Persona 5 Royal: Standard Edition - PlayStation 4

Very fun

El mejor juego de persona jamás creado

I loved how Persona 5 Royal on PS4 blends school life, deep story, and intense dungeon battles into one amazing game. The characters and relationships felt real and made me care about every decision I made. If you like story-driven RPGs with style and personality, this purchase was absolutely worth it.

Obrigado pela obra de arte, Atlus.

I rarely write game reviews but this one deserves some of my time. I never played the original P5 and I went into P5R extremely blind, having almost no concept of the story or even who made up the party cast, with only my enjoyment (mostly) of P4 (which I liked well enough, but did not love) and my friends' recommendations talking me into giving this one a try. I was blown away by how much this game took over my life. At a 105-hour playtime for my first go (with virtually no level-grinding) it definitely gave me my money's worth. I usually get pretty attached to JRPG characters, but I didn't expect to be as involved as I was with this cast. I went from hating some characters to absolutely adoring them by the time the game was over, and every character's side story had me itching to meet with them again and again to see what happened to them, always to the point that I wanted to go out of my way to help them (as you should, given the protagonist's goals and personality). The story is an extremely on-the-nose view of society at times, and it was riveting to see certain problems escalated on the supernatural scale. There were a couple scenes that felt unnecessary or dragged on too long, but that literally made up less than 2% of my runtime overall so I can't even fault it for that. Also, it should be worth noting that I am not good at strategy games and I usually don't like them, but the gameplay never felt unbalanced or too over-the-top challenging as SMT has come to be known for (with the exception of one boss, but a quick Google search assured me that everyone hates this boss and has issues with it and there were some helpful tips to get around it). As I mentioned above, I did almost no level-grinding, with my one exception being that I did so for a bit before trying the very first boss just in case (I was still scarred by getting absolutely flattened by vanilla P4 enemies in the past). But the game does a very good job of balancing fights in between scenes so that you don't have to go out of your way to power yourself up; as long as you don't just run past everything in a dungeon, chances are good you'll be at a comfortable level for each boss. I could go on all day about this game, but suffice to say I got a lot more out of it than what I was expecting. While I have nothing against P4, I thought P5 was an improvement on the series in every way, from the battle system to the social aspects to even just the likability of the main cast. The number of plot twists in this game is staggering, and the fact that they are all GOOD plot twists is even more amazing. TL;DR if you're waffling on trying this game and the points I made appeal to you, I say go for it, especially if it's on sale like it was when I lucked out and bought it. I would definitely recommend P5R over the original, also, given that a lot of the content I enjoyed most is only available in this version. And as a final side note, once I finished the game, I looked up the "censorship controversy" that a lot of these reviews ramble about... and please, pay them no attention. The scenes in question weren't even "censored," the translation was just changed slightly to have a more acceptable cultural annotation than what's considered okay in Japan. These kinds of changes are made to every single thing that gets translated into English, and they never get called out because they just don't matter (like this one). If you're honestly angry about that insignificant change, you're too sensitive to be giving your public opinion about anything.

One of the best modern day JRPGs. A huge upgrade from the base version of the game.