WHY IS THIS GAME SO LONG I'M GOING INSANE

WHY IS THIS GAME SO LONG I'M GOING INSANE

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    jrpgs are the "filler arc" of video games. they pad them with inane bullshit to create the illusion of content when in reality they are just trying to arbitrarily increase the game length to 80 hours so they can pretend there is content other than mashing X through text boxes.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >. they pad them with inane bullshit to create the illusion of content
      You didn't enjoy that you had to change trains in P5? That was my favorite part of the game.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >game immerses the player in its setting
      >aaaaahhh its just filler and padding wtf shit sucks
      >game streamlines everything to fasten the pace of the game
      >aaaahhh its just dumbed down bullshit wtf shit sucks
      I hope you die in a fire.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >game wastes your time
        >wow im so immersed by switching trains very atmospheric

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >>game immerses the player in its setting
        >persona
        >immersive
        Embarrassing

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >it's not immersive... because it just isn't, okay?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >other than mashing X through text boxes.
      Are you playing these games for the gameplay or something? If you're not there for the story and characters, what the frick are you doing?

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    *unrapes you*

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      YOU MONSTER! YOU MADE ALL OF MY FRIENDS HAPPY AND BROUGHT BACK MY DEAD BOYFRIEND??!?!?!? I WON'T STAND FOR THIS!

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous
    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >years later this one villain still filters morons

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        what filter dumbas, he did unrape Shiho.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It's all in ya head Luigi!

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Escapism bad bro, you must suffer in reality.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Yes

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      why didn't he bring the sister back

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        because that doesn't make him feel better, he truly believes Sumire is happier being her sister than bringing kasumi back

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          then he's actually dumb and someone in game should have called him out for that, especially because it makes him look unnecessarily villainous tentacle raping sumire into being her sister again when he could just bring Kasumi back and change Sumire to just not have an inferiority complex

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            The point is that he only ever does what people want or specifically ask for. He never makes judgements about how their life could be improved unless their want is unattainable. The Sumire situation does feel a bit like a plothole, though, because Maruki's intention was to rewrite reality, not just change some people's cognitions. In his new reality, Sumire's parents still saw her as Sumire and she still only perceived that they saw her as Kasumi. It's not really clear how this would become reality when there's an inherent conflict there. It was clearly created with the intent of making Maruki's reality seem less ideal. Without this, it would have been much harder for the game to convince players that Maruki was misguided.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              I use the example with Sumire, because as a functioning adult Maruki should probably know that taking a grieving teenager girl at her word (especially for something so life changing) probably isn't the best idea. It just weakens his character when it doesn't have to, if this was solely a conflict ideals between Maruki and the Phantom Thieves I think it would make the whole Royal plot better as a result.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Yeah, but like I said, it was obviously the only way Atlus knew to make him look bad.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      No one unrapes my b***hes, my bro joker has me covered

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      No one unrapes my b***hes, my bro joker has me covered

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      every fricking thread

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous
  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It's a sony movie game.
    what did you expect?

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Futaba sleeping for a whole month had me crawling up the walls, at least put her in a hospital and say she's in a coma, but no, she's just fricking hibernating.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I wanted to hold off on beating the boss specifically to avoid that only for the game to make a day where I can't do anything else anyway.

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    filtered.

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    should have watched the cutscenes on youtube while playing a fun game instead

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    You can skip most of the dialogue and not miss anything because so much of it is

    >"Do you think stealing the treasure will work? I know it did the last 5 times, but do you think stealing the treasure will work?"
    >"We can only wait and see"
    >"Yeah...I'll text you again tomorrow to ask if you think stealing the treasure will work the way stealing the treasure worked the last 5 times we stole the treasure"

    I played the game a second time when Royal came out, and despite the fact that Royal has more content and I did about the same amount of side stuff as in my first vanilla playthrough, I got through Royal 20 hours faster because I skipped any dialogue that repeated something already discussed. 20 fricking hours.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The fricking text messages are the worst about this. You can literally skip every text after Kamoshida and not miss a fricking thing.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I realized that about halfway through royal and it made me realize that even half of the conversations are just retreads of some previous conversation, so much of the dialogue in this game is completely redundant

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      wooooah bro, you're just going to skip all the important character development? you need to get emotionally invested in your party.

