Persona 3 Reload - The Hanged Man | Part 28
0Some social linking and then a boss fight against Takaya and his henchman I forgot the name of at 31:40. Then a boss fight against the Hanged Man right after that.
Takaya and the other guy aren't much of a threat. Takaya's the bigger threat, but his buddy will heal and buff him, and I think also has less HP, so easier to take him down first. Takaya can hit with AoE attacks, and both he and the following boss will attack with Dark spells, so Ken won't be doing a damn thing on this night. Not much to say about them, really. I do like that Jin (I looked it up) can use Shift to pass his turns to Takaya if he hits an ally's weakness. Which I think he specifically tries to do.
The Hanged Man is much more of a threat, and a bit tedious. Hanged Man starts the fight with Statues with varying weaknesses that are far too tanky. You have to defeat the statues to get Hanged Man to drop, then you can damage him. After a while he'll summon more statues with different weaknesses, fall down again, then summon one super statue with all the resistances. I just Theurgy'd that one to death to get it out of the way quicker. Hanged Man likes to give itself more actions and remove buffs/debuffs on us/itself. Which isn't too terrible since, hey, at least it wasted turns doing that, but can be annoying if you're trying to set up a max power Theurgy to take it down sooner.
After that we have some story scenes and what is probably the biggest plot hole in the game. Ikutsuki turns on us and effectively mind controls Aigis into attacking the party. But when he orders this, the screen just...fades to black. Then suddenly the whole party is up on crosses. Except Koromaru, who I guess Ikutsuki just left behind. (Probably because seeing a dog crucified would be as hilarious looking as it was seeing Chu-Chu crucified in Xenogears. Remember: Chu-Chu died for your sins.)
So apparently Aigis can just, take out the whole party without much trouble. I'd be way more believing of this if it didn't specifically happen DURING the Dark Hour, when the party had access to their Personas to defend themselves from her. And I doubt the whole party would have just collectively allowed themselves to get knocked unconscious by her. It's just super jarring if you think about the scene rationally. They clearly just wanted the SEES team in this vulnerable position so they could hit the story beats they wanted to hit, regardless of how much handwaving it took to get there. I'm sure it was just as bad in original P3, but the thing about this being a REMAKE is that it was a chance to fix stuff like this. And they just didn't. And that's honestly my biggest problem with this. That, or the fact there's no FeMC.