Gamer--freakz

Opening Songs
OP 1 - Re:re (Asian Kung-Fu Generation)

Ending Songs
ED 1 - That Was Like A Small Light (Sayuri)

Genre: Drama, Mystery

Episodes: 12



Widely regarded as one of the best shows of 2016, "Erased" certainly had a lot of hype to live up to when I was about to give it a go. While I'm mostly the type of guy that prefers action themed shows, "Erased" was one of the fewer shows that I watched despite it being...fairly slow to get going. It's surely a show that starts off strong and goes on a slower pace for the rest of its run time, its not something that you can take on in a single viewing. Still, for a show that centralizes itself around character development and character building, its certainly a very well done experience that few other shows can compete with. For that purpose alone, if you're looking for a show that's more about someone fixing their past mistakes and trying to make everything was wrong, right again, "Erased" is a perfect show for that feel. Just make sure to get comfortable, and prepare yourself for a slower paced experience (that not everyone might take a liking to).

Poor, precious little Hinazuki...

Oh man, I wish my mom looked like THAT when she's over 50.

Name: Protagonist
Class: Highlander
Traits: Very high burst damage, Elemental damage follow-up, Some support abilities
Rating: 9/10


For the most part of EOU's story run, you are really going to be relying quite hard on your protagonist to do the brunt of the damage. While the main story has 3 potentially powerful main damage dealers, the Highlander is easily your hardest hitter, and can be considered the main carry of the team for most of the game. Being a newly introduced class, the Highlander is capable of many things, but there's only one thing bringing him down: most of his abilities eat away at his HP. Much like the Dark Knight from "Final Fantasy" games, this guy sacrifices some HP to do some nasty damage. Luckily, that isn't enough to wear him down, the Highlander is easily my favorite class among the story party.


The Highlander's kit stands out quite a fair bit. He does have some support abilities going on for him in the form of Black Sabbath to heal the party, or Battle Instinct to prevent ailments, which is a godsend. He can also increase the team's elemental defense and their ailment success rate, but these are only icing on the cake: if you really want to maximize the Highlander, you'll be solely focusing on his offensive abilities. His most devastating and high damaging combination would be the Delayed Charge+Cross Charge duo, which does an epic amount of damage, especially when charged with Limitless and buffed with Bloody Offense, both of which are abilities that he can learn. Repeated casts of these 2 abilities as Simon tops you up with heals can very quickly ensue a boss's doom. There's also Spear Assist, which has the Highlander follow-up a powerful elemental attack with a team mate's elemental attack, much like a Land's chasing skills. Considering Frederica and Arthur, this is also a very reliable form of damage.






Name: Frederica Irving
Class: Gunner
Traits: Elemental damage, Binds, Minor Heals, Action Boost
Rating: 7/10


While the Gunner isn't as OP in EOU, Frederica is still a decent damage dealer for the team. While being a very squishy character that dies a lot even in the back line, she pulls her weight quite well with proper set-up. While her damage is fairly pitiful in the early segments of the game, with points into the proper abilities, you'll start to see her damage take off, especially with Arthur's Dilution doing work. Frederica specializes in doing elemental damage...mostly. She can do some physical damage, but in all honesty, she's quite pathetic in that regard with the Gunner's poor physical offensive move set. However, being a gunner, she does have a couple of things going for her which makes her shine.


She won't be hitting as hard as Arthur, but her Charged elemental shots can put in some work. Realistically, those will be your best chances to do some decent damage with Frederica, but since her defense is reduced and she will always go last before she fires, she definitely needs protection from Raquna while putting in work. By right, that isn't enough, so to cover for it, she can assist with binds when needed, and while its quite pitiful, she can heal on the field (though it's too poor to be used in a fight). Her shining star ability is going to be Action Boost, which is a bread and butter ability to pass on to other classes, since its THAT good. Being able to move multiple times is a godsend, and if this does proc, she is going to be hitting for insane amounts. Then again, its all RNG, so she only really works if she wants to. Still, she's going to be a source of damage either way.




Name: Simon Yorke
Class: Medic
Traits: Heals, Defensive Support
Rating: 9/10


Yeah, you're going to NEED Simon in this game. While his stats may not be perfect for being a Medic, you will still need his antics to survive. While the medic has remain mostly unchanged throughout the EO games, its still fairly apparent that you're going to need them to survive. Since he is pretty much our only source of healing in this game, Simon is a godsend. His role is pretty simple, he's here to keep the team on their feet. Healing, removing binds, status ailments....you name it. Sure, he can do some crazy stuff like poisoning or paralyzing enemies with low success rate, but most of the time, Simon will be too busy with making sure the team survives to even bother.