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Any tips for someone who started a new game? Serious replies, only, please.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      just play it, it's an easy game that holds your hand

      all you need to know is that you have to hang out with your therapist or else you'll miss out in 20 hours of content

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      If it isn't your first persona game then just treat it the same as the others. Bring the corresponding persona with you when doing social links, max the important ones.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Fuse personas into stronger ones as soon as they learn all of their skills or when they're lagging behind. Make sure to try and cover every weakness and you can bullshit your way through pretty much any fight in the game until maybe the last few areas.
      Also bring personas with the same arcana as the social link you're about to do so you waste less time in the long run.
      That being said, do whatever you feel is more fun since the game isn't very strict with time management compared to other games in the series.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Prioritize levelling up Takemi's confidant and get it to rank 7 asap, rank 5 unlocks SP adhesive accessories and rank 7 halves the prices, a team with all SP adhesives is a massive boon for a big portion of the game
      start Tora's social link (dude on a soapbox in Shibuya at night) he gives the ability to shake down shadows for more money
      Hifumi (girl at the church, you unlock it later) lets you earn more money for ambushes in battles and lets you swap out party members in combat
      Bring along a Persona of the corresponding arvana when doing confidants (have a death arcana when doing Tae's confidants for example) even if you just have to buy a cheap one in the velvet room
      always be keeping up with fusion, its the bread and butter of this game
      Try get palaces done with as few trips as possible, the aforementioned SP adhesives help massively with this
      The devil confidant isn't that great, but you get +3 charm every visit, so its worth doing early

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      earn a lot of money, like the sun confidant helps.
      being high level is a requirement for your velvet room progress to get stronger
      Have personas with their weaknesses covered up from fusion
      Brew some coffee to not run out of mana on bosses
      Strength confidant to max level then electric chair the right personas for the ultimate melee/gun weapons
      etc and etc
      etc and etc

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Max out Chihaya/Fortune ASAP and it'll make the rest of the game easier
      Kawakami/Temperance as well, though that's less helpful than it was in vanilla

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      If you've played the previous Persona games, you will be disappointed by the difficulty.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Ignore the Strength confidant perk that lets you fuse above your level, Fusion Alarms, DLC personas, SP adhesives, and play on hard/merciless if you want any semblance of balance. It will still be really easy.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Max ryuji,hifumi,caroline and Justine,the politican dude and mishima confidants,these are the most useful for overall experience of the game with ryuji literally destroying shadow by just running on them,hifumi with letting you change members all the time and mishima sharing same exp for the members who don't fight,the politican dude helps with shadow negotiations who overlevel you and caroline/justice basically gives you more options in general

      Also don't ignore maruki unless you want to loose waaay extra content

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Playing pool let's you upgrade your technical combos. Getting to to make rank means that they guarantee downs and do more damage.

      On July 1 a speed reading book becomes available in the library.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      play darts with your friends

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The best team is joker as fill in/buffer/debuffer, ruji as phs dmg/ Ann as magic dmg, And mona as healer miracle punch user. Ignore waifu homosexuals

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Do what you want, ignore tryharding, romance your waifu, go blind, and have fun.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Persona 5 is best played with an anal plug at all times

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    How is the anime?
    I've been meaning to binge something while I mindlessly play SMT4

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      pretty soulless

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It's really bad. Animation is really mediocre, pacing is break necking, if you never played the game you'd be lost what was going on most of the time. It takes revisions on the story that are pointless but then leaves things that could use some rework alone. It also tries to fit all the confidants in one way or another which mucks up an already rough plot.

      I sooner encourage people to just watch a let's play of the game than put them through the anime

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Animation is really mediocre

        What's fricked up is they got a good team to make the series, but they fricking rushed them to get it out before Royal

        >tfw the teacher's chalk throw was better animated than the boss fights

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >I sooner encourage people to just watch a let's play of the game than put them through the anime
        It's okay, JohneAwesome. Even if I stopped watching your videos, I still kept my subscription to you.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I keep telling myself I'll watch his SMT5 run but I keep forgetting.

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Base P5
    >worst character
    >Royal
    >best character
    how did they do it?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      They changed the Social Link, made him more transparent, and with third semester he got no redemption arc, they kept him as a sociopath that the power of friendship couldn't fix, which is somewhat refreshing.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I can fix him.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      He topped the polls in Japan, so they brought him back, which is fair I guess, what I didn't like however is how they pussied out with the conclusion to his arc. The game never tells you if he lives or dies. Are you fricking kidding me? He's a big celebrity and literally no one is gonna report on his fate? Main story wise, he's supposed to be dead, but again, no reports and you see his silhouette pass by in the post-credits scene, so you're free to headcanon whatever (which is awful writing).

