Name a flaw

>Name a flaw
I'm still a fat virgin incel living with my parents who's watching joker go on dates with bitches and doing things that would be doing irl if I wasn't fat and broke, aside from that great game 10/10, perfect babby's first jrpg and the most polished persona title to date

I can’t romance the cat and I probably can’t romance the owl in the next game.

>>713693274
Same, other than being fat.

>>713693117 (OP)
length

>>713693117 (OP)
Makoto.

>>713693117 (OP)
Royal exists and was immediately made non-canon.

>>713693117 (OP)
Bigotry

>>713693117 (OP)
No Sae, no buy

>>713693456

>>713693117 (OP)
We got a fucking gacha instead of persona 6

>>713693117 (OP)
No replay value
>but its a gagillion hours long!
Idgaf I wanted a boss rush mode

>>713693504
>canon
autistic neckbeard detected

canon as a concept was created because of autistic neckbeards obsessing over every minor detail of a universe.

canon-fags literally have an asthma attack any time a chad japanese developer creates an alternate universe, spinoff, or derivative work that doesn't perfectly align with the existing material.

>>713693117 (OP)
Futaba being a Mary Sue but most P5faggots aren't ready for that discussion.

>>713693117 (OP)
You making this thread every day is a parental flaw

>>713693117 (OP)
>huge middle section of the game is pretty bad
>group chemistry goes to shit after Makoto and Futaba join
>Ryuji didn't get laid
>Morgana taking away from Haru's intro because the writers thought you cared about him
>No Sae romance but they kept Ohya
>girl party members are some of the worst SLs and romances in the game
>"actually, an evil fake god was behind everything just let the adults handle things"

>>713693793
Aikido is a joke martial art, impressed with their honesty.

>>713693117 (OP)
Can't romance pic-related is a giant flaw IMHO.

>>713693117 (OP)
They relegated the owl to the Chinese gacha version of the game

>>713693117 (OP)
Can't romance the men

>>713693117 (OP)
I just didn't care about any of the characters

>>713693117 (OP)
To quote my very good friend
>The writing is infuriating

>>713693117 (OP)
Haru's hairy pussy not being in my mouth right now

>>713693117 (OP)
The 'team' barely even feels like a team. Like the second Joker leaves I can't imagine all of them still hanging out. Unlike the IT in P4.
It feels like "Joker and the hanger-ons."

Sumire, Pancakes and Joker felt like more of a team.

>>713693117 (OP)
>name a flaw
85% undercooked life sim, 15% watered down SMT gameplay. this is all 50-130 hours btw.

other games would fucking die like concord if they had such a shit story to gameplay ratio. God forbid if you want to replay the game for the gameplay segments when you have to fast forward through twenty minutes of cutscenes every time that you can't just skip instantly.


the story touches on lots of real world problems, but doesn't actually do much with them. the game falls off in the narrative/story after the end of the first palace. there's lots of contrivances to maintain the persona 3 full moon boss fight system after the first palace.

the game tries to say that the party are all misfits, when in reality they are slightly ostracized gated community kids.
Ann is a teenage model, Ryuji is a track star, Yusuke is an prodigy artist, Makoto is a student council president, Futaba is a prodigy hacker/computer expert, Haru is an heiress to a fuck huge fast food chain, Akechi is a popular detective. The MC is an anomaly so he might as well not count. All of these guys have something going for them.

>>713698859
I think it's less about Joker and more about the reason they're even friends in the first place. Persona 3 was a lot more upfront that you were there to do something very specific and once it's over, it's over. Even then there's plenty of moments shared and bonding.
Persona 4 had far more moments where the team naturally bonded and did stuff outside of their "task" because it was a lot looser and had no authority/informant figure outside of maybe Teddy. It felt like they'd hang out regardless of the shadow world since very early on.
Persona 5 was an odd blend where you had the authority figure (Morgana) since the beginning and yet there's no overarching goal outside of his vagueposting about mementos unlike P3 and no one really hangs out enough on their own outside of their phantom thief work.

>>713693117 (OP)
Large portion of playtime is padded with watching the repetition of the same stat/social link level animations until the next threshold is reached to get a crumb of new development.

>>713693117 (OP)
Kawakami isnt explicitly canon

Futaba

>>713693117 (OP)
you can only date 1 girl and all girls aren't futaba.

