particularly video games that I manage to play.
I don't judge on how good a game actually is--if that was the case I'd hate every video game ever. I judge on how good of a video game the creators can make, and then compare it to how close they got. The size of that gap is what decides whether I like it or not.
Persona 4 is not a bad video game.
But it's no where near as good as it could've been.
"But, Justyne," you say, "why do you hate it so much but still love Persona 3, which has many separate flaws?!"
There's another thing I judge on--how many risks a work of fiction takes.
SO HERE IS WHERE MY OPINIONS GO:
( the good, the bad, the verdict )