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        He definitely died. And how would anyone know he's dead? For all they know he jsut disappeared from the public eye because I'm guessing you can't recover bodies from the cognitive world and they never show up in the real world.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        That's just typical Atlus stuff. Make no mistake that he's dead for all intents and purposes, his fate and current status will be debated for years because of "muh ambiguous ending" but he won't appear for anything other than a Q style story that takes place during a period where he's alive ever again. Think Chidori after FES added the option to save her.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      he's shitty good boy persona was boring. Once he turned full edge lord then he became interesting

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      by making everyone else shitty

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Basically, Royal version is Person 5 + expansion pack.
    So it is actually two games not one

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      That is the dumbest, gayest take possible. How does it feel to be king homosexual for a day?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It's more like Royal is Person 5 + 3 expansion packs, but that isn't even getting into all the small changes they did throughout the game.

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Use a guide, it gives you the full experience in the shortest time possible. I think despite Royal having more content I beat it in 94 hours versus the 102 it took in the base game. If I had paid attention to the insta kill QoL change it probably would have cut it down even more, but I didn’t discover it till halfway through Okumura’s palace.

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    They wanted to make it even longer by adding Hifumi as a phantom thief lul

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    What did you all think of the secret ending?

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    r8 my 'sonas

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      moronbro... Angelic Grace and Ali Dance don't stack...

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        yeah, I only found out after I stopped playing kek

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >no unkillable fafnir

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      mirin that Lucifer

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      No trimpet boi

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      By the 8th palace I said to myself "if not now then when" and summoned Izanagi-no-Okami Picaro, maxed him the frick out, gave him Null Phys and equipped that accessory with Null Bless/Curse. Basically he had 87 Magic by the 9th palace and I was casually one shotting everything. Way stronger than Alice as nothing at all resists/blocks almighty.

      Did I miss out on some fusion autism shenanigans? I had about 80% compendium completion by the end.

      Also, I looked it up only after beating the game, but apparently Satanael can be fused as a regular persona. Is he any good?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        fusion autism can be fun if you're a min-max autist
        satanael is NG+ exclusive and isn't all that great considering. it's a gimped version of the satanael that shows up against yaldy.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >tfw I'm past Sae's palace and my Persona Compendium is probably at around 20% because I only use sexy women Personas + Arsene
        Is what it is, I guess.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Satanael is pretty underwhelming, and also NG+ exclusive. Still pretty frickhuge compared to most personas, though, so there's that.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          What else is NG+ exclusive? Heard you can fight the twins and Lavenza, how do you do that?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            they will be outside the velvet room door when u go to mementos, talk to them and you can fight them

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >how do you do that?
            You can fight the twins after you unlock Mementos in the main story and the same goes for Lavenza in the third semester if you beat the twins already.

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    December fricking sucks if you spend your time prior wisely

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >barebones braindead dungeons
    >characters constantly repeat themselves in never-ending cutscenes
    This game could have been like 70 hours tops if Japs weren’t so moronic to make the devs feel the need to explain everything ten times over through npc dialogue

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      braindead dungeons
      that's not true at all

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        They’re all super linear. I did all of them in the minimum amount of time, blind, and the only things that ever tripped me up were like two mini-bosses and the Okumura bossfight

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          They might be linear but having actual dungeons is much better than having 10 identical random generated floors like in P4

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Skip the non-voiced dungeon dialogue and most text messages. They’re filler.

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I deleted the game after the egyptian temple/acquiring the hacker girl. I liked the game, the first 20 or so hours were great, but the repetition killed the game for me. I tried so hard to put up with it, but by the fifth temple going through the same motions I had enough.

    Does the ending switch up the formula at all? Or is it bog standard all the way through?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It’s the same all the way through. The new arc in Royal is better than most of the game, but still structured about the same. The dialogue only gets more repetitive as the game goes on, and the worst parts of the story are later in the game.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      the royal exclusive palace does, but you have about 4 more before you get to that

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      the game falls off hard after kamoshida

  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    You know the anime only covers up to the point when "the flashback" ends. It's doesn't even do the games full story or any major reveals. Also it has some terrible animation

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >You know the anime only covers up to the point when "the flashback" ends
      Wait so it stops at the exact moment the story turns to shit? Pretty based.

