Tough Choice: Persona 4 - Chie Satonaka or Yukiko Amagi?

"Tough Choice" is a series of blog entries that I've been thinking about ever since I started playing Persona 4. I knew from the start that I had to make a decision and it wasn't going to be easy. I knew that I had to make a choice for which girl I wanted to have that "serious relationship" with in Persona 4. And for me it essentially boiled down to Chie Satonaka or Yukiko Amagi. All the other girls were way too annoying/young (I'm talking to you Ayane).

I believe I'm about halfway through the game so the decision needs made fairly quickly, so let's get to it!


Chie Satonaka is your tomboy-chick who loves Martial Arts movies and likes to eat street food. She discovers her persona by using a "facade to face life's hardships"(awesome) to get over her overcompensating know-it-all nature. Through this, you discover that she does have a feminine side and is the reason why she's such good friends with Yukiko.


Yukiko Amagi is heir of a distinguished Inn of the city that your character is in. She is very proper and well mannered. She's obviously the beauty of the school and is somewhat unreachable because of her fancy-pants status. Yukiko has probably been pampered all of her life, but she's just waiting to break loose to discover her own personality. This is once again displayed by the fact that her "facade to face life's hardships" was a bit of a slut.

Meanwhile you have to make a choice between the two. Between the tomboy and school princess. Sound familiar? Yep. It's frickin' Some Kind of Wonderful. The awesome 80's movie with Eric Stoltz, Mary Stuart Masterson and Lea Thompson.



If you were able to traipse into Chie's house, you would so find her drumming along to a drum set with headphones on with Martial Arts movies playing in the background with posters of Bruce Lee on her wall. Herein lies my dilemma. I really LIKE Chie. I think she's cute, I really like the fact that she loves Martial Arts movies and the way she enjoys street food is actually a quality that I appreciate in people IRL. If it wasn't for Yukiko Amanda Jones, I would so be all over Chie. If it wasn't for the fact that Yukiko's demeanor reminds me of the chick in Densha Otoko. Not Hermes from the movie, but rather the drama, more specifically, Ito Misaki's portrayal. Confused? Lost? Let me explain.

Briefly, Densha Otoko is a true story about an ultra-mega Otaku that saves a hot girl(Hermes) from some on-train gropage. They're opposites, but they fall in LURVE. She's hot; he's geeky. The best part about the story for me was about how she completely accepted the main character's interests and hobbies and wants to be involved with them. She even decides to cosplay(in the drama). I can SO imagine Yukiko doing this.



The fact that her inner persona is kinda slutty is a big plus as well. :)

I know what you might be thinking. Just have an optimal save point and play both routes. Sure, sure. I can do that and I will most likely be doing just that. But this decision is mainly for the FIRST playthrough of the game, which is what will most likely remain in my memory.

Damn, the decision of whether to let the Little Sisters in Bioshock live or die wasn't half as hard as this.

So far I'm leaning heavily for Yukiko. She's wouldn't normally be my type in these scenarios, but the points that I listed above combined with the fact that she seems more "right" for protagonist in P4 makes it seem right. But trust me, I will be looking forward that moment with Chie Watts as well.