A game about what happens when you watch too much [adult swim].
A solid JRPG at the end of the day. Was probably a mistake to play this right after Persona 5 Royal. Gameplay was definitely more basic by comparison, story is good but I don't know if I'd call it stronger. P5R benefitted from the life sim portion always keeping pace with when the action would start up again. P4G runs into pacing issues in the life sim part because it literally is structured without urgency much of the time. You'll beat a boss or a cutscene will happen and then it prompts you with "welp, guess we'll just have to wait and see until something happens again". Leaving you to just mindlessly get through days until said event occurs on whatever given date.
Unlike P5R the Velvet Room and Igor are just kinda...there? I did follow the romance path with Marie and it was interesting but it didn't amount to much in the main plot. I will admit I did get an "early bad ending", so I'll see if I can pick up at a reasonable point to see how and if Velvet Room stuff unfolds.
Also, lite homophobia/heteronormalization was an issue in P5R but I feel like it might be worse here? Kanji is closeted-coded and like it's cool that he gets to be a main protag in the group but the way everyone else always seems to make fun of him (for likely being gay) is kinda lame.
A solid JRPG at the end of the day. Was probably a mistake to play this right after Persona 5 Royal. Gameplay was definitely more basic by comparison, story is good but I don't know if I'd call it stronger. P5R benefitted from the life sim portion always keeping pace with when the action would start up again. P4G runs into pacing issues in the life sim part because it literally is structured without urgency much of the time. You'll beat a boss or a cutscene will happen and then it prompts you with "welp, guess we'll just have to wait and see until something happens again". Leaving you to just mindlessly get through days until said event occurs on whatever given date.
Unlike P5R the Velvet Room and Igor are just kinda...there? I did follow the romance path with Marie and it was interesting but it didn't amount to much in the main plot. I will admit I did get an "early bad ending", so I'll see if I can pick up at a reasonable point to see how and if Velvet Room stuff unfolds.
Also, lite homophobia/heteronormalization was an issue in P5R but I feel like it might be worse here? Kanji is closeted-coded and like it's cool that he gets to be a main protag in the group but the way everyone else always seems to make fun of him (for likely being gay) is kinda lame.