The social links in persona 3 reload are like, a really rudimentary take on that mechanic. pretty much all of the romanceable characters have, like, exactly the same story beat where they confess their love to the protagonist (who can then choose to reciprocate or keep the relationship platonic), placed on exactly the same spot in their relationship track. but what turns it from a very jarringly straightforward rendition of a romantic subplot to being actively very funny is that they all do it in the same place? like all these girls, specifically, confess on the roof of the school. so all the romances in P3R are bottlenecked into the same scene just with a different love interest on the other end. And of course because of how the game is structured it's very plausible to be doing all these scenes in quick succession so it turns into this sitcom where the hapless protagonist just has every possible ship drag him to the same spot. this even though all of these characters' plots are otherwise nothing like one another and are about different things.
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