to who ever thought of implementing the "ambush by breaking throw windows and taking the shadow's mask while the glass is still shattering behind you in slow motion" thank you . I didn't know i wanted to see that until I did
This theme and the setting for Okinawa’s Jail make it a pretty damn memorable one in the game, even though it’s pretty short. That and Ryuji finally said the f word in a Persona game.
This jail was so good. Easily the best one, imo. The tonal shift from the first three jails, even the sudden surprise of people hunting you down in real life, so well executed, and fantastically paced too, just as the typical jail format was maybe starting to get old. It went from "okay, just another jail" to suddenly something totally different in every way, and it's where the story really takes off and gets interesting, and of course this theme perfectly captures the mystery and the dread that this jail is supposed to convey. and by that I mean this jail sucks because of that one room where you have to wait for the hooks.
@@questionmarkquestionmarkques I actually really like how short they are. The lengthier jails kinda overstay their welcome sometimes, and having these two jails be short means you get back into the story sooner.
I agree with the first half of your comment. I personally didn't like how short this Jail and Kyoto were. The same goes for the final two Jails (avoiding spoilers). If they were a tad longer and weren't just one large map with no loading screens, I think they would have been a little better. But this Jail is towards the top of my list as well, considering the music, and tonal shift. This is when, for the lack of a better term, "shit got real."
Seriously! Always loved his "leaping flip off the rise into 3 point hero landing" of other jails, but saw this one and thought "Aw crap, things just got serious!"
The tonal shift in this area is crazy, it's like I was thrown into a completely different game. The isolated setting, eerineess and abandoned lab made for such a chilling and memorable jail
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Best name for the song of the first jail. Ubukata gave EMMA knowledge to change hearts and made him a monarch only to realize that he was used and could not fix the problem that EMMA was going to manipulate people.
Feels like something that would play when you're watching a doctor attempt to bring someone back from the grave, no matter how costly or questionable the procedure would be.
When I first got into Strikers I thought "Huh, so Jail Monarchs are supposed to be pitiable characters that we'll feel bad for". Needless to say I was absolutely shocked when I got here in the game. This is perhaps my favorite track in the game save for Daredevil and I gotta say, I was a bit disappointed that I didn't get to meet the Monarch of Okinawa. Like, if Alice, Natsume and Mariko all had those tough dungeons and were actually good people, just imagine what kind of a person was behind the Okinawa Jail, considering he had awareness of what he was doing.
The ambiguity is what creates tension and atmosphere but I'd love to see this plot point reprised in a future sequel. Anyway seeing the remains of a persons mind who was driven to insanity was incredible, too bad the final villain was such a pushover, they shouldn't have redeemed ichinose.
Isn't the Okinawa Jail Monarch long dead by the time you reach said Jail? That's sorta the point, we're to realise at this point that the Monarchs are just as vulnerable, just as used as those they force their rule upon
mod idea, final boss is an amalgamation of the researcher made undead and you have to kill him three times, the boss getting more frantic but also more clear in speech each time (thinking joy mutant) and you have to put him out of his misery and then konoe blames you for killing his employee
This is legit, one of the best dungeon themes I've ever heard. The melody is haunting and perfectly conveys the feeling/atmosphere. I'm kinda surprised they didn't use it for the final dungeon, as it definitely sounds like a final dungeon type of song.
You probably already knew this, but I'm gonna repeat it for those who don't care about spoilers. **inhale** This is actually the first jail, and the reason it looks so abandoned was because the jail's monarch died. (Probably not the actual reason, but hey, at least i tried.)
SPOILERS What I love about this song is that it feels like sadness, mystery and horror, like something horrible is going on and it’s much worse that someone can think about. And in the end it’s true because ONLY IN THIS JAIL the locals brainwashed by EMMA became murderers. In the other jails the people who got their desires stolen just became crazy fanatics with no free will, but in this case they also became murderers who killed everyone who enter their “temple”. Madicce knew about this and covered everything and what’s worse, when the locals regained their desires, they didn’t remember anything about the horrible things that they did to the tourists. Probably if one of them discovered about everything, that person would be shocked and filled with guilt and impotence, maybe with a desire to end his/her own life to atone for the murders. I love how this song embraces everything about this jail, from what we play to where what could happen after the jail closed.
I beat 5S this morning, and I have one complaint and it’s entirely personal. I wish the Jails, specifically Okinawa and Kyoto, were longer. They felt really short compared to the Palaces of the first game.
Weird. Okinawa and Kyoto were my #1 and #2 favourite jails respectively. Maybe the length is actually related in my case because probably the longest Jail, Alice's one, was last on my list.
Uncomfortable, that's what this made me feel, but in the best way. Someone was waiting at the entrance for us to be done, and I was worried about them. The shadows took a new form I wasn't expecting that disturbed me deeply. The whole storyline of the place was a chilling surprise. And the mystery of the whole ordeal was really starting to creep me out. ... And then I had to wait for a crane so I could move forward.
i mean hey at least with the cranes you got a good view of makoto's ass... you WERE looking at makoto's ass when you were hanging on the crane, like a normal person, right?
at least you can jump on the crane at any time, you don't have to wait for it to be in a specific spot. THAT would really make this a nightmare. it's still annoying, but not quite as much as mechanics like this that i've seen in other games.
@@eclecticspaghetti Yeah, and if you can jump just right, you can shorten some parts but... eugh, that whole storage room around the end where you have to ride around 3 cranes to get around, not to mention all the requests pertaining to that room... Okinawa's jail was... probably my least favorite from a gameplay standpoint but, even the worst was still really good. The window breaking mechanic was fun as hell and this was the first jail that did it and the aesthetic and story were off the charts.
