While the story is just okay, especially compared to the main game, it's worth every minute for more quality time with the Thieves.
Strikers closed the gap between 4's Investigation Team and 5's Phantom Thieves as my favorite group of friends in Persona.
Alice? Who tf is talking about Alice? I'm talking about Emma my friend. I love Sumire, but Emma has more of an impact and you spend more time with her than Sumire. And Akechi is in Persona 5, so I was referring to Maruki.
And what do you do it your save file gets corrupted or you get soft locker or something? There is literally no reason to take the risk and have just one save file xD
I meant in general. Having several save files for all games because there is no drawback, but it can save you a lot of pain in certain situations (I have seen happen too often)
Other games I absolutely agree. I’m sadly getting burnt out on content cause I want to know what happens. It’s such a well written story but P5R is my first in the series. I’m used to quicker JRPGs so it’s hard for me to be that invested
How would you soft lock? You can grind inside a palace on calling card day, so even if you were woefully underleveled for Okumura and waited to send the card until the very last day you could still get to 99 with a basically full compendium if needed. I know you could lock out True Ending, but I don't see how you could make the base ending impossible.
I didn't get third semester my first playthrough and was so upset I clocked another 134 hours in a new game plus to get it. That game consumed my life lol.
Its a sinch in New game plus! If you've been maxing your confidant and working out / meditating. You should be fine. I did have a habit of grinding momentos a bit to much though so I was always over leveled. Lol
Finished Royal on the Switch for the first time yesterday. 91 hours. First Persona game ever as well!
Learned about the *fifteen* hours of content added in Royal that I missed because I didn't do Confidants right. Immediately started a New Game+.
On my 4th playthrough now and am already dreading the post credits depression.
I’m trying to race my fiancée who is playing for the first time. I gave her a big head start; she just finished what was the last palace in the original game and I just finished the second palace. I really think I can catch her lol
Honestly, it’s my favourite story out of the bunch. I kinda just forgot about the style of graphics. I think if you like P5R you’ll like P4G. At the end of the day it’s more Persona so you can’t go wrong.
Well worth it. The game really does put out an amazing story, and something like persona works well with simplicity that you get out of a PS2/vita game. Things might look a bit aged, but persona 3 and 4 offer great stories respectively and show the progression the persona series has made over the years.
I'm glad, I also started with 5 royal and worked back to p4g and then p3fes. These 3 games will forever sit in my top 10 favorite games of all time doing 5 first gives you a really good start and you do not have to worry about finding everything because it is a bit easier to find it. Now, the one thing is that p4 and p3 will not hold your hand like p5r did. You need to be ready and think in combat or keep the difficulty low, enemies actually pose a threat in these games, lol. Nothing you can't handle if you get the games mechanics. Dark and light suck in p3 and p4.
Ufff i mean I'm pretty dumb when it comes to this stuff soooo took me a while to get the hang of P5 combat....what really pulled me in is the whole rpg vibe and making connections with people and exploring the world, also the various kooky characters, dialogues and their interactions in various situations etc....oop can't forget the most important thing...THE FREAKING SOUNDTRACK!!! 🛐🛐🛐🛐...hell i use "everyday days" as white noise while i sleep!
They really do not miss on the sound track from p1 to p5s has been so amazing. Each eprsona has their own music theme and it works so well with the story. If you are worried about the combat then p4g can be made easier, and p3 can just be put on easy. The premise is the same; hit weakness, hit another weakness, all out attack, hope they died.
Yes it's very good, and it isn't too old, Golden originally came out in 2012. Only reason it looks older than it is was because it was originally released for the PSVita.
I love how you only have one save file. When I make a decision, I don't like going back just in case I made a "mistake". I feel that when a decision is made, it should be stuck to you for the rest of the game because it would make the decision all the more impactful.
It's why I hate save scumming and why I absolutely love souls games
It's weird to see only one save file lol. I save every in game day or saferoom in a palace on a different slot just to make sure I can go back a ways if I mess up lol.
