128 hours and 2 minutes later i have finally finished Persona 5, longer then I anticipated but totally worth it. Now that i have finshed this game i wanted to talk with everyone else out there about the game in a more open way, no tip-toeing around stuff, I also noticed that there is a lot of spoilery talk going on throughout the P5 forum and thought it might be a good idea to consolidate the spoiler filled talk to a single thread where we can somewhat more openly talk about the stuff people wouldn't want spolied, and also just air our opinions on the game.
As such, you have been warned, here there be spoliers, so please do not come here and then complain that you read something you didn't want to know. Lets try to be civil and stay on topic, thanks.
"Warning spoliers start here"
So, that being said, i'm curious to hear what everyone thought about this story, i've seen it mentioned before how so far at least persona 3-5 all have the same sort of structure and broad story beats, (persona 3-4 spoliers) in 3 you fight the 12 shadow things thinking your doing good untill you discover you have unwittingly unleased Nyx, bringer of death. In Persona 4 you solve a murder mystery that in actuality was sorta set up by Izanagi, fog lady or something in a game of sorts and decides to end the world. And now in 5 you steal peoples hearts only to realise that your part of a game set up by the holy grail or Yaldabaoth, the god of control, and it will destory everything and rebuild, I guess.
I was having alot of fun with the story and characters, it was darker in tone than 4 which i appreciated, but it eventually decided to get kinda lazy and just fall in line with 3-4 in a grand plot sense, (also i havn't play 1 and 2, are they similar at all?) it was somewhat dissapointing but im not sure that I should have expected different. I also didn't enjoy the fact that they, late minute, connect your 2nd and 3rd target to shidou, I was waiting for there to be a dumb connection to Kamoshida aswell. All in all though i really enjoyed my time with persona 5 and i would say that, imo, it is a better game than persona 4.
I also really like how they introduced Futaba and tried to change things up with her palace and why you enter it, but i was also disapointed in how the next 3 palaces are basically back to business story wise.
I also feel like the confidants are better handled, they're all slower burns, but i felt closer to them all at the end of each arc then i did with 4 as they all seemed to have more going on then like, almost half the social links in 4, but maybe i played that game so much they all started to bore me at some point while this is still fresh
Also, I think my best lady friend is Makoto and Haru who are tied for first, just like Rise and naoto.
What are your guys thoughts.
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