Persona 5 Review Thread

Shouta said:
It's more real than P3. P3 is dark in atmosphere while P5 is heavy with what it handles. The tone isn't doom and gloom but the stuff that happens and can be pretty rough.
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Yeah it's not as dark as P3 in terms of tone and design but, heavy is a good word. It's the heaviest game in the series since P2.
 
From what I know, P5 is much more "this can (and has) happen in the real world" dark. Whereas P3 was very much anime apocalypse dark.

Or, to put it another way: P5 is more grounded.
 
Shouta said:
It's more real than P3. P3 is dark in atmosphere while P5 makes it tangible and is heavy with what it handles. The tone isn't doom and gloom but the stuff that happens and can be pretty rough.
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Ooh, I like the sound of that. I really liked the heavy atmosphere of P3 by the end, so this makes me happy.
 
the_sun_king said:
From what I know, P5 is much more "this can (and has) happen in the real world" dark. P3 was very much anime apocalyptic dark.
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Yeah, I've seen people talking about how a lot of P5 is inspired by the sociopolitical situation in Japan and a lot of what happens in it is ripped from actual headlines so closely that they may as well have not even bothered changing the names of the people involved. Some reviewers apparently talked about how some of the villains were too "cartoon-ey" and a guy was like "no this shit actually happens in Japan." It seems like it's very Japanese in more than a "just like one of my Japanese animes" way.

EDIT: This tweet and this thread are what I'm talking about
 
TheGeniusArcana said:
Late game spoilers in the gamespot video review. I'm so fucking mad.
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Just watched the video to see how much was spoiled there:

There are several scenes of things that happen like, very late in the game (which IGN, and WhatCultureGaming's video review do as well... one of those videos had scenes of the very last dungeon), the spoiler itself is pretty minor if you ask me, because it's not exactly true nor unexpected.
 
Shouta said:
It's more real than P3. P3 is dark in atmosphere while P5 makes it tangible and is heavy with what it handles. The tone isn't doom and gloom but the stuff that happens and can be pretty rough.
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the_sun_king said:
From what I know, P5 is much more "this can (and has) happen in the real world" dark. Whereas P3 was very much anime apocalypse dark.

Or, to put it another way: P5 is more grounded.
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Thank you for this, made me more excited! Not that much of a fan of the whole "darkness" people see in Persona 3, I feel like it's too superficial and visual, rather than actually being a mature game. So I'm happy to see that the comparisons with P3 are also very superficial, and the game is doing "dark" the right way.
 
Iva Demilcol said:
Just watched the video to see how much was spoiled there:

There are several scenes of things that happen like, very late in the game (which IGN, and WhatCultureGaming's video review do as well... one of those videos had scenes of the very last dungeon), the spoiler itself is pretty minor if you ask me, because it's not exactly true nor unexpected.
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Would you say the same spoiler warning is warranted for the IGN review as well, then?
 
Is Persona 6 even likely in the near future, is the director, composer and artist all working on a new IP fantasy RPG?

I don't think I can take another near decade long wait
 
Suzushiiro said:
Yeah, I've seen people talking about how a lot of P5 is inspired by the sociopolitical situation in Japan and a lot of what happens in it is ripped from actual headlines so closely that they may as well have not even bothered changing the names of the people involved. Some reviewers apparently talked about how some of the villains were too "cartoon-ey" and a guy was like "no this shit actually happens in Japan." It seems like it's very Japanese in more than a "just like one of my Japanese animes" way.

EDIT: This tweet and this thread are what I'm talking about
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Great tweets thanks for the share especially Iiotenki one eloquently shines some light/confirms on certain things I've had an inkling about.
 
Frozenprince said:
That or purple. And be set in a prison and end with reality warping hijinks.
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sasliquid said:
Is Persona 6 even likely in the near future, is the director, composer and artist all working on a new IP fantasy RPG?

I don't think I can take another near decade long wait
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I personally don't see Persona 6 coming anytime soon unless it's handled by a different team. Which, not sure if want because of the quality of the P4 spinoffs... I think I'd rather wait for Hashino and co. to finish Project Re:Fantasy and then go back to mainline Persona instead.

Shouta said:
Correct. It's actually kind of funny because of all the shit happening at the end of last year in the US. It's one of the thing things that stood out to me when I did my streamed run during the JP release.
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Yup. All you have to do is look at the lyrics for the game's opening theme song to realize how incredibly relevant and topical it is now to the West.
 
BRSxIgnition said:
Would you say the same spoiler warning is warranted for the IGN review as well, then?
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Not at all. All the footage in the IGN one is just from the first two months, it's very careful to avoid spoilers. The Gamespot one outright spoils the main antagonists of the game if you look closely enough and shows an unrevealed dungeon, and bosses. It's ridiculous if you ask me.
 
fixyouregrammar said:
Not at all. All the footage in the IGN one is just from the first two months, it's very careful to avoid spoilers. The Gamespot one outright spoils the main antagonists of the game if you look closely enough and shows an unrevealed dungeon, and bosses. It's ridiculous if you ask me.
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Yeah they legit show end game stuff. I'd avoid it at all costs.
 
