Thread 724605205

>For our newest game, we will be innovating on the Persona formula by making everything more generic and boring.
What were they thinking?

>>724605205 (OP)
I wish I could romance the three eyed fat butt girl

>>724605205 (OP)
Literal GOTY 2024/2025
Cope

>>724605205 (OP)
The demo helped me dodge a bullet

Necrobump

>>724605205 (OP)
But they made it about racism and how racism is bad! It's a metaphor, you see! That means it's fucking awesome!

>>724606124
Ah yes, then we have E33 as a melodramatic french soap opera or FF7 as a pro-ambientalist narrative. You see, you can be a faggot reducionist with every RPG story out there.

Emergency necrobump.

>>724605304
Yeah, what kind of people review games again?
>FFVII cope
I've never played Final Fantasy anything, and I know damn well they'd still pick a gone home over that.

>>724605262
Did you get that confused? Eupha is literally the ONLY romance in the game. It's forced and part of the story. And that's a good thing.

>>724605262
It's kinda inevitable that you do romance her, she confesses to you and says she wants to stay by your side forever. It's not that bad considering Persona romance isn't that great either.

My issue with it is just how drawn out some of the bond stories are, some of them really felt like they were being stretched to hit 8.

The funniest part of this game is that it almost felt like they were just retconning Louis halfway through development by giving him batshit crazy intentions in the final quarter of the game because they wrote themselves in to a corner by writing a villain who was actually agreeable up until that point.

Live!

>>724605205 (OP)
the soundtrack was the biggest letdown desu

>>724605205 (OP)
probably "how generic can we make the persona formula so that it can apply to any theme"?

>>724605869
Fucking this. Such a long demo yet there's absolutely nothing in it to hook the player in. Even if you're a fairyfag you're in for a disappointment because your pocket pixie hardly does anything.

>>724606727
>>724606351
>>724606047
Why are Metaphor haters like this?

It was a good game, you gotta get over it.

>>724605205 (OP)
>What were they thinking?
They were going after "the modern/western audience" but they don't quite know what that means other than it involves lots of GoT style politics in a dungeons and dragons/tolkien style setting.

>>724606734
That was the best part of the game tho

>>724605205 (OP)
Its better than most Personas.

>>724605205 (OP)
>Waaaa it's generic because I can't be a Japanese school boy in a dating simmmm
Gay dating sim cancer fans always end up metastasizing and trying to kill the host

Yet to play the game, but the demo's archetype system felt like a downgrade from Persona system. Much closer to Digital Devil Saga, which was a miserable grind of a system.

>>724605205 (OP)
Should have been an action game instead

>>724607949
>which was a miserable grind of a system
It's only miserable if you grind the entire party instead of just making Serph chew on everyone. I mean, I presume it's miserable, but at some point it become crystal clear that it's better to have just a single nuke character, and that's what I did.

>>724605205 (OP)
>What were they thinking?
They weren't thinking.

>>724607949
Because it's not a persona system, it's the job system from Final Fantasy. It just has a Persona paintjob.

>>724608365
...how would that even possibly work?

>>724608540
job system <<<<< characters having their own unique properties. FF6 was great right until you actually unlock the job system.

>>724607592
Easily because the rest of the game is much worse

>>724608610
A little prep work and then just AoE hunt/almighty the rest of the game? Just have Argilla and Gale go first with AoE def down.

>>724608809
what about the press turn system tho? Or do you mean grind serph till he has every element?

Oh. It's just autists crying about not being able to romance girls for a two minute scene. Sad.

>>724609107
ikr, anyone who ever held a relationship with not very compatible person knows it's much more of a hard work than being just friends. Frinendship is better deal for the cost.

>>724605205 (OP)
I liked the combat more than persona, though the dungeons could've used more flair. The writing definitely did miss the mark.
>>724606734
Also this. Holy fuck what was meguro doing. That human battle theme is so abysmally boring it drained the energy out of every major story boss.

>>724607592
There’s at most ten good songs and the rest are just uninspired. Louis’ battle theme was by far the best song in the game, it’s a shame the devs forgot to add it for his third fight though.

>>724608954
I grinded a little to get Seprh AoE hunt skill first, yes. Or the better hunt skills because AoE comes later? Been a while, don't remember. Either way, the point is that I just made Serph eat all the demons. Then you get a skill that shares some of the food with the rest of the party. And then you just assign him whatever mantras because he'd be chomping everyone regardless.

>>724608670
Disagree, there's nothing I hate more in a game than a cool character that gets paired with absolute dogshit mechanics. This way I can just bring who I like and not have to worry about party balance/one character dragging the rest of the party down.

>>724610378
ability to turn off dogshit mechanics doesn't remove them from the game, so i'll consider the game fucked in both cases.

>>724605205 (OP)
Don't care 90% of it didn't take place in a school where teachers fuck kids. Instantly more appealing than Fagsona.

Will never understand how SMT doesn't destroy persona in popularity other than shyboys think they're the irl version of the MCs

>>724611386
persona has more gameplay variety, more character focus, more relateable themes in the story.
Persona: ~20 characters, we live in a society, time management + dungeon crawling + pokemon fusion + style
SMT: somehow no fucking characters + "is god the bad guy?" story + dungeon crawling + pokemon fusion.
Like it's actually mathematically understandable why Persona is more popular. What is weird is how it's not more popular than Pokemon.

>>724611386
>Get to repeat highschool but this time you're the Chad who fucks all the Stacys
>Edgy pokemon

Gee, I wonder why the first is more popular.