I played this game 4 times, 2 times on switch and 2 times on PC (playing it for 5th time on PC as of writing this). I can say for sure that this game is the best Persona game ever.

I loved everything about the game. OSTs, Story, Characters, Gameplay, Social Links and even the visuals.

[OSTs +]
I love that they made this game's theme be a Jazz, cozy/relaxing/chill and Pop themed. I have always loved these type of music / songs; it just makes my mood turn from a bad to good. I always listen to P5 and P5R's theme. My favorites and probably the most notable are: "Beneath the Mask (all versions), Ideal and Real (all versions) and Our Beginning. You can even get costume fighting music, by changing your costume too. Compared to P4, the OSTs don't get annoying, if anything I just turn off the Music most of my playthrough on P4 especially on Dungeons; It is very bad compared to P5. P3 was good unlike P4.

[Story & Characters +] (spoiler)
Some people would say that the story is just about Teens who hate adults and sending agendas to the players, for me I disagree. The story of P5 is centered on the experience these teenagers had with the adults, the protag's parents dumped him and did not believe him, now he only has Sojiro to trust and other few adults. Ryuji the experience he had with his dad and Kamoshida and other characters who had it bad.

Characters's story, backgrounds and social links were never boring to me, and it never got irritating to talk to them or hangout with anyone! compared to p4 and p3 social links were an utter garbage with all meaning (p4 had few good social links, mainly your teammates, but the rest are very bad). All of them are interesting on their own.

[Gameplay +]
It's really fun, no matter how many times I play this game. I never got tired of the gameplay. They added showtime and also made "All-Out-Attack" useful rather than it dealing low damage. Farming EXP and money is very easy if you know how to properly fight shadows on mementos faster. Also you can get the confidant rank that makes you just kill the shadows instantly without even the need of fighting, making it easier and more efficient for farming. They added "Show-Time" attack, you don't need to put both partners on the party, you just need one of them, making it easier to strategize and dealing with enemies faster.
While just wondering on Mementos you can see your party member chatting which is really nice.

[Visuals & Places+]
Nice visuals even though I sometimes get drop frames when there are lots of NPCs around in an area, but overall it's good. In rains the graphics is top tear for me, and I just love to wonder around the city with it.
Compared to P4 and P3. P5 is taken on Shibuya which has lots of life in it. in P3 areas were very soulless, but in Reload they fixed it, but it still wasn't as lively as it is in P5, P4 on the other hand takes place in the country part, so it's understandable that it's not that lively (even thought you can't even talk to any of them other than them telling you stuff". The way made all of P5 areas are very good. Palaces are very good built too.

Persona 5 Royal is the best Persona game. Yes, I said it again I know, but it's something lots of people don't realize... I see lots of people saying P3Reload is better than P5Royal for the stupidest reasons, and when it comes to comparing both as WHOLE GAME (and not just story or tiny parts ALL OF IT) P5R always win. P4G is also a very bad Persona remake/expansion... in P5R you are forced to interact with Yoshizawa! But in P4G you have to do it all by yourself. It's so damn lazy P4G's devs I don't care what anyone say.

Rant: Yosuke (p4) is always the best buddy in all of Persona games, then comes Ryuji and finally below trash comes Junpei.

All P5/P5R's OSTs are better than all of the rest games.
Social Links are better in P5R.
Story, writing and character are better in P5R.
P4 had a good story, but the filler events ruined it.
P3 had a shit story, shit characters, shit at everything.
P3's Protag is just a depressed anime femboy, I don't understand why people like him.

Sadly it's not for me.

[+]
Level Designs are rated between decent to very good.
OST is nice.
Visuals and all are decent and you can change the way the graphics look.

[-]
Secrets placement sometimes can be very obvious and other times I just don't know how am I even supposed to figure them out?
Bosses are below trash.
I just sometimes tell myself while playing this game "why did I even buy this?" I didn't enjoy it, compared to other work from the studio like Ultrakill, Dusk just isn't good for me...

