Eh, I think it's deeper than that, and the characters are much more likeable that today's anime characters, at least.

One acid test, please.

I'm here as your +1

"My adoration for Persona 4 is less about escapism and more about the positive messages it enforces. Acceptance, courage, friendship, selflessness, all those important things and more that are encouraged."

Thanks for sharing, and I agree. I have never cared about a group of characters before. I recently watched the anime and am getting back into the game as my friend plays it and as I anticipate the Vita release and my adoration for it is swelling. It has made me want to be better to my friends, in complete honesty.…

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"What you missed in your equation is that the best of these games, books, and movies we so enjoy are the ones that are relevant to our lives - the ones that make us question, feel, think, and wonder. The ones that inspire us to take action, or the ones that make us look from a new perspective. My definition of…

But by escaping into a world not entirely unlike your own you can still learn more about yourself or events that have happened to you, and take away from it. I, personally, am much more likely to find great qualities or perspectives from characters in games like Persona 4 or Final Fantasy 9 and realise more about…

Socially inept is really the main thing, here. I went to the midnight release for Dark Souls, and while it has one of the coolest fanbases, I had never really seen so many awkward people before.

"Not" enough "quotation" "m"arks in the "art"i"c"le "."

Maybe I should have clarified, I think it's interesting the tone of this picture and article takes that you can most readily have cherished memories with plastic objects. Instead of a toybox of forgotten toys (of which are all instantly identifiable, and still frequently either used in current form or enjoyed via…

I certainly do care about things nowadays, there are plenty of new movies and games that I love and that still affect me, and Persona 4 and, hopefully, Ni No Kuni, do/will encapsulate that magic of creativity and friendship. Plenty of things are still new and exciting, I just think plenty of our new things aren't…

^that

Christmas came early!

Cool and thanks! Get well.

I didn't really realize that truth until I read your comment. This was an /article, man. The real deal. Facts, interviews, dates. This was not a picture of graffiti on a wall with a couple paragraphs.

An addendum: Is it also strange that our most "cherished memories" involved things we had to purchase, or be purchased for us?

Instead of continually looking back at the past, I would hope that soon our generation, our collective starts looking within and bringing forth new ideas, new fashions, new cherished icons. Instead we wear clothes from several decades simultaneously, dig through countless piles of film reels, novels, board games,…

I, too, finally saw this, Kotaku was down for a bit, I suppose. Agreed!