PYRO JAK fact: there is no meaningful difference between persona and SMT combat

>>712933380 (OP)
You weren't supposed to bring attention to that fact.

>>712933380 (OP)
You're right aside from the fact one is a dating sim and the other is a dungeon crawler. Also aside from the fact they both have different combat.

>>712933949
>have different combat
lol

>>712933380 (OP)
Persona has to be like 30% easier

>>712933380 (OP)
The difference is just that SMT has much harder enemies and encounter design that requires you to put more thought into learning the intricacies of the combat whereas for the most part Persona lowballs them hard and you can just steamroll them with whatever.

It's not helped by the fact that SMT fans largely praise and mythologize these encounters like Matador while Persona fans complain about them like with the space boss in Royal requiring you to use weaknesses and press turns to win. This is the major difference between the two moreso than the mechanics themselves.

Fact: The press turn system in SMT dumbs down the games

>>712934035
Press Turn and Pokemon are pretty different, yes.

Press turn and it sucks

>>712934163
>requires you to put more thought into learning the intricacies of the combat
Like "use buffs/debuffs" and "hit weakness". Congrats, you've beaten everything that isn't a superboss with esoteric rules that oneshot you for not following them.

I dislike persona 3 and 4 because dumb generated dungeons, but persona 5 is good and has SMT level dungeon design with good combat

>>712934192
>press turn
>get an extra action for hitting a weakness
>one more
>get an extra action for hitting a weakness
not meaningfully different