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saspa posted...

Damn you beat a game that took me 4 months to beat in just 2 weeks? You musta been straight rushin hehe. Really liked that game. I found out that everything I loved about this game (at least gameplay wise) was a Royal addition, so I honestly don't even know how vanilla P5 was playable. I never got to play vanilla P5, it was sitting in my backlog for years and then Royal came out so I got that instead to play. Everything I loved about Royal wasn't in the original game, to the point where my perception of things is completely changed (eg I learned that everyone whines about Morgana telling you to go to bed, something I didn't even notice and thought weird that others did and harped on)

One thing I will say is that I liked vanilla P5's ending more than Royal. Disliked Royal's ending and really the entire Royal portion/premise, plus I've never been particularly crazy about Akechi at all. In fact, I- oh you haven't played the previous Persona games? Never mind.

I've noticed this being pretty common, people starting with P5 and going backwards, not starting with P3 and 4? Wonder why.

Overall, I like Persona 5 Royal gameplay with Persona 5 vanilla story.

It's funny, I had a similar moment afterwards when I was looking over the differences. Especially the stuff like Gun ammo reloading, showtimes, and Baton pass/technical levels, which to me were some of the most enjoyable aspects of combat. Tons of QoL fixes that I really couldn't imagine being without.

I did wind up going and watching the P5 vanilla ending and I see where you're coming from there as well. I enjoyed Royal's added arc(especially the music.), but feel it's slightly redundant given the arc it followed. Nothing to be done there though, can't restructure the whole story.