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21. Persona 5 Strikers

Despite my prior statements in my 'Everhood' write-up concerning my lack of willingness to edit my work due to the extreme lengths I would go to in order to overcorrect myself, this is my second attempt at a write-up for 'Persona 5 Strikers' My first write-up spent a large amount of time building up to a statement I felt needed to be made about 'Persona 5 Strikers', concerning the fact that is a sequel which did not need to be made, and that its existence is a frustratingly poor example of the storytelling of the 'Persona' games and of the addictively fun combat of the 'Warriors' games. I realized, after spending a page and a half getting to this point, I could just say it in a single sentence and not waste everyones time as I told them they were bad people for enjoying a bad video game. Its okay. I have consistently been playing 'Overwatch' since 2016. I understand what its like to enjoy a bad video game.

It should be noted, however, that my statements of 'Persona 5 Strikers' being a bad video game arent entirely fair. For starters, every video game is bad because playing video games is inherently a poor character trait for one to have. Moving aside from that, I essentially went to the most absurd measures to ensure my time with 'Persona 5 Strikers' was a bad experience. I had just completed 'Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity', another grindy musou experience, when my brother asked if I would like to borrow his copy of 'Persona 5 Strikers' on the Nintendo Switch. I said, 'Yes, brother. I will borrow this from you and play it,' verbatim. 'Persona 5 Strikers' runs like ASS on the Nintendo Switch. Not the good ass some of my fellow gamer boys would like it to be, but the bony ass of a skeleton or something, I dont quite have a metaphor to utilize without inappropriately objectifying some aspect of a human being. Similarly, when I play video games on my Nintendo Switch, 95-100 percent of my gameplay is spent on handheld by choice. I dont like playing video games on a television or monitor because I am odd, so I will use handheld options as much as possible. 'Persona 5 Strikers' on the NIntendo Switch runs like ASS while undocked.

All this being said, can I truly blame 'Persona 5 Strikers' for being a bad game? 'Persona 5 Strikers' was a bad game in part due to me being a bad gamer. Would it have still been bad if I played it in October of 2021 on my PlayStation 5? Possibly, though the chances would be low. What is a factual assessment to make is that 'Persona 5 Strikers' would have been better as a turn-based role-playing game. Even barring the removal of distinct 'Persona' elements such as social links and social stats, 'Persona 5 Strikers' effort to adapt the brilliant Press Turn combat system, present in most modern 'Shin Megami Tensei' works, into a musou action system, was a poor decision for sure. I understand it may be controversial to say this, but musou games can be very tedious. I played 'Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity' for forty hours, then immediately played 'Persona 5 Strikers' for another forty hours. I do not want to play another musou game. However, at the time of this writing, I am currently playing 'Shin Megami Tensei V' and it is fantastic.

Story-wise, 'Persona 5 Strikers' is serviceable, but lame. It is no better than a high-effort fanfiction from a college freshman with above average intelligence and at least moderate depressive symptoms. I dont actually remember most of what occured in 'Persona 5 Strikers' as it did not do anything actually compelling with the plot and themes laid forward in 'Persona 5'. 'Persona 5 Strikers' is a sequel to 'Persona 5' which has worse gameplay, worse story, less-engaging mechanics, and was bad enough to be available on the Nintendo Switch. Utterly despicable.

Persona 5 Strikers Score: 2/6