


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.
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It only gets worse from there- the van full of his friends to 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. Why a taxi driver? Why not a volunteer therapist in a rural town, or going back to grad school to re-think his philosophy on helping people, or, hell, just focusing on therapy for himself? It’s simply so… random, and out of character for Maruki. This isn’t a knock on taxi drivers, of course- it’s not an unworthy profession by any means. Record scratch is an understatement- why the hell Is Maruki Takuto, the ruler of the final palace, a man who supposedly went off to reform himself and find a better way of helping people, working as a taxi driver?
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In Royal, the kids look fairly concerned until a taxi pulls up, revealing Maruki as the driver offering to help evade the cops. There was a sense of closure, of catharsis, as you watched these kids you just spent a hundred hours with smiling, goofing around, loving each other, and looking towards their brighter future. In the original, Makoto said that it didn’t matter what the cops thought- a statement symbolic of their resolve to not care what society thinks of them and live their truest lives- before Morgana sabotaged the cop car and they drove off, laughing at their one last act of thievery. It starts with Joker being surprised by his friends waiting for him with a rented van all the same, but diverges from the original ending when they notice the cops tailing them. If you do manage to get a bad ending, the game will wind the clock back a week, giving you another shot to fix your mistakes and carry onto one of the good endings.Persona 5 Royal takes all of that satisfaction away and replaces it with… well, nothing. And Finally, when you fail to complete the final palace by the deadline.In the interrogation with Sae, when the timeline catches up to the game, if you turn in your friends you will be presented with a bad ending.Fail to complete a Palace by the set deadline.Decline the contract offered up by Igor at the beginning of the game.If you agree to the choice the game gives you the “Good Ending”, but if you decline the offer, you are on the path to the “True Ending”. The second important part is you need to play up to the game’s final dungeon, at this time Igor will give you a choice. Firstly, in the interrogation with Sae, you need to ensure you do not turn in your friends. To get the Persona 5 true ending you need to ensure you do two major things.
