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Persona 5 suffers from the same problem as the last two Personas: it's too long. I'm someone who replays shmups and arcade games hundreds of times; you don't need a lengthy game to impress me. And with Persona 5, you could cut out the 30 hours of social link drama, the mementos grind, and palaces 5 and 6, and have a tight 50 hour experience that I would've enjoyed much more. Even good gameplay gets stale when I'm doing the same thing over and over, with no need to change my strategy, listening to the same battle tune for literally the 500th time. It doesn't stay fresh or interesting long enough to sustain such a long game, and the - essentially - visual novel half of the game plays out so slooooooowly that it brings down the rest of the game.

I'm 92 hours in, at (presumably - HOPEFULLY) the final dungeon, and I just want this to end so I can move on. Any interesting developments that occur at this point don't even matter to me; this was stuff that could've been happening 60 hours ago, instead of talking with Ann about how her rival model is jealous of her. Or how much Hifumi loves Shogi (Shogo? I can't remember what it's called. Japanese Chess). I'm playing purely because of how much time I invested; not because I'm excited to see how it ends. And honestly, short of everyone turning into Godzilla and brawling to the death, I don't see myself being wowed by any upcoming twists.

As for 7th Saga, that game was bullshit. How are you supposed to know that recruiting a partner, or grinding too much could actually fuck you over and make the game harder? And Silver Surfer? I love shmups, but I despise ones that require you to squeeze through tight areas of the environment. I want to dodge enemies and projectiles; not walls. Same reason why I never got into Gradius or R-Type, and why I hate Sine Mora.