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Formerly Turbokill on Destructoid. I get paid to play double bass and bass guitar sometimes.

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After so many years of on again, off again playing, I FINALLY finished Persona 5. There was even a point where I hadn't played the original for so long that I simply restarted it all after P5 Royal dropped, then the cycle continued.

It was a great ride, albeit also being admittedly too long. That said, I really enjoyed how the Persona 5 Royal additions, without spoiling anything, reminded me of Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker. Just certain approaches to some themes.

I think part of my issue was that I actually didn't like (at first) the "in media res" intro to the game. But once I got past that point, I actually started pushing forward in the game much faster than ever until I finally finished it.

Now to toy around in the, thus far, quite fun Star Wars Outlaws before jumping into my next RPG. (Trails in the Sky SC)


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in reply to @LeeroyJanky's post:

It's nutty that, as a huge MegaTen guy, I've barely touched P5. I got up to the first dungeon boss and just stopped.

I will say that it probably has the worst initial 3-4 hours of Personas 3 through 5. Not sure how hot of a take that is. That didn't help, even if I liked the characters well enough.

That's very similar to how it went for me. I felt like I was forcing myself to get through it a lot of the time. When I finally got past "that point" that the intro takes you, I finally felt into it.

But it took way too long to get there.

It's like the One Piece of video games 😅

Persona 5 Royal is the longest game I've ever completed. 161 hours. I say completed because other games I've spent that long on were because of side content, which P5 sort of doesn't have. You can skip stuff by spending days doing nothing, but at that point are you really even playing the game?

I will say, that I started P3 Reload recently and I actually find the game extremely slow to begin with... but kind of in a weird way. It was cool at first how you kind of just immediately stumble your way into this already established group of freedom fighters, but it's been over one in-game month now and literally nothing has happened. Story hasn't moved an inch. The framing of Persona 5 was cool, plus I liked the group coming together organically.

When I first played Persona 3, it was the portable version back in 2009. Around then, I was in a music performance camp/festival and had a lot of free time.

I kinda liked that slow start back then because it was so chill. I'm still unsure about whether I want to try the remake.

There's just too many great RPGs for one life

I'm very much in the "Persona 5 is 40 hours too long" camp, so by the end of Royal I was so very done. Thankfully, P5 Strikers and Soul Hackers 2 managed to reignite my love for both Persona and SMT. Haven't dared to think about P3 Reload just yet though , been aiming to clear the Nocturne remaster first.

Haven't finished Soul Hackers 2, but I definitely like how less bloated it feels.

I'm looking forward to Strikers, it looked really fun, but I was afraid of even the lightest of spoilers. (Such as if the game wanted to suggest a character died, but I played Strikers and they were just fine and so on )