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Bonus: Persona 5 Royal Deluxe

I was pretty lazy when gathering entries for this list, and I know that I probably overlooked a few things. There's some other Genesis titles that I played and dropped quickly, or other games that I started near the end of the year and I know I'm going to continue them in 2023. However, with regards to P5R, I literally just forgot that I played it in Early 2022 and not Late 2021.

I did not finish this game yet. I think I was about halfway through it. Maybe a bit earlier than the halfway point. This game has a lot of things going for it, things I really enjoyed which actually made me want to take an even deeper look into the Persona series as a whole. But it also has other aspects that can definitely wear down a person with my mentality.

The battle system is interesting, but after I fought a certain number of battles it started to feel like the novelty of doing the same thing over and over again was wearing off. Additionally, while I like the narrative structure of how the story is presented, with the calendar always moving forward, it started to feel like more work and less play to try and manage my time efficiently and plan out everything I was going to do. This is exacerbated by the fact that there are SO MANY events and conditional things you can only do on specific days of the week, or stop being available on certain dates, and there's no way of knowing this information without looking up a guide.

The solution would obviously be to not care about that stuff and simply play the game but... I don't know if it's that easy for me to do that. I didn't want to follow a guide that just tells me what to do every day, but I did want to look up information about things like when certain characters stop being available, or things that can only be done on certain dates, and plan my activity around that. As a result I would sometimes spend an HOUR getting ready to play the game before actually playing it.

Without a doubt, these factors contributed to me eventually putting the game on indefinite hold. I want to finish it in 2023 but we will see what happens. I went most of 2022 without picking the game back up, and I even had let it slip my mind when making this list.

Ultimately I'd probably still rank it in the #10 to #14 range if it had been on this list. I don't really finish that many games, something that will be seen when I post all of my stats at the end, and typically I simply rate things based on how much fun I had with them while I was still playing it. As soon as I stop having fun, I will typically put a game down. This is also why if I do complete something it usually means I think very highly of it.

Anyway, I'll write something about the #1 rated game that I played in 2022 tomorrow... and then some fun stats, I guess.