Compared to trash4golden, Reload is not as bad as p3 was.

They made areas in the game more lively and have soul, not like how it used to be soulless in the original p3. [+]

Graphics and Visuals are amazing and are probably better than P5's graphics and visuals! Some don't see any difference which is surprising for me... I just sometimes idle in the game to see the visuals. [+]

Voice acting changed, some good and some are bad... Joker is in it so decent Voice actors. [+/-]

Ost in this game are very good, but some get annoying to listen to... I prefer P5's basically good old pop,jazz,acid jazz or whatever you call it [+/-]

Gameplay as a whole is now more fun than P5. [+]

Story,characters,plots and ending are the same... Meaning it is utter garbage. [-] fuck this game's story and characters.

overall doesn't deserve 70$ for this shit.

Unlike the original game (I wanna be the guy) which was an interesting idea, but the game itself was trash. Followed by Geezer's fangame (I wanna kill the guy) which was a semi decent game...But still wasn't decent nor good. Now we get to Geezer's new fangame... "Not Another Needle Game". This game is 10x better than all of "I wanna be the guy" and it's fan games.

OSTS [+/-]

I never get tired listening to this game's OSTs no matter how much I fail the level/get stuck in it. I love it and works perfectly with how the game's chapters... I need to mention that the OSTs that are in the game are not made/owned by Geezer, he only found them on Soundcloud/Youtube/Newgrounds and added them to the game. Him not making the OSTs as itself is a negativity, so yeah.

Chapters and Levels (and secrets)

All Chapters have their own twists and tricks. A level can be normal, while other one uses a teleporter, other uses a speedbelt it can either slow you down, or make you faster. Overall they're all very good designed. There are over 5 chapters/stages call it what you want, and all of them have secret levels, the secret levels themselves have their own twist and direction... Overall very good

Visuals [+]

Compared to other Geezer's works and the original game, this game's visuals are 10x better for the human eyes. That's it.


I recommend people to play this game and just quit the series to be honest. Geezer teased on his twitter that he was working on NANG2, but we all know he isn't gonna finish it...

I understand that this game is an early access, and. I also understand that the core mechanic for the game is to have fun with your friends, but when I've seen the new "Major Update" on steam (Version 50).

That update being a "Major update" is a fucking scam, like couldn't you even work harder to get us a prober update? I understand that they added new things, but they're less than what I expected.

Sadly the game gets boring, and it's better to find a game that you and your friends can actually play on it and have more fun time on it...

Comparing this game to Persona 5 or Persona 5 Royal is a fucking crime. as a whole the game is bad LMAO, Persona 3 Reload which is a mid persona remake to be honest is way better.

The fact that some scenes use the same ost from other events/part of the game is so lazy, when Nanako in the hospital rather than playing a new sad ost, it just plays an ost that was played before... I laughed so hard when I heard the ost in that fucking scene, a scene that was supposed to be heartbreaking turned into pure comedy LOL.

Game's 50% JRPG and 50%Life Sim... as a whole it's not a bad thing, but...The Social links fucking sucks. There are several Social Links where they're just there to fucking mess with you and make you want to punch them in the face, and don't make me forget how dumb they are. It's so depressing how this game fails to even do such simple things.

The UI is just P3's UI but yellow... I played this shit on hard and had to just pray on the fucking RNG system this game have, and hopefully that all my teammates die excpet for me so I can continue the fucking fight. No matter how strategic you are or how many times you fucking guard yourself, they'll just nuke you and die...

Let's not forget how to get info on Rise, so you can give them to the dumb photographer... Spoiler alert you'll probably spend 1 whole fucking hour searching for that one fan of her... the game is dogshit by all meaning.

[Golden part]
They added Marrie to the game just like how they added Sumi on Persona 5 Royal...But the difference between those two expansions that in Royal you are forced to spend some time with Sumi, but in Golden oh boy you they don't force you to fucking talk to her or anything, you just have to do it yourself ffs. She doesn't appear in any of the fillers in the game (Beach filler and other events) not in any of them, and the characters just get sad and feel pity for her even thought they don't fucking know/spend any time with her...

