This review contains spoilers
second worst game i played in my life. it drove me to drink. really bad! ❤️
i find the investigation team to be an incredibly negative group when they're together. they truly bring out the worst in one another. i could write a book on yosuke. i can't even bring myself to dislike him, he's just such a complicated character for reasons that i think were both intentional and unintentional. but he definitely contributes massively to the overall bad vibe. teddie i have much less to say about. he sucks and i want to kill him with hammers. chie and yukiko started off really strong and then faded into the background after their shadows, which was disappointing. kanji was easily the funniest character but everyone was so mean to him. rise... sure was obsessed with the protagonist, i guess. and i don't want to talk about naoto right now it's kind of an uncomfortable topic for me. i also didn't really like the trajectories of many of their social links, with the only real exceptions being kanji and yosuke, but kanji's social link was also kind of boring.
the only thing about this game that i liked was adachi. i thought he was very well written and after this entire game and the way characters (mainly yosuke and teddie) talk, misogyny being treated like a serious problem with serious consequences was incredibly refreshing. there were also a few social links that i really liked (shu and naoki come to mind immediately)
also, the gameplay is boring and tedious. i vastly prefer a huge, segmented dungeon like tartarus and mementos, and the palaces in p5 that you do once and don't return to, to the tv world. appreciate the experiment and it worked out in the end because p5 has the best of both worlds, but grinding for quest items was seriously not fun. and yeah, don't do the quests if you don't enjoy it, but i didn't know if there would be consequences and i didn't want to have to play the game again. i did all the quests in p3p as well and they felt bad but not as bad. p3p also had a lot to love outside of gameplay and this game doesn't for me.
i find the investigation team to be an incredibly negative group when they're together. they truly bring out the worst in one another. i could write a book on yosuke. i can't even bring myself to dislike him, he's just such a complicated character for reasons that i think were both intentional and unintentional. but he definitely contributes massively to the overall bad vibe. teddie i have much less to say about. he sucks and i want to kill him with hammers. chie and yukiko started off really strong and then faded into the background after their shadows, which was disappointing. kanji was easily the funniest character but everyone was so mean to him. rise... sure was obsessed with the protagonist, i guess. and i don't want to talk about naoto right now it's kind of an uncomfortable topic for me. i also didn't really like the trajectories of many of their social links, with the only real exceptions being kanji and yosuke, but kanji's social link was also kind of boring.
the only thing about this game that i liked was adachi. i thought he was very well written and after this entire game and the way characters (mainly yosuke and teddie) talk, misogyny being treated like a serious problem with serious consequences was incredibly refreshing. there were also a few social links that i really liked (shu and naoki come to mind immediately)
also, the gameplay is boring and tedious. i vastly prefer a huge, segmented dungeon like tartarus and mementos, and the palaces in p5 that you do once and don't return to, to the tv world. appreciate the experiment and it worked out in the end because p5 has the best of both worlds, but grinding for quest items was seriously not fun. and yeah, don't do the quests if you don't enjoy it, but i didn't know if there would be consequences and i didn't want to have to play the game again. i did all the quests in p3p as well and they felt bad but not as bad. p3p also had a lot to love outside of gameplay and this game doesn't for me.