So now that I can read this: the leaving at the end of the year thing is kind of What Happens with Persona games, although there were better reasons for it in Persona 3 and 4. I always had the impression that him being in Tokyo was only to do with probation, though it's never explained why his parents aren't involved, unless that's something where the translation glitched and we're meant to interpret it as his parents being well rid of him, but no longer willing to pay his upkeep with Sojiro? I'm not sure.
I wanted more of an update on Akechi, too :(
I also agree that the end of the casino was in a lot of ways more epic than the actual end; I loved everything about that stage of things. I also really appreciated the bits we got to see of people trying to preserve what Shido had accomplished.
One thread I super appreciated throughout the game was Sae; suspicion into belief into unwitting accomplice into intentional accomplice, and then especially the way she closed things out; she knew there had to be a fall, and she knew MC was most capable of taking it, and she trusted him, and then she didn't betray him. Sae is just. Gosh. WOW.
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I wanted more of an update on Akechi, too :(
I also agree that the end of the casino was in a lot of ways more epic than the actual end; I loved everything about that stage of things. I also really appreciated the bits we got to see of people trying to preserve what Shido had accomplished.
One thread I super appreciated throughout the game was Sae; suspicion into belief into unwitting accomplice into intentional accomplice, and then especially the way she closed things out; she knew there had to be a fall, and she knew MC was most capable of taking it, and she trusted him, and then she didn't betray him. Sae is just. Gosh. WOW.