Midday slumber

Day 413

Hey, it's the pi entry. This makes me think of pie, circles, and the webcomic Homestuck, a series I enjoy despite its rabid and frequently annoying fanbase. Of course, it's nowhere near the actual pi day, so I guess this is somewhat irrelevant. Never mind the fact the comic hasn't been updating for nearly a year now. 

My point is that I randomly fell asleep! I was really tired because I haven't been getting a lot of sleep lately. Unfortunately, I only got about three hours of sleep even this time. It wasn't like I woke up to an alarm or anything, either. I just woke up with no external stimulus whatsoever. That is annoying  and it happens to me a lot. Granted, I don't have great sleeping conditions and I should really work on that considering that I know how big a contributor that is to one's mood. As usual though, I'm far too lazy to be proactive.

I'm almost done with the individual story chapters in Persona 4 Arena but it looks like my playthrough will only be 50% complete once I do that. I'm not sure exactly what's next. I almost wonder if it'll have me play a second chapter of each of those character's stories to continue the overall plot of the game. Every single character I've played so far has ended with To Be Continued after all, with most of them not elaborating much on events past that point. Teddie's storyline has so far gone the farthest in that it reveals exactly what Labrys' shadow transforms into--but it ended right there.

To be honest, the constant repetition in the story elements of Persona 4 Arena is getting pretty tiring to deal with. Every single fight in the game so far has been between members of the Investigation Team (or with some Persona 3 characters) and it generally plays out the same way every time. Some unknown entity is orchestrating it from behind the scenes. He or she is deceiving the characters' minds into believing their friends are saying hurtful things and attempting to incite them to fight. Every time, the characters slowly come to the conclusion that they are being duped and only after fighting each other can they come to terms. Other characters take it more in stride than others, but it's still very repetitive. I say this as someone who quite enjoyed the plot of Persona 4 despite its flaws.

I can only hope the second half of the Arena story mode is more fluid and less repetitive--if it even exists! "To Be Continued" could easily mean the plot won't be continued until Ultimax, the sequel--but I don't think that's what's going on. I would think the overall story in Arena would have more resolution than that, even if it was acknowledged there would be a sequel.It's hard to say , though. I'm on Aigis's story mode right now and I only have two more to go after that--unless there are secret characters with their own story modes. I already know that Elizabeth from Persona 3 is in the game but so far she has not been shown to be playable.