With the suicidal Highlander and 2 squishy characters in the back line, Simon's job as the healer in this game isn't an easy one. On expert (which is the only difficulty in this game IMO), most bosses can one shot Frederica and Arthur through Raquna's protection even at full HP, so Simon really has got to step up his game as the healer here. As usual, he's got the single target and full team heals. He can revive with...Revive, and remove status ailments with Refresh. Unbind removes binds, and Immunize increases elemental defense just in case Raquna can't use any of her Anti abilities. If you still need more, he's got CPR to ensure that the team has another chance of revival through RNG.


Name: Raquna Sheldon
Class: Protector
Traits: Team Defender, Elemental Defense, Minor Heals, Bravery's Gift
Rating: 8/10

Shoot, they really gimped up the protector for EOU. I never was a fan of Protectors since they did absolutely no damage, but with high DPS on your team, you can afford to take them along. I felt that the team in EOU was SLIGHTLY underwhelming, but Raquna will really save the team multiple times. If you look at it properly, the lineup in EOU other than Raquna is REALLY lacking in the tankiness department, which spells doom against bosses on expert. Being the Protector, her job is well, to protect the team, and as usual, she's got the tools for the job.


As usual, the Protector has basic defensive abilities to cover for the team like the all-important Front and Rear guard. The damage reduction is a must to sustain against most things on expert, and its what she will be doing most of the time against powerful enemies. Defender increases defense for 3 turns, further increasing survivability, and her elemental walls are an absolute godsend against elemental AOE killers, which many enemies pack, especially against the 3 dragons. She can heal, albeit its going to be meager compared to Simon, but hey, she can use it on the field. Honestly, that's all she's going to be doing in a boss fight, but then against the big boys, she can bust out Bravery's Gift, which has her increase her max HP and take hits for the whole team. This. Is. Broken. Considering how high her defenses are, she can easily tank hits for the entire team when you place her in the back line, which has GOT to be a design flaw. When you reach the late game, having Raquna on the back line spamming Bravery's Gift is honestly a little broken. Of course, make sure her hands aren't bound.





Name: Arthur Charles
Class: Alchemist
Traits: Elemental damage
Rating: 7/10


Arthur and Frederica fill up the secondary DPS slot in the team. If I had to choose one over the other, I'd say Arthur does more damage....consistently, anyway. When Frederica procs Action Boost, she obviously hits harder, but when we're taking the RNG factor out of the way, Arthur has it down. The Alchemist has always been the primary elemental damage dealer in the early EO games, and Arthur does just that. Whether you need to take out a singular enemy of a group of them, Arthur's formulas have got you covered. 


Don't expect much from Arthur in the early game, especially against regular mobs where his TP burns out WAY too fast. It's a little better against bosses where he can go all out, but there are many times in a normal expedition where you feel Arthur is dead weight because you don't want him wasting TP on small fry. Anyway, most bosses have elemental weaknesses, making Arthur worthwhile to have along. Especially against bosses with multiple parts, his AOE formulas tear through the enemies where the Highlander and Frederica are more of single target damage dealers. Especially when paired together with Analysis and Dilution, he is going to do some massive damage. Hell, Dilution even works great along with Frederica, seeing as she's primarily elemental damage.

Opening Songs
OP 1 - Naked Dive (Screen Mode)

Ending Songs
ED 1 - Innocence Always (Azusa Tadokoro)

Genre: Action, Comedy, Supernatural

Episodes: 13



Honestly this show should just be "The wonders of Kawakami Mai", because she is one of the sexiest anime girls I have seen in awhile. Anyway, one of the most popular shows of 2016, "Musaigen No Phantom World" (or for the sake on convenience for this post, just "Musaigen") is a simple action/comedy/harem combination that does its job well with a cast of likable characters, fan service and well, monsters. It's also made by Kyoto Animation, which is probably why so many people even gave a damn about "Musaigen" in the first place. The visuals are great, and are most definitely the show's selling point. But since the overall show itself is mostly about typical fan service anime harem tropes and little of anything that's really original, the only thing that REALLY stands out is basically KyotoAni's visuals, everything else is simply icing on the cake. Compared to many of KyotoAni's other works, "Musaigen" certainly isn't anything special. But for us harem fans, its still one of the better ones over the past few years, given the amount of detail and character put into it.

Look at the variety!