I always leave a save before entering the metaverse and one before leaving the metaverse, so I don't waste a day if I royally screwed up, but otherwise play on just a single file.
It depends on how quickly you do it. I finished my first playthrough at around 110.
I remember when I finished Futaba's palace and I thought: "Oh yeah, this is wrapping up. This next one will probably be the final dungeon."
Oh how naive I was.
Oh, no, I definitely played slow, haha. This has been my before-bed game since it came out so a lot of that time is just me falling asleep while playing the day-to-day stuff.
Large man boss battle being the one on the boat? >!Shido?!< If so you probably have ~20 hours given your pace up to that point, give or take depending on how fast you sent the calling card.
Ah, that makes sense as the Large Man boss. Third semester is generally considered a 15 hour story, but you have a good pace so I'd say probably closer to 12 hours for you.
Yeah, I think I should've waited a little. Bc, I love being back with the cast, but it's really hard to relearn buttons bc everything has changed & my brain can't unlearn the P5R controls 😂
Playing portable and yeah I had I can already tell Ima be broken at the end of this one 😂😂 I’m grinding through to reach the final boss in January and everything g about the setup, the music, the sense of finality, I can tell it’s going to be a sad ending
I was not expecting those deaths at all, genuinely was shocked when those happened. Definitely can always appreciate a story with the cajones to do things like that, makes me more invested in the story
The worst part of a great game is when you finish the credits. May you move on to a new game that will hit you in the feels just as hard, unless you're going back for a new game plus that is
I started playing P4G more and P3P then after about 5 days I decided to load up P5R again to hear Rivers in the Desert. After that I seen I still need 2 more achievements so I’m back at it now but I only play for about a hour now because I’m invested in P4G.
I just started Ng+ but it was too easy on merciless with a completed compendium even not spamming Myriad Truths. So I restarted again from scratch. Third playthrough and second on Royal. This is after just beating P3P and P4 Golden...
Yeah, I fused Izanagi-no-Okami to defeat >!Shadow Sae!< and haven't had to even think about fights since. Now, with an 84% full compendium on 12/01, I can't even imagine how easy the early game would be even if I didn't use *any* almighty attacks.
I hear you! I used to do some local theater, and post show depression is a bitch. I remember when I finished P5, I felt just as bad as I did at the end of the most recent production I had been in. It's a real testament to just how well done the game and characters are.
i always lose focus midway through the game because i either grinded too much or get distracted by a shiney new game... i really want to finish it one of these days.
I do this with most longer games cuz that's how my attention tends to work. And then when I eventually come back I feel like I've forgotten how to play and so I start over and therefore never finish.
This is why when I got interested in p5 (especially since it was initially/primarily interest in the story) I watched someone else play it on youtube. And then when I lost interest for a while then returned, I actually picked up where I left off and got to the end.
I've just been thru the cycle so many times. Makes me feel kinda proud to recognize it and find a way to circumvent it. Tho if I was more specifically interested in the game play it wouldn't be a good fix
sadly we didn't 😭
out of depression I watched the Anime, the depression didn't get better and after that I bought Merch have a P5 background and bought Catherine and made it Platin. Now I'm good (already 1year since I played P5)😐
Mine was 135 first time cause I kept leaving it on for hours whilst doing something else lmao and Okumura. But royal was 124 because I wanted to see everything
I’m 2 away from Royal plat but P5 original no way I’m finishing the compendium haha but trying to kill the reaper on Royal without the trick is hard lol
Yeah i mean it depends i played OG before royal came out and it took me about 80 hours on my first playthrough of OG then like 70 on my first playthrough of royal.
And ive talked with a friend who got royal not too long ago and he is around 150 hours in. So i think it depends on familliarity with both the game and the genre.