I don't think anyone will read this, but I just want to throw my opinion out. Also, spoilers for the fourth Jail. Whoever was in charge of making the whole ambient of Okinawa was a freaking genius. You get to the island and everything is bright, everyone is friendly, you get the beach part and everyone is happy. The whole ambient is just so lively. The Madicce building is closed, but hey, no big deal. Then the locals raid the RV at night with murderous intent and everything just goes spiraling down. You enter the Jail and this really unsettling music starts, the whole place is worn, dark and abandoned. You meet some new Shadows, the Bombers and they just melt into the floor, you learn about the creation of the Penitentiary System, the Jails and the demise of the Monarch Ubukata. It's all just so dark and heavy all of a sudden. The Jail is a little short, but it makes sense as it's the first one and having just a Lock Keeper as the boss instead of it's Monarch makes it feel like Madicce was pushing a project they hadn't fully understand yet (though it makes sense as the Jail outlived Ubukata, so to speak). I don't know you guys, but these Jail and it's music just give me a bad gut feeling and the sensation of needing to get out immediately. Also, spoilers for the end of the game, having The Reaper show up here just makes total sense considering how this was the first Jail, the death of it's Monarch and the current state of the place. It all just fits so perfectly.
Very nice analysis, for me, this game started being a 7/10 then it went down to a 6/10 because some things were very repetitive and the story wasn't going anywhere, and then it suddenly became a 9/10 when you get to this part of the story, great development for the second half of the game
@@JoseABN8 I'm hearing Ben Diskin in Ubukata. Not sure who's the Japanese voice actor of him though. I feel like they should at least reveal that considering he was responsible for giving EMMA the ability to change hearts, making him a monarch of Okinawa, and manipulating the residents.
The fuzz on the guitar is so well done. It feels like someone screaming in agony, especially when it gets to the “chorus” of this song. This theme was one of the few to strike me immediately when I first heard it. Absolutely chilling, and perfect for this Jail.
I really wish this area was a lot longer in the game. It had me so hooked, I was ready to take on a lengthy jail with this theme playing and how the area was.
[Spoilers for this dungeon below] That beeping sound kinda sounds like a Heart-Monitor. Considering what may've went down here and the kinds of Personas and Shadows you run into, it wouldnt surprise me if the whole human-experimentation wasnt exactly a clean affair. Love this dungeon, love this theme, kinda wish it wasnt so short but in hindsight that may be the point. No monarch, no Prison Keeps, just an old, forgotten lab within the congnitive world where not even some of the Shadows have proper-physical form. Oh and Ryuji the fking *goat*, he's definitely competing with Zenkichi for Favorite Character.
My favourite Jail in the whole game. The lab atmosphere combines brilliantly with this theme and the various tape recordings to give you a sense of unease and dread that no other Jail can replicate; especially the one that records half of a blood curdling scream. This was an amazing Jail to play through and I look forward to it again on my New Game+ file
@@AviorGloria Tbf Undertale is like Persona and SMT in a lot of ways. They are both amazing games/Franchises with some fairly cringey and toxic fanbases.
They really know how to make emotionally charged songs in the Persona franchise, even strikers with all its cool rock/metal remixes and stuff got this, one of my favorite themes ever, charged with so much sadness and mystery, it gave me a really bad feeling and the tape recordings even more so, cant wait to see what else the game has in store
Yeah, this jail creeped me out. If there's anything that could've really tipped it over the edge is if something was chasing you if you spent too long in a place. I could just imagine that the Jails monarch could be resurrected as some sort of abomination and sent personally to hunt you down, and you would have to fight him off multiple times. Something like that would just turn the horror up to an 11 for me.
I had an idea that the warden could pose as the monarch. Like, you’d meet the monarch and he’d spout some dialogue, laugh at how you’re all going to die, and then vanish. The gang wonders why he isn’t trapped in the birdcage, but continue anyways. Then, the next encounter, he seems more beaten up, more damaged. His words are also far more ominous. As he speaks his last line and disappears, his face seems to rot before your eyes. From that point on, whenever you look behind you, there’s a chance he’s just there, behind a corner, staring at you. When you try to get close, he vanishes. Then you reach the birdcage, where he’s initially nowhere to be found. As you approach, emma starts to speak, and we get the regular cutscene. Then, suddenly, he’s there, back turned towards you. He creepily chuckles, shouts that you’re going to die now, turns around and reveals his now zombie-like appearance, and transforms into the warden. You fight him, and afterwards, the gang reflects on the fate of the monarch, how he was so consumed by his trauma that it drove him to suicide and then literally became him.
This is seriously the point in the game where the tone changes, like everything in the game after the fourth jail just gets serious and way more dire. The scary ambience in this jail without a monarch was a perfect way for them to make the transition. I love and hate this song, it's scary but that guitar is so badass.
This really does give vibes of Infernal Tokyo from SMT IV. Hell, it sounds more like a song from there than it does one from a Persona game. The dissonance works where it's used, too.
Spoilers for this jail's monarch: The guitar at 1:21 always makes me think of Ubukata's desperation during that fourth recording when he "put an end to it". Probably my favorite jail so far just because of how emotional the music makes me.
At the start of the Jail, I thought, "Oh, the Monarch must be some mad scientist-type Professor-Hojo-from-FF7 wannabe." Imagine my surprise when that particular type of encounter was three Jails later...
@@iancomtois9832 I was kinda hoping for a "Monster of Frankenstein"-like boss for this fourth Jail, but that was still during the Japanese trailers phase.
I just beat the game and gotta say this Jail was my favorite just because it was so different. There was a point where I couldn't figure out how to get out of a room that only had those windows you can ambush through. And I finally realized the way to get out was to jump and I thought about why I forgot I could jump in the game, and I realized it's because I thought I was playing Persona 5 Royal. This Jail is so different in terms of structure and vibe it made me think I was playing P5R and honestly, that is such a massive plus for me.
This doesn't even feel like persona 5 anymore. It's very similar to the third semester palace of royal. Just a complete shift in tone. This is like persona 2 here. Or just straight up smt.
Im not done with the game but Jail 4 is my favorite. The complete tonal shift between the traditional P5 dungeons of Jails 1-3 is so fucking good. I commend Royal for doing it’s own thing, but the P3/4 vibes Jail 4 gives are so fucking amazing its hard not to love. Sophia’s past, the much better done conspiracy when compared to P5, and all the lovecraft influences in this dungeon make it so fucking good. For once in the P5 games something isn’t presented as a wonderful over the top marvel and instead is treated seriously. I’m not knocking P5 but god i missed this presentation and tone. Update: I’ve beaten the game, and this comment is still accurate. The Okinawa Jail is still my favorite and the tonal shift is still much appreciated.
