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Nerd of Mouth

Persona

Nerd of Mouth

The Last Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Leisure, Video Games

4.7606 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2017

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Jake and Holden explain the monolithic history of the Persona video game series, and Holden chooses his waifu.

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0:00.0

Hold in you,

0:03.0

Hold in, you son of a bitch! Hey, got an idea Let's do the persona series It'll be fun The new game just come out And I was like, oh yeah, that'll be fun We did a lot of stuff I mean, I didn't play it, but like It'll be fine And then you were like, oh no I didn't really play really play it either. I just kind of played half of one.

0:37.9

And then he'd be like, oh, well, how hard can't be?

0:40.2

It's just one game series.

0:41.8

It's not like every single entry in the entire fucking series takes 200 bazillion hours.

0:50.5

You fucking idiot.

0:51.8

Why are we doing this?

0:53.5

The Megami Tinsay series was originally based on a series of books called Digital Devil Story.

1:00.0

Okay, we're going to get into this in the late 80s, the digital devil story, colonel,

1:04.9

MaGami Tensei reincarnation of the goddess.

1:07.8

It's about the goddess's reincarnation.

1:09.7

No, it's not.

1:10.4

It's about a fucking pissy nerd that built a computer program that could kill bullies for him.

1:16.2

Cyberpunk through and through while all the other JRPs were trying to be fantasy and, you know,

1:22.4

swords and dragons.

1:24.0

This series proved to be something different.

1:26.6

Jake, I cannot wait to do an entire

1:29.1

episode or more. I don't know how many is it's going to happen. We're doing one because we're

1:33.4

going to be stuck here forever. I'm not going to be trapped in the fucking dark zone with you.

1:38.9

Because, okay, in the 80s, it was a book. Then in 1987, it was a Famicom game called Magami Tense. Then in 1992,

1:47.0

Atlas, the developers of the original series were like, fuck those books. We're going to make a new story and called it Shin or true Magami Tensei, which was a departure and it was all about like the apocalypse.

1:59.0

Then, then in 94, they're like, oh, here's a fun idea.

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