The opening theme is "Naked Dive" by Screen Mode, and honestly, I didn't expect such a kickass song from a band with a male singer to be used for such a fan serivce-y...happy go lucky show like "Musaigen". The song is high on energy levels and is surprisingly rocking some amazing beats, its surely an opening theme to get someone hyped up. The ending theme is "Innocence Always" by Azusa Tadokoro, the seiyuu for Ruru. Its a cute-sy song, and its a catchy one that fits for the ending theme. Otherwise, its rather generic and similar songs are always used for ending themes for typical harems.



Rating: 7.5/10



Its certainly one of the higher quality harems out there nowadays, which I can certainly appreciate. This is a more lighthearted series than most magic high school type harems, which I am completely fine with, though I do appreciate the more serious ones (Mahouka, Rakudai Kishi, Asterisk War) at times. "Musaigen" is a very simple minded show about a group of teens that hunt down phantoms, or simply put, monsters. Its a premise that's been done to death and I'm sure people expect something new, I'll tell you this: don't. "Musaigen" doesn't really do anything new, in fact, it hits most anime harem cliches and has some cheesy (but well done) fan service. Still, there's nothing wrong with playing it completely safe. While everything is average, ranging from the action, the story and its individual arcs, the characters are likable enough and KyotoAni's visuals certainly manage to pull the show up to more than serviceable standards. There's really none of the main cast that's not likable, everyone has their own level of charm, and that's pretty good in a show like this that depends heavily on its characters to sell.

The famed Mai Limbo scene!

In a world where phantoms inhabit every nook and cranny, its kind of difficult to not see these otherworldly creatures wandering around everywhere. Phantoms are created through the imaginative cognition of the human society, which caused them to multiply too much. Society for the most part has sort of come into acceptance of these phantoms, but every now and then, there are rogue phantoms that go crazy and try to do bad shit to the human realm. In comes the special people who can fight phantoms, and in this group of people is our hero Haruhiko Ichijo, a plain young man whose combat powers are minimal, but has the support of his senpai, Mai Kawakami, who is powerful at fighting these phantoms up front. The two belong to a school where students battling against phantoms are commonplace, and its there where the pair are considered one of the weakest phantom wrecking teams. Its up to Haruhiko to gather up comrades and brush up his skill to make the world a better place.


"Musaigen" ended off pretty well and even did well enough to spawn some OVA and special episodes. Its a good series that got the recognition it deserves, and I wouldn't mind a second season to expand further on its universe. Here's hoping that this is not the last we see of Haruhiko and his girls.

Opening Songs
OP 1 - Knew Day ([K]NoW_NAME)

Ending Songs
ED 1 - Harvest ([K]NoW_NAME)

Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

Episodes: 12



The anime world has been blessed with its fair share of alternate world/reality shows for the recent years, and it doesn't look like its stopping anytime soon. "Grimgar Of Fantasy And Ash", or "Grimgar" for short, joins that collection as one its stronger contenders. Honestly, it may not look amazing at first glance, but after watching so many of these alternate world shows, "Grimgar" is probably the only one that strikes such a dark and serious undertone that really outshines the other ones. It may not be as cheesy as "SAO", it may not be as mind f**king as "No Game No Game", it may not be as insane as "Re-Zero", but when it comes to understanding the value of human life, I'm sure "Grimgar" takes the cake. It feels as though the characters go through REAL shit in this one, and that is what makes "Grimgar" feels quite authentic. It stands among its popular peers as a great alternate world type anime that still has even more potential within it.

Even in our alternate worlds there are no shortage of cute girls.

Both theme songs are performed by [K]NoW_NAME (which is a god awful name to type out), and both are pretty good. The opening theme is "Knew Day", which sounds intriguing and badass enough for an opening theme. It also showcases the main characters really nicely and stylishly. The ending theme is "Harvest", which has a pretty catchy start, but starts to trail of into something generic. Its still quite good as ending theme, I'll give it that.



Rating: 8.0/10



I very much enjoyed "Grimgar" as a show. As I mentioned earlier, its feels like there's actually the risk of getting screwed out there. Our heroes are a ragtag group of rejects that simply can't catch a break. They're scared to leave the town to kill the weakest monsters, goblins, simply because they can't commit to murdering another life form, and of course, the goblins will hurt them as well. They DO have weapons on them. The characters coming into conflict with one another and struggling to figure out their ideals makes the whole show feel real. Also, the expression of pain, holy shit, you really get to see our heroes getting dragged around a lot. The show treats its characters differently, and since its very easy to get attached to the main cast due to some smart writing, every outing feels like it may be someone's last. The way "Grimgar" sets up its world is fantastic, and while I'll admit that the action scenes are average at best, its the world, writing and characters that ultimately set it up to be an enjoyable, bittersweet experience.