For me Okinawa is up there for the tonal shift, and Osaka is up there for Anti HERO and Welcome to the Jail~ Another Version. God there was no reason to make that Jail bop as hard as it did. I was jamming nonstop.
What are u talking about all of p5 dungeons are been taking seriously not everything it been taking as an over the top, u may be didn't understand the things I playing
@@john_7000 what i mean by “taken seriously” is that in P5, the dungeons are all very showy and flamboyant, jumping around buildings, scaling a castle, etc. In the other games there’s no sense of showoffness that P5 has, and Okinawa doesnt radiate that same vibe. An example is: In Kamoshida’s palace, you’re jumping around the outside of a castle and doing a bunch of cinematic shit for the sake of the game looking cool. In Yukiko’s Castle in P4 you’re just looking around a castle for your friend, nothing special or showy.
*Listens to first tape recording* "This is the operation that our researchers...no, humanity's pleas! I wish all subjects of this experiment realize their own happiness! IF I completed the Jail system, humanity shall be freed from their pain! Come, let us toast! For this great operation, and the glory of humanity! With the power of EMMA, this shall be fulfilled!" *Music continues to play indefinitely during recordings and Jail* .....This is gonna be one hell of a trip, isn't it? 😮
This isn't scary or horror to me. This is outright sad to me. Kinda shows how the Metaverse can be used for ulterior motives, and...how cruel Madicce truly is Edit: Damn, EMMA, damn... Maddicce isn't evil here, I feel bad for Maddicee.
Remember what zenkichi said during the 3rd jail, "whos to say one evil is worse than another?" Just because Emma was bad too on its own doesn't make maddice good
A little bit of irony about this jail. Arahabaki is based on Dogū which was made all over Japan except Okinawa. And the demon was placed here as a normal encounter. Funny.
What if the Reaper was actually that Monarch of that jail and he couldn't not rest but became the prisoner and death itself and this theme actually did fit well for him, the location.
Listening to this theme now I get chills all over again. This point in the game had such a major change in tone. Similar to the original game, the first few jails are pretty straightforward. You see the Thieves fighting for justice, but ultimately still enjoying their vacation as well. But then you get to Okinawa, where you are suddenly chased by a mob of delirious zealots. The abandoned research facility itself looked very creepy already, but once you enter the jail and this theme starts playing, you really start to realize something sinister happened here. The fact that the jail itself is without a monarch is haunting, but listening to those tapes and encountering significantly more of those shapeless blob shadows than in other jails, was SO creepy. Finding out what happened to the original owner made me so freaked out, and this music is just the cherry on top, perfectly encapsulating the feeling I got when I explored this jail.
This is the most interesting Jail of the whole game, not only did it change the status quo that the first three Jails have but also, this is the very first jail created by EMMA after Ichinose sold her to Konoe and for the late research director, Shuzo Ubukata, being the monarch and the results of the research ending with Ubukata being the test monarch, going insane and committing suicide after Konoe demanded him to surrender his stolen desires, which the eerie factor pretty much establishes what happens to jails when their monarch dies before the Lock Keeper, with the Prison Keeps and core disappearing, along with his Trauma Cell dematerializing , rendering the Lock Keeper (Thankfully) mute, forcing it to flee to the jail and fill in for him. Kinda deep when you think about it...
Kinda late maybe But i love how this is basically a mental graveyard. The monarch is DEAD. And if i remember well the corpse was found recently so maybe he was dead way long before the events? (Makes the fact the jail is still there creepier honestly) Imagine if one jail was a vengeful spirit or ghost's cognition. (Persona 6 please make a creepy ghost character) Or what if the monarch was already a spirit and kept the jail alive for the thieves to find clues for revenge?
this jail is so depressing, the music, the abandoned rooms, debris everywhere, ghost shadows, and the fact that its owner is dead and wasn't found until after the jail was cleared, the music.. and then the reaper in the boss room..
I absolutely adore this jail's theme. The guitar sounds disgusting in an amazing way, if that makes any sense Like muffled, forgotten screams of people trapped her long ago
Not gonna lie, I was a bit disappointed that the story wasn't a lot darker. That's how good this theme is. Reminds me of the research facility in Nier Replicant.
True the story itself isn't very dark, but pair it with P5/P5R and you get a grim reality to think about. The people were freed of The God of Control once before, but when that one fell they just made a new monster to bow and submit to, it's a depressing idea that makes you wonder if there's hope for the world of Persona 5
The music is the best among all the jail theme. The strong feeling of uncertainity, as well as the horror elements, while making it badass with the violin theme in it. such magnificent piece
Now this is a bonafide classical JRPG soundtrack for a dungeon. I surely wasn't expecting it in a Persona 5 game, since it tends to have its own style which I even like. I don't know why, since I'm not accustomed with music theory, but it reminds me a lot of some Trails' (Kiseki's) dungeon-soundtracks.
I do not normally leave comments. But I want to say I completed Strikers a couple days ago. For some reason, this jail and this song, stick out. I mean sure the 2 others also are memorable despite being short as hell. But this jail...Never have I been in a place so horrifying and tense yet so mysterious it peaks at your curiosity and makes you say "how far are you willing to go?" The hooks really do slow things down, but somehow I feel like it adds to the tension. You're trying to avoid the bombers which melt into the floor and explode if you get too close, and there are many yellow to red shadows in that room which I feel if you were playing on hard modes, would NOT be great for you if spotted. I do see why the hooks seem to kill the pace. I however, did like exploring the whole place. Plus never had a theme for a dungeon make me feel so tense and uncomfortable and yet made me want to go deeper to learn the truth of the jail
Right when i was like "yea this aint it it already got very repetitive" this happens i gotta say i wasnt surprised but i was definitely very happy, i knew they had to make the game feel fresh again somehow and they did it.
