Persona 1 is notoriously incredibly stupid difficult so watch a let's play instead for that one.
As for P4 it's on Game Pass right now and P3 is getting a remaster that's coming out really soon and looks really good. So now would be a fantastic time to play through P4 before P3R comes out.
The most obvious criticism to make is towards the story, is blatantly dumbed down vs previous games. I will ignore that and judge it simply on its own merits. A quick disclaimer here though is that since I hate turn based combat, my bf was actually the one playing and I was just watching and talking about it.
However, I can't talk about bad things P5R does without discussing this first....
The game actively continues the dangerous notion that it's okay for adult women to prey on teen boys and it's disgusting. There is no justification for why they are constantly sexualizing the teacher in front of the kid and allowing you to date her. This genuinely needs the least amount of explanation, it's just gross.
Now onto the main issue I have.
The game is extremely inaccessible with its design and gives me and my bf massive headaches to look at for too long.
Before I delve deep into this it's worth noting that P5R did fix a lot of these issues actually. However, P5R is also an extremely overpriced DLC which is an entirely different matter.
The game has an extreme over reliance on movement in its UI making everything extremely hard to read or focus on. When you select a dialogue option, the background behind the text is moving. Characters names are obscured like a captcha in dialogue boxes (which move). When standing still in the overworld every icon on the screen is moving (most notably the weather icon is moving the most) Even when the game is paused the background is constantly moving. The worst offender for this is the dungeons which have a terrible warping effect on the side of the screen that cause really bad tunnel vision.
I spend a lot of my time when I do UX/UI design (I'm a front end developer) making sure my design is as accessible as possible. I am a big believer that video games can be art and are fantastic at it... but P5 felt like it was constantly fighting against having anyone play it by being the single most headache-inducing game I've ever experienced.
Anyway that's my big rant about how perpetuating harmful notions about allowing boys to be r*ped is bad and also a giant wall of text on how the UI is terrible and actively harms a portion of it's player base.
Anyway, I don't hate persona at all, just this one entry. I plan to watch the bf play P3R when it comes out cuz Persona 3 was fantastic and the remake looks like it's going to be good.
Admittedly, I don't have much to add but if you'd like to keep talking I have a LOT of opinions on Persona 5 because it's probably my least favorite game to come out in the last 10 years.
Something about turn based combat always makes me immediately turn a game off. I can do a turn based strategy with an entire board like BG3 but what Pokemon or most JRPGs do is simply unplayable to me.
I understand I'm not in the majority here but I just genuinely don't understand the appeal.
The default themes (both light and dark mode) are low contrast. I don't know why anyone would have gray text in light mode but they managed to mess that up.
The new update doesn't care about people with accessibility concerns. My fiancé can't use the official app at all because they changed the contrast to make it impossible to read no matter the theme. The best they can do is 3-5 minutes looking at the official app before they get a headache and have to stop using their phone.
This update is actively harming its users with no options to undo it.
One of the biggest downsides is visible. The color changes make the app unusable for some people and my fiancé had to stop entirely because it gave them a headache every time they tried it no matter what theme they used.
A big big problem is accessibility. The new themes are all worse for the eyes than the previous ones and there's been complaints of vision issues. My fiancé had to install a third party discord client because the actual discord one makes their head spin on every theme.
Also on a more personal note, I really hate that the dms are separated from the servers. My favorite aspect of discord is that knowledge transfers between platforms. It feels like I'm using discord and not discord mobile and then also discord desktop. Now it's all fucky and it took me like 5 minutes to figure out how to even see who was in the server (it's in the top left, the area furthest from the average person's reach).
It's also apparently really buggy and noticeably slower. Earlier I sent a pic into a server and it just silently sent to my most recent DM instead. After a search I found I'm not the only one that had.this happen either.
100% agree. I recently made a community for it actually since it's such a underrated gem!
!hoodwinked@lemmy.world