168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Persona 5 is a strange game, but it's in large part thanks to that strangeness that I still find myself writing about it seven years after it first released. It offers you a rich array of well developed, nuanced characters, but then tries to undercut them at every turn. For example, I've written before that the game would work better from Ann Takamaki's perspective - she begins the game as a victim of grooming, used for her looks, and finds both sympathy and agency in her fight against her abuser. Then later on, the boys use her for her looks to get what they want from someone else, without Ann's agreement. Similarly, the adults in the game have fascinatingly dark storylines, but it feels weird to explore them when the only option is to make them romantic partners with a high schooler - t168澳洲幸运5开奖网:hey deserve a better game. That brings me to the compelling case of Ichiko Ohya, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Persona 5's most underrated character.
Ichiko Ohya is a journalist who drinks too much, so naturally, I was instantly drawn to her. I went into the game with no real idea of what to expect, so she was the one I in𝓀itially poured all of my time into getting to know. I assumed my romantic choices would be between Ann and Makoto (for which I sided with Makoto, believing her to be a better match for Joker), and so pursued Ohya every chance I got, expecting only a platonic relationship. Suddenly, she started flirting with me. At the same time, so did the goth doctor down the street. Now my homeroom teacher is my sex maid. Was the little boy helping me at the arcade going to ask me how his weewee ꧋worked next?
Thankfully, the little kid is not a romance option, but the fact you can't develop the adult stories without it swerving into romantic territory is responsible for a few of the bloody holes in Persona 5's shoes. Tae, the aforementioned goth doctor, has become a fan favourite despite the obvious ick involved, but Ohya has been left behind. She's a little more out of the way from your home at the cafe, and she's drunk and miserable when you first meet her, which is hardly charming company. Her story is a little harder to piece together too, and not just because she's slurring. But if you can get past all of that, she has one of the game's most layered stories, even if few bother to see it through.
Ohya used to be a serious journalist, but after a breaking story was censored, she was reassigned to her paper's version of Page Six, writing empty entertainment articles. Unable to quit the profession she loves, she is trapped there. Over the course of the game, Ohya figures out your role in the Phantom Thieves, and rediscovers her passion for journalism, tying together two extremely personal cases. It's a more grounded story than a lot of the ink black tragedy and melodrama the rest of the cast go through, but that's what makes it such a special part of Persona 5. At its heart, it's a game about not just helping people, but allowing them to help themselves. Ohya might not awaken a Persona deep inside a Palace, but she takes back control of her life just as the Thieves do.
Ichiko Ohya is one of the least popular Confidants in Persona 5, which feels harsh because there's so much depth to her story and her interactions are not only some of the more unpredictable in the game, they also offer her more growth as a person. She's not just working her way through a narrative or overcoming an obstacle, she's working through emotions and overcoming herself. She's emblematic of what Persona 5 represents, and it's a shame so few see her story through until the end.