Imagine if there was a Persona game where you have to find a cognitive murderer and to find clues, you basically have to enter the Palace/Jail of the victims. Palaces could work similar to human bodies in the sense that after death, there's a decomposition process. The Palace begins to rot and break down, vital structures within the Palace wither and rot while maggots (Shadows) begin infesting the Palace. As the protagonist (either a Mortuary, a Morgue Doctor, or something of a similar profession), you end up entering the victim's Palace and collect clues that no one could have found within the real world. But the killer by this point is a professional and would have left next to nothing in terms of evidence. So you'd have to go backwards. Several years worth of bodies, each in a more horrendously rotted state than before, until you finally get to the Palace (well, I guess you could probably call them Cemeteries) of the very first victim, which is the equivalent of a nuclear wasteland. And while all this is happening, you also have to tackle your own sanity as your mind is tearing itself apart while trying to cope with the beautiful horrors of the cognitive world.
to who ever thought of implementing the "ambush by breaking throw windows and taking the shadow's mask while the glass is still shattering behind you in slow motion" thank you . I didn't know i wanted to see that until I did
Yea same lol
Right!?
same
That was so badass!!
Yeah it is pretty awesome
This theme and the setting for Okinawa’s Jail make it a pretty damn memorable one in the game, even though it’s pretty short. That and Ryuji finally said the f word in a Persona game.
Loved that part. Especially the bait-and-switch reaction from Morgana.
Didn't he say the f-word at some point in the main game too?
I replayed P5 a few months ago and realised he does say it during Futaba’s Palace. Not vocally, but it is in the text box.
fans: let!!! ryuji!!! say!!! fuck!!!
atlus: ok
*insert cutscene where ryuji says fuck*
fans: thank u i can die in peace now
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This jail was so good. Easily the best one, imo. The tonal shift from the first three jails, even the sudden surprise of people hunting you down in real life, so well executed, and fantastically paced too, just as the typical jail format was maybe starting to get old. It went from "okay, just another jail" to suddenly something totally different in every way, and it's where the story really takes off and gets interesting, and of course this theme perfectly captures the mystery and the dread that this jail is supposed to convey.
and by that I mean this jail sucks because of that one room where you have to wait for the hooks.
you had me in the first half, not gonna lie.
honestly it had so much potential but it was so short, same with kyoto
@@questionmarkquestionmarkques I actually really like how short they are. The lengthier jails kinda overstay their welcome sometimes, and having these two jails be short means you get back into the story sooner.
I agree with the first half of your comment. I personally didn't like how short this Jail and Kyoto were. The same goes for the final two Jails (avoiding spoilers). If they were a tad longer and weren't just one large map with no loading screens, I think they would have been a little better. But this Jail is towards the top of my list as well, considering the music, and tonal shift. This is when, for the lack of a better term, "shit got real."
@@MSMProductionsCT totally agree. when i said wasted potential i mean in dungeon design and length. i really enjoyed the tonal shift
This somehow made Joker simply stepping into the jail more badass than it needed to be.
*Tightens glove before taking first step into Jail.*
**Zenkichi waves in the background**
Seriously! Always loved his "leaping flip off the rise into 3 point hero landing" of other jails, but saw this one and thought "Aw crap, things just got serious!"
The tonal shift in this area is crazy, it's like I was thrown into a completely different game. The isolated setting, eerineess and abandoned lab made for such a chilling and memorable jail
yeah it’s like after sapporo all the jails suddenly just are good
Right? Like one moment we were in a snowy kingdom from like KH or something and then BAM, welcome to Resident Evil 4/Undertale True Lab bitch!
And the fact that it has no monarchs because the monarch was gone, it creates an eerie aspect
Felt like Resident Evil.
@@4EverSmiles Especially with those disturbing tape recordings left behind.
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Best name for the song of the first jail. Ubukata gave EMMA knowledge to change hearts and made him a monarch only to realize that he was used and could not fix the problem that EMMA was going to manipulate people.
Y'all really gonna ignore that this jail is where the reaper is located due to the death of the monarch
....fuuuuck, I didn't even think about that.
But wait...that's also where Mara ends up.
😳
Rigor mortis made hime erect 😉
@@DopeioThePhoneBoi maybe the monarch was a dick?
@@blazetbd1102 monarch is a synonym for king. therefore...
The monarch could’ve been the Throbbing King of Desire
Where can I find him?
This music is literally beautiful. The violins are perfect, then the rock that comes in is pretty metal ngl
As haunting as it may be, it was badass. the music screams mystery and despair.
Feels like something that would play when you're watching a doctor attempt to bring someone back from the grave, no matter how costly or questionable the procedure would be.
It would be good for a tragic villain origin
When I first got into Strikers I thought "Huh, so Jail Monarchs are supposed to be pitiable characters that we'll feel bad for". Needless to say I was absolutely shocked when I got here in the game. This is perhaps my favorite track in the game save for Daredevil and I gotta say, I was a bit disappointed that I didn't get to meet the Monarch of Okinawa. Like, if Alice, Natsume and Mariko all had those tough dungeons and were actually good people, just imagine what kind of a person was behind the Okinawa Jail, considering he had awareness of what he was doing.
The ambiguity is what creates tension and atmosphere but I'd love to see this plot point reprised in a future sequel.
Anyway seeing the remains of a persons mind who was driven to insanity was incredible, too bad the final villain was such a pushover, they shouldn't have redeemed ichinose.
And by that I mean I wish the final boss had darker tones that carried on from this dungeon.
I feel like you can make comparisons to Royal's 3rd Semster Palace Ruler to where their goals may have been heading
Isn't the Okinawa Jail Monarch long dead by the time you reach said Jail?
That's sorta the point, we're to realise at this point that the Monarchs are just as vulnerable, just as used as those they force their rule upon
mod idea, final boss is an amalgamation of the researcher made undead and you have to kill him three times, the boss getting more frantic but also more clear in speech each time (thinking joy mutant)
and you have to put him out of his misery
and then konoe blames you for killing his employee
This is legit, one of the best dungeon themes I've ever heard. The melody is haunting and perfectly conveys the feeling/atmosphere.
