Persona 5 Tactica | Is It Worth It? First Impressions after 15 hours

[@HallowedBeThyGame]

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[@sikevillain]

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[@HallowedBeThyGame]

Dang that’s so kind of you! Thanks for all the support! Hope you have a wonderful week!

[@storm2156]

Definitely plan on getting this game in the future. Overwhelmed right now with how many great games came out right now and a bit strapped for cash with Xmas coming. Hopefully by the time my backlog clears up a bit this will go down in price a bit and I'll get it. Really love the detailed maps you showcased and the real sense of verticality and how it is utilized with attacks. While I'm not a huge tactical RPG fan, I can't think of a game that has done it better than this presentation wise.

[@femtrooper]

Great review! I'm really excited to get this game! On my Christmas list!!! It looks so cute and charming.

[@vandalg282]

"The musics slaps"...most biggest understatement ever made.

[@gunvolt6088]

P5T is really fun and challenging me and my brother love the story and the new add-ons u can get and make all new and old personas.

[@DanofWar101]

Nice review! This is already on my wishlist and I will eventually get it, being a tactical rpg fan and a P5 fan as well! I still need to play Strikers though! Great video and keep up the good work!

[@HallowedBeThyGame]

Thanks so much man! I’d love to hear what ya think of it when you get to it, I think for Persona 5 fans there’s a lot of fun to be had for sure even on top of the incredibly fun combat. Thanks for the encouragement and hope you have an amazing week!!!

[@austinsheehan3994]

P5T is one of my favourite games of the year! I do think there's a couple of areas where Atlus could have improved it (storywise, and by introducing some of the characters and their personas for half the target audience). I do like the Demon fusion as well from the oldschool SMT games. But the gameplay is what makes it. It is a TTRPG but has a lot of quirks (the one more, all-out attack etc) which makes it very accessible for players who don't usually go for that genre. The art style is very divisive - personally I love it (and don't think the P5 characters have ever looked better) but others hate it.

[@arlonborges]

Seeing this video and your comments made me decide to get this one. I was really on the fence, as I was thinking what could this add to the P5 universe.. but this game really have me the vibes from Mario + Rabbids, which I liked a lot, so I am definetely getting this one.

[@HallowedBeThyGame]

Hope you enjoy!

[@ophidianmind333]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this game, I plan on picking it up soon and I really look forward to playing it. I'm waiting until I finish a couple of playthroughs of retro games for review first because I know that I will otherwise just be playing this game and ignoring all others for a while. 😆

[@HallowedBeThyGame]

Haha I definitely know what ya mean there. Atlus games are an event that I don’t ever want to rush through and just take my time to enjoy. Psyched to see what you review next!

[@danbooke2001]

My copy on Xbox has been on backorder from Target for weeks now. They just changed the delivery date again to December 15th. I do have GamePass and can play it there, but I have so many other games there and in my backlog to play. I just bought it because I lnew it would have a low print run on Xbox to begin with (just look up how much Persona 5 Royal with the day one steel book is going for). Anyway, I know a lot are disappointed in this title, but I think that's because we're starting to see Persona 5 fatigue now. We want Persona 6 already...

[@Flaris]

I'm looking forward to playing it when I can. Right now still pressing onward in the Tales of Arise dlc and it is getting close to the Christmas season so I'm more focused on gifts for others and not quite as many for me. But I'll probably dive right in after Christmas. I'm all for some tactical fun.

[@jamesondiskin]

Having 100%ed the game and done the DLC, it's pretty good. Enjoyed my time, story definitely gets better towards the end and the gameplay was fun. Most underwhelming part of the game for me was the difficulty. I played it on Merciless difficulty and really only the second boss gave me any trouble. The story also spoils some part of Persona 5, so it's definitely for fans of the original game, but I suppose Tactics fans who don't feel like playing a 100 hour JRPG would get some enjoyment. The DLC is not worth the $20 though. The story is mediocre, and really only enjoyable because it has more Akechi and Kasumi appearances. Also yeah, the Steam Deck works beautifully for this game. If you're curious, a blind Merciless playthrough took ~44 with grinding to max level (no DLC stuff used), a second playthrough on Safety (to get NG+ Personas for the compendium, and grinding to level 96) took seven hours mainly due to waiting on enemy turns and skipping cutscenes, and the DLC took 4 on Merciless.

