Okay that's a tough one for me. That's a first Persona game that I played and also one of the first JRPG and Life Sim games that I played so bear that in mind
Let's start with good shit:
1) aesthetics and vibes - yeah that's cool af. All this anime stuff, japan, music, secret organization, trips and so on, work really well together and make a whole picture in the end, that feels believable but also so cozy
2) characters - while I don't like anime characters at all and they are all pretty much anime af, after so many hours you do feel connections to them and you do wanna talk to them more
3) SEES - i think that there is a lot of similarities with Evangelion. Secret organization that fights some bullshit to stop the end of the world, school, depressed kids that are fighting these fucking whatever it monsters, big shit happening in the end and so on....
4) it's pretty much watching a season of some random anime(not a very good one tbh)
5) music - it's 10/10 classic
And now let's go with bad shit:
1) fucking grind - yo so it's a JRPG and yeyeye Ik that it's part of the genre but holy damn. The battle system by itself is pretty fucking easy, just find enemy's weakness and exploit it. You learn how to do so in first 4 hours in the game, but ya gotta make the game harder and harder right? And how do you do that when your battle system doesn't evolve? just fucking increase the damage dealt by the enemies and give them dick amount of hp. And can you overcome this by making a good strategy or picking the absolutely right composition? At some degree yes, and in fact that's necessary for some bosses, but holy damn if the bitch is X level higher than you, there is no way in hell you can defeat it. And what you have to do in order to beat it? Right, grind. Grind grind grind grind. And yeah, sure, wharever I don't see much problem in grinding but there is a problem, however, when you die because of some bullshit fucking crit or wharever. So you have a block of floors, where each floor is a dungeon that contains X amount of monsters and there are aprox 10 floors in each block. You can save the game only when you go to another block. That means, if you grind 9 floors and die on the 10th, bye bye 1 hour worth of grind, cuz your last save was at the begging at the block!!!!!!! And the problem is that you can die because WHAREVER fucking bullshit happens, forgot to switch to a right persona? die. Enemy crit? die. Your healer got afraid and can't heal you? die. You failed to run away? die. die. die. die. And the bullshit is that it is so easy to fix, just give the ability to continue fighting when your main protagonist is "dead"!!!! When your teammate dies, it's okay, you can revive them even during the battle, but once you die, it's over. im deadass its so bs
2) focking anime - that's anime in the pure form: 16 years old students that save the world, all girls are over the top sexy, all the boys are fucking perverts, robots are sexy girls, stupid fucking jokes about boobs or what not, every fucking body talks about getting a girlfriend/boyfriend, if you speak to any girl they will love you to death, fucking sex between 16 years old apparently???? teacher/student romance, fucking 8 years old asking to be a couple??????, characters that speak way over the top about anything.
3) girls - i already bitch about them. They are all so fucking anime-ish and all sexualized and shit. And if you speak long enough to them they( AROUND 5 FUCKING TIMES APPARENTLY) they all will be saying shit like oh i wanna be ur girfriled or love you or wharever. Bitch. There is no option to be friends with girl characters, if you want to make your "bond" stronger, you have to be their boyfriend and have sexy times with all of em. bitch wtf. And if you want to have a maximum level of social link with all of them, well then, u r an asshole cuz you will be having them all as girlfriends at once. great.
4) fucking talks about boyfrieind/girlfriend - can they shut the fuck up. I'm so tired of this shit. Everybody speaks about getting a girlfriend or a boyfriend or "oh shit they thought that we are dating" cheesus fucking christ. Yes, there are good dialogues, but almost every fucking conversation with girls(and junpei) ends with some bullshit like this. bitch. talk about fucking movies or wharever
5) it's fucking long - you will spend almost a year in this game. All days. And quite a lot of days you will be doing nothing. Some social links are already done, some are not yet open, all the stats are maxed, so you just jerk off arcade machine for a week straight.
