Persona 5

Finally got around to playing this more and after some initial hurdles of it being weird and me not playing any JRPGs in 15 years this game is fucking awesome.

Really off the wall compared to what I usually play and I find myself referring to some guides and stuff to make sure I don't miss shit.

Great shit.

spronk said:

after this i'd highly recommend yakuza 0, it is another one of those "... wtf, japan" games that I'm playing right now and just loving. Yakuza 1 remaster also launches in 6 days for only $30 too

There's the "serious, gangster" mainline story and then absolutely insane sidestories like dealing with trannies, helping out a dude who masturbates in public with spank bank material, and managing some sexy glam ring fighters. I'm really surprised people like anita haven't called for a jihad against the yakuza series

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Added to my Queue. That looks great.

Yakuza 0 was awesome and completely ridiculous with some of the side quests and side jobs / stores.

I got side tracked and stopped Persona 5 and am finding it hard to convince myself to go back. Will probably end up looking for a walk through and following it. The micromanaging of daily actions was just to ummm... something. Always feeling like I'm not optimal, missing something, or misusing. Game was fun, think I was at the 2nd castle, so not really that far in.

Yakuza 1 so soon is great. Just finished up Hellblade and need something else to move on to.

Vaclav said:

Honestly - either just play the game and fuck around with the daily actions if you don't care about min-maxing or do it following a guide. Woman and I played through a total of something like 6 times between us start to end, and it's really hard to "logic" your way into min-maxing all the daily action stuff. And since most of them carry over into NG+ if you continue it, it's really not worth breaking too much of a sweat over, even if you're doing it for trophies or whatever.

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That's how I've been playing it. Do what you can. Follow the guides here and there. Otherwise fuck it.

Yeah the community actions thing helped a lot. Pretty sure if I just sat down and dedicated an evening this weekend I'd be fine. We'll see how hungover I am.

Really enjoying this quirky ass game.

About 10 hours in, just finished the castle, Kamoshida's true form was fucking LOL!

Been using a guide loosely, shit's crazy. So many things going on.

I'm not the typical JRPGer but this game is entertaining for sure, definitely worth the $32 I paid for it, and wouldn't have felt ripped off if I had paid full price. I'm reading 100 hours a playthrough? We'll see if I get there. Probably won't but will get my money's worth.

Finally finished this. I never would have touched this game without the recommendation here. I played, stopped, played, stopped maybe 12 times until I finally got into the game two months after buying it.

Took me a month or so to finish this beast. The characters, style, and music are all absolutely fantastic. The story is pretty cool considering the usual weirdness of Jap RPG storylines I dislike. This one is easily understandable and isn't too bizarre as far as JRPG shit goes.

It has great pacing and is never too tedious with things you would find tedious in other games. Like going to school and doing exams/part time job like some SIMS bullshit. It makes them a list of priorities based on needs sure but it never feels like tedium as you don't have to micromanage it that hard. Some mechanics take a bit of getting used to. Like the confidants system and knowing how to improve them. My main complaint is that it takes 30+ hours to open the game up for you and see all of the systems there are and do what you want.

Without a doubt this is in my top 5 of 2017.

I recommend it to anyone. Especially if you're like me and don't play JRPGs at all really and think this is not something you'd like. As far as your typical JRPG goes (I haven't played a JRPG since Xenogears for the PS1 really) this is really in a class of its own or at the very least absolute top tier of JRPG in general.

Yeah I saw you on playing that and wondered if you liked it. I am about 40 hours in and on the 3rd mini boss and got lost in the dungeon. I should pick it back up again. Game takes what about 90 hours to complete?