Persona 5

I can count on my hands the number of games that have managed to steal 100+ hours of my life away, and never did I think one of those games would end up being a JRPG.

Persona 5 does have some of the setbacks that keep me away from most JRPGs, namely the fact that most JRPGs are very overwritten and drawn out, but, Persona 5 makes up with vibrantly written characters bursting with personality, and the fact that I actually finished this 110 (give or take) hour game speaks for itself.

Persona 5 was the first JRPG I've played in my life and it pretty much changed my thoughts torwards the JRPG genre. First of all, the story is absolutely fantastic! It's extremely long, it takes at least 80 hours to finish but it's so well written and fun to go through! Gameplay-wise, it's quite challenging but very addictive! In fact, the whole game is one of the most addictive single-player videogames I've played in a while! I could play for 5+ hours straight and feel that it wasn't enough. The combat is turn based and you can control every character from your party. You can use various type of attacks, items, mechanics, powers and Persona attacks while spending HP or SP (stamina) with each one of the characters. Every ability is different though and applies different status effects (Physical/Fire/Ice damage, heal, burn, confuse, damage increase, evasion and many more). By the way, when you knock down all the targets, you can use an All-Out Attack, but you can also have conversation with the targets instead, in order to collect them as Personas (kinda like Pokémon) or steal their money. Those mechanics are wonderful! The cast is probably my absolute favorite in a videogame! Also, the soundtrack and the art style are absolutely incredible! Lastly, during free roam, you can basically do whatever you can do in real life in order to improve your social stats that affect your relationships you make with the other characters. However, the story has some pacing issues and the freedom you're given outside of the metaverse feels quite limited.

Pros: + Amazing story + Very addictive gameplay + Phenomenal characters + Awesome mechanics + Gorgeous art style

Cons:

• Pacing issues
• Lack of enough freedom

Narrative: 9/10 Gameplay: 9/10 Content: 10/10 Characters: 10/10 Music: 10/10 Art Style: 10/10

Final Rating: 10/10

• Masterpiece -

Persona 5 is a game full of style and confidence. The Phantom Thieves stole my heart and Persona 5 is one of the best videogames I've ever played!

Do I recommend it?: Hell yes! I recommend everyone to give this masterpiece a try.

This game has all!!! It's visually beautiful!! The story is awesome!! It has comedy, suspense, thrills, love, everything.. I truly enjoyed playing every single moment! One of the best games out there!! I hope do they do more!!! 😍😍

Persona 5 is a fantastic JRPG, I have beaten Persona's 3 and 4 before playing this game. I loved both 3 and 4 for there art styles, soundtrack, characters, stroylines, fun gameplay and overall presentation. This game I started playing afterwards which overall really helped my depression in my life. That's why this game and the series in general means a lot to me and is now one of my favorite RPG series. It's battle system is great and one of the best I have ever used in a turn based RPG. It's fast, fun, and it's CTB. The art design is awesome, the music is awesome, the characters are awesome, the social links/exploring is awesome, the story is really entertaining, the game has so much content and you get a lot for your buck. Simply put it if you have never played a persona game this is the best place to start( also get your hands on 3 and 4 too since there are great games).

As someone who normally dislikes Anime and doesn't care for RPG's, this was an absolute blast to play. Great gameplay, great story and even good voice acting for the most part (A few side characters sound pretty eh like the Gamer kid who sounds like a 60 year old woman along with a lot of the voices of the nameless extra characters being out of place and terrible). There are some issues like the tutorial going on a bit too long, some elements being introduced too late in the game so there's not enough time to fully explore plotwise or take advantage of gameplay wise (Like Haru who shows up literally 5 minutes before the plot kicks into overdrive) and Mementos can be a bit tedious, but they weren't problematic enough to bog down the experience. Highly recommend this one, even if you aren't into turn based games or anime like me, although this is a really long game spanning near 100 hours, so you need to have a lot of time for this one. Regardless, I'll definitely be keeping an eye on Persona 6 whenever that happens.