What are you playing?

[Dirty Duck]

Wish I didn't mention her now.

For what it's worth I like Makoto...

Did you not realise you could romance literally anyone else?

5 is okay, always feel like a back in my day old fuck saying it but I feel like P5 really pales in comparison to 3 and 4. A lot of that is how much I hate the handholding it makes you do as well, rarely had days you had to do things but felt like 25% of my days were spent being told by that fucken cat that I couldn’t leave the house

I do think Royal is still a great game-it improves on a lot of 5 and the stuff it adds is among the best parts of the entire thing. One of my biggest gripes of P5 is that it does feel almost too episodic. Older Persona games do to a degree as well as the calendar gameplay does lend itself to that a bit but in 5 it feels like after a character has their self-contained 'arc' they sort of...stay the same. And in a lot of cases because of the fact that you can complete their social links at any point they will often act as if their character development hasn't happened a lot of the time to accommodate for the fact that it might not have. I think this is a part of why the new Royal character arcs were a bit better-they're compulsory for the third semester so they get the chance to show their growth and change fully. I think the writing of 3 and 4 is better for the characters as they do feel like they grow and change throughout the story and not just during whichever chunk of the game is set aside for them. Compare Junpei's character arc to Ryuji's and it become's really clear in my opinion.

Persona 3 is my favourite but I haven't played Reload yet. I was very wound up by them releasing a third new version of Persona 3, a game which notoriously does not have a definitive version because of P3F and P3P each having their own unique extra stuff, and not including all of the previous content. The Answer as DLC and no FEMC just makes me question what the point of it was. I do own it so I will play it eventually but honestly finishing P3P femc playthrough is much higher on my priorities...as is SMTVV...and Metaphor....and Soul Hackers 2....