Yeah, the IGN video review is fine. It's all stuff that appeared in the Japanese trailers up to the game's launch.

The Gamespot one has massive spoilers tho, even without context.
 
Another near-perfect score. Wow.
Is it just me? or is this generation putting even more of a gap between great games and clunkers than ever? On one end we have Zelda BOTW, Horizon, and now Persona 5 beasting out and just being brilliant... on the other end we have bad ports from last gen and crap like Soda Drinker Pro.
 
XiaNaphryz said:
Which is awesome, they went too far the other way with P4.
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Vonegutt's graphs are a good good general outline to follow for the recent Persona's.

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I consider P3 leaning into Kafka in its defeatism, but with a dash of anime villainy/monster of the week month. Its like a blend of Cinderella and Kafka if you tack on the Kafka part to the end of the Cinderella graph for the protag. The world/plot as a whole follows the Cinderella plot (just not to infinity), though.

Meanwhile, I like to consider P4 the Scooby Doo (somewhere between Man in Hole and Boy Meets Girl) of Persona. It almost even has a Scooby Doo form of structure with how they go about the character arcs. And the Shadow would have gotten away with it too if it weren't for those pesky kids and their bear!

I'll not say anything on P5 since that'd be a spoiler!

I quite enjoy the character/story arcs in Persona, though I do still think they crested the peak with P3Protag and have since had satisfying arcs but been arcing short of the P3 arc. Of course, the other characters have become more developed and the story as a whole has improved.
 
Reviews are just like I expected them to be. Another fantastic entry in the best JRPG series. So so ready for next week.
 
I dont know why people watch video reviews they always spoil the fuck out of every game.

I dont even read reviews because some reviewers just dont give a fuck.
 
Suzushiiro said:
Yeah, I've seen people talking about how a lot of P5 is inspired by the sociopolitical situation in Japan and a lot of what happens in it is ripped from actual headlines so closely that they may as well have not even bothered changing the names of the people involved. Some reviewers apparently talked about how some of the villains were too "cartoon-ey" and a guy was like "no this shit actually happens in Japan." It seems like it's very Japanese in more than a "just like one of my Japanese animes" way.

EDIT: This tweet and this thread are what I'm talking about
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Hah, reminds me of this part of an interview with Pizzolatto about True Detective:

I’ll give you an example. We shot one set of scenes in a strip club out in the Louisiana country side and directly across from it, only separated by a narrow street, was a little girls’ dance academy. Both buildings had signs up with silhouettes depicting what went on in their respective interiors. So one silhouette is a little tiny girl in a tutu, which is adorable, the other silhouette is a woman on a pole. I was looking at them and thinking to myself if I were to put this in a novel it would seem hamfisted and way to obvious. Writers of fiction are in a hard place right now because reality today has become so strange that you actually have to tone it down a little bit for it to seem credible.
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http://www.lamag.com/culturefiles/q...tor-nic-pizzolatto-is-a-one-man-writing-army/
 
Shouta said:
especially when it was written several years ago.

SOMEONE WAS PREDICTING THE FUTURE!
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/Chills.

Gentleman Jack said:
I didn't see any significant spoilers in IGN's review. It shows an early game boss that's in the trailers. Gamespot's review shows a late game cutscene in which a heretofore unseen boss is revealed.
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Yikes. That sucks. Reasons why I very rarely watch video reviews for games I don't want to get spoiled.
 
Gentleman Jack said:
I didn't see any significant spoilers in IGN's review. It shows an early game boss that's in the trailers. Gamespot's review shows a late game cutscene in which a heretofore unseen boss is revealed.
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Yes, watched it again because I'm getting confussed after watching other video reviews. IGN's review is safe. And on second thought I'd AVOID GAMESPOT'S VIDEO REVIEW LIKE THE PLAGUE, PEOPLE.

Those dudes of Gamespot need to stop spoiling games in their video reviews.
 
Error said:
I dont know why people watch video reviews they always spoil the fuck out of every game.

I dont even read reviews because some reviewers just dont give a fuck.
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Depends on the game. But with a story focused game like P5 I'm not taking any chances. Just glanced over the 4Players review and the MC quotations. Didn't even need that because I already knew that I will like this game.
 
BRSxIgnition said:
Tempted to remove Gamespot's review from the OP because I don't want that blood on my hands, even with the warning there.
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If you put a warning clear as day and people still click it, your conscience is clear.

Reckheim said:
Has anyone watched the giantbomb quick look, does it spoil too much? They are usually pretty good about that stuff.
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I'd refrain from any visual media that isn't a trailer if I were you. That's ALL I've watched.
 
No need to keep your expectations in check here, guys. It really is THAT good. The review scores make me really happy, the game deserves it.
 
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