I'm kinda surprised they didn't use it for the final dungeon, as it definitely sounds like a final dungeon type of song.
You probably already knew this, but I'm gonna repeat it for those who don't care about spoilers. **inhale**
This is actually the first jail, and the reason it looks so abandoned was because the jail's monarch died. (Probably not the actual reason, but hey, at least i tried.)
I almost thought it was, seeing as how some of it sounds like Welcome to the Jail. It would've been pretty poetic.
@@ThisIsActuallyJiji Indeed, it was the trial jail, created shortly after madicce acquired EMMA.
SPOILERS
What I love about this song is that it feels like sadness, mystery and horror, like something horrible is going on and it’s much worse that someone can think about. And in the end it’s true because ONLY IN THIS JAIL the locals brainwashed by EMMA became murderers. In the other jails the people who got their desires stolen just became crazy fanatics with no free will, but in this case they also became murderers who killed everyone who enter their “temple”. Madicce knew about this and covered everything and what’s worse, when the locals regained their desires, they didn’t remember anything about the horrible things that they did to the tourists. Probably if one of them discovered about everything, that person would be shocked and filled with guilt and impotence, maybe with a desire to end his/her own life to atone for the murders. I love how this song embraces everything about this jail, from what we play to where what could happen after the jail closed.
No other bodies ever turned up. It's likely the thieves were the only ones who actively made any attempt to get in.
I beat 5S this morning, and I have one complaint and it’s entirely personal. I wish the Jails, specifically Okinawa and Kyoto, were longer. They felt really short compared to the Palaces of the first game.
Weird. Okinawa and Kyoto were my #1 and #2 favourite jails respectively. Maybe the length is actually related in my case because probably the longest Jail, Alice's one, was last on my list.
I like how short and to the point they were. Along with the final jails being pretty short as well.
akira and alice's dungeons were my fav. for me personally the last two abyss and tree of knowledge dungeons were way too short.
@@prasunkumar1125 Agreed there. Those also should have been longer.
Yeah, it's mostly due to the lack of a secure route moment and a calling card.
Uncomfortable, that's what this made me feel, but in the best way.
Someone was waiting at the entrance for us to be done, and I was worried about them.
The shadows took a new form I wasn't expecting that disturbed me deeply.
The whole storyline of the place was a chilling surprise.
And the mystery of the whole ordeal was really starting to creep me out.
... And then I had to wait for a crane so I could move forward.
i mean hey at least with the cranes you got a good view of makoto's ass...
you WERE looking at makoto's ass when you were hanging on the crane, like a normal person, right?
@@Nova-_- ... So anyway, the wait for the crane, jesus christ...
@@Nova-_- Why are you Makoto fans like this, bruh.
at least you can jump on the crane at any time, you don't have to wait for it to be in a specific spot. THAT would really make this a nightmare. it's still annoying, but not quite as much as mechanics like this that i've seen in other games.
@@eclecticspaghetti Yeah, and if you can jump just right, you can shorten some parts but... eugh, that whole storage room around the end where you have to ride around 3 cranes to get around, not to mention all the requests pertaining to that room...
Okinawa's jail was... probably my least favorite from a gameplay standpoint but, even the worst was still really good. The window breaking mechanic was fun as hell and this was the first jail that did it and the aesthetic and story were off the charts.
I don't think anyone will read this, but I just want to throw my opinion out. Also, spoilers for the fourth Jail.
Whoever was in charge of making the whole ambient of Okinawa was a freaking genius.
You get to the island and everything is bright, everyone is friendly, you get the beach part and everyone is happy. The whole ambient is just so lively. The Madicce building is closed, but hey, no big deal.
Then the locals raid the RV at night with murderous intent and everything just goes spiraling down.
You enter the Jail and this really unsettling music starts, the whole place is worn, dark and abandoned. You meet some new Shadows, the Bombers and they just melt into the floor, you learn about the creation of the Penitentiary System, the Jails and the demise of the Monarch Ubukata. It's all just so dark and heavy all of a sudden.
The Jail is a little short, but it makes sense as it's the first one and having just a Lock Keeper as the boss instead of it's Monarch makes it feel like Madicce was pushing a project they hadn't fully understand yet (though it makes sense as the Jail outlived Ubukata, so to speak).
I don't know you guys, but these Jail and it's music just give me a bad gut feeling and the sensation of needing to get out immediately.
Also, spoilers for the end of the game, having The Reaper show up here just makes total sense considering how this was the first Jail, the death of it's Monarch and the current state of the place. It all just fits so perfectly.
Two months late but I read it, and I like this take
@@bowlofriskies6486 Hey thanks, I'm glad you liked it.
Very nice analysis, for me, this game started being a 7/10 then it went down to a 6/10 because some things were very repetitive and the story wasn't going anywhere, and then it suddenly became a 9/10 when you get to this part of the story, great development for the second half of the game
@@JoseABN8 I'm hearing Ben Diskin in Ubukata. Not sure who's the Japanese voice actor of him though. I feel like they should at least reveal that considering he was responsible for giving EMMA the ability to change hearts, making him a monarch of Okinawa, and manipulating the residents.
@@MsGothlover
Konoe was the one who gave EMMA that technology.
Playing this now and hearing the melody w/ the jail, it’s a chilling vibe
This Jail was lowkey horrifiying tbh, like I was lowkey expecting some horrific mutant creature to just jump me outta nowhere at points.
I mean some of the sludge looking shadows randomly pop in out of nowhere in front of you and explode on you. It literally made me jump the first time
They should have had some grotesque shadow mutant be the end boss for this Jail
I mean, there's Mara... And the Reaper.
@@davidgeorge1943 mara haunts my nightmares
@@davidgeorge1943 And that green multiheaded shadow with the lock bling around its neck... Can't remember it's name...
The fuzz on the guitar is so well done. It feels like someone screaming in agony, especially when it gets to the “chorus” of this song. This theme was one of the few to strike me immediately when I first heard it. Absolutely chilling, and perfect for this Jail.
@Wannabe! ...wait, there was a guitar?
