Persona 4: What Is The Midnight Channel?
The Persona games are JRPGs that follow teenage protagonists tasked with changing the fates of people around Japan, and Persona 4 was very much in this vein. Both 2008’s original Persona 4 and 2012’s re-release of Persona 4 Golden follow Yu Narukami as he teams up with friends who call themselves the Investigation Team, and with the help of a cartoonish bear who sometimes has a humanoid appearance, they leap into TVs and get to work as soon as they see another person who needs saving on the Midnight Channel.
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But what is The Midnight Channel? What are its origins, and how does it work? Why does the Investigation Team go to the local department store to start tackling their next dungeons? This is a game all about pursuing the truth and finally being able to accept it, which happens as characters are saved from the Channel. We’d like to examine what it is, how it works, and how it impacted the residents of the quaint countryside town of Inaba.
Spoiler: This article contains spoilers for several of the endings of Persona 4 and Persona 4 Golden, including end-game content, bonus content, and the identity of the true culprit.
As you’re getting to know your new friends as Yu settles in for his year in Inaba, Chie tells you about of the legend of the Midnight Channel. According to hearsay, if you look at a television screen that’s turned off exactly at midnight on a rainy evening, a person will appear. Legend has it, before the gang begins to understand the Midnight Channel, that that person is your soulmate.
Chie tells you that she overheard someone saying they saw Mayumi Yamano, a television reporter who’s gone into hiding after an affair with politician Taro
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