Gaming in 2023 peaks here, nothing is ever gonna top Hi Fi Rush and it's only January.

Honestly I wasn't actually excited for much coming out this year outside of two other games but then this got released and I bought it day one due to loving it's style and lemme tell you this is the best $30 I've ever spent.

So many options to customize the experience to your skill level, charming characters (Peppermint is my favorite), fluid and fast combo action gameplay, and an excellent use of music to make the experience even better. Absolutely in love with this game, please go buy it!

I recognize that this version of Persona 3 is very hit or miss with a lot of people, while it does add new Social Links and the ability to control your party members alongside a new protagonist option, it also has additions that frustrate some such as the ability to save a certain party member who dies during the plot of the game. With all that said, P3P remains my favorite version of Persona 3, it's one of the most important games I've played personally and I will always recommend people play this version if asked which I recommend.

It may not be "perfect", but it's perfect to me.

A desolate place
Without any trace
It's only the cold wind I feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeel
It's me that I spite as I stand up and fight
The only thing I know for real

THERE WILL BE BLOOD
SHED
THE MAN IN THE MIRROR NODS HIS HEAD
THE ONLY ONE
LEFT
WILL RIDE UPON THE DRAGON'S BACK
BECAUSE THE MOUNTAINS DON'T GIVE BACK WHAT THEY TAKE

THERE WILL BE BLOOD
SHED
IT'S THE ONLY THING I'VE EVER KNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWN!!!

This game is just awful.

Both Shaggy and Scooby feel stiff and sluggish to control, aiming the pies is a chore because the aiming reticle doesn't accurately represent where your pie will go once thrown, platforming is almost never enjoyable due to the previously mentioned stiffness, and all the bosses are either boring or frustrating with no in-between.

The final boss against the Phantom Virus also feels borderline impossible because the perspective makes dodging him impossible and due to the previously mentioned aiming issue, hitting him when you get your chance to attack.

I hate this game and the only Scooby game (that I've played) as bad as this one is Mystery Mayhem.

It's awful and I hate that fact given how much I love the source material.

Everything I liked about 2002's Golden Wind is absent from this game, replaced with more awkward, clunky, and frustrating alternatives.

Even after unlocking Hamon abilities, which does make the combat less frustrating, the game then decides to find new ways to annoy and frustrate because apparently fun wasn't the goal here.