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Why Do All the Ultimate Personas suck?
All of your party member's ultimate persona designs are really shitty in comparison to their original. They are all exteremely uninspired and seem like a downgrade instead of an upgrade.
I mean Mercurius, Satanael, and Loki all looked cool. But Anat and Prometheus sucked.

Of the ones I saw in my run.
They don't want you to make friends. If you do it will make their magical demons more ugly.
I like seiten and anat is a transformer
I hate when Captain Kidd, johnahana, and Goemon transform into pieces of uninspired shit.
Anat's a transformer which is cool, but Makoto doesn't ride her as a transformer and the only thing that changed from Johanna is the face is now red.
They really do, it saddens me. :c
And it isn't a motorcycle complete downgrade
I bet you all would have loved prometheus if its name was changed to ameno-sagiri
No Prometheus will always be shit no matter what it's name is... It is just a freaking orb
we got arson and satanael, unknown pirate and goku, Carmen Cortez and wierd chick with dogs on chains, zorro and mercurius, boiled head and yosuke's persona evolution, Arcee vehicle and robot mode, Robin in the hood, milady and skull dress...
Carmen turns into a shittier looking Carmen like a early rough sketch of carmen.
Yeah it's not better if it was Ameno-Sagiri. It's bad because it's a rainbow ball. That works for a boss, but not for a recurring Persona.
Ok, like half of them suck. But theres a bunch of cool ones. Yusuke's and Morgana's look super cool and i personally love Anat
Yusuke's Ultimate Persona design grew on me, but I wish they'd used something other than Susano-o. He's already been someone's Ultimate Persona twice in this series, christ.

I do actually like Ann's and Haru's, and Makoto's is pretty cool (though it'd be cooler if she still rode it like Johanna).

What's REALLY disappointing is that they tied the evolutions to Confidant completion again like in P4. It's a really weak way of progressing their character development, imo. Making it this optional thing just makes it feel really insignificant.

The game doesn't even bother to acknowledge that your party members' Personas have evolved at all. I maxed Ryuji before I recruited Makoto, and in the subsequent text chat, him and Yusuke talked about Ryuji's Persona riding a boat as though it hadn't been Seiten Taisei for like a month already.

The way evolutions were handled in Persona 3 were far, far better. Every character's Persona evolved when they reached renewed resolutions within themselves, which was a much stronger way of keeping the Personas relevant to the characters as they developed.

Man. The whole sequence in P5 where you talk to your party members in the Velvet Room jail cells would have been SO PERFECT for triggering everyone's Persona evolutions, too! Morgana excluded, but he's automatic anyway.

God, though... they had a perfectly good setup and they blew it. :\