Overall I feel like this game is kinda bad, but ngl, it def has its charm. I don't think that I will replay it ever again, but I'm pretty sure I will be thinking about this game quite a lot and revisiting it in my memories until I get Alzheimer
Let's start with good shit:
1) aesthetics and vibes - yeah that's cool af. All this anime stuff, japan, music, secret organization, trips and so on, work really well together and make a whole picture in the end, that feels believable but also so cozy
2) characters - while I don't like anime characters at all and they are all pretty much anime af, after so many hours you do feel connections to them and you do wanna talk to them more
3) SEES - i think that there is a lot of similarities with Evangelion. Secret organization that fights some bullshit to stop the end of the world, school, depressed kids that are fighting these fucking whatever it monsters, big shit happening in the end and so on....
4) it's pretty much watching a season of some random anime(not a very good one tbh)
5) music - it's 10/10 classic
And now let's go with bad shit:
1) fucking grind - yo so it's a JRPG and yeyeye Ik that it's part of the genre but holy damn. The battle system by itself is pretty fucking easy, just find enemy's weakness and exploit it. You learn how to do so in first 4 hours in the game, but ya gotta make the game harder and harder right? And how do you do that when your battle system doesn't evolve? just fucking increase the damage dealt by the enemies and give them dick amount of hp. And can you overcome this by making a good strategy or picking the absolutely right composition? At some degree yes, and in fact that's necessary for some bosses, but holy damn if the bitch is X level higher than you, there is no way in hell you can defeat it. And what you have to do in order to beat it? Right, grind. Grind grind grind grind. And yeah, sure, wharever I don't see much problem in grinding but there is a problem, however, when you die because of some bullshit fucking crit or wharever. So you have a block of floors, where each floor is a dungeon that contains X amount of monsters and there are aprox 10 floors in each block. You can save the game only when you go to another block. That means, if you grind 9 floors and die on the 10th, bye bye 1 hour worth of grind, cuz your last save was at the begging at the block!!!!!!! And the problem is that you can die because WHAREVER fucking bullshit happens, forgot to switch to a right persona? die. Enemy crit? die. Your healer got afraid and can't heal you? die. You failed to run away? die. die. die. die. And the bullshit is that it is so easy to fix, just give the ability to continue fighting when your main protagonist is "dead"!!!! When your teammate dies, it's okay, you can revive them even during the battle, but once you die, it's over. im deadass its so bs
2) focking anime - that's anime in the pure form: 16 years old students that save the world, all girls are over the top sexy, all the boys are fucking perverts, robots are sexy girls, stupid fucking jokes about boobs or what not, every fucking body talks about getting a girlfriend/boyfriend, if you speak to any girl they will love you to death, fucking sex between 16 years old apparently???? teacher/student romance, fucking 8 years old asking to be a couple??????, characters that speak way over the top about anything.
3) girls - i already bitch about them. They are all so fucking anime-ish and all sexualized and shit. And if you speak long enough to them they( AROUND 5 FUCKING TIMES APPARENTLY) they all will be saying shit like oh i wanna be ur girfriled or love you or wharever. Bitch. There is no option to be friends with girl characters, if you want to make your "bond" stronger, you have to be their boyfriend and have sexy times with all of em. bitch wtf. And if you want to have a maximum level of social link with all of them, well then, u r an asshole cuz you will be having them all as girlfriends at once. great.
4) fucking talks about boyfrieind/girlfriend - can they shut the fuck up. I'm so tired of this shit. Everybody speaks about getting a girlfriend or a boyfriend or "oh shit they thought that we are dating" cheesus fucking christ. Yes, there are good dialogues, but almost every fucking conversation with girls(and junpei) ends with some bullshit like this. bitch. talk about fucking movies or wharever
5) it's fucking long - you will spend almost a year in this game. All days. And quite a lot of days you will be doing nothing. Some social links are already done, some are not yet open, all the stats are maxed, so you just jerk off arcade machine for a week straight.
Overall I feel like this game is kinda bad, but ngl, it def has its charm. I don't think that I will replay it ever again, but I'm pretty sure I will be thinking about this game quite a lot and revisiting it in my memories until I get Alzheimer