"If You Want Peace, Prepare for War."
After a long hiatus of end-of-semester finals and Christmas vacation I am back and have missed this! Also, finally got to sink my teeth into this game and see what it was all about.
Wasn't sure how I would like the tactics style since I have hardly played many besides "final fantasy tactics advance"and "Valkyria Chronicles", but the combat became very cool to learn and fun to do and strategize. Pulling off an all out attack and moving your players around to get the most enemies in the triangle was very satisfying! Classic Persona 5 style OST with an emphasis on a more chill vibe kind of feeling to it.
I am a die-hard Persona fan, but I feel as though the story and dialogue kind of dragged a bit. Erina was a cool character, but I did not get really invested into her and Toshiro's story until around the middle of the 3rd Kingdom of the game. Until that point, it was constant dialogue of just the typical Phantom Thieves banter of what's been going on and what to do next with some off topic conversations for the characters. I love the Phantom Thieves and all of the group, but I feel at this point i'm kind of getting burned out as I still have Strikers and New Cinema Labyrinth to play in the future. Just like my OG P5 and P5R playthroughs my go tos were Haru and Morgana which both dominated just like they did in the original games and were just an unstoppable force with wind and grenade launchers!
Persona fusion was really fun in this one as you can put them on nearly all party members to add extra skills and boost stats even with a higher consistency of fusion accidents, or maybe just my terrible luck! Hitting me with a accident right when I do the 4-way fusion for Trumpeteer was pretty damn dirty. Also, adding the ability to fuse personas and make them into even more powerful weapons was awesome and each had their own cool design. Continuing the Persona/JRPG trend of adding newer mechanics later to freshen up the gameplay loop was nice, but one of them felt like it should of been implemented way earlier in the game.
A nice combo of Persona gameplay elements with the Tactics style works really nice with this one and makes me wanna try other Tactics games. I have a bunch too, this playthrough has got me more keen to give them a go when I get to them. Great game for beginners in the genre as it is pretty damn easy and even a little bit of strategy goes a long way with this one.
I am so ready for Persona3R and everything else coming out very soon, seems like a damn good year for gaming and looking forward to experiencing all the releases with you all! Happy New Year! And remember, "There's 99 ways to start a revolution! I don't know any of em!!"
After a long hiatus of end-of-semester finals and Christmas vacation I am back and have missed this! Also, finally got to sink my teeth into this game and see what it was all about.
Wasn't sure how I would like the tactics style since I have hardly played many besides "final fantasy tactics advance"and "Valkyria Chronicles", but the combat became very cool to learn and fun to do and strategize. Pulling off an all out attack and moving your players around to get the most enemies in the triangle was very satisfying! Classic Persona 5 style OST with an emphasis on a more chill vibe kind of feeling to it.
I am a die-hard Persona fan, but I feel as though the story and dialogue kind of dragged a bit. Erina was a cool character, but I did not get really invested into her and Toshiro's story until around the middle of the 3rd Kingdom of the game. Until that point, it was constant dialogue of just the typical Phantom Thieves banter of what's been going on and what to do next with some off topic conversations for the characters. I love the Phantom Thieves and all of the group, but I feel at this point i'm kind of getting burned out as I still have Strikers and New Cinema Labyrinth to play in the future. Just like my OG P5 and P5R playthroughs my go tos were Haru and Morgana which both dominated just like they did in the original games and were just an unstoppable force with wind and grenade launchers!
Persona fusion was really fun in this one as you can put them on nearly all party members to add extra skills and boost stats even with a higher consistency of fusion accidents, or maybe just my terrible luck! Hitting me with a accident right when I do the 4-way fusion for Trumpeteer was pretty damn dirty. Also, adding the ability to fuse personas and make them into even more powerful weapons was awesome and each had their own cool design. Continuing the Persona/JRPG trend of adding newer mechanics later to freshen up the gameplay loop was nice, but one of them felt like it should of been implemented way earlier in the game.
A nice combo of Persona gameplay elements with the Tactics style works really nice with this one and makes me wanna try other Tactics games. I have a bunch too, this playthrough has got me more keen to give them a go when I get to them. Great game for beginners in the genre as it is pretty damn easy and even a little bit of strategy goes a long way with this one.
I am so ready for Persona3R and everything else coming out very soon, seems like a damn good year for gaming and looking forward to experiencing all the releases with you all! Happy New Year! And remember, "There's 99 ways to start a revolution! I don't know any of em!!"