Is this game an unabashed masterpiece or are there glaring flaws?

Is this game an unabashed masterpiece or are there glaring flaws?

It's a good 8/10-level JRPG that you probably inflate a bit in your head because we get so few good traditional console JRPGs these days.

The story peaks at the start and there's only a handful of good moments between that point and the end
It's a little too easy and some new additions like the return of guns arent done too well
Its a fantastic game but its not perfect

There are glaring flaws, as there are in most games, especially masterpieces. It's one of the best JRPGs in years and the presentation is light years ahead of other games, they managed to make turn based combat look and feel cool.

GO TO SLEEP and the lack of slice of life moments are the only real problems with it

Masterpiece with some flaws

>glaring flaws?
Its pretty stupid how you can't do certain things at night, like watch TV or make curry without your magic cat getting on your case about it.

Literally my only issue with the game. GOTY, and on par with P3, better than P4.

Glaring flaws for me:

>Go to sleep moments; the game should just skip to the next day if I can't do anything
>Amount of text message and public gossip screens that repeat the same shit
>Battle dialogue constantly repeats in each encounter, the lines should have a limit to play once
>Can't skip the fancy victory screens fast enough

The entire story being predictable, meandering, and stupid is a pretty glaring flaw.

Also the Hawaii trip sucked ass.

fuck off weeb

>Also the Hawaii trip sucked ass.
It felt incredibly short. I think the hawaii section lasted about twenty minutes or some garbage. I don't think the last games camp section lasted longer but you'd think a trip to hawaii would be more of a big deal.

It has the LOTY

Its flaw is that it's a Persona game with all the bullshit that entails. Restrictive calendar system, constant handholding, simplistic dungeon and combat design, overindulgent repetitive plot, hyperfocus on wish fulfillment, etc. Decent game, but if anything it made me more excited for SMT V.

She didn't do anything. She just shows up at the end as part of a twist that doesn't really make sense and has no consequence. All she's there for is to be an exposition machine because Igor's VA is dead and they awkwardly reused his old clips instead of getting a new voice.

Not even close to being a masterpiece. Even with the gameplay improvements, it's still a 7 at best. It follows the same story structure as 3/4 and the cast is much worse compared to the previous games. Joker is still the best protagonist overall tho, he had personality unlike the others.

It would be a masterpiece if not for the gameplay

>find weakness
>hit weakness
>maybe All Out Attack

rinse and repeat for about 100 hours

Dungeon crawling does not take up 100 hours of the game.

I like her design. Wonder how they'll deal with jap Igor VA in P6.

Bad plot, poorly paced (although that's more of a fault of the series as a whole since 3), the horrible Okumura dungeon
Other than that, solid

There are definitely many flaws, but it's still great.

Almost all the substantive gameplay boiled down to the process I just described and my total playtime was like 100 hours or something

It honestly isn't good JRPG gameplay, even though it's the best iteration of Persona gameplay

Like, try playing FF7: New Threat for even 10 hours and then go back to persona 5

Compared to Persona 4, it's not even close to a masterpiece.

It's worse than P4G

I hope you aren't implying marie was a good addition.

This.

What a shitty opinion.

I love this game but FUCK THE SPACE DUNGEON AND EVERYTHING ABOUT IT HOLY FUCK EVEN THE STORY GETS REALLY BAD FOR THAT ONE PART OF THE GAME

Shido's was worse.

The airlock puzzles were fun, the rest was shit.

The layout of Shido's is worse but the enemies are much more tolerable to fight, you don't have to brace your butthole if you run into an elephant like you do in the space dungeon. The story is also pretty good for Shido's palace, where as the space one has Morgana acting like a sperg and Haru being the most uninteresting PT member by a mile.

Good game, but I don't think it's character development or cosmic horror element beats P3, and its emphasis on human villains doesn't beat P4.

So it's kind of a middle-ground of the last two games except for the big improvement in animation and stylish aesthetics.

it's good