Ah, only in Grimgar. You need an entire party to take out a single f**king goblin.

Haruhiko is a young man that lives in the fantasy world of Grimgar, where everyone is an adventurer with a class, skills and weapons of their own. Thing is, Haruhiko has no idea how he got whisked away to this world, or where he was originally from, similarly to all the others that were brought to Grimgar along with him. The group of people eventually split themselves after arriving at Grimgar, with a majority of them following a strong leader figure, Renji, who only picked the strong looking ones for himself, leaving the rest to rot. Haruhiko was among this group, and together they banded together to form a party. Haruhiko the Thief, Ranta the Dark Knight, Yume the Archer, Shihoru the mage, Moguzo the warrior and Manato the priest, the 6 started life together as a washed up party of sorts. They struggle each day to earn their daily keep as they are unable to efficiently kill goblins, the weakest monsters on Grimgar, because of their moral issues. And thus begins the rough life of our 6 heroes as they work hard towards becoming a party that can survive the cruel world of Grimgar.


With the way the show ended, there was quite a lot that was left unexplored. The show itself is great, and it certainly ended well. Hopefully there's more "Grimgar" to come, because I'm interested to see how far our heroes can go. It'll probably be a rocky road, but I'm sure its going to be one worth following.

Gamespot Score: 9.0 (Superb)

My Score: 10


(+) Pros: - Brilliant story and cast of characters, -Extremely stylish and visually impressive, - Excellent world and real life sim mechanics, - Dungeon crawling is easily the best in the series so far, - Soundtrack is oozing with style and delight, - Addictive combat and persona management, - Confidants (Social Links) feel a lot more useful and rewarding now, - Tons of worthwhile content in the game.

(-) Cons: - Very minor issues, basically nitpicking (mostly on the camera and controls during dungeons).


Game Play time: 110 hours and still going strong

No, I haven't kicked the bucket on this blog just yet. If you need an excuse for my absence, blame it on this game. Seriously ever since its release, I simply COULD NOT take my hands away from this game. The moment I get home from work, I release myself from the clutches of reality and simply delve myself into the wonders of "Persona 5". Despite having myself go at the game for hours and hours on end for the past few weeks, this game still has me HOOKED to no end. I'll be perfectly honest, I'm well on my 2nd playthrough and I still feel like I haven't had enough of this game, but I'll just put this up here.


This is now my favorite video game of all time, surpassing "The World Ends With You" and even "Final Fantasy VII". It's just THAT good, I'm seriously surprised that Atlus didn't disappoint with "Persona 5", and even managed to deliver FAR beyond everybody's expectations.


This game is RAVING right now, scoring minimum scores of 9 all over game critic sites. It simply improves from P3 and P4 on so many levels, making it an almost completely new, yet incredibly familiar game to play. "Persona 5" is most definitely a shining example on how to develop a sequel without completely ruining it. "Persona 5" is now the hallmark and perfect example on how to make a JRPG, there is simply no game in the genre right now that has it beat in my opinion. I usually wait on games before giving my opinion on them so that I can get to the older games on my list, but screw that, we simply HAVE to talk about this game RIGHT THE F**K NOW!!

Introducing: The Phantom Thieves.

In "Persona 5", you once again play as a high school student transferred into unfamiliar territory. The game starts you off in a prologue sequence where you play as a thief of sorts, code-named Joker, You seemingly escape from a casino with guards chasing you, and in the end, you are caught by the police and brought to an interrogation room. You are then interrogated by a prosecutor named Sae Niijima, who states that you were "Sold out" by one of your friends. You then recall all of the events prior to your capture, which starts in April of the same year, where you just arrived in Tokyo. You were transferred into Tokyo by the police form your hometown after you attained a criminal record for assaulting a man of sorts. Of course, its all corrupt bullshit, because you were helping a woman as she was being assaulted by a man. The man fell on his own and hurt himself, but sued you anyway, which got you your record as you were sent to Tokyo on probation under the guidance of a Cafe owner, Sojiro Sakura. And so begins your new life in Tokyo branded as a criminal, only there's a twist. Your main character is invited to the Velvet room one night, and is forced to form a contract with a certain long nosed man and his attendants...

Welcome to Tokyo country boy.

