SPOILERS FOR P4!!!!

Cubix, if you still have the time to read this blog, then do it! If you had gotten the bad ending, then you probably don't know the truth behind the whole event.

From the start of the game, you've been going on a wild goose chase. P4 is similar in many ways to P3. In fact, both had plot twists based off similar elements. First, the bad guys aren't really that bad. Second, the good guys aren't really that good either.

For the bad guys part, each of the "other selves" were just suppressed emotions gone berserk. When the original self faces that self, the "other selves" turn into Personas. In other words, the other self is only trying to reveal itself or risk being suppressed forever.

In P3, the 13 giant Shadows turned humans into mindless zombies. However, it was later discovered that the people would recover. In fact, they were only doing it to delay Death from descending and sending all life on Earth to oblivion. Destroying these Shadows caused Death to finally be reborn and to descend upon the planet.

And here comes the whole spoilers for P4, Namatame is also another example of 'bad guy not bad'. The truth is, you spent the entire game chasing after two culprits who weren't even culprits. In fact, there were only two actual murders and one actual attempt.

Now, for Namatame's case. He knew about the Midnight Channel. He saw the silhouettes that appeared and easily figured out who they were. Using his identity as a deliveryman, he rang the doorbell, kidnapped the people and threw them into the TV. The people who entered the TV soon encounter their 'other selves' and are nearly killed. Finally, he was cornered by Dojima, so he took Nanako and jumped into the TV, got it memorised?

From the way that was said, he sounded like the killer, doesn't he? Wrong! Here's the first bit, Namatame's first 'victim' was Yukiko, NOT Mayumi Yamano. Second, he didn't know anything about Shadows or what kind of world the TV world actually was.

Here are the events that transpired, Namatame discovered the Midnight Channel. He also gained the power to go through TVs. He saw the silhouette of Mayumi Yamano. She died the next day. He saw the silhouette of Saki Konishi. He went to warn her. She did not listen. She died. Namatame came to a conclusion that the silhouettes actually showed who would be the next to die. Namatame saw Yukiko's silhouette. He decided that the safest place was inside the TV. He kidnapped her and threw her in. You went in and saved her. Namatame thought it was because the murder attempt had been thwarted, so he repeated the process for everyone else.

Understand now, Cubix? Haha... both of us were SO convinced that it was Namatame that we never even thought that somebody else was pulling the strings! So, who was it? Who killed Yamano and Saki-senpai? Well, he was the one who sent you those warning letters. Remember the line, 'Somebody you care for WILL BE PUT IN and killed.' 'WILL BE', not 'I WILL'. That indicated that Namatame wasn't the only killer. Of course, you had to hear his story to figure out that he was NOT the killer at all.

If a deliveryman wasn't the killer, who else could keep track of you and the victims, and send you those warning letters without raising suspicion? Think hard, who else is the only person that stood out in the whole town? Who can go to Dojima's house, drop a letter without anyone even lifting a brow?

C'mon, it didn't take me long.

Just think of everyone you've met throughout the whole game. Who could be the murderer?

To tell you the truth, I threw my first suspicions on Teddie. Being an unknown and all, but I soon knew it couldn't have been him because he had no reason to do so. Besides, he cared way too much for Nanako for it to have been him.

Then, I knew there was only one person left. The only one who acted the strangest in that small, simple town. Since I played P3 and noticed a lot of similarities between the storyline, I decided to take a far-fetched guess. One of the bad guys in P3 had been using the P3 main characters to destroy the 13 huge shadows. He was goofy when he play the good guy role. I decided to use this fact and took my guess.

Well, whaddaya know? I was right. The only occupation to allow contact with all the victims, mainly Saki, besides a deliveryman, was a policeman. The only policeman other than Dojima, of course, was Adachi. Yep, this dimwitted gofer was actually the true mastermind behind all the murders and the whole P4 story. Haha... it was easy to explain everything after that.

He loved Yamano and couldn't accept Namatame. Yamano rejected him and Adachi threw her into the TV. Saki discovered the body. Adachi noticed Saki continuously meeting Namatame and misunderstood. He threw her in too. Namatame informed the police of the Midnight Channel. Adachi picked up the phone and acted like he didn't believe Namatame. Adachi told Namatame to, "Find them shelter and save them yourself." That was all Adachi needed to do to continue the chain of events. Then, Mitsuo came to take the blame. Adachi had to get rid of him or no more murders and attempts would continue. Adachi threw Mitsuo into the TV, secretly, but you saved him. Unfortunately, Naoto wanted the case to continue. She questioned Mitsuo's claims and found so many holes that it was obvious Mitsuo was not the killer. That allowed Adachi's plan to continue until, well, you caught Namatame and get the normal ending.

That was long. People who are interested in mysteries should really go read P4's story. It may have mainly been fantasy, but the overall story is pretty much detective fiction. Kinda like Death Note, but a lot harder to find the cause of death and thus, the method of murder.