>>713693274
same other being an incel

>>713699353
Trying to remember, do any of the social links in P5 include more than one person? Like if you go for Ryuji, does Makoto show up in one?
Genuinely feels like they're just friends with Joker and not each other.

I know some people don't like Marie, but she was 1,000% implemented better in P4G than Sumire is in Royale.
>most social links with Marie get the entire party involved
>even accounts for doing them later when you have Naoto in the party and includes her too

>>713693117 (OP)
The game is way longer than it needs to be
The palace gameplay is extremely boring and somehow memontos is even worse

I made it to the boat at about 100 hours (playing in japanese) and just fucking burned out and deleted my save
I did enjoy a lot of my time with it especially the music and some of the character banter but jfc its too damn long

did nocturne ruin mainline?

>>713699353
Persona 3 was very heavily focused on developing bonds and how a team of people who otherwise would never have talked to eachother became very much like a family by the end of their experiences together.

>>713693117 (OP)
the characters felt bland in comparison to p2 and p3.
Hell even persona 4 had more interesting characters and at the time the game felt like a huge step down in quality compared to p3

>>713700948
>p2
Trying too hard

>>713693117 (OP)
Shit pacing, surface level dealing with themes, bland characters

Mid visual novel combined with a mid jrpg with bare minimum social sim elements stretched out to 150 hours with great presentation

>>713701125
if you didn't play it because you started the series with p5 just say so

>>713693117 (OP)
mid shounen-tier writing, too damn long and full of filler, mediocre characters, piss easy combat, boring long dungeons with numbing puzzles or gimmicks, dating sim aspect is underbaked, social sim has zero depth or evolution from p3 and 4, personas become obsolete waaaaay too fast, royal add content all sucks ass and makes the game worse barring QoL, 99% of combat related stuff is useless, cringe dialogue, severe plot contrivances, and bland soundtrack with the except of like 4 tracks (seriously, have you guys heard any of the non-lyrical music???)

Still a 7/10 tho

>>713693117 (OP)
Everything but Haru.

>>713700638
P3 had the bonds be more "contractual" from my perspective. Though I agree there was a lot of team bonding which I mentioned. It comes across in a different way to 4 but neither do it badly.

>>713693117 (OP)
I guess my biggest complaint is the main group didn't feel like a group of friends, like I struggle to see them all hanging out after everything is said and done. Didn't have this issue with Persona 4 though, played Persona 5 first as well so it's not nostalgia fucking with my perception of P4.

>>713693117 (OP)
Not enough tomoko x futaba fanfics

>>713697565
The dudes not having a romance made their social links better

>>713693117 (OP)
If I wanted to read a book, I'd get a good one instead of this teenage sissy shot. Why can't we just play the fucking game. Just pure, good old 4 niggas in a row shiiiiet

>>713693117 (OP)
Tae isnt real

>>713697063
How is the owl so far. Is he as bad as Morgana?

>>713700948
>>713701368
Persona started at 3

>>713693117 (OP)
You cannot date Sae
Only good palaces are Kamoshida, Sae and Shido
Vanilla P5 final boss/antagonist is underwhelming compared to P5R

>>713700606
Nocturne propelled the entire franchise and made Megaten and Atlus the king of JRPGs.

>>713693117 (OP)
shit fucking writing

>>713701125
NTA but P2 IS main group has a lot of chemistry because they all know each other since they were kids. P2 EP also has a lot of good interactions.

>>713693117 (OP)
it doesnt have her

>>713693117 (OP)
Whenever you see a thread like this for P5 it's always framed like it's the modern day FF7. And like FF7 back in the 90s, it's coming from a place of wanting to prove it's not one of the greatest games ever made. But, it is.

>>713693117 (OP)
anime artstyle

>>713693117 (OP)
Extremely cringy story for teenagers
>Muh teenagers with superpowers fighting corrupt adults

I played Persona 4 Golden when it dropped on Steam and fucking loved it, so I decided to play Persona 5 aswell when it dropped on Steam and it was so shit in comparison. P4 was a gritty murder mystery while P5 was some kind of cringy teenage fantasy

>>713708643
Yeah, great interactions like we all grew up in the same orpha- friend circle but forgot because of the trauma

And Eikichi is a chubby chaser and it makes him embarrassed. And Lisa is a huge slut. And Jun literally murdered all our friends and like a gazillion people but we're going to forgive him anyway, oh wait that one seems familiar. Oh and of course can't forget, Free Space: We hate our daaaads

>>713708987
No self awareness?

