RonnieBarzel

The point was obvious. I'm just communicating that I have some personal investment in PlayStation and that I'd like to play more God of War games.

Shut the hell up Morgana

Morgana's constant insistence that I should just go to sleep makes me want to kick that cat out the goddamn window. If you took the time to load me into this room, i'm standing in the middle of it, and LITERALLY the only thing I can do is go to bed, why not just fucking cut to me being in bed already? What's with these false choices? P5 is aggressively handholdy in what you can and can't do every day and it's maddening.

That fight is very easy, once you know what to do. The two healing angels are week to curse attacks, which includes instant kill curse attacks. If you use an attack that has a chance to instantly kill all enemies with a curse attack, it will pretty much never miss. This makes every turn the enemy summons backup almost a wasted turn. When it comes to the enemies in that area, I just kept making myself invisible so I could just fight the bosses. You're darn close to the ending, so keep going.

Alright, so I'm at the 110 hour mark now and at this point I'm just angry haha.

This game is really too damn long. The best parts are the social sim stuff which is legitimately wonderful, even if the characters have almost zero growth and you see every character the game has to offer halfway through. The combat stuff has devolved into a grindy mess of watching two meters go up and down, and it has barely changed since 4. Or 3 for that matter. P5 has actually made me look back on the previous games less favorably. I played P3 on the PSP over a looong stretch of time and it was a great game to pick up and grind a little before bedtime. P4 was propelled in large part by the endurance run commentary for me, but now in P5, towards the end of the game every skill is in its ma variety, and the possibility space for actual tactics is ultra thin. It's truly puddle deep stuff. Shido's palace and everything that has come after it has been an absolute slog, dozens of hours past any sort of plot development in its ludicrous main story and every social link I could care about maxed, and it just goes and goes with endless combat. Oh cool, a boss that can summon 2 others that will heal it completely, has no weaknesses and does almighty damage, SUPER FUN: I found myself just turning off the PS3 out of sheer exhaustion. It's way too much. P5 rewards your 30 minute slog through a boss fight with a dozen more just like it. It really has zero excuse to be 100+ hours deep, and if anything the same complaint can be leveraged at the previous games too. The combat just isn't very interesting beyond the Persona collectathon, the skills begin repeating halfway through, and the plot is a flopping half-dead fish by the end. It's an amazing varial kickflip into an awkward stumble.

A week ago this was a strong 4-star game for me, held high by generosity of content and fantastic music. It's now uncomfortably at 3 and that makes me genuinely sad. It's like having thrown a party and it was super fun but hey it's been 11 hours now please leave people oh god who is that in my bed why is there coke all over my kitchen table I never asked for this

Shut the hell up Morgana

Morgana's constant insistence that I should just go to sleep makes me want to kick that cat out the goddamn window. If you took the time to load me into this room, i'm standing in the middle of it, and LITERALLY the only thing I can do is go to bed, why not just fucking cut to me being in bed already? What's with these false choices? P5 is aggressively handholdy in what you can and can't do every day and it's maddening.

What did they do to 3-way fuses?

I really miss fusing Persona in P3 and 4, I felt like I had way more choices. The 3-way fusing in P5 presents you with a list of possible results and a to-do list of Persona you need to have to fuse them. It's just lame. Fusion in P5 for me so far has been really underwhelming.

It's just too damn long for NG+

I'm 70 hours into my first playthrough and I have too much of a life to live with other games to play than to bother with this ordeal a whole nother time. The first 30 hours or so I was looking forward to finishing and replaying with better stats so I could try things differently, and there really are enough situations and choices in P5 to make you want to try different approaches, but at this point I just could not be bothered. There is an absolutely crazy abundance of padding and fat on this game, with loading times and unskippable animations adding up to making the whole thing, truly, an endurance run. It did not have to be this long or slow, it has the density to support 2-3 NG+ playthroughs with half the runtime. When this game is over it is highly unlikely I will ever play it again unless they do some PC Golden version or something, and that makes me sad.

I feel bad for @drewbert. When will there ever be another game with Drew as the protagonist?!