Loved the game! Kinda sad its over and I didn't explore fusing high level personas more (my best persona being Thor). But man that game is longgggggg!! Don't think I'm ready for a 2nd playthrough. ‐---‐----‐-------------------------------------------------------------- My rpg background: played all Final Fantasy games. Started P5 about a year or two years ago by a recommendation. Put it down at the first palace because I just wasn't into it. Beat FF7R and I itched for a good ole jprg turn based battle. So, I started over from the beginning and decided I was going to finish the game. Plenty of time to play thanks to covid 19.

What I loved: love the art style! The different personas. Smooth mechanics. Everything works so smoothly and polished, even the loading. The theme and characters while not too crazily fantasized, is developed well, and believable. The awakenings are my favorite things to watch. I loved Makoto's even though I was annoyed by her pre-awakening. Akechi's final awakening is another good one.

This game was very long. By the 80 hr mark, I was ready to be done with the game. I think because of that I didn't explore fusing personas too much. Every battle with a different boss or higher level mob was a challenge because I was average level to average or below average skilled persona's. There were plenty times of losing progress because I died to a higher level mob deep in a dungeon. Damn those cheap killing skills. The worst was when fighting a grimhelka? also with a magic wall. I had no skills to take the wall off and I thought it stayed there permanently lol. I didn't cast anymore magic and physical attacks repelled so I just died. I finished the game clocked in at 110hrs but it was easily 120.

I fell for the first bad ending and my jaw dropped. I mean I suspected Akechi at the beginning but then somehow was charmed by him as a controllable character. I thought being honest with Sae would have helped because why else would she be a confidant.

I had no clue from shido's palace onwards interactions stopped. My characters stayed undergear and made the boss fights a challenge.