Press release (June 25, 2024) It is with a not particularly heavy heart that I announce the parting of ways between me and Persona 5 Royal. This is in accordance with the “It is Enough to Play A Little Bit of a Game” Policy that I adopted six years ago to preserve my sanity. I […]
By that I’m referring to Yaldabaoth or whatever he calls himself. The god of control that gave us the chance to recite the obligatory “mankind needs no gods” spiel before shooting him in the face with a bigger, badder god of our own. If I’ve learned anything from JRPGs, it’s that anything and everything is […]
Since my last post, I’ve been steadily plugging away at Persona 5 Royal and really enjoying the whole “actual game with a beginning and an end” thing. Unless the ending is dreadful, I’ll be quite sorry to see it go. In fact I’ve already added Persona 5 Strikers to my Nintendo wishlist, just waiting for […]
I’d forgotten how much fun it can be to play a JRPG with an actual start and finish. Persona 5 Royal‘s story is still immature, bordering on the ridiculous, but I keep reminding myself that they’re just kids and then it becomes slightly bearable. For example even a toddler knows better than to get into […]
15 hours of gameplay should be enough for an initial post. Though it’s more like 5 hours of the dungeon and 10 hours of visual novel hijinks, but the dungeon was really boring so I’m cool not having too much of it. I’ve finished the first, overly-long Kamoshida arc, now I’m into the second, also […]