I'm writing this at 2:30am, after having spent about 13 hours straight doing what I thought was "the final stretch" :^) I'll try to keep it brief cause I'm tired but this game is big...
I really love this game. The combat took some getting used to, and it's not without its flaws, but man it just didn't get boring for me at all. The characters are great, as is the story and the music, it's a long ass journey but it's fulfilling. I also hugely appreciate customisable armour and played dress-up so much I prolly added 5 hours to my game time lol.
Now that said, it is a long. ass. journey... If you don't enjoy the combat or running around absolutely massive maps for 30-60 mins between cutscenes (with mob fights ofc) this will probably be a mega slog. Everything is so fucking far away I felt like I'd missed a car or some shit 2 chapters in cause it takes forever to get anywhere. This fucks the pacing at times as well, with some chapters ending with these big intense build-ups only for the next part to put a long walk between you and the next cutscene. Seriously at one part you load in, walk in a straight line with no enemies for 2 whole minutes, just to trigger another cutscene...
Anyway! Shut up I'm tired and I thought I'd be done hours ago but I wasn't and I'm kinda bummed but also I love it and I don't want it to be over so I'm gunna spend a small fortune on the sequel now okok
I really love this game. The combat took some getting used to, and it's not without its flaws, but man it just didn't get boring for me at all. The characters are great, as is the story and the music, it's a long ass journey but it's fulfilling. I also hugely appreciate customisable armour and played dress-up so much I prolly added 5 hours to my game time lol.
Now that said, it is a long. ass. journey... If you don't enjoy the combat or running around absolutely massive maps for 30-60 mins between cutscenes (with mob fights ofc) this will probably be a mega slog. Everything is so fucking far away I felt like I'd missed a car or some shit 2 chapters in cause it takes forever to get anywhere. This fucks the pacing at times as well, with some chapters ending with these big intense build-ups only for the next part to put a long walk between you and the next cutscene. Seriously at one part you load in, walk in a straight line with no enemies for 2 whole minutes, just to trigger another cutscene...
Anyway! Shut up I'm tired and I thought I'd be done hours ago but I wasn't and I'm kinda bummed but also I love it and I don't want it to be over so I'm gunna spend a small fortune on the sequel now okok
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Happy you liked this one! 13 hours seems like such a slog...I need you and Nancy to give me that willpower to get through 100+ hour games like P5R
Haha, well! My original plan was to spend 8 hours on 2 chapters today and 8 more on the last 2 tomorrow, but the 2 penultimate were much shorter than usual so I committed to it expecting the final one to be short too... it was not.
You should stick with P5R for sure though, let it consume you until 2 weeks have gone by without you noticing :p
You should stick with P5R for sure though, let it consume you until 2 weeks have gone by without you noticing :p
Thank God that Definitive Edition streamlined the map system otherwise the original game would even be more of a slog lol
superb game, I concur however it is unnecessarily big. Some kind of vessel to help traversal would of helped a lot
looks like i gotta play this
I would definitely recommend to anyone interested! Only word of advice I didn't mention - side quests are not worth bothering with at all lol. There are so many of them, mostly fetch quests or hunting stuff but most of them don't even reward exp and they just slow you down so much. I ignored them entirely after a chapter or two.
Nancyfly
2 years ago
Hopefully I can get around to playing more of it soon, sounds like it really picks up later on!