![]() The Caligula Effect was in no position to make waves upon its release in 2016. I found Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth to be one and valued it for not betraying its principles, and am always looking for works in similar spirit for the affection I feel toward the tenets these games at their best can embody. ![]() I've come to consider this an extant sub-genre or niche of sorts, informed primarily by my own antipathy toward its roots-a genre of "Better Personas", to be as prosaic as possible. Persona as an institution is a house of cards, but with the popularity it's achieved, there also come ripples in its wake in the form of works inspired by its influential model. Maybe some of it lives up to the premise-personally I hold the first game dear-but the mass breakthroughs experienced by the series in the last 15 years or so have been synonymous to me with its flaunting of disingenuous moralizing, ethical bankruptcy, constant punching down and taking the path of least resistance to the most profits, in propping up and perpetuating the systems its ostensibly rebellious underdog messaging serves to critique. Teenage societal anxieties filter through a melange of Jungian psychobabble and modern-occult flourishings to a concoction that's rarely attempted elsewhere in its specifics or as arrestingly in the execution. Persona should be one of the best video game series going, by all rights.
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