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Really excellent adventure throughout and a definite improvement over P4G. Namely the dungeon system is completely reworked and it's now actually fun to traverse the various Palaces instead of the mind-numbing random dungeons of previous games. Social links feel more impactful now, not only upgrading your Persona fusions, but also giving you additional abilities that help you during combat. My only major gripes is the final villain, Shido, is kinda lackluster. Like he's set up to be the evil force that orchestrated everything and then you blink and he's groveling in remorse. It's too quick of a turn around and it just left me unsatisfied. Speaking of story, Akechi's reveal was already spoiled for me but amazingly the game knew this would get spoiled so there is a second twist on the reveal that really makes me applaud the brilliant writing for anticipating the spoilers and delivering an even bigger twist. Overall, the game is really a huge step in evolving the Persona franchise and I can't wait to see what Atlus has cooking up next.

Reviewed on Jan 21, 2022


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