Chittagong
Gold Member
Lovely post. Echoes my feelings.
I had two false starts with Persona 4 Golden. The first one was when I randomly bought it on PS Vita on a trip to USA for Christmas 2012. I simply wanted something to play, and made my choice based on the the insane metacritic score the game had. I didn't really get very far into the game, maybe 3-4 hours. Everything was just really weird, hard to make sense of and a bit boring.
The second time I started the game again, determined to give it another shot. I played again the slow first few hours. This time I started to get a better feeling of all the weird concepts, and it didn't seem as foreign to me. But it was just slow, and I got something more immediately rewarding to do.
My third time was last summer on our summer lodge. We were going to be off the grid for a week, and I had determined that this is it, I will complete Persona 4 Golden, whatever happens. I continued from the save that had those first few hours, and then suddenly the game clicked. I had tons of fun things to do, the story started to progress, I became familiar with the characters. I put an insane amount of hours into it, completing the game in 7 days. That's about 9 hours of gameplay every single day. I'd wake up before my wife around 10AM, play 2 hours. Eat breakfast, then play 3 hours. Beers and sauna, another 2 hours. After dinner in bed, 3 more hours.
After that I pre-ordered all the comics, and bought all the TV episodes. I also placed an Persona 4 Dancing on preorder. I just couldn't get enough.
Luckily, I found out just before Christmas that I had got the bad ending, and went back to a 60h save, and replayed the last part of the game, discovering that there is another 10h of content for the proper ending. This must be the most dramatic example of how different the game is with a bad and great ending, I'm so glad I did it.
Now, I'm thinking of ordering a couple of P4 figures.
I had two false starts with Persona 4 Golden. The first one was when I randomly bought it on PS Vita on a trip to USA for Christmas 2012. I simply wanted something to play, and made my choice based on the the insane metacritic score the game had. I didn't really get very far into the game, maybe 3-4 hours. Everything was just really weird, hard to make sense of and a bit boring.
The second time I started the game again, determined to give it another shot. I played again the slow first few hours. This time I started to get a better feeling of all the weird concepts, and it didn't seem as foreign to me. But it was just slow, and I got something more immediately rewarding to do.
My third time was last summer on our summer lodge. We were going to be off the grid for a week, and I had determined that this is it, I will complete Persona 4 Golden, whatever happens. I continued from the save that had those first few hours, and then suddenly the game clicked. I had tons of fun things to do, the story started to progress, I became familiar with the characters. I put an insane amount of hours into it, completing the game in 7 days. That's about 9 hours of gameplay every single day. I'd wake up before my wife around 10AM, play 2 hours. Eat breakfast, then play 3 hours. Beers and sauna, another 2 hours. After dinner in bed, 3 more hours.
After that I pre-ordered all the comics, and bought all the TV episodes. I also placed an Persona 4 Dancing on preorder. I just couldn't get enough.
Luckily, I found out just before Christmas that I had got the bad ending, and went back to a 60h save, and replayed the last part of the game, discovering that there is another 10h of content for the proper ending. This must be the most dramatic example of how different the game is with a bad and great ending, I'm so glad I did it.
Now, I'm thinking of ordering a couple of P4 figures.