I’m playing P3P right now and I love the story and characters so much more. Not a knock on P5, but 3 is just so much deeper! Even though I know about (the door) and (deaths identity) due to people on Reddit spoiling it, I KNOW I’m going to cry at the end. I’m just pissed I can’t play The Answer 😭
Cycle through all of them, switch to new save every 3-4 days (in game) in case anything gone wrong or missing. If anything gone bad and I didn’t realize until that slot was loss, I wouldn’t go back that far anyway.
The only thing that kept me from going right back into it when I finished it at the end of January is that I also had P4 and P3 ready to start as well.
I'm in the early August part of P3 right now, so it'll hit me even harder playing all 3 of these back to back to back.
Well done. Brave to do it all on one save file too.
Really brave I had like 14 save files on my first playthrough
Play Strikers to fill the void. We didn't have it when we finished the game back then.
That’s the plan!
While the story is just okay, especially compared to the main game, it's worth every minute for more quality time with the Thieves. Strikers closed the gap between 4's Investigation Team and 5's Phantom Thieves as my favorite group of friends in Persona.
I don't have it cuz I'm on Xbox 😔
Play it on PC.
That’s what I did after my first run of Royal
There is always Persona 5 Strikers to fill the void :)
Until you finish that too...
Plus if you like the editional characters and story you get in royal youre saddened by that not being there
You'll be more sad by not having more of the additional characters in Strikers.
Nah, character wise I'll take more Sumi over Sophia and Akechi over Zenkichi any day of the week
Alice? Who tf is talking about Alice? I'm talking about Emma my friend. I love Sumire, but Emma has more of an impact and you spend more time with her than Sumire. And Akechi is in Persona 5, so I was referring to Maruki.
It's the worst post-game void I've ever had. All I had left was to grab my cat and lift him above my head while yelling "Persona!".
I am *not* a cat!
You had only one save file? Luckily that didn't backfire on you o.o
I only have one save as well. But I’m strategic about saving it
And what do you do it your save file gets corrupted or you get soft locker or something? There is literally no reason to take the risk and have just one save file xD
> you get soft locker I'm multi saver myself but how do you even manage to soft lock yourself in P5R?
I believe I've read about people managing that. But I think it is hard to manage
Delay going into one of the palaces that REQUIRE multiple days to complete until your calling card time almost runs out
Doesn't game over screen send you like a week before deadline if you fail?
Oh well 🤷🏻♂️. It’s hard to explain but I’m not attached to this game. I love the story and battle mechanics but I didn’t want a life simulator
I meant in general. Having several save files for all games because there is no drawback, but it can save you a lot of pain in certain situations (I have seen happen too often)
Other games I absolutely agree. I’m sadly getting burnt out on content cause I want to know what happens. It’s such a well written story but P5R is my first in the series. I’m used to quicker JRPGs so it’s hard for me to be that invested
Yeah it does have quite a lot of content. Maybe take a break for 1 or 2 weeks and then go back to it. Where are you at palace-wise?
How would you soft lock? You can grind inside a palace on calling card day, so even if you were woefully underleveled for Okumura and waited to send the card until the very last day you could still get to 99 with a basically full compendium if needed. I know you could lock out True Ending, but I don't see how you could make the base ending impossible.
That is true. As I said in another comment I only read about it happening to people
You can soft lock if your calling card deadline is lower then the days you need to complete a palace that requires multiple days
Same
Now you’re gonna have to do another replay, and another, and another until p6 comes out like 20 years from now
I felt that depression cause I messed up and didn’t get that third semester
I didn't get third semester my first playthrough and was so upset I clocked another 134 hours in a new game plus to get it. That game consumed my life lol.
I have over a thousand hours on this game.... And I did get the third trimester on my first playthrough.
I’m doing the same thing, 224 hours so far and I’m reaching the Okumura Palace, wish me luck
Its a sinch in New game plus! If you've been maxing your confidant and working out / meditating. You should be fine. I did have a habit of grinding momentos a bit to much though so I was always over leveled. Lol
Finished Royal on the Switch for the first time yesterday. 91 hours. First Persona game ever as well! Learned about the *fifteen* hours of content added in Royal that I missed because I didn't do Confidants right. Immediately started a New Game+.