  21. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    most of the game after ann's dungeon drags a lot, there is a lot of bloat

  22. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Dropped it shortly after the Art History dude was introduced. I played P5Scramble before P5/P5R and wow I set my expectations too high

  23. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    You go insane from long games.
    I stop playing games I don't like and don't want games I like to end.
    You are pathetic.

  24. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    how do i pirate this game?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      rpcs3 + persona 5 on ps3

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Only if you are moronic,just emulate the switch version

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          royal isnt worth it anyway

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            The overall changes are,stop being stupid

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >emulate switch
      >emulate ps3
      >get gp for 1$
      There you go lad

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      You can emulate the original PS3 version or the Switch port of Royal.

  25. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It has to be that long for you to have enough time to get all your social ranks up and do all the content.

  26. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    p3 p4 or p5 as my first persona game?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      P4G.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      None of those. P1, dumbass.
      Play the SEBEQ Route on the PS1 version, and the Snow Queen Route on the PSP version.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Dunno about p3. P4 has better story/characters/relationships, p5 has better gameplay and a lot more stylish

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >P4 has better story/characters/relationships

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      P3FES

  27. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    For me, it was the third form of final bosses

  28. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    >volleyball teacher
    >bad guy
    you've been bluepilled

  29. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >male teacher has sex with female student
    Police involved.
    >female teacher that did sex work on the side gives a "massage" to her male student often
    No repercussions.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      One was consensual, one was blackmail and nonconsensual.

      To be clear, it's not age that's the deciding factor of if it's fricked up or not. The Age of Consent is 13 in Japan. It's the "Teacher-Student" aspect that would be frowned upon.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        The age of consent in Japan isn't 13, stop repeating this lie anon

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >The Age of Consent is 13
          In a backwoods prefecture it is. In Tokyo it is 18.

          I stand partially corrected. Looks like it does range from location to location. Still, it's consensual so if a tree falls in a forest but nobody's around to hear it, etc. Kawakami and Joker both WANT to be together. We can debate morals, but that much is true. Shido and Ann didn't want to be with Kamoshida, hence why one threw herself off a roof and the other had to be convinced not to put a bullet in his metaphorical head.

          Yoshizawa has to be rank 5 by December 18th.

          Alright. I might still have time for that.

          For akechi you also need specific dialogues to unlock his third form persona with telling him "we are rivals" and "don't forget our promise"

          Done.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >Alright. I might still have time for that.
            bring faith persona, should work. I think they give you plenty of chances to hang out with her leading up iirc.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            *Shiho. My bad.

            Imagining Shido and Kamoshida together...yikes all around.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Joker is 17, he still isn't at the age of consent in Tokyo.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              And it's like I said, we can argue about whether it's legally or morally "right" compared to what Kamoshida wanted, but the fact is he was a pompous creep who had to either blackmail the unwilling or levy his former glory as a athlete against the naïve.

              Dating Kawakami is fine because...IT JUST IS, OKAY?!

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Dating Kawakami is fine
                Dating Tae is superior, though

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Why fight amongst ourselves, as fellow hag-lovers?

                The riper the berry, the sweeter the juice, be it blackberry or razzberry.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                mah homie

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                I'm still doing my first playthrough at the moment, and I definitely didn't manage my time well, but I will have unironically maxed out all the adult female confidants before the game is over, along with one or two other random characters.

                First was Tae, then Kawakami who I actually chose to date, then Chihaya, and last will be Ohya. I don't hate her as much as others tend to. She's fine. A different haircut would revolutionize her appeal, though.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                I wanted to date Sae.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Even if he was 18 it would probably still be illegal because of 'muh position of power and responsibility' and all that

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Might want to update that with the 2022 law changes.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >The Age of Consent is 13
        In a backwoods prefecture it is. In Tokyo it is 18.

  30. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    make sure you don't miss ranking up the 3 characters if you want the true ending, otherwise you gotta play another 80 hours to see it.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      ...I didn't need to get Yoshizawa to a particular rank before the 17, did I?

      I just barely managed to get Akechi and Maruki to their needed levels, meanwhile I kinda left Yoshizawa on the backburner since she'd only be useful in the even that I got the third semester and I didn't want to date her.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Yoshizawa has to be rank 5 by December 18th.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        For akechi you also need specific dialogues to unlock his third form persona with telling him "we are rivals" and "don't forget our promise"

  31. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    2nd time I got filtered on Hard

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      difficulties are so dumb because of the fact that weakness deals more damage on merciless

  32. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >attention span the size of an ant

  33. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Can you complete all Confidant social links even when you don't have the necessary Personas with you?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      if you finish top10 in exams then you no longer need matching personas for characters in the school+sojiro

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Why?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Atlus deemed it so

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Okay, but why the text score affect things?

