>>531820784
smt really embodies how you can't make everyone happy.
with things like the 2 counts making several others suffer just to make alice happy, the mc deciding between his 2 friends or just staying neutral, chaos hero wavering and setting the mc free in respect to their friendship, law hero waiting to see if the mc will join him (also applies to chaos hero), etc.

you can't make everyone happy. sooner or later you will have to choose between someone. but what also makes it sad is often that the people fighting and dying for their ideology die for no reason. they are all fighting for a temporary era. and just going by smt 2, which follows smt 1's neutral route, even the mc's era of balance where people get to choose what they want doesn't really last. or maybe that's the point. balance is weak and just leads to future struggles.

i guess the question is "is all this destruction worth it?"
but also, you don't have a choice. you have to pick something that will destroy someone or something else and there's no going back.