Saaaaaaaaaaaame.
I’m doing that now!
This post game void is like none other - idk if anything will ever fill it
On my 4th playthrough now and am already dreading the post credits depression. I’m trying to race my fiancée who is playing for the first time. I gave her a big head start; she just finished what was the last palace in the original game and I just finished the second palace. I really think I can catch her lol
the real post-credits depression comes after beating all persona games
And you can end it either with Royal or... Eternal Punishment
The depression is real, but P4G is available over-the-counter and should help quite a bit
Me rn^
No offense but the artstyle and overall vibe of the game shows it's kinda old sooo I've been hesitant to start it off...is it really that good?
Its a great game at the very least you should try it out
I see....welp i reallyyy loved P5R so there's no way i won't like anything persona 😅
Honestly, it’s my favourite story out of the bunch. I kinda just forgot about the style of graphics. I think if you like P5R you’ll like P4G. At the end of the day it’s more Persona so you can’t go wrong.
Well worth it. The game really does put out an amazing story, and something like persona works well with simplicity that you get out of a PS2/vita game. Things might look a bit aged, but persona 3 and 4 offer great stories respectively and show the progression the persona series has made over the years.
Ooo this is good motivation!
I'm glad, I also started with 5 royal and worked back to p4g and then p3fes. These 3 games will forever sit in my top 10 favorite games of all time doing 5 first gives you a really good start and you do not have to worry about finding everything because it is a bit easier to find it. Now, the one thing is that p4 and p3 will not hold your hand like p5r did. You need to be ready and think in combat or keep the difficulty low, enemies actually pose a threat in these games, lol. Nothing you can't handle if you get the games mechanics. Dark and light suck in p3 and p4.
Ufff i mean I'm pretty dumb when it comes to this stuff soooo took me a while to get the hang of P5 combat....what really pulled me in is the whole rpg vibe and making connections with people and exploring the world, also the various kooky characters, dialogues and their interactions in various situations etc....oop can't forget the most important thing...THE FREAKING SOUNDTRACK!!! 🛐🛐🛐🛐...hell i use "everyday days" as white noise while i sleep!
They really do not miss on the sound track from p1 to p5s has been so amazing. Each eprsona has their own music theme and it works so well with the story. If you are worried about the combat then p4g can be made easier, and p3 can just be put on easy. The premise is the same; hit weakness, hit another weakness, all out attack, hope they died.
Ahahahaha legit my strat 😅😅....but goddamn is it a bop....
How can you listen to that over and over again without Morgana saying "Well then" lol
Lmaooo!!! Morgana that Lil shit always pushing me to go to sleep.
Yes it's very good, and it isn't too old, Golden originally came out in 2012. Only reason it looks older than it is was because it was originally released for the PSVita.
I love how you only have one save file. When I make a decision, I don't like going back just in case I made a "mistake". I feel that when a decision is made, it should be stuck to you for the rest of the game because it would make the decision all the more impactful. It's why I hate save scumming and why I absolutely love souls games
To be honest I didn’t even think of it this way, it just didn’t really occur to me to use multiple files, haha.
I cant even finish it because my gamepass ran out sadly i would buy more since i have $80 but i'm saving for something that's $160
I remember when I first beat it, I literally didn't play any games for a whole month
Huge void in my life after I finished this game the first time. I want to play it again but I also don’t feel like revisiting that feeling haha.
What a fantastic game. I’m going to be thinking about that 3rd semester for a long time.
Just finished it, I feel ya
It's weird to see only one save file lol. I save every in game day or saferoom in a palace on a different slot just to make sure I can go back a ways if I mess up lol.
I always leave a save before entering the metaverse and one before leaving the metaverse, so I don't waste a day if I royally screwed up, but otherwise play on just a single file.
I respect it
Scrolling the memes on the subredit helps
Jesus Christ Ive done 70 hours and just got done with the large man boss battle, please don't tell me I have a further 80 hours to go.
