Eyyyy Persona 3 is back and now I’m here to look at the boss designs and go “that looks like it means something!” Ofc this is just one reading of the boss design. The Arcana is the means by which all is revealed, but the Arcana is also frequently a vague piece of shit, so different readings are not only common, but encouraged! As is the theme with all shadows, The Priestess shadow represents the reversed form of the Priestess arcana. The Reversed Priestess is impulsive, blind to her own flaws, and cannot stand on her own. This is seen in her design and how she is when you fight her - she never stands up. In fact, she is quite actively in a prone position, lacking the confidence and grace of the upright Priestess, and her hair resembles scrolls, but are used for violence rather than learning and introspection. Her inability to be independent or to trust her own knowledge and intuition shows as well in her constant calls for help - she quite literally refuses to deal with her problems herself, constantly summoning others in the vain hope that they can do something about the situation it’s in. Incidentally, the two summoned friends are a reference to the letters on her breasts, Boaz and Jachin, two pillars (read: symbols of stability) that famously stood upon the porch of Solomon’s temple. In being put upon her breasts, they are not just turned into a sexual innuendo (come on, don’t tell me they didn’t know what they were doing) they are also robbed of their stability, turning from pillars that support the foundation of a building into… well, just boobs. Idk about you guys but I don’t think those can hold a temple up. Even the fight mechanics - specifically the timer - represent something about her, namely her impulsive desire to kill you and the lack of thought that goes into the decision to use the monorail to do it. We know shadows are intelligent - perhaps a bit more instinctual than humans normally, but still intelligent. The Priestess makes the conscious decision to speed up the monorail, heedless of the fact that *it will die as well*. She defaults to instinct without tempering it with intellect, and so she doubles down even further and carelessly - stupidly - speeds up the monorail. Twice. Like, girl, what the hell.
I didn't expect on reading a big analysis on a boss under a video. I always wondered what was up with the Priestess as she is one of the Shadows for which I never quite understood the reasons behind her design, so thank you for this!
When Mitsuru talks about the MC's ability to switch Persona's, how is she not at all curious about how he can have so many personas? The power of the Wild Card is a gift that FEW are blessed with. You would think she would do some research about it if she has any information to start with.
Out of curiosity, If the time limit expires, what happens? In the oldest game, It would give straight up game over; does the remake have an animation or not?
@@maestroleonard Yeah. I witnessed it when I was fighting it on Merciless quite a few times since I was learning the mechanics of the fight since it is different from when I fought it in Persona 3 Portable.
The new English VA's are subpar at best. I also think ATLUS should've included the option to switch between original P3 OST and P3R OST. They did it for P5 Strikers, but not for P3R? 😑
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14:15 perfectly timed all out attack :)
Eyyyy Persona 3 is back and now I’m here to look at the boss designs and go “that looks like it means something!”
Ofc this is just one reading of the boss design. The Arcana is the means by which all is revealed, but the Arcana is also frequently a vague piece of shit, so different readings are not only common, but encouraged!
As is the theme with all shadows, The Priestess shadow represents the reversed form of the Priestess arcana.
The Reversed Priestess is impulsive, blind to her own flaws, and cannot stand on her own. This is seen in her design and how she is when you fight her - she never stands up. In fact, she is quite actively in a prone position, lacking the confidence and grace of the upright Priestess, and her hair resembles scrolls, but are used for violence rather than learning and introspection.
Her inability to be independent or to trust her own knowledge and intuition shows as well in her constant calls for help - she quite literally refuses to deal with her problems herself, constantly summoning others in the vain hope that they can do something about the situation it’s in. Incidentally, the two summoned friends are a reference to the letters on her breasts, Boaz and Jachin, two pillars (read: symbols of stability) that famously stood upon the porch of Solomon’s temple. In being put upon her breasts, they are not just turned into a sexual innuendo (come on, don’t tell me they didn’t know what they were doing) they are also robbed of their stability, turning from pillars that support the foundation of a building into… well, just boobs. Idk about you guys but I don’t think those can hold a temple up.
Even the fight mechanics - specifically the timer - represent something about her, namely her impulsive desire to kill you and the lack of thought that goes into the decision to use the monorail to do it. We know shadows are intelligent - perhaps a bit more instinctual than humans normally, but still intelligent. The Priestess makes the conscious decision to speed up the monorail, heedless of the fact that *it will die as well*. She defaults to instinct without tempering it with intellect, and so she doubles down even further and carelessly - stupidly - speeds up the monorail. Twice. Like, girl, what the hell.
I didn't expect on reading a big analysis on a boss under a video. I always wondered what was up with the Priestess as she is one of the Shadows for which I never quite understood the reasons behind her design, so thank you for this!
When Mitsuru talks about the MC's ability to switch Persona's, how is she not at all curious about how he can have so many personas?
The power of the Wild Card is a gift that FEW are blessed with. You would think she would do some research about it if she has any information to start with.
Nice finally p3r contents, you got a subscriber
I LOVE this part.
Loved it in P3. Loved it in FES. Liked it in P3P. Loved it in the movie.
DLC persona Showcase soon?
will do!
16:09 there is no way for me to defeat the boss
Kouha? We got light and dark skills too!?
HELL YEAH BROTHER WE GOT THE NORMAL LIGHT AND DARK DAMAGE SKILLS
God bless Persona 5 for actually letting light and dark damage be a thing
Out of curiosity, If the time limit expires, what happens? In the oldest game, It would give straight up game over; does the remake have an animation or not?
Spoilers....
Everything fades to white while Mitsuru panics and you get an instant game over.
@@realMetalsonic646 so, they only added a dialogue, glad i hadn't waited till the time was up
@@maestroleonard Yeah. I witnessed it when I was fighting it on Merciless quite a few times since I was learning the mechanics of the fight since it is different from when I fought it in Persona 3 Portable.
I hate that they made Junpei look like he is not Jealous at the MC being a leader
They def made it more clear throughout the game, my first experience was p3r and I got that vibe quite a bit
Cool 😎
16:01 did the shadow make the fucking battle bus noise
Going to have to unsubscribe bc of spoilers 😔 see you after about a month of persona
Same, I understand that he needs to upload everything he can because of views, but for people like us that are going to play the game, it sucks
In the community posts Faz advised to unsub himself because he'll be posting videos so don't feel bad about it
You could just not watch the video lol
@@TheSteelers4190 Do you even know how RUclips works?
@@adrielalonso1026 I do, you click the video and watch it. Good grief. The video title isn't a spoiler. The monorail was in the damn OG.
But how on merciless
The new English VA's are subpar at best. I also think ATLUS should've included the option to switch between original P3 OST and P3R OST. They did it for P5 Strikers, but not for P3R? 😑
they did not for p5 strikers? they just included the option to listen to one of the old battle themes,
Which P5 also does