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Persona 5 Royal
2019
This review contains spoilers
I LOVE this game. ill give you a quick P5og opinion rundown but I love palace 1 4 and 6. 2 is great and 8 is pretty fun and decent ending. this game OVERSTAYS its welcome. so much LOL this was one of the first JRPGS I've ever beaten so after playing a lot more JRPGS I definitely see the flaws most other JRPG fans have with this game but still, it sticks out to me, it's really unique and a blast. BUT palace 9???????????? OH MY GOD, I felt l like I was playing the OG game again for the first time. I thought I was really spoiled but I really didn't know shit and I thought it was gonna be mega-ass. But when I got to it and saw what it was about it REALLY hit me hard seeing all of my favorite characters having their tragedies undone and them living like nothing ever happened was so heartbreaking because you knew that it was gonna be undone and things were gonna go back to reality. Also, I really love the message of moving forward with your scars as lessons. Maurki is probably easily the best persona villain to date. Some of the execution is a bit shaky IMO but I think that's in vain for persona 5 because for all the bad there's a lot of good and well-done. Akechi is one of my favorite characters now because of this game.
Persona 5 Royal
2019
This review contains spoilers
fix Okumura's palace and we good.
Persona 5 Royal
2019
Vanilla p5 is probably an 8 or so, I think it's really fun but definitely takes a while to get going and doesn't have as high of a peak as p3 or p4, however THE 3RD SEMESTER IS SOOO FUCKING GOOOOOOD, One of, if not the best, antagonists ever, Kasumi is amazing, Akechi gets way more and gets elevated so much by the Royal content.
Persona 5 Royal
2019
WHY THE FUCK IS GORO AKECHI SO HOT. Dont play vanilla P5. Everything wrong in that version gets MOSTLY fixed in this game while also giving Akechi more screentime through his confidant. Fuck Morgana btw punk bitch ass cat hate him so much you killed Haru's development
Persona 5 Royal
2019
Goro fuckin Akechi
my interest in pokemon has started to wane with time (only took over a decade) but this game is a glaring exception absolute masterpiece ive dumped hundreds of hours into so many playthroughs
i have a physical copy of this and its apparently... very rare? it has no esrb on the front. i got it on amazon iirc so idk it even had an (expired) 4taro dlc code in it so i think its legit
gregory you need to find the entrance to a better game
Dys4ia
2012
At this point in my life, I am currently at stage 3 of this game- Hormonal Bullshit. I've spent two decades fighting my way to get past stages 1 and 2, doing everything I could to resist before I knew I had no other options. And now I'm here. 3 months on hormones- low dosage patches to start, due to a genetic predisposition to blood clots. As a result, these early transition stages will always be a few months behind the supposed benchmarks. But the hormonal fluxes are still there. And it feels like a losing battle- something that won't get better.
Stage 4- It Gets Better?- is the exact message I needed to hear. This is all worth it in the long term. This is necessary to be who I want to be- no, who I am. Eventually, maybe, just maybe, I will be happy with where I am. This message rings out beautifully in Dys4ia.
The abstract visuals and audio design, the blunt writing, and especially the hole-in-the-wall moments of gameplay- they all accentuate the message of the game dramatically. They are what make this an experience anyone can learn from or be inspired by. Dys4ia is a lesson on self love in a world that seeks to bring you to the brink- and it makes me feel seen.
Stage 4- It Gets Better?- is the exact message I needed to hear. This is all worth it in the long term. This is necessary to be who I want to be- no, who I am. Eventually, maybe, just maybe, I will be happy with where I am. This message rings out beautifully in Dys4ia.
The abstract visuals and audio design, the blunt writing, and especially the hole-in-the-wall moments of gameplay- they all accentuate the message of the game dramatically. They are what make this an experience anyone can learn from or be inspired by. Dys4ia is a lesson on self love in a world that seeks to bring you to the brink- and it makes me feel seen.
Hades
2018
need meg's strap