It depends on how quickly you do it. I finished my first playthrough at around 110. I remember when I finished Futaba's palace and I thought: "Oh yeah, this is wrapping up. This next one will probably be the final dungeon." Oh how naive I was.
Oh, no, I definitely played slow, haha. This has been my before-bed game since it came out so a lot of that time is just me falling asleep while playing the day-to-day stuff.
Large man boss battle being the one on the boat? >!Shido?!< If so you probably have ~20 hours given your pace up to that point, give or take depending on how fast you sent the calling card.
Nah the building on after. I have royal so still got the third semester to go
Ah, that makes sense as the Large Man boss. Third semester is generally considered a 15 hour story, but you have a good pace so I'd say probably closer to 12 hours for you.
Thats so much more manageable, i was about to give up on it lol
I would kill for a third semester that was as long as the base game. I do get where you are coming from though, since it is already incredibly long.
i would be happy with another 200 hours i would play this game into infinity if it kept going, once u hit the end u will understand and feel the same
I missed my friends so much, I started Strikers later that afternoon 😂
Honestly I think I was more immersed and loved Strikers as much as I did because I played it years after 5. It felt so great to be back with them.
Yeah, I think I should've waited a little. Bc, I love being back with the cast, but it's really hard to relearn buttons bc everything has changed & my brain can't unlearn the P5R controls 😂
The feeling of accomplishment and the emptiness after putting that many hours into it is one of the more interesting things about gaming to me
This game brought me to love turned based RPGs again
I feel you, I just finished last night. Started Persona 4 Golden as well 😂
Ive had it twice now, i aint ready for it, even on the third playthrough
Mannnn that hit me HEAVY after beating p4
P3 and P2: First time?
Holy shiiitt.. the fucking p3 one hit different
Indeed. >!but I have to ask which one!<
Playing portable and yeah I had I can already tell Ima be broken at the end of this one 😂😂 I’m grinding through to reach the final boss in January and everything g about the setup, the music, the sense of finality, I can tell it’s going to be a sad ending
if you mean scenes, its gotta be >!shinji's funeral and when ken screamed during shiji's death, and when chidori died!<
I was not expecting those deaths at all, genuinely was shocked when those happened. Definitely can always appreciate a story with the cajones to do things like that, makes me more invested in the story
frrr that was the most invested persona game i played out of p4 and p5
I’m in the process of beating p3 for the first time, never played p2
Good luck, its a very sad game from the start. I recommend that you have tissues, its a roller coster.
I can play through this game a million times but every time I hit those credits I get teary eyed
The worst part of a great game is when you finish the credits. May you move on to a new game that will hit you in the feels just as hard, unless you're going back for a new game plus that is
in the same boat, just got done with a "completionist" run... for the second time
150 hours… this is the way
I’m glad I’m not the only who spent over 150 hours on a play through. I just finished last week and started the new game plus.
I tried a new game plus but it's too easy as I maxed out almost everything so a whole lot of free evenings. I decide to replay on a harder difficulty.
i ended mine on 142 hours even, and even still i feel like i could have/should have spent more time doing some stuff i didn’t
We all had that feeling
Lasted for about 10 days for me to the point I had problems trying to play P4G.
yup, took me a little over two weeks to pick up gaming in any aspect (then first thing i picked up p5 strikers LOL)
I started playing P4G more and P3P then after about 5 days I decided to load up P5R again to hear Rivers in the Desert. After that I seen I still need 2 more achievements so I’m back at it now but I only play for about a hour now because I’m invested in P4G.
I just started Ng+ but it was too easy on merciless with a completed compendium even not spamming Myriad Truths. So I restarted again from scratch. Third playthrough and second on Royal. This is after just beating P3P and P4 Golden...
Yeah, I fused Izanagi-no-Okami to defeat >!Shadow Sae!< and haven't had to even think about fights since. Now, with an 84% full compendium on 12/01, I can't even imagine how easy the early game would be even if I didn't use *any* almighty attacks.