[Positivity]

Adachi is a funny villain, his dungeon is the best in the whole game, I like him and his reason. I love that he was referenced in Persona 5 too, but... He's a dumb fucking villain at the same time LOL.

I loved that they focused about the comedy in this game more than being serious, and it actually works good. Even though they go to the beach and other events while trying to investigate the case... Meh I still see it a positive note for the game rather than it being all serious.

The main crew are nice and love them, especially Yosuke and Kanji they are the best buds. and fuck Rise dumb ahh whore.

Some Social links like Dojima's Nanakos are very good and fun to level them up and spend time with them...


The game was obviously rushed... and sadly it isn't in my top 5 of Shin Megami Tensei games... Maybe if it had a prober remake it can be good? But better than Persona 5 Royal? hell no. Right now Persona 5 Royal is the only best game to be honest, comparing everything from Royal to 3Reload or 4Golden pales alot, yes 3's remake is decent but still has some of the issues from the original game like the story and other stuff like dumb characters...

I don't really like Puzzle games, the only puzzle game that I enjoyed playing was Portal 2. I knew about Machinarium for a long time, but didn't really play it I only loved to just listen to the ost. Now I can say that Machinarium is one of the best puzzle games with Portal 2!

The OST is very good, level/map design is also decent. The way that the puzzle work is interesting and fun to figure out how to solve them. It sometimes can be tedious and irritating, but that's just like 1-2 times I have experienced that. The "Lore" if you'd call it that is funny and I laugh whenever I remember the Robot's flashbacks with the other Robots.
There's mini games too. the most notable and rememberable for me is the Connect game with that fucking robot I pray for his downfall every time I remember him. THE MF NEVER TOUCHES GRASS ONLY TRYHARDING ON CONNECT FFS.

I recommend to play it with a friend (stream it on discord or invite them to watch on Steam) and try to solve them together, you'll have so much fun.

Fun game, I recommend it even if you were not in the point and click puzzle solving games. Trust me I too don't love them, but this game is an exception!

Hotline Miami 2 took what we loved from the previous game and made it 10x better. I highly recommend people to play this after the first game!

[OST]

OST in this game feels more energetic than the original game, every character has their own sets of OST. A positive note that I should add is that you won't feel annoyed/tired from the same OST repeating if you died in a level for so many times, I had this problem when I played the first one, but here it's very good to listen to. I sometimes just get myself killed because I pay more attention to my ears than the screen, just shows how good of OST this game have.

[Gameplay & Characters]

All characters have their own set of weapons, their own twist to how they finish the level. They change your strategy each character you play with. Example The Fans...you can pick one of them and play with, but there's a catch. A character from The Fans can't pick up guns he can only rely on his fists, other you'll need to play with two (ducks), other you'll just spawn with two Uzi--s. There's Beard from the first game, now as a playable character, he gets sets of weapons to choose from and then go fight the enemies, you can say it can be very reckless unlike most of the other characters, or you can play him strategically, whichever you want. There's Evan who can't pick up weapons (guns or any lethal killing melee weapons) and he doesn't kill, only knocks them out (you can let them die too if they're knocked out).

[Level design & Visuals]

The visuals in this game are very good, and not the boring visuals that was in the first game. Level Design is good, they improved a little than how it used to be in the original game.

[Story]

Here you can at least figure out the story...Kind of? meh I tried to understand all of it, but I just gave up to be honest.

[Negative thoughts of the game]

Same thing from the first game, sometimes the game gets irritating and stupid, sometimes you're able to just punch all enemies at once (close radius), but sometimes one person lives. When you try to melee a dog, it's a 50/50 chance either you get the timing right or just get fucked.


Game's good...

I just finished Lies of P, and decided to go and give Dark Souls Remastered a new try, maybe the game ain’t as bad as I remember it…Spoiler alert it was and still shit.