>>713693325
>furfaggot

>>713709143
Sounds like you have never interacted with your teammates.

>>713709494
Sounds like you've never played Persona 2 IS and just pretend to like it because it was cool on the internet. Persona 2 is the WORST written Persona game

>>713693117 (OP)
You can't break up with the girl(s) you're in a relationship with so you can go out with others without getting the bad valentine's day scene.

>>713709621
Literally just beat the game yesterday, you just vaguely summarized some of their plot points so it would sound like it's terrible.

>>713693117 (OP)
Not made out of cheap chinese plastic and not gacha.

>insert joke/reference about fapping to 2D japanese teenagers

>>713697565
the only 2 male romances that should've been included in any game in this series are Yosuke in P4G and Akechi in P5R's 3rd semester.

>>713710026
How would you summerize their plot points to not be terrible? How do you summerize the 3 dungeon long arc devoted to Lisa's high-school pop idol career in a way that isn't the actual worst point of the entire Megaten franchise? How do you justify Jun being a mass murdering psycho but it's OK he was just being manipulated by the evil God that caused everything?

>>713710285
>Akechi
I was about to ask if men also have hybristophilia but then I remembered that they aren't the target audience for this faggotry.

>>713708897
>no don't criticize it

>>713710356
it's OK he was just being manipulated by the evil God that caused everything

>>713693117 (OP)
Between 3-5, the party member characters are the worst and it's not even close.
No Sae romance.
(In Royal) you can't romance Yoshizawa until near the end of the last semester so you can't have a Christmas event with her.
The enemy layout and items you can pick up are identical in every Palace, and negotiation is lame, making the procedurally-generated hallways in 3 and 4 better on replays.

>>713693117 (OP)
>Name a flaw
no Caroline romance

>>713693117 (OP)
The game wants you to believe Joker's situation of having to transfer schools and live in Leblanc is awful, but it kind of falls flat because it's hard to imagine a more ideal wish-fulfillment teenage existence.

>>713693117 (OP)
royal tacked on an inferior story that ruined the fantastic original ending

There's no escape. No PT group are going to kick off some actual change. We're actually stuck in CHAINED UP HELL where corporations and the government are going to keep fucking us in the ass AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

>>713710394
oh there's a reason i said P5R's third semester specifically. it makes no sense to include him as a romance prior to that phase of the game, that would be nothing more than a dumb fujo fantasy. But when Joker's ideal reality in the 3rd semester literally includes Akechi alive and being closer to him, how else is that supposed to be interpreted? to say nothing about some of their interactions prior to that, and the thing with the glove.

>>713710632
>fantastic original ending
It has been a while but wasn't the ending "you are actually villains because you killed the ego of all those scumbags". The greatness of subverted expectations like that eludes me.

>>713710503
Yoshizawa is shit anyway

>>713693117 (OP)
Futaba. I just hate magical super hackers that type furiously on a keyboard and make plot happen like they're some kind of wizard casting a spell.

>>713710445
Absolutely keep criticizing it. I just think a lot of them ring hollow, like deliberately trying to make it seem worse out of spite.

>>713710872
That's my wife you're talking about.

boring waste of time for 'combat'

>>713710850
Well that bit is in both royal and the original, and I would argue it's not subverting expectations it's confirming your suspicion that your boss is the big bad (which the game heavily telegraphs all game long). NTA but I think the original ending where all your party members work together in the real world to get your sentence overturned and then you for the first time achieve freedom and drive off into the sunset with your friends is a perfect thematic ending. Royal, ruins the getting out of jail sequence by slapping you with the Maruki arc where Akechi takes the hit instead (you do get the sequence eventually but it's like 20 hours after it's relevant). Then the actual ending cinematic which was so on point is replaced with a shitty P4 rerun where your party members just see you off on a train (with gratuitous Akechi alive b8 for fujos thrown in).

I would also add to the ending, Maruki is just all around a worse final boss compared to Yaldy, basically a glorified cutscene battle.

>>713693117 (OP)
Too long
Royals extra story/new characters
The only thing good about royals was the qol features