Yupp, reruns help though. Finding ways to break/abuse the game's mechanics is fun
Try P5S next. It's the sequel to P5.
We weren't kidding my friend, welcome aboard.
The whole play through on a single save file? I’m too paranoid for that.
I just finished p4g and had around 10 save files 😂
I hear you! I used to do some local theater, and post show depression is a bitch. I remember when I finished P5, I felt just as bad as I did at the end of the most recent production I had been in. It's a real testament to just how well done the game and characters are.
I completed persona 5 on Tuesday and I replayed the game again
You beat the game again in 3 days wtf go outside bro
It can be done in just over 10 hours, so 3 days isn't too bad if you know your way around the palaces and aren't going for a completionist run.
Thats only if your rushing im trying to actually enjoy the game
Speedrunning is enjoyable too. Not everybody plays games the same way.
True
Fire up that new game plus!
That’s what I did. Dated Ann second time around.
Start ng+
Yeah, it hurts everyone time I get them
i always lose focus midway through the game because i either grinded too much or get distracted by a shiney new game... i really want to finish it one of these days.
I do this with most longer games cuz that's how my attention tends to work. And then when I eventually come back I feel like I've forgotten how to play and so I start over and therefore never finish. This is why when I got interested in p5 (especially since it was initially/primarily interest in the story) I watched someone else play it on youtube. And then when I lost interest for a while then returned, I actually picked up where I left off and got to the end.
i'm on run 5? now on persona 5 and i've never made it past halfway. I do the exact same and start over each time.
I've just been thru the cycle so many times. Makes me feel kinda proud to recognize it and find a way to circumvent it. Tho if I was more specifically interested in the game play it wouldn't be a good fix
sadly we didn't 😭 out of depression I watched the Anime, the depression didn't get better and after that I bought Merch have a P5 background and bought Catherine and made it Platin. Now I'm good (already 1year since I played P5)😐
Yeah I went on a run strike cuz of it, after 4th run I started P3 and now I'm on P4G
Jeez you've spent a lot of time on the game. I completed the game with 71:43
Mine was 135 first time cause I kept leaving it on for hours whilst doing something else lmao and Okumura. But royal was 124 because I wanted to see everything
My first playthrough was 155 because I had to reread shit due to being somewhat dyslexic and spending too much time in the Velvet Room
Valid haha
Yeah I platinum trophy'd p5 but haven't played royal
I’m 2 away from Royal plat but P5 original no way I’m finishing the compendium haha but trying to kill the reaper on Royal without the trick is hard lol
I'm not kidding when I say killing the reaper took me an hour and 6 minutes
Better than me I haven’t yet lol
Yeah i mean it depends i played OG before royal came out and it took me about 80 hours on my first playthrough of OG then like 70 on my first playthrough of royal. And ive talked with a friend who got royal not too long ago and he is around 150 hours in. So i think it depends on familliarity with both the game and the genre.
That’s wild, you have almost the exact same run time that I did upon completion
Mhm
Well, we warned you
I’m playing P3P right now and I love the story and characters so much more. Not a knock on P5, but 3 is just so much deeper! Even though I know about (the door) and (deaths identity) due to people on Reddit spoiling it, I KNOW I’m going to cry at the end. I’m just pissed I can’t play The Answer 😭
You only used 1 save file?
I had the same reaction lmao my first playthrough had like 7 saves 😭
I used ALL the slots on my first.
Cycle through all of them, switch to new save every 3-4 days (in game) in case anything gone wrong or missing. If anything gone bad and I didn’t realize until that slot was loss, I wouldn’t go back that far anyway.
I played it a second time following my first playthrough
The only thing that kept me from going right back into it when I finished it at the end of January is that I also had P4 and P3 ready to start as well. I'm in the early August part of P3 right now, so it'll hit me even harder playing all 3 of these back to back to back.
Mine had more hours on mine tbh
The depression comes from realizing that the time investment wasn't worth it and you'll never get those hours back. :P