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P5R: finished!
Aug. 31st, 2022 01:55 amLet's see if I can make a post with an image on the phone...
Aug. 31st, 2022
Persona 5 Royal - finished!
Aug. 31st, 2022 08:22 pmYesterday I posted a screenshot from the Trophies screens for Persona 5 Royal. 100% complete, as far as trophies go at least[1]. I'm not sure I've ever done that with a game on the playstation!
This has been a long time coming. In Nov. 2016, which was about a million years ago, I pre-ordered 2 games: Mass Effect: Andromeda, and Persona 5. When they finally came in, I played the Mass Effect one first. And playing like once a week or so, I think it took me a year and a half to finish it. IIRC, towards the end I was drawing it out a bit, because it was pretty clear this game wouldn't be getting any story updates, and so this was the last Mass Effect series game for a long time.
I didn't want to start what I was pretty sure would be another long game at that point, so Persona 5 sat on the shelf. In fact, it sat there so long that at some point (2019) they released a major update to it, "Persona 5 Royal", which had updated mechanics, new characters, choice of English or Japanese voice acting (important!), and 30% more story. And I could get it for less than I'd paid for the original one, by the time I was looking. After a bit of hemming & hawing, I decided that if I was going to use my limited time to play this, I might as well play the best version, even if it seemed a bit ridiculous to have a completely unplayed copy of a game. So, I bought it. And then the new game sat on the shelf for a while longer...
I finished this in much less than a year and a half! That was largely due to concentrated effort to make it happen - hours per weekend, and playing on occasional work nights when we didn't have meetings, and then there was that time where Jen took the kids to visit cousins & Grandma for a week and I spent a good chunk of my non-work hours that week playing.
It was a lot of hours, but it was worth it. All the Persona games have a ton of style & great soundtracks, but of the 3 I've played[2], this was the best. Good characters, good story, good user interface & mechanics. If someone wanted to play any of them, this is definitely the one I'd recommend. And you don't have to spend as long as I did on it - at least, I'm mostly sure you don't. Based on the trophy completion %s, though, with something like 40% making it through the game to the end, I'm wondering if people who buy this are more likely to see it through? I'm sure there are studies out there tracking how many people drop off so many hours into a game based on that trophy data.
It looks like the game is on sale until Sept. 15th for $21 for the "Deluxe" edition. That's an excellent cost/value ratio.
[1] I have 100% of the playstation trophies. I had to go back after finishing the game in order to get 2 more, and judging by the numbers, it seems like most people miss these. I'll put a mention in the comments. But one thing I still need to figure out - in the built-in "browse through your game memories in the Thieves Den" mode, there are story videos it says I'm missing. Are those for the bad endings or choices I didn't make? I'll have to look about for this on youtube, I think. I should definitely not restart in New Game+ mode to see if I can catch them all ...
[2] I've played P3:FES, P4, and now P5R. I don't count 1 & 2 on the PSP because I didn't finish those, I don't think. Eventually I gave away the PSP and that entire game collection to someone who was coming in to do work on the house and made an admiring comment about the videogame collection in the basement, but that's another story.
This has been a long time coming. In Nov. 2016, which was about a million years ago, I pre-ordered 2 games: Mass Effect: Andromeda, and Persona 5. When they finally came in, I played the Mass Effect one first. And playing like once a week or so, I think it took me a year and a half to finish it. IIRC, towards the end I was drawing it out a bit, because it was pretty clear this game wouldn't be getting any story updates, and so this was the last Mass Effect series game for a long time.
I didn't want to start what I was pretty sure would be another long game at that point, so Persona 5 sat on the shelf. In fact, it sat there so long that at some point (2019) they released a major update to it, "Persona 5 Royal", which had updated mechanics, new characters, choice of English or Japanese voice acting (important!), and 30% more story. And I could get it for less than I'd paid for the original one, by the time I was looking. After a bit of hemming & hawing, I decided that if I was going to use my limited time to play this, I might as well play the best version, even if it seemed a bit ridiculous to have a completely unplayed copy of a game. So, I bought it. And then the new game sat on the shelf for a while longer...
I finished this in much less than a year and a half! That was largely due to concentrated effort to make it happen - hours per weekend, and playing on occasional work nights when we didn't have meetings, and then there was that time where Jen took the kids to visit cousins & Grandma for a week and I spent a good chunk of my non-work hours that week playing.
It was a lot of hours, but it was worth it. All the Persona games have a ton of style & great soundtracks, but of the 3 I've played[2], this was the best. Good characters, good story, good user interface & mechanics. If someone wanted to play any of them, this is definitely the one I'd recommend. And you don't have to spend as long as I did on it - at least, I'm mostly sure you don't. Based on the trophy completion %s, though, with something like 40% making it through the game to the end, I'm wondering if people who buy this are more likely to see it through? I'm sure there are studies out there tracking how many people drop off so many hours into a game based on that trophy data.
It looks like the game is on sale until Sept. 15th for $21 for the "Deluxe" edition. That's an excellent cost/value ratio.
[1] I have 100% of the playstation trophies. I had to go back after finishing the game in order to get 2 more, and judging by the numbers, it seems like most people miss these. I'll put a mention in the comments. But one thing I still need to figure out - in the built-in "browse through your game memories in the Thieves Den" mode, there are story videos it says I'm missing. Are those for the bad endings or choices I didn't make? I'll have to look about for this on youtube, I think. I should definitely not restart in New Game+ mode to see if I can catch them all ...
[2] I've played P3:FES, P4, and now P5R. I don't count 1 & 2 on the PSP because I didn't finish those, I don't think. Eventually I gave away the PSP and that entire game collection to someone who was coming in to do work on the house and made an admiring comment about the videogame collection in the basement, but that's another story.
Persona 5 Royal: the first 10 minutes
Aug. 31st, 2022 10:38 pmHere's the first 10 minutes of Persona 5 Royal. No spoilers here, it's literally the beginning of the game. Very, very in media res here - you start in the middle of some heist, with unknown people talking at you, and magical monsters, and a mix of anime cut-scenes and real gameplay (without all the various gameplay options, it's on rails).
Commentary in the comments.