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>anon complains about the beginning of some games being slogs
>recommend that they play games that are borderline more visual novel than they are JRPG, with long stretches of VN between gameplay segments
I also find Persona's writing to be extremely patronizing and annoying so I can't fathom recommending it over SMT proper for that reason, but I'll at least admit that's subjective on my part.