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Persona 5 Review Thread

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eyeball_kid

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Frozenprince said:
Look I'm gay. I'm the last guy to forgive homophobia and being the butt of a joke. It's not cool and Atlus should absolutely know better.

But the majority of the game is a harrowing, almost bitingly critical and much needed take on how awful many aspects of Japanese and high school culture have become.

It pulls no punches in terms of how Japanese society is bleeding to death. It's the most political thing I've seen out of Japan in a long time. And i pray it makes even one more person politically active because dear God does the country need it.
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I haven't played P5 yet so I don't know the context. I'm not necessarily surprised since the Persona Team had a trans character in Catherine who was the butt of many jokes by other characters. The trans character was cool and not stereotyped which was good to see, and on one hand it's a (sadly) realistic portrayal of treatment by ignorant, non-empathetic characters, but on the other it's rough to see and the bullying characters never really learned a lesson.

Regarding the political overtones of P5, I'm really interested to play it now. Even Yakuza 0 took some risks, addressing racial and political tensions between Japanese and Chinese. It's good to see Japanese studios willing to take on societal issues.
 
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Frozenprince

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Shouta said:
As far as I understand it, okama is a bad term to the community there. Josouka is the more acceptable one, I believe. However, LGBTQ terminology in Japan has been in flux the last 10 years or because of awareness and the like so I don't know know how different it has grown since I left.
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Ditto, been years since I was there so I'm just using what I knew it as when I was there. If Josouka is the new preferred nomenclature then that's what I'll start using.
 
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crazy monkey

Banned
I bought p4 on hype but did not enjoy it. I guess it is not my type of game (turn based plus endless talking plus no freedom to walk). I am happy though for this. Quite a bit of people love this.
 
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Jachaos

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crazy monkey said:
I bought p4 on hype but did not enjoy it. I guess it is not my type of game (turn based plus endless talking plus no freedom to walk). I am happy though for this. Quite a bit of people love this.
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You do have the freedom to walk around and decide what you'll do with your day and all, but that comes a couple hours in for Persona games usually, so it might be that you hadn't gotten there yet. Still, of course no game can please everyone so it's okay that you don't enjoy it.
 
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Holundrian

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Hope a nice discussion thread happens with people close to it and having experience with Japan's social climate sharing their perspective on the whole very bad representation issue in the game. I'm super curious, given that I don't even know how these things are regarded over their and their media generally comes to me as conflicting in nature.
 
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Son Of Sparda

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I thought this was interesting. Persona 5 is currently the highest rated "new" PS4 game of all time.

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30yearsofhurt

30yearsofhurt

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But what's the OST like????

Everyone knows P4 would be rubbish without Nanako and Your Affection.

We have no Nanako so the tunes better be off the f***ing hook.
 
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ubiblu

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Jonneh3003 said:
Can it really top Persona 4? I'm sceptical but want to be proven wrong. Can't wait to play!
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P4G was my favourite JRPG of all-time, but P5 completely blew it out of the water. Before you consider subjective things like characters, music, and design aesthetics, the deliberately constructed dungeons alone make the game THAT much more enjoyable.

Get ready my friend. You are in for one wild ride.
 
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TimeEffect

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Man. Idk whether to buy into the hype or not

Fave jrpg was dark cloud 2 and golden sun games. Those are the ones I actually finished.

I love the idea of playing some high school kid and dealing with high school drama but I worry about the downtimes and slow starts and grinding
 
Xaero Gravity

Xaero Gravity

NEXT LEVEL lame™
I had no idea
Erica
in Catherine was transgender. I'm pretty sure a friend of mine fapped to them. I wonder if he knows :eek:
 
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Ludger Kresnik

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TimeEffect said:
Man. Idk whether to buy into the hype or not

Fave jrpg was dark cloud 2 and golden sun games. Those are the ones I actually finished.

I love the idea of playing some high school kid and dealing with high school drama but I worry about the downtimes and slow starts and grinding
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I'm not too far in yet but the beginning hours are really engaging imo. P3 is probably the grindiest, draggiest game in the series, but even if P5 comes close to dragging on as much as that (I really doubt it) the gameplay is so massively improved in every way I don't think I'd mind too much.
 
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RampagingSoul

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Tunoku said:
According to Gamerankings, ever. Obviously this doesn't include pre-PS1 stuff:
http://www.gamerankings.com/browse.html?site=&cat=71&year=0&numrev=0&sort=0&letter=&search=
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I thought it was weird that Xenoblade (Avatar Quote, I know :p) wasn't on here, but it was listed under "Action RPG." It would have been right above FFX since Xenoblade has 91.74. Vagrant Story would have right below Chrono Trigger (DS) at 91.97. Obviously, neither beat Persona 5. I was just wondering if other games that are consider JRPGs were in other categories.

I was mainly wonder which ones were missing under that category that could be on that list. It is really cool that Persona 5 is the best, but not a surprise going by review scores and that the list doesn't include stuff pre-PS1 going by the listings, like you said.
 
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nasax

Member
I've been out of the gaming loop for a while (a couple of years now) but holy crap I'm excited for this one and the positive reviews just further ramped it up. Hook the Persona series to my veins please! Can't wait for next week!
 
Andrefpvs

Andrefpvs

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Metro: 9/10

http://metro.co.uk/2017/03/29/persona-5-review-role-playing-against-convention-6541632/

One of the best role-playing games ever made, Japanese or otherwise, and beyond that simply one of the most stylishly told interactive stories you'll ever experience.
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GQ Magazine: No score

Persona 5 is a work of art; games have to be particularly good to warrant such a vast time investment, but Persona 5 goes all the way toward earning the 80-plus hours you'll likely pour into its engrossing misadventure of monsters, misfits and miscreants.
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http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/persona-5-review
 
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Gears

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Got my early copy thanks to a local shop. I dont think I've ever been so giddy on the way home before. The voice-work and ost are kickass so far
 
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