It sounds scary and of pain, absolute banger
I really wish this area was a lot longer in the game. It had me so hooked, I was ready to take on a lengthy jail with this theme playing and how the area was.
Hooked. Lol.
This track honestly feels like a Binding of Isaac final floor.
It's just so bleak, empty but emotional.
One of the best tracks in the game.
Name?
[Spoilers for this dungeon below]
That beeping sound kinda sounds like a Heart-Monitor. Considering what may've went down here and the kinds of Personas and Shadows you run into, it wouldnt surprise me if the whole human-experimentation wasnt exactly a clean affair.
Love this dungeon, love this theme, kinda wish it wasnt so short but in hindsight that may be the point. No monarch, no Prison Keeps, just an old, forgotten lab within the congnitive world where not even some of the Shadows have proper-physical form.
Oh and Ryuji the fking *goat*, he's definitely competing with Zenkichi for Favorite Character.
This Jail was certainly something
Just reached this jail today and to say the very fucking least Makoto wasnt the only one to shit herself
This is when the story starts to really get serious.
My favourite Jail in the whole game. The lab atmosphere combines brilliantly with this theme and the various tape recordings to give you a sense of unease and dread that no other Jail can replicate; especially the one that records half of a blood curdling scream. This was an amazing Jail to play through and I look forward to it again on my New Game+ file
This song accompanied with how the jail was and looked gave me some serious alphys new laboratory from undertale kinda vibe and I loved it
This was my exact thought, interesting to see I was not the only one
Oh yeah
Dude I used to love Undertale, i've kind of forgotten about it recently tho
This was a nice comment until you mentioned undertale.
it's more classic persona than undertale
@@AviorGloria Tbf Undertale is like Persona and SMT in a lot of ways.
They are both amazing games/Franchises with some fairly cringey and toxic fanbases.
Wow.....
Just fucking wow.
This theme alone makes me excited as to what dungeon this is (though I have a hunch of which one it is).
The Reaper: This place is so paceful, nothing can ruin this day
Phantom thieves with NG+ have enter to the jail
Reaper: Let me out!!!!!!
merciless mode reaper: summon every dire demon in the entire game
@@prasunkumar1125 the Reaper only spawns Mithras, Eligor, Yatagarasu, and Archangel
accurate. :)
I just started my merciless playthrough, but please tell me
WHO THE FUCK THOUGHT THAT WAS A GOOD IDEA
@@c.c.6538 To be fair, it *is* called *Merciless* mode! XD
[Clicks tape]
**UNHOLY SCREAMING**
Futaba: WHAT THE CRAP WAS THAT
They really know how to make emotionally charged songs in the Persona franchise, even strikers with all its cool rock/metal remixes and stuff got this, one of my favorite themes ever, charged with so much sadness and mystery, it gave me a really bad feeling and the tape recordings even more so, cant wait to see what else the game has in store
Yeah, this jail creeped me out. If there's anything that could've really tipped it over the edge is if something was chasing you if you spent too long in a place. I could just imagine that the Jails monarch could be resurrected as some sort of abomination and sent personally to hunt you down, and you would have to fight him off multiple times. Something like that would just turn the horror up to an 11 for me.
DUDE, IF THE REAPER COULD SHOW UP IN SPECIFICALLY THIS DUNGEON IF YOU TOOK TOO LONG INSTEAD OF JUST A POSTGAME BOSS THAT WOULD BE CRAZY
Honestly I wouldn't change a thing. Maybe make it a little longer but it was still a super creepy Jail
I had an idea that the warden could pose as the monarch. Like, you’d meet the monarch and he’d spout some dialogue, laugh at how you’re all going to die, and then vanish. The gang wonders why he isn’t trapped in the birdcage, but continue anyways. Then, the next encounter, he seems more beaten up, more damaged. His words are also far more ominous. As he speaks his last line and disappears, his face seems to rot before your eyes. From that point on, whenever you look behind you, there’s a chance he’s just there, behind a corner, staring at you. When you try to get close, he vanishes. Then you reach the birdcage, where he’s initially nowhere to be found. As you approach, emma starts to speak, and we get the regular cutscene. Then, suddenly, he’s there, back turned towards you. He creepily chuckles, shouts that you’re going to die now, turns around and reveals his now zombie-like appearance, and transforms into the warden. You fight him, and afterwards, the gang reflects on the fate of the monarch, how he was so consumed by his trauma that it drove him to suicide and then literally became him.
This is seriously the point in the game where the tone changes, like everything in the game after the fourth jail just gets serious and way more dire. The scary ambience in this jail without a monarch was a perfect way for them to make the transition. I love and hate this song, it's scary but that guitar is so badass.
This really does give vibes of Infernal Tokyo from SMT IV. Hell, it sounds more like a song from there than it does one from a Persona game.
The dissonance works where it's used, too.
*the flower's gone*
Undertale reference...I love it. :)
I'm glad someone else thought of True Lab when playing through this segment
To the person who made the room where you have to hold on hooks that go at a speed of 0.000000000001 Km/h to continue:
🇫 🇻 🇨 🇰 🇾 🇴 🇻
Welcome to Iwatodai, where they experimented on children and only three out of 100 survived.
So similar, yes?
most likely connected to a LOT of persona lore, probably all the way to Persona 2 given the implications of who The Reaper might actually be.
@@Roxas2099ZX If the Reaper really is Tatsuya, I am going to scream... Like, that's terrifying to think about
more similar to p1 lol
Reminds me of a certain red haired man collecting persona fragments
Makoto IRL: 🙂
Makoto in the Metaverse: *"Come at me!"* 😡
_Also_ Makoto in the Metaverse: _"I'm sorry I'm sorry! Help me Sis, I'm scared..!"_ 😫
Our adorable Queen~
Spoilers for this jail's monarch:
The guitar at 1:21 always makes me think of Ubukata's desperation during that fourth recording when he "put an end to it". Probably my favorite jail so far just because of how emotional the music makes me.
At the start of the Jail, I thought, "Oh, the Monarch must be some mad scientist-type Professor-Hojo-from-FF7 wannabe."
Imagine my surprise when that particular type of encounter was three Jails later...