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              It multiples confidant points to the same level that having a matching arcana does, in effect the latter is no longer necessary.

  34. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Am I playing P5R with a stroke? I'm 100 hours in and I JUST finished Haru's palace.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      You sure are taking your time, i've finished the palace after that and advanced the story some after. All at 92 hours. And i even did all the metaverse quests i could find, i have no idea what you've been doing.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Jeez, Anon.

      I'm at like 80 hrs and I just finished Sae's Palace yesterday. Are you just letting the game idle or are you combing the absolute shit out of the palaces? Or are you just fricking around in Mementos a bunch?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        56 hours here and just sent the calling card for okumura. I just want to finish the game already lol

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Hope your butthole is ready. The Okumura boss fight got more deaths out of me than the past 5 palaces did combined. Including their bosses.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Oh boy

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Unironically, you're halfway through the game. Admittedly that's because of Royale post game content but still.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          why are you doing it to yourself
          you will just get burnt out and end up hating the game

          i loved it right away and did ng+ back to back, played for like 230 hours and never had a single thought about it dragging on

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            I like the game I just need a break but too autistic to stop until I beat it

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I left the game on idle several times, did all social links and mementos missions I could and at 100 hours I was at least fighting Yaldy.

  35. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >”durrrrr longer = better value per dollar”
    >”there’s no such thing as filler”
    >”I just watched the cutscenes on youtube anyway”
    Actual conversations I’ve had with morons on this board about this fricking game.

  36. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >AGHHHH NOOOO!! GIVE ME LESS VALUE FOR MONEY! I'M GOING INSAAAAAANE!

  37. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Enjoy it while you can, onces it ends it will leave you empty inside

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Heh, i have persona 3 and 4 still to look forward to. I already know whodunnit though.

  38. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I'm probably the only person who noticed/cared about this minor subplot, but basically there's a mother and a daughter in Aoyama-Itchome and they have a dog at the beginning of the game, Kotaro, he eventually gets sick and dies, then Maruki does his thing to give the little girl false hope, and then the dog dies again, for real this time. Their final bit of story concludes on 3/19.

    Honestly, this little subplot is the best piece of writing in this behemoth of a game.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I noticed it as well. I keep track of npc since the stalker girl becoming the stalked in Persona 3. Quite funny.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      that and girl-stalker in school are my 2 favorite background stories

  39. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >third semester is the best part of the game
    >10 hours long and locked behind 90 hours of content
    sad

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >third semester
      Eh, it starts pretty cool by throwing some Evangelion tier weird shit at you, but then immediately undoes it and it's just another palace and your party is already maxed out at that point, so you one shot everything all the way to the true final boss. And the ending itself has 0 twists, everything is played straight.

      Basically, don't hype it up too much, treat it as a DLC (which it was) and you won't be let down too much.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        The start was super cool yeah, I was hyped. But then it turned into "go visit on friend a day to convince them to help this guy who wants to end reality. Also, feel free to sleep in until the afternoon, you lazy fricking c**t, just ignore the stakes."

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >"go visit on friend a day to convince them to help this guy who wants to end reality. Also, feel free to sleep in until the afternoon, you lazy fricking c**t, just ignore the stakes."
          That's just their solution to stretching one palace arc to 3 months lmao, by simply showing you one 1 cutscene per day and disabling all other activities. I would've preferred a time skip to be honest, like what they did with most of February.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            At the very least, let me visit two people a day, woould have halved the boring parts and actually made the entire storyline enjoyable. Sure it would have been shorter but it would have been more memorable.

  40. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Not gonna lie, bros. The Phansite poll and comments are probably the absolute best superfluous feature I've ever seen.

    They must have lurked a decent amount of forums and blog sites to get the internet slang like those. It unironically felt like I've been playing with all of you this whole time. Just shitposts, psyopgays, moralgays, shills, and getting banned by mods for off-topic posting. It's funny every time I pause to read them.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >can only browse the shady website on the laptop
      >can't go on the phan site and call people Black folk
      Missed opportunity

  41. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    just go back to playing your garbage multiplayer if you're tired of it moron

  42. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Just finished the game a few hours ago. Did everything (all confidants maxed out, all achievements) on a semi-blind playthrough. Didn't follow a guide but made liberal use of wikis to look up the benefits of various activities etc to help me plan better. Took me 170 hours total. Am I a slowpoke or is this the longest singleplayer game ever made?