Gameplay is slow compared to other souls games and some what a hassle to just go and fight normal enemies. I don’t care if it’s an old game or not it is a remaster version of the original so they should’ve at least made the gameplay fun in this.
Bosses most of them are lame and not even good whether it was in the design or actual fighting. I used to love Gwyn, but going back to it made me realize how garbage of a fight it was and as final boss they really didn’t put any that much work into him compared to Smough and Ornstein and other actual good bosses (which are probably 2) there are semi-gimmick bosses like Sif, Moonlight Butterfly and Chaos Bed boss. And other lame bosses that aren’t fun, and their ost isn’t good to listen to in my opinion.
Visuals in this game for a remastered version… IS GARBAGE. Who in their mind would actually say that this game’s graphics is peak??? Or even decent, it’s garbage.
Osts, trash all of them except for 2 I don’t care what anyone says.
World, it’s a connected world… and it’s trash. Progression in this game is a hassle cause it’s a fucking connected world, and you can’t possibly warp until you get to Gwyn’s dumb daughter. Trash trash I don’t care if your world is connected or not. I come to play and have fun and not to waste my time trying to figure out how can I backtrack to the areas before. Such a waste of time.
Thank you fromsoft.

Lies of P, is the perfect example of a perfect game and is literally better than all of Fromsoft’s by so much, and also the game that people dislike just because it “copies” Fromsoft’s games… These people are truly blind and stupid cause of fake nostalgia. This game did what Fromsoft couldn’t do. Which is making a consistently good game until the end and never fails to do so! It took all of the good things from the Souls games and combined them together to this masterpiece.

The OSTs, Gameplay, World Design, NPCs and their stories and characters, Bosses, Side Quests, Story, Weapons and making changes to them. And other stuff that I probably forgot making this game perfect.


Gameplay, Gameplay in Lies of P is a mix of Sekiro’s guarding but harder to pull off since the parry (perfect guard) window is very small compared to Sekiro’s… there’s also rolling that can be used, but I recommend everyone to just use the guard system more than the dodging system because of how important it is, you can stagger the bosses or the enemies way faster, and you’re also able to break their weapons depending on how much perfect guard you can do while he attack you. If you weren’t able to parry the enemy, you’re going to get the effect of a normal guard which is: having your health taken, but you can get it back by hitting the enemy or wait for it to heal by itself (it’ll take too much time for it to heal). There are also Legion Arms which have different abilities, some of them can be used as a hook to pull enemies to you or pull yourself to them, other make you attach landmine to the floor and it’ll blow up when an enemy gets near it, a very good use to speedrun bosses or cheese them. There’s the shield legion arm that as the name suggest it’s a shield for beginners and it’s very useful too, there are other legion arms, that it’ll take time to mention and say what they do, but you’ll have to trust me when I say they’re all useful and the upgrades too! Gameplay is as fun as Sekiro nothing much to add for it, other than it doesn’t have that nice guard sound as Sekiro, but that’s not important. Also it’s better than Dark Souls and bloodborne.


NPCs, NPCs in this game are one of the best NPCs I’ve ever interacted with! The NPCs have their own character and stories, and it’s not some just a robot with no emotions and character. NPCs here show actual fear, happiness, sadness, regret and having the most important thing in a Souls game which is “hope”.
Sophia as an example, telling us she awakened us so we can save Krat, but truth is she wanted us to save her. She even told us how scared she is because of what Simon did to listeners like her. She fears death, but at the same time doesn’t want to feel the pain anymore. I genuinely was attached to Sophia as a character and her role too, it broke me when I saw her at that state and I didn’t know what to pick when I did my first Playthrough, but in the end I let her go in peace.
Another example is Lady Antonia, we little of her, but we know she was there for you (when you were a human), for Venigni and Polendina loved her when he awakened his “ego”. She showed how happy she was after you gave her the cure.
Gemini in this game is a 100% must have and I know that no one hates him, everyone loves him. He’s the guide for your run, gives you some lore, and he doesn’t make you feel lonely at all. He sometimes does some jokes or comments on some stuff in a funny way…Having Gemini is an essential part of the game to make the players not feel lonely or get bored at all! I love Gemini and I hope in the DLC and the sequel he’ll have more dialogues.
Red Fox and The Black Cat, these two when you first encounter them seem like some scumbags, the Red Fox being the leader/boss and the young Cat being a follower, they seem like sister and brother, and turns out when you play through the game they are actually siblings! The Black Cat is a young kid from, you can tell that when tells you that he is tired of everything, tired of kidnapping, tired of killing, tired of surviving. This just shows how much they have been running together and how they no longer want any of this. The Red Fox seems as a nice sister too, thanking you and wished for us to be friends. We don’t know what happened to them after the ending, but they probably live in another country and living a normal and decent life. It’s these little details that make you attached to these “simple” NPCs.