@@iancomtois9832 I was kinda hoping for a "Monster of Frankenstein"-like boss for this fourth Jail, but that was still during the Japanese trailers phase.
I just beat the game and gotta say this Jail was my favorite just because it was so different. There was a point where I couldn't figure out how to get out of a room that only had those windows you can ambush through. And I finally realized the way to get out was to jump and I thought about why I forgot I could jump in the game, and I realized it's because I thought I was playing Persona 5 Royal. This Jail is so different in terms of structure and vibe it made me think I was playing P5R and honestly, that is such a massive plus for me.
This theme was def a surprise and a welcomed one at that
ah singularity
aka when the game gets good imo
Nope. Game was good from the start
The theme of me spending 2 hours grinding for a Resist Bless card because I'm stubborn and I want to use Arséne
SAME...
SAME!!!!
If I turn heel or evil, I will use a entrance theme quite similar to this one.
This doesn't even feel like persona 5 anymore. It's very similar to the third semester palace of royal. Just a complete shift in tone. This is like persona 2 here. Or just straight up smt.
Im not done with the game but Jail 4 is my favorite. The complete tonal shift between the traditional P5 dungeons of Jails 1-3 is so fucking good. I commend Royal for doing it’s own thing, but the P3/4 vibes Jail 4 gives are so fucking amazing its hard not to love.
Sophia’s past, the much better done conspiracy when compared to P5, and all the lovecraft influences in this dungeon make it so fucking good. For once in the P5 games something isn’t presented as a wonderful over the top marvel and instead is treated seriously. I’m not knocking P5 but god i missed this presentation and tone.
Update:
I’ve beaten the game, and this comment is still accurate. The Okinawa Jail is still my favorite and the tonal shift is still much appreciated.
For me Okinawa is up there for the tonal shift, and Osaka is up there for Anti HERO and Welcome to the Jail~ Another Version. God there was no reason to make that Jail bop as hard as it did. I was jamming nonstop.
What are u talking about all of p5 dungeons are been taking seriously not everything it been taking as an over the top, u may be didn't understand the things I playing
Plus p4 is the game that everything felt like scooby doo
@@john_7000 what i mean by “taken seriously” is that in P5, the dungeons are all very showy and flamboyant, jumping around buildings, scaling a castle, etc. In the other games there’s no sense of showoffness that P5 has, and Okinawa doesnt radiate that same vibe.
An example is:
In Kamoshida’s palace, you’re jumping around the outside of a castle and doing a bunch of cinematic shit for the sake of the game looking cool.
In Yukiko’s Castle in P4 you’re just looking around a castle for your friend, nothing special or showy.
This theme is something else...
*Listens to first tape recording*
"This is the operation that our researchers...no, humanity's pleas! I wish all subjects of this experiment realize their own happiness! IF I completed the Jail system, humanity shall be freed from their pain! Come, let us toast! For this great operation, and the glory of humanity! With the power of EMMA, this shall be fulfilled!"
*Music continues to play indefinitely during recordings and Jail* .....This is gonna be one hell of a trip, isn't it? 😮
This isn't scary or horror to me. This is outright sad to me. Kinda shows how the Metaverse can be used for ulterior motives, and...how cruel Madicce truly is
Edit: Damn, EMMA, damn... Maddicce isn't evil here, I feel bad for Maddicee.
After finishing this game, this hits HARD. Now you already know the real motives behind all this
Remember what zenkichi said during the 3rd jail, "whos to say one evil is worse than another?"
Just because Emma was bad too on its own doesn't make maddice good
@@Quilquala Exactly! One evil doesn't forive another, but still, I still kinda sympathise for them, doesnt mean they are not evil.
NGL I knew this game was a great sequel when the tropey beach day part turned into the island cultist horror and terrifying lab part.
1:01 I was suddenly thrown from a Persona game in the first three dungeons to a Shin Megami Tensei game.
This gives my huge World Tree from Xenoblade 2 vibes
yeah
It’s like if someone combined the world tree and Morytha
A little bit of irony about this jail. Arahabaki is based on Dogū which was made all over Japan except Okinawa. And the demon was placed here as a normal encounter. Funny.
Coming back to this song, it's kind of hard to exemplify the raw emotion in it. It kind of simply sounds... sad? Alone?
This song hits so much different when you find out about the owner of the jail
What if the Reaper was actually that Monarch of that jail and he couldn't not rest but became the prisoner and death itself and this theme actually did fit well for him, the location.
Listening to this theme now I get chills all over again. This point in the game had such a major change in tone. Similar to the original game, the first few jails are pretty straightforward. You see the Thieves fighting for justice, but ultimately still enjoying their vacation as well. But then you get to Okinawa, where you are suddenly chased by a mob of delirious zealots. The abandoned research facility itself looked very creepy already, but once you enter the jail and this theme starts playing, you really start to realize something sinister happened here.
The fact that the jail itself is without a monarch is haunting, but listening to those tapes and encountering significantly more of those shapeless blob shadows than in other jails, was SO creepy. Finding out what happened to the original owner made me so freaked out, and this music is just the cherry on top, perfectly encapsulating the feeling I got when I explored this jail.
Sounds like smt4 or 5
This is the most interesting Jail of the whole game, not only did it change the status quo that the first three Jails have but also, this is the very first jail created by EMMA after Ichinose sold her to Konoe and for the late research director, Shuzo Ubukata, being the monarch and the results of the research ending with Ubukata being the test monarch, going insane and committing suicide after Konoe demanded him to surrender his stolen desires, which the eerie factor pretty much establishes what happens to jails when their monarch dies before the Lock Keeper, with the Prison Keeps and core disappearing, along with his Trauma Cell dematerializing , rendering the Lock Keeper (Thankfully) mute, forcing it to flee to the jail and fill in for him. Kinda deep when you think about it...
I played this jail at night. Don't recommend it
I honestly love this jail theme the most everything in this song is just a vibe honestly :)
0:30 - 0:40 Sounds like a theme from Corpse Party.
