Well since i’m using this site more, i thought i’d write a proper review.
i’m not gonna lie when i first started this game i really wasn’t feeling it. i didn’t have any issues with the tactics menu like most people, for my case, i feel like it was the unfair difficulty making it feel just unfun. i just felt like i hit a brick wall, not to mention failing to understand tartarus wasn’t doing the game any favors so i dropped it and went to play persona 4 instead. i beat 4, then i made the choice to revisit this game and i’m REALLY glad i did.
after i got my experience with persona 4, things just kinda clicked for me. tartarus started slowly becoming easier and after getting to around the middle of the game i was having fun overcoming the tartarus bosses since i actually was able to fuse more than adequate personas to deal with them. speaking of bosses, the full moon bosses were never an issue, in-fact i always looked forward to them. another thing i grew to love in this game was the soundtrack. i thought it was kinda boring at first, like i mentioned previously i looked forward to the full moon bosses not only they were fun but i think master of shadow is one of the best songs in the game. i’m not sure how to describe it but it was boring at first, like some of the songs sorta blended into each other? i guess that’s the best way i can really explain it. although the songs definitely started to ramp up in quality and grow on me thanks to changing seasons and especially to the songs that play during the final month of the game.
one thing that didn’t have to grow on me though was the characters and social links, i found them to be really interesting. side characters like akinari or kazushi were quite enjoyable, even the party members who didn’t have them still felt more than compelling with characters such as junpei or akihiko coming to mind immediately. i personally think the characters were handled amazingly in this game. the awakenings of each party member’s ultimate personas were nothing short of stellar. these awakenings has so much emotion and weight to them i cannot say how amazing they were enough. not a single one of them felt questionable or undeserved for their respective character. the answer gave these characters additional depth too, aigis is obvious but near the end of the answer, it felt like they were truly alive with conflicting ideals and motives to say the least without spoiling.
despite all of these high praises, this game has quite a lot of issues. the main thing everyone points out is the lack of controllable party members and while it is true that i didn’t bother me much since in this game the ai is built around it, you will still not get the accuracy and strategies will always be more limited and have more rng involved. another thing i mentioned at the beginning was saying that the tartarus bosses got more manageable and well by the later part of the game these tartarus bosses put me through the wringer. nearly all of the tartarus bosses by late game are actually miserable and not fair at all. these 2 problems only get worse when going through the answer, the bosses require so much coordination since they’re the worst of tartarus bosses having evasion moves of what they’re weak to with usually 2 or 3 more of the same style of foe that the poor tactics really start to show it’s cracks. a lot of these bosses are just tests of patience and will power i will not lie. i recall that i was fighting this one boss that had a move that my main character was weak to which did nearly no damage so yukari would heal me and since you have to spend a turn getting back up after you get knocked down, i was just in an infinite loop until that one attack missed. you can also not do any of the girl’s social links because all of them become romantic without any input or rejection from the player.
i don’t blame anyone if they really hate these issues so much. weirdly enough i found some sort of admiration to these soul crushing bosses from how difficult they were. there’s probably more but these are the ones that pop up in my head
this game is no where near perfect and again, i really can’t blame you if you don’t like this game but personally i think it’s phenomenal and very fulfilling when i finished both stories of this game, it’s almost bitter to let this game go after pouring so much time into it but everything has to come to an end at some point, and i’m glad it reached the goal.
i’m not gonna lie when i first started this game i really wasn’t feeling it. i didn’t have any issues with the tactics menu like most people, for my case, i feel like it was the unfair difficulty making it feel just unfun. i just felt like i hit a brick wall, not to mention failing to understand tartarus wasn’t doing the game any favors so i dropped it and went to play persona 4 instead. i beat 4, then i made the choice to revisit this game and i’m REALLY glad i did.
after i got my experience with persona 4, things just kinda clicked for me. tartarus started slowly becoming easier and after getting to around the middle of the game i was having fun overcoming the tartarus bosses since i actually was able to fuse more than adequate personas to deal with them. speaking of bosses, the full moon bosses were never an issue, in-fact i always looked forward to them. another thing i grew to love in this game was the soundtrack. i thought it was kinda boring at first, like i mentioned previously i looked forward to the full moon bosses not only they were fun but i think master of shadow is one of the best songs in the game. i’m not sure how to describe it but it was boring at first, like some of the songs sorta blended into each other? i guess that’s the best way i can really explain it. although the songs definitely started to ramp up in quality and grow on me thanks to changing seasons and especially to the songs that play during the final month of the game.
one thing that didn’t have to grow on me though was the characters and social links, i found them to be really interesting. side characters like akinari or kazushi were quite enjoyable, even the party members who didn’t have them still felt more than compelling with characters such as junpei or akihiko coming to mind immediately. i personally think the characters were handled amazingly in this game. the awakenings of each party member’s ultimate personas were nothing short of stellar. these awakenings has so much emotion and weight to them i cannot say how amazing they were enough. not a single one of them felt questionable or undeserved for their respective character. the answer gave these characters additional depth too, aigis is obvious but near the end of the answer, it felt like they were truly alive with conflicting ideals and motives to say the least without spoiling.
despite all of these high praises, this game has quite a lot of issues. the main thing everyone points out is the lack of controllable party members and while it is true that i didn’t bother me much since in this game the ai is built around it, you will still not get the accuracy and strategies will always be more limited and have more rng involved. another thing i mentioned at the beginning was saying that the tartarus bosses got more manageable and well by the later part of the game these tartarus bosses put me through the wringer. nearly all of the tartarus bosses by late game are actually miserable and not fair at all. these 2 problems only get worse when going through the answer, the bosses require so much coordination since they’re the worst of tartarus bosses having evasion moves of what they’re weak to with usually 2 or 3 more of the same style of foe that the poor tactics really start to show it’s cracks. a lot of these bosses are just tests of patience and will power i will not lie. i recall that i was fighting this one boss that had a move that my main character was weak to which did nearly no damage so yukari would heal me and since you have to spend a turn getting back up after you get knocked down, i was just in an infinite loop until that one attack missed. you can also not do any of the girl’s social links because all of them become romantic without any input or rejection from the player.
i don’t blame anyone if they really hate these issues so much. weirdly enough i found some sort of admiration to these soul crushing bosses from how difficult they were. there’s probably more but these are the ones that pop up in my head
this game is no where near perfect and again, i really can’t blame you if you don’t like this game but personally i think it’s phenomenal and very fulfilling when i finished both stories of this game, it’s almost bitter to let this game go after pouring so much time into it but everything has to come to an end at some point, and i’m glad it reached the goal.
Wemmy
7 months ago