Persona is a really cool franchise because of its unique structure between the normal high school life and the go-save the-world dungeon crawler. You are constantly making decision after decision, effecting different parts of the game, which will then lead to new mechanics that mesh these parts back together so they don't feel separated from each other. Even when there is nothing interesting going on, you can usually just vibe to the great soundtrack. Still, there are some things about this game that are not as great as the rest of it. Generally minors should'nt be as heavily sexualized as here (or be sexualized in general), the individual arcs often feel underwhelming and most of the core issues that this game tackles are only presented superficially. Also the game is much to long especially compared to P3 and P4. At its core it is still a good game and very worth a playthrough.

I enjoyed the first Oxenfree game. It wasn't anything super special or something like that, but it was just a good experience overall. This one, for most of the runtime, just bored me a lot. It involves too much walking from point a to b for something interesting to happen and then returning to point a just to walk to point c then. This walking part takes up a lot of the game, and nothing really happens in those parts except a lot of dialogue between the two main characters. The finale was my favourite part of this game, as it strips away all the boring parts of it and just focussed on the good mystery and plot while tying the first and second game together. I feel like this game would have been much better if they had cut like 2 hours from it, so that it has a similar length as Oxenfree 1.

These Ace Attorney games really have it all. The story and particularly the ending is fantastic, the writing is strong from start to finish, the characters are uniquely designed and are as charming as ever and the music... chef's kiss. What I especially liked about it is how those different characters are integrated into this historic Victorian-era setting, which made the world much more believable in a natural way. As many have pointed out already, the pacing is probably the biggest weakness of these games. Everything just takes a bit longer than it should, and that is further amplified by most cases leaving a lot of loose ends that are left for the finale. The payoff is definitely there, as the ending is probably one of the greatest endings in all of video games, but the way to get there is very rocky. I kind of miss the character's already.