I dont feel this game is getting attention it deserves. Its sitting at 94 on metacritic. Im about 40 hours in and still loving it. It keeps the best from Atlus while cutting the tedious filler. And its a new IP. So far its my GOTY.
Gaming Metaphor Refantazio
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I'm waiting til payday to buy. Loved Persona 5 and by all accounts this is an improvement on that.
I played the demo, enjoyed it so will pick it up at some point.
Got over 200 hours now, almost done with ng+.
I don't think it's GOTY material, but it's a refreshing change of pace from Atlus.
I don't think it's GOTY material, but it's a refreshing change of pace from Atlus.
Will have to pick this up. Been meaning to play Persona for ages. They're the type of games that I'd love but never tried.
For a second I thought that I was in the football forum and that Metaphor Refantazio is a player we're linked with 
Completed it a few weeks ago and it's just behind Astro Bot as my GoTY but it was a fantastic game.
The job system reminds me a little of FF V with the mix and match abilities.
The job system reminds me a little of FF V with the mix and match abilities.
Amazing game, I felt the end started to drag a bit - especially the companion relationship building. But overall, a great game. It was my introduction to Atlus games, I have since bought Persona 5 but will wait a bit before jumping into that.
100%. I loved the game but
the final dungeon and the hour long cutscene/epilogue almost had me shouting at the screen "just let me go!".
Glad it was a drag just around the end as for me Persona 5 became that half way through.
I brought this I think 2 weeks ago and am 8 or so hours into it. Don’t get a lot of chance to play it but I really like it so far. It obviously borrows a lot from Persona 5 and SMTV, but improves upon it in some ways like the archetype system which is great in my opinion. One thing I will say is that P5 felt a lot easier in comparison based on the first boss.
Maybe on P5, but Royal is an improvement on P5 to the point where it’s basically the perfect modern JRPG!
I’d say this is enough of its own thing to not need direct comparisons. Kinda like comparing a GTA with a Red Dead, if that makes sense. It has a lot of similar gameplay elements but then does a lot of things quite differently as well and in a different world so feels quite different.
It’s a great game!
You once rated HIMYM above Always Sunny so I can’t trust you anymore.
Is P5 Royal worth playing if you've completed the base game of Persona 5? I read it has improvements and 30+ hours of content but P5 is already a very long game.
This is why I never played Royal. It’s so long that I can’t really every justify playing it again in any form.
I did it and loved it but that was with a 4 year gap. I’m inclined to say no unless you really want to replay p5 anyway because all the new content is after the base game.
That’s fair
Thanks for the replies, might give P5 Royal a miss for a few years and play it sometime in the future.
I played P5 Royal briefly and while I enjoyed it I also found it quite tedious. Also found it very weird, especially with the first boss being an actual nonce.i never really got further than that.
Anyway, I was intrigued by this, downloaded the prologue and the story kind of interests but the pacing feels really weird. Like, cutscenes will just come out of nowhere it feels.
Anyway, I was intrigued by this, downloaded the prologue and the story kind of interests but the pacing feels really weird. Like, cutscenes will just come out of nowhere it feels.
Come on, it's better than Wukong!
He’s clearly referring to Balatro.
No chance.
I think for me, this year, it goes to one of BM: Wukong, Our Adventurer Guild (indie game, absolutely loved it), Dragons Dogma 2 or FF7 Rebirth. Depending on if Elden Ring DLC counts or not, as that gets it if I include DLCs.
Not a huge fan of persona so was skeptical going in. Loving it so far.
Okay maybe goty is a bit over the top, i think it is just a welcome change of scenery after being terrified of playing Silent hill 2 remake for about 15 days. Still despite despite FF7 rebirth and Zelda having all the production values and stuff im just enjoying this more.