CommanderMynas
2012
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Say what you want about this game and 5, but I really think this is where the series started to take a nosedive. It's just shitty teenagers being shitty for 90% of the game and then tries to be dark at the end when the entire mood for the game up until that point has been the equivalent of a lackadaisical Saturday morning cartoon. This is Persona at its worst.
A letdown compared to Innocent Sin. It's decent and is mandatory to complete Persona 2 but not nearly as good as its counterpart.
2020
Meh. I thought the combat in this game was mediocre compared to 2016 and didn't really like how much more hands-on the story felt.
2013
A stellar JRPG that I played so many years ago and still think about to this day. Octopath uses a lot of the battle mechanics from this game.
Goddamn masterpiece of the Persona series. No other game in the series gets even close to as good as the story of this game. The encounter rate is a little ridiculous but the story is fucking stellar.
2018
I really enjoyed this game and what it had to offer. I really liked how interchangeable everything was, from the classes to the subclasses to all the abilities. The character's stories wavered in quality, but I had fun with it.
I've played so much FATE in my life. I started with the original in like 2012 and I keep coming back to the series every now and then. This game does start you after the events of the first game, but it includes so much more content after that. Just a good dungeon crawler game if you're looking for something like that.
2010
Good game, if grindy. Haven't beaten it because it takes an exorbitant amount of time to do so.
Pretty good ARPG of the mid 2000s. It is a potion chugging simulator but I'm a sucker for historical fiction so I played a lot of this game.
1996
The HD mod does this game a massive service and is how everyone should play it. Besides that, just a good hack and slash from the 90s.
2016
It's fine. I might come back to it at some point but my main problem with this game was the dialogue was all over the place in terms of tone. It's goofy one moment and then some serious shit happens and it's like, okay?
I was also really easily able to break the game's combat by stacking a thorns effect to like 400% and just smiting anything that dared touch me.
I was also really easily able to break the game's combat by stacking a thorns effect to like 400% and just smiting anything that dared touch me.
2016
This game takes Titan Quest's formula and improves on it a lot. It is no longer a potion chugging simulator, and adds additional mechanics to combat, like the constellation system. Very enjoyable ARPG.
Very enjoyable, if very difficult. The light mechanic this game uses is unique but I feel like it's underutilized.
2019
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Vanilla P5 was the first Persona game I ever saw, and that introduced me to this series. Persona 5 has a lot of the same cringy flaws that Golden has, especially with the dialogue, but the Royal story is some of the best content the series has had to offer since Innocent Sin.
This is a different MH game than the rest of the series before it. Lots of changes to the fundamentals of weapons and combat (especially in Iceborne) make this entry feel alien to older players, but it's the one I started with and still play occasionally.