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Not my tweet, but

I would say that June is where the game starts to open up, yeah.

I also agree that saying the pacing "would be" ruined doesn't hold much water. The pacing doesn't bother me, but I also wouldn't say it's good, considering that, if you clear a dungeon early, you end up with 2-3 weeks of zero plot happening other than being sent the same group text four different times.

I can also focus on more than one thing at once. As a human being, I'm capable of spending time with a friend at night and still remembering what happened yesterday at my job/in class the next day. I'm certainly not going to forget our 'hey, we should probably go after this evil artist guy' revelation if I happen to spend the evening after that training with my track friend Ryuji.

If you have a persona that you want to start every battle with (like, say, somebody who has Attack Master/Speed Master/Defense Master/Auto-Mataru/Auto-Maruku/Auto-Masuku), go into the config options and turn off Persona Memory. This will cause whatever persona you've selected in the persona menu to start every battle. I didn't find this until 110 hours in, but it saves so much time now that I don't have to go in and manually switch back to my lead-off persona after every battle.

I know thinking about NG+ for a ~100-hour game in a series you're new to probably isn't a thing that's crossed your mind, but just know that your social stats (knowledge, guts, etc.) are one of the things that carry over, so if you do decide to do a NG+ run (which you can pretty easily tear through, because your compendium also carries over), you won't have to devote almost half of your days to read/bathing/movies/etc., allowing you to spend most/all of your time with social links and max out everybody fairly easily. You really only need to optimize if you're trying to do absolutely everything in a single playthrough, but that's more a fool's errand for a newcomer to the series. Just have fun and focus on the things that you're enjoying!

You can do it on the upstairs TV as well, but it's only on, like, 10-15 specific days throughout the game.

Plant is ~16 days to need nutrients again, and there was a section of the game where I was unable to go buy more nutrients for my dying plant for 12 days because they kept railroading me with plot events so hard, which was frustrating. It let me walk around in the room and be yelled at by the cat about letting my plant die, but it wouldn't let me go to the store to buy more nutrients for it :(

I definitely agree, unfortunately. Starting with the 4th dungeon I felt like the actual dungeon playing itself just got progressively worse with each one :/

I actually liked that puzzle. The bad one, I thought, was having to watch 10 seconds of cutscenes every 30 seconds of running as the assembly line smashers stopped/started.

You may have to attempt to send it for it to give you the prompt/explanation, so maybe save and then try it just to see. Would hate for you to not send it until the end and then go a day over or something!

There are a few places in the game where they give you a save prompt on a menu in between scenes; it would've been far less frustrating for players to just have that save prompt pop up and then go directly into the next day than loading into a room where they can't do anything even though they feel as though they should be able to while the game doesn't justify the reason that they aren't.

I also think people would've been less annoyed by it if it was just a thought bubble instead of the cat constantly being the one to tell you that you can't do anything.

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Mechanical explanation:

Things take off as you finish the sixth dungeon. I ended up staying up 2-3 hours later than I wanted last night because things kept happening.

I'm at/around 110 and just finished the 6th; 70 hours seems insane to me