While most of the Social Links inPersona 3 Reloadadvance using the After School or Daytime slot, two of them are active during the evening hours. One of them is Mutatsu, a Buddhist monk who spends his weekends drinking alcohol and smoking cigars in Club Escapade.
Unlike thePersona 5confidants, you shouldn’t expectthe Social Links ofPersona 3 Reloadto give you many mechanical benefits aside from adding levels to fused Personas. Still, those levels come in handy, and in the meantime, the Social Link side stories are what help this game stand out from the JRPG crowd.
General Information
According to Tarot lore, the Tower (or Falling Tower) represents a fall from grace, a sudden change, and the loss of old relationships. All of these qualities apply to Mutatsu, butunlike the Tower Social Links ofP4andP5, Mutatsu’s fall from grace happened years ago.
Mutatsu sits in the balcony area above the bar in Club Escapade onThursdays,Fridays,Saturdays, andSundays. You can start this Social Link relatively early in the game,but you may want to wait until you can fuse a Tower Personabefore you visit him. If you do, you should be able to rank up his Social Link every time you visit him. As an evening Social Link, you’ll have plenty of time you can spend on him after you max out your Social Stats and build the party’s Characteristics.
Tower Rank 1
To start the Tower Social Link,you’ll need to jump through a few hoops.
Tower Rank 2
From this point on, what you say to Mutatsu can give you relationship points, and these points will let yourank up this Social Link as quickly as possible. Be sure to have a Tower Persona in stock before speaking to Mutatsu, because having one adds more points.
During the Rank 2 conversation, Mutatsu will demand respect due to being an elder.
Tower Rank 3
Mutatsu starts complaining about how his wife and son left him, and then hewaxes philosophical about the nature of friendship.
Tower Rank 4
Mutatsu suggests that hair is for people who like wasting their time.
Tower Rank 5
Mutatsu wondershow much money the main character hasif he keeps spending his nights at a dance club.
Tower Rank 6
Mutatsu drank too much, and he complains thathe’s not as young as he used to be.
Tower Rank 7
Mutatsu wonders whether the dancers below are really getting much stress relief from the experience.
Tower Rank 8
Mutatsu is drunk again, and now he’s confusing the main character for his son.
Tower Rank 9
Mutatsu has decided to retire from being a Buddhist monk and reconnect with his family.
Tower Rank 10
The private detective Mutatsu hired has found his family, so he’s off to meet with them and beg for their forgiveness. Relationship points no longer matter, so choose any dialog options you like.
Your reward for completing the Tower Social Link is the key item Reserve Tag. With it, you may fuse the ultimate Tower Persona, Chi You. This item carries forward into New Game Plus, so you won’t have to complete this Social Link a second time.
