Despite only progressing a few days forward in Persona 3, it took quite a while tonight. I took one last run at Tartarus and found the rare item I missed yesterday, and then it was time for the full moon event. Strega showed up again, and after beating them, it looks like that’s the last I’ll see of Evil Jesus. Then it was time for the battle against the final major shadow boss, which turned out to be pretty easy, since I’m probably a bit overlevelled at this point thanks to all the grinding.

Of course, that wasn’t going to be the sudden end of the game… The requisite Big Plot Twist occurred, and we’re now somehow closer to the end of the world than ever, and there was much angsting and plotting and derailment of plans in a bunch of cutscenes.

After that I started preparing for the next block of Tartarus by starting the process of making some of the unique weapons available via weapon fusion, and doing some of Elizabeth’s quests that just opened up (resulting in a bunch of maid outfits for the female party members…). And I finally maxed out the social link with the MMORPG player, putting a touching, poorly spelled cap on her story.