"Persona 5" does so many things right and builds upon the current "Persona" formula in so many ways, making it a massive step up above the previous games. As usual, the game is split into many phases and takes place over the course of the 1 year that your main character has when he is thrown into Tokyo. You progress through the days with a mixture of story scenes, free time, dungeon crawling...and deadlines, of course. Your team of super-powered teenagers have the ability to invade the meta-verse as special individuals known as the Phantom Thieves, which summon personas and use their insane strenght to plow through personas. Following the pattern of "Persona 4", your team goes to school in the morning, goes super power dunking in the afternoon after school, then retires to their homes during the night. It sounds simple, but of course, like previous games, there is a metric WEALTH of content that you can explore in "Persona 5".


Let's start with the daily life aspect. As usual, you are plunged into the world of modern day Tokyo as a high school student. You go to school in the morning, you get picked on by teachers in class to answer their questions, you peek at your cell phone during class to listen in and answer instant messages like a bad kid. Then during the afternoon after school, you get to choose between PLENTY of daily activities. As usual, your main character is presented with a grid of his statistics that he can build upon. This time (like "Persona 4"), your dude has 5 stats to build upon, Knowledge, Guts, Charm, Kindness and Proficiency. Same with the previous games, these affect a lot on your daily life, and you'll need to keep these as high as possible if you want to do certain things or hang out with certain people. 

Once again, we have a female team mates with the Lovers arcana...

So you can do the usual meat of the "Persona" game's free time sessions: hanging out with friends...or building up your social links. In "Persona 5", due to how Igor, your long nosed friend in the Velvet room names them, your friends are called "Confidants", and hoo boy, do they go all out on these guys. As with previous games, your confidants all have their own little story to tell that's completely outside of the game's main story lines, they are people with stories to tell and for yourself to get invested in. Spending time and deepening your bonds with your confidants grant you more powerful Personas when you fuse them in the Velvet room....that's how things would have worked before, but in "Persona 5", your confidants are A LOT more useful this time around. Instead of just simply power boosts for fusing Personas, your confidants now have extra bonuses everything you rank up their confidant level, these bonuses vary depending on the person in question.


Your personal team mates will grow more attached to you and assist you in many ways in battle when you up their confidant ranks, these include baton-passes, following up your attacks in battle without eating up a turn, helping you recover from status ailments automatically, or even going as far as to take a fatal hit in your place during a fight. Those outside of your team benefit you differently, your doctor will sell you better meds that you can use in the Meta-verse for healing, your gun shop owner sells you better stuff for cheap, and even helps customize your weapons. Your teacher let's you skip classes, a former politician will give you better speech options when negotiating, a shogi player gives you more tactics options...so on and so forth. Your confidants feel so much more USEFUL now, being more than just simple power-ups when you're gathering Personas.

DESTROY THEM ALL!

Alrighty then! Now, the protagonist and his friends are faced with...some difficult situations in their lives, especially shitty since it concerns some really crappy adults. Since taking them down in real life would not only spell trouble when it comes to the law and their well beings, they have to do something in the other world...the Meta-verse. During the after school hours, you can take your friends to the Meta-Verse to attack the heart of a certain corrupt individual. Someone in the real world with a distorted heart (this usually means assholes) will have palace in the Meta-verse, which takes forms from their twisted desires. By stealing the treasure from each palace, the person in real life undergoes a change of heart, making them into a somewhat "good" person. Our heroes go into this world as phantom thieves to do so. Things aren't as easy as simply walking in to take a treasure though, each palace is filled to the brim with shadows and traps depending on the palace. A castle dungeon has you looking for books and running on castle walls. A museum dungeon has you leap into paintings, a bank has security cameras and guard dogs...each dungeon is SO unique unlike in previous games, giving each new palace a fresh experience for players to play through.


Shadows now take the form of Personas, which is a much different take from before. Of course, the combat in "Persona 5" is similar to that of previous games and most games from the SMT franchise. You either attack normally, or attack an enemy with a Persona ability. Oh, they also managed to fit guns in this time around, another neat little aspect from other SMT games that finally manages to sneak its way into "Persona". Hitting enemies with abilities that they are weak to will put them into a downed state, decreasing their defenses and giving the attacker 1 more turn to act. Unlike before though, in "Persona 5" you get to do a baton pass during "1 more", allowing the user to pass his extra turn to another party member, giving them increased attack and recovery. This allows for more strategic battles and efficient weakness proc-ing on the enemy. Of course, when you manage to send all enemies into a downed state, you can trigger the new and improved, all-so orgasmic "All-Out Attack", which has your team decimate the enemies with a flurry of stylish strikes.

