On how we communicate.

I think you’d really enjoy it. it’s an era of samurai and castles. each year, all the youths are required to attend a ceremony in Mikado Castle where they place a gauntlet on their arm, and if the gauntlet reacts, they become a samurai. the gauntlet is futuristic with a talking AI and holographic GUI.

the society is divided up. you have the Casualry, who are not permitted to enter the higher parts of the kingdom where the Luxurors reside, except when they attend the ceremony. the Casualry accept that their place is given to them by god and they work the fields and toil away happily without question, while the Luxurors reside in fine residence with fashion and education. the Luxurors are the only ones who are trained to read the mystic script.

the Samurai are part of the Luxurors, and if a Casualry becomes a Samurai, they move up to the Luxuror class.

there’s also the monks in the Monastery who represent the will of the King and are essentially above all others in the kingdom, spending their time researching and investigating mystic relics found by the Samurai.

and within the first few hours, you find out that the Casualry are being given Literature to read, and some are starting to despise their lot in life and despise the Luxurors, while the Luxurors have no idea any of this is happening.

meanwhile, you as the main character have recurring visions where two of your samurai colleagues talk to you, who represent chaos and law.

it’s very intriguing so far, the whole class dynamic and possible class war, how each of the classes believes they were born into that class by the will of god and don’t dare to question it, accepting it as their place in life. and even the dynamics within the Samurai where those who were already Luxurors sometimes despise the Causalry who get chosen, and some Samurai who despise the hold the Monastery has over the Samurai, forcing them to defy their very own Samurai code on the will of the church.

there seems to be another dynamic that will crop up at some point because within the first hour you are battling and learning the game, you will sometimes run across an enemy horde that is undead samurai moaning that the samurai betrayed them. super interested in what that’s going to mean.

and, again, all of this is set within what looks like the kingdom eras of eastern history, but contains certain elements of present-and-future-day technology which is itself an enigma.

also, Charon of the river Styx will revive you in exchange for money because he’s just got way too many people in line to cross the river, a little girl shows up in the domain of a demon and wants you to revive her because everyone forgot about her (she’s also playing with a hoop and stick), and there’s a mysterious dude in a business suit and recliner offering help and insight.

and it has a lot of voice acting which is just as top notch as the rest of Atlus’ work.

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