#Monark Game

[devilofthehounds]

[image id: Pictures of Zenkichi Hasegawa from Persona 5 Strikers, Kakeru Hasegawa from Monark, and Saori Hasegawa from Persona 3 Portable. Below each person is their name written in English and Japanese. /end id]

I know not everyone with the same last name has to be related, but hear me out!

They're either siblings or cousins; the timeline's making it hard for me to decide.

Under the cut for timeline discussion. Major Monark spoilers, you have been warned.

Zenkichi: October 1

He has a line in Strikers where he says he's in his forties.

Strikers takes place in 2017, meaning he would've been born 1977 or earlier.

Kakeru: April 9

In the game, he has a line where he's like "I'm still in my early thirties."

In issue 10 of Petit Monark, he insists that he grew up in the Heisei era.

On the walls throughout the academy are posters that say "Open School 10/23 Sat – 24 Sun", which lines up with 2021.

Based on this information, we can say he was born between 1987 and 1991. If we limit ourselves to saying he was born within the Heisei era, that narrows the range to 1989–1991.

Saori: Unknown

She's in the same year as the protagonist, but she lived overseas for two years. This would make her two years older than the protagonist.

Since Persona 3 takes place in 2009, this means she was born between April 1990 and March 1991

Mitsuru (not pictured): August 15

The only things we know about his age are that 1) he enrolled in the academy for high school and 2) he died ten years prior to the game.

Since his profile says he died on academy grounds, he probably died while he was still attending, which means we can say he was born between 1995 and 1997.

Tl;dr

Zenkichi: October 1, 1977 or earlier

Kakeru: April 9, 1987–1991

Saori: April 1990–March 1991

Mitsuru: August 15, 1995–1997 (through assumptions)

Cousins is probably more plausible, but siblings would be funnier if only because it means Zenkichi's parents had a kid while he was away at college.

[letsbeartists]

Today is my birthday and I made this animatic to celebrate the occasion, enjoy!

[derpu-doodles]

woe, Protag be upon ye

[satoshi-mochida]

A tip for players who may have gotten stumped near the end of Monark(some spoilers, so I'll put it under a readmore)

Near the end of the game, you're asked to enter a Sign to reach The Gate, which leads to the final boss. The other party members give you hints about what to do, but here's the solution:

At the top of your phone, there'll be 10 symbols that have been appearing as you progressed. These are digits for a phone number and change each playthrough. They vaguely resemble numbers(*s are the same as normal), and have to be deciphered and entered to start the endgame. There's no direct cipher in or out of the game, that I've seen, so I'll show mine and it's solution to make it easier to figure out your own.

[duskneko]

"What animal would you feed" "The tiger-" "You like older guys"

[moeblob]

The extremely niche crossover only I want to see... Kingdom Hearts x Monark.

[skulkingfox]

Games played in 2024 (Part 1)

Monark

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth

Persona 3 Reload

SMT V Vengeance

Frog Detective

Plucky Squire

Doki Doki Literature Club

Castlevania Dominus Collection

Final Fantasy 7 ps1

Metaphor Refantazio

[92darkdragon]

Vanitas from the JRPG Monark

[keninamu]

Saw some Rayark inspired fanarts and just got reminded again how terribly disappointing Demo 2 was holyshit

They ruined demo by applying so much mobile game stink on it

Also Rayark being AI-adopters and dropping artists lol

Rayark deserves their current state being forgotten

[lecliss]

I just started playing Monark cuz I remembered I bought it last month and in just under an hour of playing I think it has a very good chance of giving The Caligula Effect a run for its money. It's got very similar vibes but I feel like Monark is already setting itself up to pop off harder than TCE, not counting the musicians' ending of course.

[devilofthehounds]

[image id: An edited version of the "Dr. Doofenshmirtz 'If I Had A Nickel'" meme featuring Nanako Dojima from Persona 4 and Chiyo Aikawa from Monark. Below the picture is the caption "If I had a nickel for every time I played a JRPG with a little sister whose birthday was October 4th, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice." /end id]

Is there something special about October 4th? Google says it's Cinnamon Roll Day, so maybe that's it.

[letsbeartists]

「頑張れ」とは何ですか?~que veut dire "bonne chance" ?~

[derpu-doodles]

he boye <3 (aka my sister got a niche game and I became mildly invested)

update I am now Very invested (not enough to override the Dangan hyperfixation but Hot Damn These Guys Be Bouncin Round My Head Like An Idle DVD)

[satoshi-mochida]

Some of the gifts I got for Christmas.

A Christmas decoration that lights up and plays the Peanuts theme when you press a button.

TMNT: Mutant Mayhem DVD. One of the 3 movies I went to see this year, I thought it was good, though some of the gross out humor was a bit much for me at times. ^^;.

Eternights. I already got it digitally, but wanted it physically, too, just to have it, support the devs, and free up PS4 space.

Blue Beetle Blu-ray. I heard this was good, and I'm somewhat familar with Jaime Reyes as the Blue Beetle.

Monark. I'd been meaning to get to this eventually after playing the demo.

Fire Emblem: Three Houses. Also been meaning to get to this. Waited until it's price dropped to something more decent before asking for it.

[virtualcloudstrawberry]

[eirikrjs]

You will probably get too many asks about this already, but we have more news on Kaneko's cringe AI card game. I find the premise of real god (human) vs fake god (AI) interesting... it's depressing to see that it takes Kaneko going out of Atlus for SMT to tread new concepts in familiar grounds. HOWEVER... at the same time I don't have enough knowledge on the ethical side of AI (in terms of energy consumption) to be okay with this slop, even it was trained only on art made for it

Shit sucks. A lot of the results don't even look good, like Ishtar here.

This game looks every bit as soulless as the other games from the Atlus legacy creators, like Monark or Caligula Effect, but at least they had real, original art! You know, ethics!

It's already my banner, but: