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Persona 5 Review Thread
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Completely and utterly lost.
ASilentProtagonist
Member
Oh, yesss. This game really sucks in the player like no other. I think all of my play sessions ranged from 5-10 hours.
Tokyo itself is just really fun to explore. It feels big. Even getting lost finding the next train at the crowded subway stations is a joy.
Don't even get me started on the dungeons...
Holundrian
Unconfirmed Member
Don't think so. Game is over tutorialized(like to the point where it was really annoying on my second playthrough) and if you ever feel the need to get deep into fusions just ask on gaf or visit any of the 100 guides that probably exist on it. So I don't think anyone will have any problems learning the ropes for the game.
Dead End Irony
Member
You won't be lost IMO and this is a good one to start with. Game does a great job explaining the systems too.
OmegaDL50
Member
That's understandable I suppose.
I'm just anxious to play this game and the reviews seem to make the wait seem so worth it. It's just unreal to think that it's only 5 days until the 4th and I can finally play it.
darkwing-buck
Member
You'll be fine, this one is completely standalone except a few references to past games probably.
It's a lot more beginner friendly than the previous ones. Loooads of long tutorials in the beginning.
LousyTactician
Neo Member
I have found my people.
I'm of course going to wait until I play the game before jumping to conclusions on how much I like each character.
This is one of the things that really looks fantastic, exploring the open world of Tokyo. Is it as big as it looks?
Thanks to everyone for helping me make my decision, I'm going to pick it up.
Holundrian
Unconfirmed Member
It's not open world and it's also not very big. It still manages to emulate the Tokyo feeling without all of that at least that's what people say that have been there or lived there.
When it released in Japan it would often come up in podcast talks with people how eerily familiar everything in the game was.
darkwing-buck
Member
Bronetta
Ask me about the moon landing or the temperature at which jet fuel burns. You may be surprised at what you learn.
They probably delayed it due to how packed early February was. Releasing alongside For Honor (different target market and all) would not have been a good idea since thats like the second bestselling game of the year.
Now it gets April to itself.
meltingparappa
Member
It's more a series of alleyways or singular areas, and then menu-driven locations to warp to.
But the even with limited square footage, the immersion factor is absolutely on point.
The locations in these games are usually not huge but they're immersive like no other and incredibly detailed. A lot of fun to wander around, explore, and take in the charm and character of the world.
MetalliCabombination
Member
are there like....quieter locations to explore like in p4?
lakeside fishing on rainy days made for quite the atmosphere
or is it all metropolitan hustle bustle?
lakeside fishing on rainy days made for quite the atmosphere
or is it all metropolitan hustle bustle?
pizzaparty
Member
There is a fishing lake here as well.
There's both English and Japanese voice acting available (the latter is a free DLC that comes out the same day the game does). There's also English subtitles obviously, but I don't know if they included Japanese subtitles.
My Asian copy is just English voice and English sub
Hmmm, I must have missed the Japanese voice option somewhere
I stealth edited, it's free DLC that comes out the same day the game does.
meltingparappa
Member
Not out until launch day, as free DLC.
ThatStupidLion
Gold Member
Shit - loving this game. The design and music are amazing
cj_iwakura
Member
I love my twitter feed. (It's the name the protagonist screen, in case someone wants that kept a surprise.)
meltingparappa
Member
That's DAMN good, in the context its brought up.
Marmaladefire
Member
can anyone mention (in spoiler tags if need be) how long the tutorial is? Is it as long as P4's? Am I going to spend half of my first session with this game unable to play it?
meltingparappa
Member
Definitely shorter, but still beefy. On a weeknight, expect to hit a couple demons but not dive properly into the dungeon.
Marmaladefire
Member
Thanks!
Well, no one can ever accuse this series of not being accessible to new comers.
One of my favorite things about Nocturne is "you walk around for 15 minutes then the world fucking ends". I wonder how a Persona game could do something similar? Just throwing the player right into the deep end.
LastMinuteHero
Member
Dude when you say Asian copy do you mean the Region 3 version or the or the one with the Chinese text on the cover?
Laughing Banana
Weeping Pickle
...they're basically the same, as "Chinese text on the cover" games are region 3 games, you know.
It's hard to talk about the main way P5 tries to address this without spoiling a really cool thing about the opening that I think a lot of people would appreciate going into blind.
ThatStupidLion
Gold Member
Im finding it way shorter than p4g. And if its not "way" shorter its definitely more enjoyable.
meltingparappa
Member
This.
Though it takes a while to start the proper dungeon crawl, they are very well aware of the criticism.
going to play it in its true voice, english
hosannainexcelsis
Member
Tokyo Mirage Sessions throws you into a dungeon fairly quickly after the game starts.
I've been thinking about this for the past few days.
I THINK I will go with the Japanese voices BUT I will give English a chance... maybe.
I don't know, really. But if the English version sounds anything close to weird, I'll switch to the Japanese version instead.
Gentleman Jack
Member
I don't think you understand how shipment of physical goods, management of retail space and stock keeping work. If stores break street it's not a sign that a publisher held back a title for no reason. It's not on Atlus.
In the digital age we live in, it's ridiculous that things like this happen while the game is 100% ready to go and the flood gates are seemingly open. We can talk about physical goods all day and sure, whatever, have a physical release date of the 4th (ignoring the case that this title was clearly ready much earlier than than that date) but digital has no excuse.
meltingparappa
Member
I think the whole point is that sales need to be in the new fiscal quarter of 2017 on the very first Tuesday, and then staggering the physical and digital release of a game would probably be met with sheer anger and further convolute the marketing.
Stores breaking street dates (in the NYC area at least) are rare but not unheard of. This just happens to be an extremely high profile game and this is slightly earlier than usual.
the_sun_king
Member
Yeah, it was pretty obvious once we started hearing that reviewers had copies of the game as far back as February that this game has pretty much been all set and done, so localisation wasn't what was holding it back. The April delay was a business decision. I would have liked it if Atlus were actually honest and admitted so in that livestream they had in November? December? last year instead of feeding us this line about "optimizing the localisation".
I'm gonna be forever irked about the seven month gap between Japan and NA releases and now that some stores were breaking the release date 2 weeks early. Can't help but feel the whole release of this game has been fumbled in the West.
I'm gonna be forever irked about the seven month gap between Japan and NA releases and now that some stores were breaking the release date 2 weeks early. Can't help but feel the whole release of this game has been fumbled in the West.
neurosisxeno
Member
Good time to be a PS4 owner apparently. Might have to pick this up--but I still need to finish Nier and Horizon >.<
English voices first for me. The only one I'm a bit iffy of is Ann's voice but the rest of the cast sounds good to me.
Main characters are Japanese, setting in Tokyo, obviously I'll play in JP voice when it become available
super-famicom
Member
Japanese voices for sure. The game is set in Japan, so why would I want to hear them speak English?
Note: I am also fluent in Japanese.
N30RYU
Gold Member
That's what I'm also thinking... A japanese voices tracks are more fitting to a Tokyo set...
Also most of the time we'll be reading since not every dialog have voices.
Gentleman Jack
Member
Some publishers have tried to innovate here like EA and Ubisoft but they also have the luxury of owning the distribution platforms and are also defining the terms by which such access is granted to make it more favorable to them (read: the collection of that sweet SAAS monthly revenue). I'm not going to ask Atlus to risk its relationship with its current network of retailers, none of whom would be all that happy if they signed a contract to release a game in time for a set deadline while Atlus signs a separate, more favorable deal with Sony to get it out on PSN earlier. What precisely is the business reason Atlus would have to change how they do things split a release like this?
terencecah
Member
Any ps4 pro changes?