Full Moon Operation 2: Priestess Boss Fight - Persona 3 Reload

Full Moon Operation 2: Monorail vs the Priestess Boss Fight in Persona 3 Reload

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[phantasticgoose]

Eyyyy Persona 3 is back and now I’m here to look at the boss designs and go “that looks like it means something!”

Ofc this is just one reading of the boss design. The Arcana is the means by which all is revealed, but the Arcana is also frequently a vague piece of shit, so different readings are not only common, but encouraged!

As is the theme with all shadows, The Priestess shadow represents the reversed form of the Priestess arcana.

The Reversed Priestess is impulsive, blind to her own flaws, and cannot stand on her own. This is seen in her design and how she is when you fight her - she never stands up. In fact, she is quite actively in a prone position, lacking the confidence and grace of the upright Priestess, and her hair resembles scrolls, but are used for violence rather than learning and introspection.

Her inability to be independent or to trust her own knowledge and intuition shows as well in her constant calls for help - she quite literally refuses to deal with her problems herself, constantly summoning others in the vain hope that they can do something about the situation it’s in. Incidentally, the two summoned friends are a reference to the letters on her breasts, Boaz and Jachin, two pillars (read: symbols of stability) that famously stood upon the porch of Solomon’s temple. In being put upon her breasts, they are not just turned into a sexual innuendo (come on, don’t tell me they didn’t know what they were doing) they are also robbed of their stability, turning from pillars that support the foundation of a building into… well, just boobs. Idk about you guys but I don’t think those can hold a temple up.

Even the fight mechanics - specifically the timer - represent something about her, namely her impulsive desire to kill you and the lack of thought that goes into the decision to use the monorail to do it. We know shadows are intelligent - perhaps a bit more instinctual than humans normally, but still intelligent. The Priestess makes the conscious decision to speed up the monorail, heedless of the fact that *it will die as well*. She defaults to instinct without tempering it with intellect, and so she doubles down even further and carelessly - stupidly - speeds up the monorail. Twice. Like, girl, what the hell.

[Juno__Music]

14:15 perfectly timed all out attack :)

[BraffWaffle]

Going to have to unsubscribe bc of spoilers 😔 see you after about a month of persona

[osricen]

I LOVE this part.
Loved it in P3. Loved it in FES. Liked it in P3P. Loved it in the movie.

[heonthehedgehog]

Nice finally p3r contents, you got a subscriber

[maestroleonard]

Out of curiosity, If the time limit expires, what happens? In the oldest game, It would give straight up game over; does the remake have an animation or not?

[Kalakauai]

Kouha? We got light and dark skills too!?

[PhantomEnderium]

16:01 did the shadow make the fucking battle bus noise