Edit: Once I grew past the age of 17, I've noticed that some things were overstated in this review. Skullgirls is good, but not second coming of christ good. I'll still keep this review up (it was originally 4 or 5 stars) but I don't hold the same hype for this game as much as before because I've moved onto better fighters. Besides, the constant discourse around the game is tiresome and I don't want to be part of it.

this game is so awesome and it got me interested in fighting games again because street fighter v and smash bros are boring as FUCK... this game isn't! there's something surprising and new to learn from this game each time i play and i love the mechanics. the story is great, the gameplay is great, the soundtrack is great, the animation is sakuga goodness... this is everything i want in a fighting game

Liberation D×2 has decent gameplay... But it gets boring after a while. Using gacha to get more demons is pretty boring. I don't like the story, all they ever do is search for clues and fight demons. Nothing interesting ever happens. Even Devil Summoner does this way better. The characters are really boring and their only personality traits revolve around like, one thing they do. Like, for example there's a girl who loves guns and a nerd boy who loves horror movies. That's it. That's all they talk about. They suck. The only one I kiiinda like is Ririn? She's like, some lesbian girl who works at a cafe I think. She's not interesting either, but at least she's funny sometimes. The only other nice thing I'll say about this game is that it's really generous to F2P players. Aside from the average gameplay there's not much to this, and it's not worth playing. If you wanna play an SMT game then play something like Strange Journey or Nocturne. Or just play the spinoffs like Persona or Devil Summoner.

Persona 5 Royal is definitely my favorite mainline Persona title. This game takes the good things about Persona 5 and improves nearly everything about it. The gameplay in this game is just so interesting and it keeps me coming back, I enjoy traveling through the dungeons, slowly getting more abilities through Confidants, creating new Personas, playing Tycoon in the Thieves' Den and DARTSLIVE3 at Kichijoji... This game has it all. The extra story known as the "3rd Semester arc" (without spoiling the palace ruler who plays a major role in it) is probably the most interesting part of the story (although it's overrated and it's also a rip-off of the Megami Ibunroku Persona manga and the game itself LMFAO). If there's anything that I dislike about the game, it's that it just holds your hand way too often so you can just easily blow past the game, making it not much of a challenge even on Merciless difficulty. The story is also pretty awful, might even be one of the worst in the series unless you were like, 13 years old. The pacing of the story isn't really any good, either. The characters are annoying and uninteresting after their respective arcs have concluded, the story often can't make up it's mind with what it wants to do (for example there was an arc around a character rebelling against a pe teacher for sexually assaulting/abusing students, and then the same character constantly gets sexually harassed and perved on throughout the story, there is also a teacher who does a sex stint as a side hustle and you can romance her for some reason??) and I can barely take it seriously because it's just edgy and it tries too hard to shock you. The sexualization of the underage female characters (mostly Anne) is fairly disgusting as well. The game in general is just full of these annoying shounen anime tropes, I don't understand how anyone could tolerate it. Also the new character Kasumi Yoshizawa is pretty annoying. They shill her hard in the story and that makes the pacing of the game even slower than it already is. And all she every really does is suck the protagonist's dick all the time, for no reason. (Okay everyone sucks off the protag but Kasumi is just OBSESSED with this guy.) In the 3rd semester arc, she's slightly more interesting but it wasn't enough for me to truly like her. She's okay at best. Kasumi's not really anything more than waifu bait. Everything else about the game is pretty excellent although it is flawed. I think that this game totally worth playing if you're interested in it. There's better Megami Tensei games out there but when it comes to Persona, nothing else tops the gameplay of this.