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The ideologies behind Chiaki Tachibana and Yoko Hiromine would be an amazing conflict for any future Megami Tensei game

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Dispelling with the concept of Law-Chaos-Neutral since they're subjective to each entry title and just focusing on internal beliefs and reasons for them, any character with Yoko Hiromine's beliefs in freeing subjugated people from brutal oppression and killing the oppressor versus Chiaki Tachibana's beliefs that the weak mislead and deceive others because they can't do anything themselves and killing the weak as unnecessary; it has all the makings of a brutal, bloody, and ruthless conflict, if written well. Arguably, if written poorly, it would just be comically good versus evil, but I think exploring elements of such a conflict with oppressed people rising up but becoming oppressors themselves could be a good counterbalance to any one-sided narrative or having a neutral observer try reforming it but having to deal with the implausibility due to how ruthless a Chiaki-like character could be in a conflict. It would have to be the main, driving narrative to really flesh out well with someone embodying Chiaki's values, Yoko's values of flipping the system completely, and someone trying to reform but having to chronically deal with widespread corruption at every step.

It just kept occurring to me when I replay SMTVV that Yoko and Chiaki's value systems are so diametrically opposed in every single way that I think utilizing their value systems for future characters who are then forced to grapple with their consequences by fighting each other to the death would be an extremely fascinating conflict to explore. Their utopian visions for changing the world are at complete odds in ideological terms.

Posted Mar 4, 2026, 7:24 AM UTC

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