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Persona 5 gets 10/10 in first English version review
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Smooth Operator
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I'm a Persona 4 Dancing All Night fan and i give P5 a 3 out of 10.
To be fair, P5 was always seen as a return of the Persona roots. I need a cheap PS3, damn it ;_;
And Yakuza 0 is a 2015 game.
Mind elaborating what were some of those issues?
I'm curious because although I love this series, I've never actually finished one of the games and I've only watched the endings through let's plays, GB endurance run, and the P3 movies/P4 anime. I tend to burn out pretty early on the repetition of the dungeons and the daily routines.
GasProblem
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Wonder if Ni No Kuni 2 and Xenoblade 2 are releasing this year as well. Battle of the JRPGS let's go. I love it.
Wish I had the money to buy all the games. I'll just have to slowly play them one by one. I'm not in a rush. I'll probably won't have nothing to play in the upcoming two years lol.
Wish I had the money to buy all the games. I'll just have to slowly play them one by one. I'm not in a rush. I'll probably won't have nothing to play in the upcoming two years lol.
Jampsuliini
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Now I'm worried hearing from people who have played the Japanese version saying the story has problems. While the improvements on gameplay and dungeons are nice, I play Persona for the story and characters.
ethomaz
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iRAWRasaurus
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Coming off of P3/P4, I'd say its actually the story that falls flatter where others things were (greatly) improved from predecessors. The ending's kind of a ¯\_(ツ
_/¯.It also went on too long where even a good thing may start to wear out its welcome for some.
There's also some inanely dumb-ass design decisions that tie into the above about length that can really grate. Some of the things they improved upon (greatly) also kind of... go back to being subpar/bad at the home stretch, though I won't give specifics to avoid spoilers. Its still better than the predecessor designs, but its... weaker than a lot of what proceeded it. And, again, ties into the fact that the game is just too long and to its own detriment.
It's weird to have an embargo on something that has already released. I get that the dub/translation is also important, but everything else is already out there.
Yautja_Warrior
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Not surprised, the game looks incredible, I expect this to be another high scoring game.
Honestly, this gen has been good, but albeit slow. But 2017 is like every game I've ever wanted just coming out at once and hitting like a freight train
From games like Yakuza, Nier, Persona, Mass Effect, Horizon, For Honor, Resident Evil 7, Prey, Zelda, Gravity Rush, Kingdom Hearts, Nioh. Halo Wars 2,
And those are just the games that are releasing up to march
My wallet ;(
The story is very anime and silly, so YMMV on that.
Enemy respawns immediately after fights are the most annoying shit ever
The last ten hours of the game is a slog through bossfight after bossfight, and I personally thought the narrative went to shit in this section.
The ending is bad compared to P3 and P4.
A couple of the lategame dungeons aren't great
There's a really shit trick to lengthen the game a little bit at the end. It's lame and bad.
Everything else is stellar. It's a great game, it just isn't the second coming.
ethomaz
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Final Fantasy was mainstream.
They need to work a lot on FFXVI to recover the mainstream appeal of FF has in the past.
the dungeons are better this time around cause they're all handcrafted and not just generic mazes
these two were what i was thinking about without trying to get into spoiler-tag territory
Rats Off To Ya
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No doubt. If you made me pick one game to play this year I wouldn't even have to think about it.
Darklor01
Might need to stop sniffing glue
Honestly, this gen has been good, but albeit slow. But 2017 is like every game I've ever wanted just coming out at once and hitting like a freight train
From games like Yakuza, Nier, Persona, Mass Effect, Horizon, For Honor, Resident Evil 7, Prey, Zelda, Gravity Rush, Kingdom Hearts, Nioh. Halo Wars 2,
And those are just the games that are releasing up to march
My wallet ;(
I really want this, but the backlog is already too real. Will have to wait. Also, .. How the F are so many good games with high reviews hitting .. LOL. My lord.
Inferno313
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Embargos have less to do with limiting spoilers, and more to do with the PR rollout. The embargo being March 29th has less to do with hiding spoilers and more to do with the fact that Atlus's PR team thinks that's the most strategic date for reviews to be hitting.
Or the games reviewers tend to do reviews off are usually quality games and are higher profile.
The majority of metacritic is average scores
Marmaladefire
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The JRPG renaissance is here and I am READY
Sumio Mondo
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Persona - "very anime"? Well, I never.
USC Trojan
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It's come to the point where you can't have a social life or a job if you want to play every great game near their release.
What a time to be a gamer.
What a time to be a gamer.
Son Of Sparda
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R_thanatos
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Oh yeah , we're only in march and there are already so many strong candidates.
I get that, but what is outlets stopping from discussing the Japanese version, except for the language barrier (which is a pretty big barrier for most)
Dangerous1992
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the story is even more silly than Persona 4? O_O
Hey man, he asked.
It's silly in other ways. The core narrative of P4 was largely serious. P5 features way less wacky hijinks/ comedy scenes though.
Dead End Irony
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I think it's cool to see that even people with more negative impressions still consider the game a 9/10.
Jawbreaker
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Can't be worse than the slog that was Shin Megami Tensei IV — especially the latter parts.
KillerMan91
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Technically Atlus developed last gen Persona. It's made PS3 in mind.
R_thanatos
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HIs opinion on the ending is not shared by plenty of other people who have finished the game in the import spoiler thread so , well ... I personnaly disagree with it.
And no the story is not silly , it's miles ahead P4
the_sun_king
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No, and I really hate to be *that* guy, but this poster does not understand Japanese (IIRC). The story is fine, it's far from perfect, and yeah it's still basically anime - but the events and characters are more grounded in real world situations than before.
In fact, for people who haven't been playing the Persona games because they don't normally like JRPGs and anime, this would be the best one to start with - assuming they don't mind the length.
Son Of Sparda
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Pai Pai Master
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Well technically technically it's still next gen, since the previous Persona was a PS2 game.
It's just not THIS next gen lol
BRSxIgnition
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You mean we're not going with "Persona 5 |OT| Unfuckwithable Coolness"??
I really liked that one.
I really liked that one.
For me, it seemed like the characters never really get much of a chance to unwind. Even when they're having what you assume would be a zany school trip they're still constantly irritated and on edge because of main plot. The characters wind up having fewer opportunities to bounce off each other than say in P4 original as a consequence.
The game also telegraphs the shit out of its main plot so I wound up feeling like I knew what was going to happen sometimes more than a month before it actually occurs. That's not always a bad thing mind you and I was wrong on a couple occasions but I just had to roll my eyes when a certain character showed up after the first dungeon because it seemed like the game was putting an awful lot of cards on the table way too soon.
I don't really want to rain on all of the positivity in this topic, but the original reason behind the golden age of JRPGs was because of all of the mid-tier stuff that was coming out in the SNES-PS2 era. IMO, having a handful of really amazing JRPGs now that aren't coming out at the same frequency as before isn't the same thing.
I'm still super hyped for Persona 5 though. The game looks incredible.
Dangerous1992
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ok thanks, but how does it compare to the smt series in general, especially Persona 2?
Great Odin's Raven. These games, man, & I've still yet to buy Nioh, Horizon, RE7, or Nier. I'm definitely buying Andromeda as well. Bittersweet prioritizing between these games
Based off these previews & this review, wouldn't be surprised to see it hit 95 MC/OC score. Can't wait to play my first Persona game!
Based off these previews & this review, wouldn't be surprised to see it hit 95 MC/OC score. Can't wait to play my first Persona game!
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