Random encounter works in 2D games when players already use their imagination to fill in the details. In full 3D games with controllable camera, it's hard to convince me that there's a gigantic monster between me and the chair five feet away from me. The encounter rate certainly didn't help either. Almost every SMT game depicts societies on the brink of collapse, this one has human beings virtually gone extinction already. Morality is a human construct. This game being so fixated on moral, but without a human society to act upon, seems to be a paradox created by the developer. Everyone I encountered in this game tried to tell me what is the "right way", but why should I care?