This theme really seems to speak "Sinister horror lies ahead, turn back"
Kinda late maybe
But i love how this is basically a mental graveyard. The monarch is DEAD. And if i remember well the corpse was found recently so maybe he was dead way long before the events? (Makes the fact the jail is still there creepier honestly)
Imagine if one jail was a vengeful spirit or ghost's cognition. (Persona 6 please make a creepy ghost character)
Or what if the monarch was already a spirit and kept the jail alive for the thieves to find clues for revenge?
Guess the most disturbing thing is that even in death the lock keeper representing his trauma survived.
He lingers still..
in the form of The Reaper.
this jail is so depressing, the music, the abandoned rooms, debris everywhere, ghost shadows, and the fact that its owner is dead and wasn't found until after the jail was cleared, the music..
and then the reaper in the boss room..
I absolutely adore this jail's theme. The guitar sounds disgusting in an amazing way, if that makes any sense
Like muffled, forgotten screams of people trapped her long ago
The "Shit just got real" moment of the game
My favorite jail theme imo its so good
I don't know why but this theme gave me a feeling of emptiness and loneliness, and when I got to the end, I found out why.
Not gonna lie, I was a bit disappointed that the story wasn't a lot darker. That's how good this theme is. Reminds me of the research facility in Nier Replicant.
Not every game needs to be a dark story tbh. It fits well with the Okinawa Jail but overall, it's just the phantom thieves fighting another god
True the story itself isn't very dark, but pair it with P5/P5R and you get a grim reality to think about. The people were freed of The God of Control once before, but when that one fell they just made a new monster to bow and submit to, it's a depressing idea that makes you wonder if there's hope for the world of Persona 5
This suddenly became Resident Evil.
This is the perfect theme for studying at midnight
I'm back at midnight
That moment when your "fun romp across Japan infiltrating jails and kickin' Monarch ass" game took a seriously dark turn...
When this song started playing I remember saying out loud "Oh yeah... now we're getting serious"
The beginning minute gives me some Professor Layton vibes for some reason.
It's totally the violin
Honestly, this Jail had given me True Lab vibes from Undertale
Should been the final dungeon theme.
The music is the best among all the jail theme. The strong feeling of uncertainity, as well as the horror elements, while making it badass with the violin theme in it. such magnificent piece
This place reminded me of the hospital from persona q
When that guitar kicks in..!
*Cries like Yusuke🤘😭
Reminds me of Nier in some way
Now this is a bonafide classical JRPG soundtrack for a dungeon. I surely wasn't expecting it in a Persona 5 game, since it tends to have its own style which I even like.
I don't know why, since I'm not accustomed with music theory, but it reminds me a lot of some Trails' (Kiseki's) dungeon-soundtracks.
When I heard this song i gave me a goosbumps. It just sounds so creepy and badass.
I do not normally leave comments. But I want to say
I completed Strikers a couple days ago. For some reason, this jail and this song, stick out. I mean sure the 2 others also are memorable despite being short as hell. But this jail...Never have I been in a place so horrifying and tense yet so mysterious it peaks at your curiosity and makes you say "how far are you willing to go?"
The hooks really do slow things down, but somehow I feel like it adds to the tension. You're trying to avoid the bombers which melt into the floor and explode if you get too close, and there are many yellow to red shadows in that room which I feel if you were playing on hard modes, would NOT be great for you if spotted. I do see why the hooks seem to kill the pace. I however, did like exploring the whole place. Plus never had a theme for a dungeon make me feel so tense and uncomfortable and yet made me want to go deeper to learn the truth of the jail
I'm not a fan of Warriors games, but Persona 5 Strikers was honestly so damn good. Every character and every jail was great.
Aaaaaaaaaand there's the goosebumps song! Fits it's jail perfectly!
Sounds like Ancient Pulsation from Trails from Zero
This kind of reminds me of Catherine at the beginning.
The beginning of the track reminds me of a game Corpse Party
It would be creepy to think this was also playing on during the monarch’s descent into the madness.
Absolutely amazing theme that fits the setting just pefectly. This is so good, it could easily be the final dungeon theme.
The beginning of this track makes me think of the "Celeste" game OST. Kind of sad, anxiogenous.
Anyone else here after hearing it in the 100 days in the zombie apocalypse slimecicle made
Just got here... And holy crap this is a bop.
this feels like a metin2 song
Second arrival: Sloth
My brain trembles!
The jail was in a pretty roughed up shape, could’ve it been due to the death of the monarch?
Best jail theme right here, folks
This song sounds like it should be the end jail song. Hopefully the end jail sounds more serious. I haven’t made it yet
I disagree, make it longer and it loses the impact. This was the perfect length. Rather it ends where it did than go on too long, ya feel me?
I think it fit the 4th Jail a lot more because it gave off that ominous vibe.
Right when i was like "yea this aint it it already got very repetitive" this happens i gotta say i wasnt surprised but i was definitely very happy, i knew they had to make the game feel fresh again somehow and they did it.
1:20 Sniff that shoegaze!
I knew there was a reason I loved this theme
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Huge MBV/Slowdive/Ride/Swervedriver Fan here
Imagine if there was a Persona game where you have to find a cognitive murderer and to find clues, you basically have to enter the Palace/Jail of the victims.
Palaces could work similar to human bodies in the sense that after death, there's a decomposition process. The Palace begins to rot and break down, vital structures within the Palace wither and rot while maggots (Shadows) begin infesting the Palace. As the protagonist (either a Mortuary, a Morgue Doctor, or something of a similar profession), you end up entering the victim's Palace and collect clues that no one could have found within the real world. But the killer by this point is a professional and would have left next to nothing in terms of evidence. So you'd have to go backwards. Several years worth of bodies, each in a more horrendously rotted state than before, until you finally get to the Palace (well, I guess you could probably call them Cemeteries) of the very first victim, which is the equivalent of a nuclear wasteland. And while all this is happening, you also have to tackle your own sanity as your mind is tearing itself apart while trying to cope with the beautiful horrors of the cognitive world.
Honestly that's a pretty awesome style of a persona styled horror jrpg
A Crypt would be a better name in my opinion.
It kind of reminds me of AI The Somnium Files