Everything 4 should have been with everything good that 7 brought to the table.

I've played through this a few times now, and I don't think I have any real complaints about the gameplay other than turning doesn't feel fast enough in some instances and some areas feel much to constricted in Village of Shadows (but fuck that difficulty altogether anyway). Easily the best Resident Evil in the past decade.

This game had Kanye West which is based, but it also made me pay for Kanye West DLC which is highly not based. Guess we have to split the vote.

I don't care what zoomers think, this is one of the best classic JRPGs that I've ever played. Every time I hear that menu theme, I am swept off my feet and transported to a realm of nightmarish terror. Just last month, I was determined to polish off a disgusting bottle of shochu; and by the end of the night, I had picked up a physical copy of this on the super famicom; the sight of Lucifer on the box art now haunts me.

Everything one would expect from a MegTen title with a few much needed quality of life additions. The atmosphere of this game is unrivaled. The demon compendium isn't overly bloated. The gameplay is brutal to those who are not willing to learn it. This is the most MegaTen that MegaTen has ever been.

Raiden IV is and always will be Raiden IV but these remixes are, as the children were saying a few years ago, slappin!

I've been drinking a lot less lately, and I think this game stands as a testament as to why that's a good thing.

Little expensive for what it is, and the meme dialogs are kind of cringe; but I'm always down for tax evasion. Turnip boy a bro.

it's like i'm really back in the late 00s. fuck off.

also did this game really try to fucking gaslight me? fuck you, kyle.

cool game for less than $2. not too much going on, but i respect it for what it is. worse ways to spend two hours.

This is just Persona 4, but our boy Adachi finally got the social link he deserves. Mad respect for the boy.

I could channel my inner-16 year old self and talk about how this game is some philosophical response to Persona 3 and how Nietzche blah blah blah... but as I've gotten older I've come to terms with how cringe as fuck this game actually is; and I don't fucking care.
I like this game. End of discussion.

But honestly, this game does a lot of things that Persona 3 struggled to do. Persona 3 as a whole feels very empty and shallow to me with time padding included just to provide a "realistic" experience while Persona 4 has empty space that feels more natural. All the combat feels better because Atlus realized what the original verison of P3 was lacking - team controls. And the characters just feel more like real people opposed to edgy grim dark plot devices because this is SMT dammit.

Sure all the trappings of escapist JRPG anime bullshit are here, but I was also the prime target for that kind of nonsense when I was a teenager in high school. This game will always take me back to those times, and I will always unapologetically love it for that.

Having skipped 1 and 2 and going into this one first, I wasn't totally sure what to expect. I loved the old games back in the day, so I was down for anything that had some solid stealth.

Some levels are significantly better than others which is somewhat disappointing with how many times you end up replaying them, but I cannot get over levels like Dartmoor they are just so simple but fun.

Definitely going to grab the other two to play in this one next.

Fun enough to kill two hours and only $4. Reminds me of those old shooters everyone use to play on their calculators in high school.

2021

This may not be the most challenging game nor the most technical; however, what is here is quite fascinating. I love the atmosphere and art of this game's world. For a quick romp, I highly suggest giving this a shot.

Despite the rating, this will definitely be one of my favorite games from the year. I just don't want to rate purely on atmosphere alone.

If Borderlands decided to be Fallout New Vegas with less of the charm and more of the annoying writing. One way to spend a weekend off, but I'd rather be in the wastes.

Fuck you Muff; I love motion blur.