SteamDeck then PC with mouse
6 hours (bad ending)

I want to tell everyone to play this game, but you are probably better off watching a video of someone else playing it.

Great setting, it's an atmospheric puzzle horror game with terrible controls. I started the game out on the SteamDeck and finished the first 2 chapters with it. On the 3rd chapter I had to switch to PC. I read other views that mouse is the best way to play this game. Mouse made it much easier to control but it still was frustrating at times.

For a game with bad controls, you need to have very good timing for certain puzzles. You'll die a lot in those parts. Some of the puzzles felt luck based, especially chapter 4's boss fight. Good thing for video recording and .25 playback speed. Even at .25 speed, it was hard.

Even with all those complaints the setting makes up for so much of it, which is why I said you're probably better off watching someone else play it. It's a great looking storybook game. I played The Liar Princess and the Blind Prince last year which I enjoyed a lot. I plan on checking out other games by Masayuki Furuya. I like his art style for games.

SteamDeck - 35 hours (True Ending)

3rd time is a charm. I started this twice (PS4 & Xbox) and liked the combat but dropped off due to the story. I recently got it for the Deck & finally finished it!

Probably the biggest surprise for me in this game is the story is actually good near the end of the bad ending & stays good for the true ending.

The stacking was a cool idea but later on gets annoying because putting in the wrong monster can make your stack prone to falling. I wanted to experiment more with monster combinations, but you felt punished for doing so.

Each monster has a skill board and I like those a lot but when you have that many monsters, you spend a lot of time unlocking a lot of pointless nodes.

I'm glad I finish beat it and got the true ending. I didn't do any of the extra dungeons that unlock after that because it was getting really grindy at the end and I read that is a ton of grinding for those dungeons.

P4G is a must play game for fans of turn-based RPGs. This year I decided to give Persona 4 another chance. I originally didn't care for P3 & P4 on the PS2, I was a big fan of Persona 1 & 2. I didn't like the social links but that changed with Persona 5. I know get it and like the system so I'm going back and playing the older ones. Persona games have great combat and stories and this one is no different.

I mainly played this on the SteamDeck and had no issues. I did play this on my desktop a few times and also had no issues with it.