Why the fuck is the MC the only one who can change personas?

Because he's empty inside.

>>375826219
Main character privilege

hes not the people in the velvet room can and all other mcs
you basically need to be a mary sue to do it. the mcs who are as good as life as the player makes them tend to fill that and p4a showed just how op velvet room people are by having its velvet room lady be the equivalent to slayer

>>375826219
finish the game and you'll find out

>He didn't finish the game

>>375826219
Literally because he's better than other people.

>>375826219
goro

>>375826219
the wild card nigga,

>>375826275
How to tell someone never finished P5

You could in the older games but they decided to make the MC the special snowflake starting from 3

>>375826219
Because Atlus is too lazy to balance the game based off Persona switching like P1/P2

>>375826219
In persona 1 (the best persona game) everyone can change persona right off the bat :^)

>>375826762
you may be using le ironic face but you are right

>>375826653
This.

I fucking miss people having compatibilities with other arcana

From P3 on, whoever witnesses the butterfly effect gains the power of the Fool, granting them limitless potential.

>>375826653
>>375826724
>>375826762
Philemon is basically RIP and the world reset in the P2 duology.

>>375827121
Its a parallel world and that doesnt explain the wild card nonsense at all

>>375827121
Sounds like a cop-out nigga

For all the ways that Hashino says "oh no no we want to leave P1-EP alone and do our own thing" he sure likes to rip concepts from them wholesale but make them worse