Persona 4 Golden is the best 6.5/10 game I've ever played. The main storyline was honestly amazing, and I loved seeing the main mystery slowly unfolding, with the main conclusion being super cool on all fronts. I do think that sometimes (especially in the early game) it dragged on a bit, it felt like the story didn't want to progress so it was just the least amount of new info possible. If it were only for the main story and some of the Shadow confrontations, I'd be confident in calling this an amazing game.
Sadly, there's more to it. And that's when the game slowly starts to fall off (but not that much, mind you). While the main cast is pretty strong, a lot of the running gags and jokes throughout most of their interactions just... aren't funny. Yukiko laughs a lot! Rise's entire personality is simping over Yu! Yosuke is homophobic! Laugh! I'm willing to just say the humor isn't for me, but it really made going through some of the slower parts of the game that much harder.
The Social Links for the most part are actually pretty solid! Some of them were a bit boring but hey, you can't expect them all to be bangers.
Ok, but well, this is still a video game, right? How was the gameplay?
eh
The combat is fine for the most part, pretty standard as far as turn-based jrpgs go, but the dungeons are sooooo boring, and whenever a floor decides to have a quirky gimmick to spice things up, it just makes it bad in the process (the less said about Hollow Forest the better). Not to mention how hard it is to gain EXP at times, so I had to change the settings to make the amount of EXP I got higher just so I could be around the same ballpark as the bosses for the most part.
I really wish I could give this game a higher grade but it's too flawed for me to do so, which is really unfortunate. Oh well, at least Marie was peak.
Sadly, there's more to it. And that's when the game slowly starts to fall off (but not that much, mind you). While the main cast is pretty strong, a lot of the running gags and jokes throughout most of their interactions just... aren't funny. Yukiko laughs a lot! Rise's entire personality is simping over Yu! Yosuke is homophobic! Laugh! I'm willing to just say the humor isn't for me, but it really made going through some of the slower parts of the game that much harder.
The Social Links for the most part are actually pretty solid! Some of them were a bit boring but hey, you can't expect them all to be bangers.
Ok, but well, this is still a video game, right? How was the gameplay?
eh
The combat is fine for the most part, pretty standard as far as turn-based jrpgs go, but the dungeons are sooooo boring, and whenever a floor decides to have a quirky gimmick to spice things up, it just makes it bad in the process (the less said about Hollow Forest the better). Not to mention how hard it is to gain EXP at times, so I had to change the settings to make the amount of EXP I got higher just so I could be around the same ballpark as the bosses for the most part.
I really wish I could give this game a higher grade but it's too flawed for me to do so, which is really unfortunate. Oh well, at least Marie was peak.