Now that is one nasty looking fella!

Another new aspect in "Persona 5" that brings its combat up to par with that of many SMT games is the negotiation system. Now that your enemies are finally personas themselves, you can sucker them into joining your team, just like how your negotiate with demons in SMT games. After knocking all enemies down, before unleashing an "All-Out Attack", you'll go into "Hold Up", which is the segment where you can decide what to do with your now weakened enemies. You can either finish them off with AoA, or negotiate with them. As with most SMT games, your options are to either ask them to join you, extort money from them, or ask them for an item. You will then be presented with the classic choices and questions from personas (or demons) of many different personalities, in which you must answer correctly to gain their favor. 


As usual, as the end of all palaces lie a boss, which is usually the shadow version of the palace owner in real life. Bosses are again, a highlight in "Persona 5", all of which are fun, bring their own battle mechanics and sport a kickass battle team. Oh yes, Shoji Meguro killed it again, the music in "Persona 5" is f**king excellent. I don't know how he managed to do it, but he topped the music in both "Persona 3 & 4", making some of the best sounding themes in the franchise yet...hell, I'd go as far as to say it's some of the best in the JRPG market. Remember how I mentioned dead lines? As with previous games (once again), you are given a certain time frame to clear a palace before the game comes to an abrupt bad end, so do take note of that. Outside of palaces, there is also a random generated floor dungeon like Tartarus in the Mementos, which is basically the Tokyo Subway in the Meta-Verse that's filled with Shadows. You can go there during free time periods to take requests from the general public and purge the shadow version of small time crooks within the Mementos.

You can do a 50:50, you can ask the audience, or you can call a friend. Well, what's it going to be?

I haven't even covered EVERYTHING about the game, there's just TOO freaking much in here! The menus are stylish as f**k, it almost feels like there's some anime explosion every time you click a freaking button. During dungeons, they've added some stealth cover mechanics to make the game more fitting towards the whole "Phantom Thief" theme. Getting spotted will raise an alarm meter, which makes the palace owner's awareness increase, having the meter go too high will automatically boot you out of the palace as the security is too high at that point. There are even fusion alternatives in here for the Velvet room! Besides just doing the 1 on 1 fusion and the multiple persona fusions, there are new features in the Velvet room like turning a persona into an item (which can net you FANTASTIC results), putting a Persona into lock down so that you can level it up WITHOUT actually using it, or even sacrificing a Persona to power up ANOTHER Persona. 


There are a wealth of activities during free time periods, including renting and watching DVDs, going batting in batting cages, working part time at various job locales, eating at the local burger joint to take their burger challenge, buying books to read during train rides, visiting maid cafes, going fishing, hitting the gym, doing your laundry, studying at the diner....dude, the list goes ON and ON. Since this IS Tokyo we're talking about, the free time possibilities do seem somewhat endless, its insane, really. You can invite your friends to various locales in Tokyo, you can play freaking video games in your video game! There's so much to do that I even missed out some of the activities in the game during my first play through.

Me too friend, me too.

Now I gave this game a 10/10, but there are some issues in here, though they are very minor...and it's basically me nitpicking. For one, this game looks like it has been in development for a LONG time, so there are some assets that look somewhat out dated. The graphics and visuals are sometimes amazing, but if you look closely, some textures are pretty bad. Also, the dungeon's cover mechanics are really iffy, when you're trying to ambush a shadow from behind cover, you will need to shift yourself to a very specific angle before you can even strike them. You will fiddle yourself so much that you may very easily shift yourself out of cover, only to get yourself spotted. The game is also a little bit on the easy side, at least on Normal difficulty, which is surprising to me considering how much "Persona 4" used to kick my ass back in the day.


"Persona 5" is the pinnacle of JRPGs in this modern age. I honestly thought that the JRPG genre was starting to disappoint me as of late, which is very disheartening considering that it's my favorite genre. "Persona 5" just re-invigorated me to no end. After 2 runs I'm content to put this down so that I can pick it up again in the future. "Persona 5" is the best "Persona" game to date, and is currently favorite video game of all time. I eagerly await for the future of the series, and to be honest, I'm scared. How the hell is Atlus going to top "Persona 5" with future installments? I guess only time will tell. Now let us welcome the endless amount of spin-offs that "Persona 5" will spawn, considering it's overwhelming popularity, I can assure you, they're going to come.