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.

Characters- 6/10 Many characters felt annoying and the ones that are good are not enough to save the others

Story-7.5/10 (The story on Persona games ar the dungeons but in between the dungeons you have 30-40 hours of free time to go out and hang out with S-Links, The story was good not bad but not amazing. I consider S-links Story as they have backgrounds and have a plot in it of themselves, thankful the good characters had amazing s-links. But the bad ones had stupid S-links that made no sense Bringing the score down to a 7.5, 8 if not the S-links.

Music- 6/10 The music was repetitive and got bland after a bit. but i am not including this into the final score since this is very much based on personal tastes.

Game-play- 10/10 You know why

Dungeons- 9/10 (I only disliked one dungeons, and one mixed dungeon

Overall not the best game ever but still worth a pick up

8/10

Great game, Not the best game I ever played but It one of the best, The story was good, The gameplay was great, The music was great, Makoto and Yusuke They were my two favorite characters, I recommend playing it.

This game is incredible. Can't say much bad. Love characters and plot and everything. Highly recommend!