Persona 5 Royal [PS4]

[wakka]

Finally, the music. This was like being locked for a month in a freight container with Jamiroquai, and if I never hear another note of acid jazz for as long as I live that will be just fine.

Good job on finishing it. I also found it a slog towards the end. It's a good game but I'd definitely like to see a more compact approach to 6.

[importaku]

I'm hoping for double the length of 5 with even more people to make bonds with Spending time with all of them as i slowly got to know them & grew closer by doing the events it felt kind of bittersweet when i completed the game, as i wanted to see their story continue to see what eventually happened to all of them as i got really invested in their lives.

[wakka]

I know what you mean. It's a nice world to inhabit.

The problem I have with 5 is not its length in and of itself. As Golgo put it, I've played longer games, but rarely has a game felt quite so long. For me that was down to the pacing. In the latter half I felt the story was not nearly as well paced as the fourth game, which built smoothly to a crescendo.

5, by comparison, had numerous bits where I thought it was going to wrap up, then, oops, no, here's another dungeon. And so it became a bit of a slog, with the ending feeling like it should be just around the corner for about 30 odd hours.

Still one of my favourite RPGs ever though.

[Golgo]

I'm hoping for double the length of 5 with even more people to make bonds with Spending time with all of them as i slowly got to know them & grew closer by doing the events it felt kind of bittersweet when i completed the game, as i wanted to see their story continue to see what eventually happened to all of them as i got really invested in their lives.

Now that's dedication - lol.

[briareos_kerensky]

Started playing this on the Switch.

Technically it's a good port, the framerate is constant (or at least always on/around 30 with no major hicchups) at the cost of some textures and dynamic resolution, but the game is so visually busy (maybe a bit too much) that half of the time I don't really notice the game has scaled down resolution or few of the lower-res textures (like the exterior of the airsoft shop).

I'm at the second theft, and I'm having good fun but I wish there was less railroading and more chances to save the game before big events. The interface is a bit too baroque for my tastes, it could use more straight lines to improve readability. Also, after going through Kuro No Kiseki 2, getting back to the usual JRPG trope of ambush enemy -> battle -> result screen -> back to exploration feels obsolete, but at the very least it doesn't take much time and button inputs to go through the result screen.

[Finsbury Girl]

Picked this up a while ago cheap on the PS Store. Almost finished the second dungeon ; I do like the game play loop but I wish I has more freedom to do ****. The choice seems artificial and I'd rather be able to read AND study. Or study AND hangout with Anna a mate

Combat seems cool but I cannot shake the feeling I need to capture every creature which is making the game WAAAY longer than necessary. I find myself running back and forth in order to keep encountering monsters to capture. Not sure if there is any point or not.

I'm still early enough to not know what the hell is going on but I assume this will come in time ; I'm only about 20 ish hours in.

[wakka]

So it's a while since I played through this (got the non-Royal version on release) but a couple of thoughts.

Firstly in terms of needing to choose how to spend your time - yeah, without religiously following a guide (which I don't recommend) you aren't going to be able to do everything, and that's by design. The game calls on you to give a bit of thought on what you want to prioritise.

Secondly in terms of capturing every Persona you come across - I wouldn't bother running around grinding. Persona 5 is a very long game as it is, and the Royal version is even longer. It's also already grindy by design in terms of the critical path, so piling more grinding on top of that is probably going to result in you running out of steam to be honest.

Are you spending time fusing Personas? By the time you're at the end of the second dungeon that should be how you're getting most of your Personas. By all means capture the ones you encounter naturally, but I wouldn't spend time trying to capature extras.

[Finsbury Girl]

Thanks for the advice ; yeah I've been fusing personas ; have found some cool ones and I got a bucket load via dlc as I bought the super duper deluxe version