    Note that I did listen to voices in full, always (just an OCD thing, can't control it, gonna feel like I'm missing out if I start skipping voices). Never left the game idling though. Also, the save file time is 149 hours for some reason, maybe due to savescumming or something.

  43. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    because it's 95% padding

  44. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Because there's a lot of text.

  45. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    shouldn't it really be de-rapes

  46. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I played Caligula Effect 2 a few months before P5R finally came out on PC, and what do you know, the Kasumi twist is blatantly the same thing as that one character's in CE2. I guess CE2's writers plagiarized it? Man, that's pretty low, they're former Atlus employees, why would they burn their bridges like that.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Can’t tell how serious you are, but Satomi Tadashi is this game’s only link to Atlus, and he wasn’t even as involved in the second one. Also, P5R’s new arc is very similar to the first Caligula. And the bridge between Atlus and Furyu was already burned years ago.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I'm serious, it just felt like blatant copycatting to me, even their hair color is the same. Unless it's a super common anime trope? I don't really watch anime these days, so idea.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I think it was a clear response to Atlus taking so much inspiration from Caligula 1. Furyu was pissed at Atlus for sending the original Vita release out to die in the west, and has since cut ties. And then the plot of P5R is clearly similar to Caligula, the game they killed by releasing it as a digital only title with basically no marketing, right around the time Persona 5 was set to launch.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Interesting, had no idea there was a rivalry between them. But then again Furyu is so tiny, it's more like one side bullying I guess.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              It’s not a super open rivalry, but it’s there. Recently they put out a game called Monark, and made sure everyone knew that ex-SMT devs worked on it. But looking further into the game it doesn’t seem like they had much to do with it. The director, Fuyuki Hayashi, was the main creative force behind it. And the game has more in common with his previous work Crystar than any Megaten game.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      the yaldabaoth twist in P5 was stolen from P2 so it's give and take

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        The "evil god was secretly behind everything" trope is in every Persona game though? At least 3 through 5, haven't played 2 yet (will hopefully get around to it this year).

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          it's in both of the 2 games, don't know about 1

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          specifically what they do in the Royal part of story is lifted from p2

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Sort of? I mean, not really. I can see the influence but to call it "lifted" is dishonest

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          it's more that "igor/phil and evil god made a wager to determine what humanity wants and then evil god sealed igor/phil away and then gave a mentally ill teenager reality warping powers and let humanity frick itself"

  47. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >JRPG
    >WHY IS THIS SO LONG
    Core Damaged moron.

  48. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I don't think I'm one of those people that goes insane if a game is longerthan 20 hours, but when I got the regular ending at 110 hours or so I was like damn, the game is good and all, but I'm also kind of happy when this shit is over now, but then it just drags on and on with cutscenes and goodbyes

  49. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I thought Kasumi was supposed to be better than Marie, but it's the same shit all over again.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      mandatory school festival with her is pretty annoying
      and people say that makoto is forced onto you, which is absurd when compared to sumi

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I'd probably lump Marie and Kasumi together if Maruki didn't exist.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      No, even Marie wasn't shoved in your face as hard as Kasumi is.

  50. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Man, I know people like to say that the game likes to push Makoto, but holy fricking shit, I've been playing through Strikers and I actively can't stand how much screen time they give her. It's genuinely obnoxious. I didn't even hate her in P5 or Royal, but it truly feels like they're trying to push her on you in Strikers and it actively kills my enjoyment.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Holy shit I just installed Strikers and you hyped me the frick up, can't wait to play the shit out of it tomorrow, Makoto best girl.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      i dunno about that
      i can understand people b***hing about makoto and futaba overtaking the plot in the main game
      but in strikers it feels like everyone got their fair share of screentime thanks to dedicated jails

  51. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    why not?

  52. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I won't say Makoto felt forced, but it felt like I speed ran her Confidant without even trying.

    Like when I went to Hawaii, I was able to go on the date with her and I felt surprised since I didn't think I'd been spending that much time with her. I even managed to finish her confidant right before Sae's boss fight almost instantly.

    Her slapping the piss out of her free was funny.

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