Persona 5 thread

Finally finished it and damn

It's been a long time since I've fallen into a game this hard. Even if the last act was unnecessary I'd still say this was my GOTY

Same desu, the only thing holding me back from a second playthrough with the current save file is the inevitable PC Crimson release.

I played through it entirely on RPCS3 and I loved it. My game of the year as well.
Kawakami best girl.

I don't get it. Every time I try to get into it I end up completely forgetting about it between sessions. Then another couple weeks go by before I remember and try again.

Short attention span

I really liked it too.

I must be a really slow player though. It took me 115 hours to finish.

It's scary how well this meme works for so many things.

>rushing such good game

why would you do that OP

I guess? I played 4:G straight through and had a gay old time though. I feel like even after several dungeons I'm still waiting for the game to actually start.

Me: hey can i do anything?
Game: no your cat says you have to go to sleep now
Me: oh ok

The last arc could definitely use a little bit more time to build up to. The ending hits you like a brick wall and while I like the ideas it all feels so rushed none of it has time to sink in.

I loved P5, but genuinely thought TMS#FE had better dungeons and combat. P5 story and characters were great though.

I just thought the escalation didn't need to happen

>Uncover the big conspiracy and get the top politician ousted while avenging yourself in the process
>Haha you thought the game was over? Go fight some god now

This was my first Persona but isn't the series supposed to be a little smaller in scale compared to SMT?

Also going from a game made this year to one made nearly a decade ago on the PS2 will be interesting

They all end with you fighting some kind of god. I just wish the escalation happened more like in Persona 4 I guess.

how? did you die alot?

I beat it and NG+'d it in 180 hours and got the platinum too.

>Okumaru

nice blog

Well it’s literally called shin megami tensei

I fucking LOVE P3, to the point of fanboyishness.
I enjoy P4. I've played through it a couple times despite a couple complaints about the direction the story and gameplay took.

I'm finding it difficult to go back to P5 and finish it.The entire intro (up until you name the theives) was absolutely fantastic, and the rest of the story feels like a downhill slope with a spike at Futaba's palace. The presentation is goddamn fantastic but the combat, story, and even individual characters all feel somewhat sterile and safe. Ann is a model who every one feels is super hot, but shes a loner, never had a boyfriend, and opens up to you immediately. Ryuji is a delinquent who acts tough towards you at the start, but immediately warms up because of the shit you two go through and spends the rest of the game holding the idiot ball. Makoto is a competent class prez who everyone looks up to, but the story turns her into a designated love interest and her S.Link has you teaching her how to be normal while pretending to be her boyfriend.

I just feel that the fact that the game is so refined is both its greatest strength and biggest weakness.

I played it in Japanese native before the US release and played it again and while the game does almost everything better than 3/4 the final stretch is almost as bad as P4s. The last dungeon and a half are boring outside of the boss fights and unless you grind the final boss is a bigger pain in the ass then Nyx 13th form is to where if your not at least a certain level, even with max buff and debuff and defend on he can one shot your party. That in itself was pure bullshit and keeps this game from being in the 9/10 territory but mostly because everything leading up to it was a slog once you get past the Casino although the boat level had good boss fights like Ongyo-ki

I agree, and rivers in a desert kinda lost it's impact when it played for a cup.

Is this bait, or did you skip your free times by going to bed or something? Took me 110 hours for my first playthrough.

I didn't complete EVERY social link but besides that I tried to do shit every day

P3 and P4 look like drafts compared to P5, and I played them first
Those games did some things right but I think it was mostly by accident, or that the fans saw too much into the game (the whole thing about Kanji and Naoto gender issues, which was far overblown)
P5 on the other hand felt like the devs knew what they were doing, took their time to do it and packed the game with as much content as possible
What I liked the most about P5 is how the game speaks about the era, about the Japanese society, which far more relatable and interesting than P3 and P4's teenage blabbling about vague concepts such as "death" or "truth"

it took me around 110 hours too

were you skipping all the dialogue?

Sort of?

I read very quickly so for a lot of the less important scenes I usually advanced to the next box before a character could finish speaking

If you didn't fuse Hassou Tobi man you're an idiot and if you had to grind in order to fuse him you made the mistake of playing on a higher difficulty when the only differences make the game insanely tedious rathe than more challenging

I agree with pretty much everything but
>What I liked the most about P5 is how the game speaks about the era, about the Japanese society, which far more relatable and interesting than P3 and P4's teenage blabbling about vague concepts such as "death" or "truth"
and
>Those games did some things right but I think it was mostly by accident
P3's theme is not vague whatsoever. The entire game is constructed around making the most of the time you have. P4's theme is seeing through rumors and your perceptions of people to see them for who they really are.

3/4's characters had always had tons of thought put into them. P5 is a straight up better game (if you don't like tactics), but my biggest issue is that P5 tries its hardest to be as inoffensive as possible in every aspect it can and I feel it suffers as a result.

Enough with the cat memes. The number of shackled nights is annoying, but if you've beaten Yusuke's dungeon and yet claim to still be unable to do anything, you're kidding yourself.

Your last sentence is stupid because 5 is just as juvenile as its predecessors (if not moreso) in handling its themes and subject matter.
Fuck just the fact that the PT are going around literally brainwashing people without the morality of it being properly discussed or explored (no the shallow throwaway "are we really doing the right thing????" lines here and there hardly cut it) is completely reprehensible in a narrative that explores justice as a key theme

Yeah there was definitely an odd difficulty spike right at the very end with this fucking guy

If you can't kill those summoned angels in one turn then don't even bother trying this fight. It was the first time in the whole game that I had to grind and it completely just ruined the flow

Don't your descriptions of Ryuji and Makoto pretty much fit Junpei and Mitsuru to a T? You may be suffering from a bad case of rose-tinted glasses, user.

That said, I agree that the Kamoshida arc is the story's peak. It's no accident that the most grounded arc is also the best.

Not him but being forced to waste nights is a real issue with the game. The second anything vaguely story related happens, unless you've done Kawakami's confidant, you get cockblocked for up to a fucking in-game week straight. This wouldn't be that big an issue if the plot didn't develop at a glacial speed. I think the worst offender is the Okumura arc.

Not the guy you're replying to but I replayed P3 recently and they really don't, you're the one whose memory is failing him right now.

The entire conspiracy thing shouldn't have happened, criminal of the week arcs would've been way more fun in my opinion.

>not being able to kill adds in one turn
was it your first SMT game? You had access to so much broken shit at this point, especially if you maxed out strength arcana.