Finished it over the weekend. Really enjoyed it, but
definitely the weakest storyline/scenario in the series. I can see where people were coming from by saying everything doesn't really gel together at the end, which is a shame since the other games did that so much better...
Everything did kinda feel "been there, done that" I appreciated 3 more for doing something different for the series (which is why it's my favourite) and 4 seems fresh versus other titles in the series too, 5 on the other hand seems to have gone back for the more "traditional" experience. Hope they change things up more next time, whatever platform they decide to do it on (even under a new IP or whatever).
Ayane's missions were rather fun post game content, shame it's so damn short.
don't play the older FFs
one-shot galore
Yup. This game was cake, compared to earlier games. Too easy, to be quite frank. Think I died like once and got like pretty much S ranks on every single mission aside from like, two.
I need to play 1 at some point, I really hope PS2 bc on PS4 is worthwile (since EU PSN doesn't have any game from the series right now on PS3).
Yeah, keep in mind though the first game has the old school fixed cameras and the controls are more clunky than the later games, everything was still in experimental phase back then, which they later perfected the mechanics for, but it's still very much worth playing, since in its own way, the "dated" graphics and clunky controls end up making the game more frightening, the ghosts are some of the most freaky in the series too, there's literally fucking hellspawn in that game that has half of its body missing trying to drag people into hell and the whole "broken neck" woman in that one is definitely the scariest in the series.
Honestly though, I'd just create a US PSN account on PS3 and a buy a US PSN card to use to buy the games, that's what I did. If you still have an OG Xbox or PS2 you can get them on those too, but keep in mind if you just have an OG Xbox you won't be able to get 3, since that's PS2 exclusive. They should do a HD re-release collection with them all or something.