First of all - I fucking hate games that force you to do insane shit for the platinum. It’s just not cool. I mean yeah, I don’t have to do it, but why fuck players up by forcing them through meaningless and boring grinds. I spent so much time in this game, it feels insulting not being awarded a completion trophy. Anyway, fuck it.

Like a dragon is a cool game that I enjoyed most of the time while playing. I found Its writing okay-ish, often times terrible. But I guess it’s just the same old problem with j-games and me, I just don’t vibe with it too much. There is a lot I could find to shit on with the characters and the dialogue, but I just tried to look past all of that because I was expecting as much. And it worked for the most part, because the gameplay itself is very good. I loved the fighting mechanics, the variety of stuff to do in the city, especially some of the ‘mini’ games like the business management. But also here again: a common problem I have with a lot of these j-rpgs is, that for the amount of time they expect you to pour into its worlds, they usually just don’t stay fun for that long. It’s something I already said about persona, playing both of the games was cool for about 30-40 hours, but there is just not enough ‘good’ and new stuff to do to stay interesting past that, at least for me. Overall I did enjoy playing the game, or else I would have stopped way earlier I guess. But it’s the same realization over and over again, when I give these type of games a chance: it’s not made for people like me, but I’m happy there are many many others who enjoy the series as much.