Riddler! Oh boy this guy is so important and having him adds a lot to the plot… Every single question he keeps on asking us and having two answers, sometimes one of the answers is blatantly wrong which indicates that you’re an actual puppet, other indicates you’re a human being. Without the help of Riddler you (Carlo aka Pinocchio) won’t realize sooner that you’re actually a human being… well until you defeat Romeo (King of Puppets) and you will awaken to Carlo.
There are other NPCs like the cat, when you try to pet it, it would hiss you, but if you have humanity on you it’ll recognize it and actually let you pet it… again details like this are nice to have.


Bosses, Bosses in this game I have mix feelings about them(in a good way), I would compare them to Dark Souls 3’s bosses. And see how I fight them and it’s difficulty… In Lies of P, The difficulty sometimes spikes from easy to hard and then go easy, that’s actually not a bad thing to be honest… When a new player get in here he’d probably think the game is too easy, and then he’ll get shocked of the hard bosses + helps people to try and actually learn the perfect guard (parry) system. The bosses have their own story too…Romeo (King of the Puppets) is Carlo’s best friend and when he says “I’m Romeo, Carlo’s best friend” hits very hard and without him you might’ve not been able to awaken yourself…
Scrapped Watchman in NG+ with Venigni’s tool you can understand what he was saying… Turns out he was and still tries to protect his friends and the children that the people (adults) took away from him. Same thing a small detail like that is nice to have too.
The Black Rabbit Brotherhood, is an easy boss that I’ve seen people struggle with, and I don’t understand why…They’re fairly easy, you just need to focus only on one person and that’s it easy win… why are people complaining about them so much???? Even thought they’re bunch of scums, they still care about each other.
Nameless Puppet as a final boss works very good just like the Soul of Cinder, and the cutscenes were very good and hit hard, the fight is surprisingly easily and fun too!
There are other NPC bosses that have gone insane, because of either the disease or surviving was too much for them… shows how cruel life is there.


Story in this game unlike all of Fromsoft's games, you can actually understand it without any trouble. The way it tells the story from characters or even from some of the books or letters you find is very nice and isn't tiring to read like Fromsoft's games... When I said this game is perfect I meant it was perfect in every way! Including the story.

World design in this game is incredible some would say they copied it from Bloodbrone, but I say the opposite… this game’s world design compared to Bloodborne is laughable in my opinion. This game beats Bloodborne in everything! The world design is very good, that’s all.

OSTs in this game are incredible, you have a collection of disc music that can be played, and they’re all so good. I LOVE ALL OF THEM… KRAT’S HOTEL THEM, THE FINAL CHAPTER OSTS, ATTACKED KRAT HOTEL OST, SOPHIA’S OST, AND ALL OF THE BOSSES! MY GOD THEY’RE SO GOOD AND THE COLLECTION OH MY GOD SO GOOD TOO.


To sum up, Lies of P is better than all of Fromsoft’s games and the fans are blinded by their stupid “loyalty” so that’s why they dislike the game, other than that any other sane person who actually uses his brain can tell it’s better.