Persona 5 Review

As of the 20th, Persona 5 went from exclusive, to available on PC. Once again bogged down in too many projects, I turn to doing another review, and upon a friend request making some predictions.

    P5 was beloved among the friends that had played the Persona series, and it is easy to see why. It has added a great number of quality of life improvements even as someone who has only played Persona 4. Including the story, unlike Persona 4, where you saved characters from a tv world, and let them join you shortly after. Many of your party members doubt you at first while sharing your secret goals. And often insert themselves into your party in their own ways, and with their own flaws. There are still secrets I look forward to unlocking about the world, if the game permits. I myself have sunk to trying to prove that these “phantom thieves” work towards justice in ways that others can’t, and long buried myself into the game as a result.

    I have yet to meet the girl I believe I’ll be trying to swoon in the shadow world, but it seems and sounds as though she is already there and often acting without us. There is also a far more manageable stat and gear system. While it is clearer where the story will go, it continues to surprise me with how it gets there, and why. Many of the character’s flaws add a sense of realism for me, and address a great deal of the psychology of the various types of human minds. I for one will be trying to finish it before anything else I want to play comes out, and hopefully it will not distract me from any further project. But during the stress of life retail work has put me under, a little escapism is probably a good thing.