[@klocks2543]

Tactics games were my first JRPG love, I love P5, just not a huge fan of chibi styles. It looks like a lot of fun though! Not sure when I’ll get around to it, maybe after P3Reload and whenever P4G physical from Limited Run shows up. That’ll be a good year’s time XD

[@kirindas4691]

I'm interested in the game and planning to grab it down the line. I just finished Super Mario RPG and want to work through Star Ocean 2nd Story R right now.

[@HallowedBeThyGame]

That’s awesome! Congrats!

[@ricardogallegos4213]

I picked up the game on release but haven't had the time to play it yet, dang queue 😅

[@mona8230]

looks to me like a mixture of Xcom and Persona Q which I'm all for, but I won't buy it until is on sale, I think it will have a similar situation as Strikers on the switch, which is on sale pretty regularly

[@therealjaystone2344]

DDS too

[@zg-it]

As a Game Pass subscriber who has game pass on four systems across three families on one account. Yes it's definitely worth it LOL. If my nephew's playing madden, I just play my switch. When I was a kid we used to all fight over one system. Oh how things have changed

[@alejandrosunshadow6041]

I was on the edge, but i finally bought it... and I'm enjoying it a lot. It's basically a mario+rabbids game, but a bit worst (than the original at least). I'm 10 hours in and... i reccomend starting it in max difficulty xd. I'm not usually too good with trpg, but i started at max because you can change it at any point without penalty... just to found the game stupidily easy xd. It seems a pretty easy game, but in the good sense, offering variety to sittuations, making you think (not easy in the way "we think you are stupid"). Of course, i think towards the end game that will change. But i reccomend starting in it because the AI of the enemies seems to change, and it's easy to learn the game mechanics if you make your enemies use them too (which seems to be dissabled in lesser dificulty options)

[@jadl3278]

Just got it today. But my backlog is gigantic, lol. So won't get to it for some time.

[@OtakuDono]

I love SRPGs, and I love the Persona series, so I was really hoping to get P5T, but sadly it prohibitively expensive on my region. They took away our currency from steam and replaced it with USDs (and their pricing in most cases, especially AAAs). Welp, at least now that we have this game on Steam (and the Etrian Odyssey games) it gives me hope that they will port the Persona Q games... even if I can't get any of them. orz

[@HallowedBeThyGame]

Gosh that’s terrible 😢

[@OtakuDono]

​@@HallowedBeThyGame Indeed, and that is not even the end of it. We have to pay 155%+ of taxes on top of the price of the game. Let's say I want to buy a 50 USD game... I would have to pay around 50k ARS. The basic salary here is 143k give or take... but the cost of living is way more than that. You do the math. lol

[@rendelldraw]

It's on Xbox Game Pass which currently has a 1$ 14-day trial. I just reached the 3rd kingdom but couldn't bring myself to continue playing because I expected more from it gameplay-wise. It's not worth the price. The mechanics are too shallow compared to other SRPGs. I felt like playing a mobile phone game.

[@HallowedBeThyGame]

@@rendelldraw 🤣 if that srpg isn’t Devil Survivor then this statement is way overblown

[@NerdCrave]

im absolutely over the moon for the art style, but the whole tactics thing turns me off. aside from fire emblem echoes and jeanne d’arc i cant really think of many tactics srpg style games ive liked

[@therealjaystone2344]

Three Houses you are missing out on

[@NightFire2100]

I'm torn on what platform to get this on...switch seems like a no brainer, but I don't get as much Switch time with the kids playing that as well... looks like it'll be a PC purchase for me

[@HallowedBeThyGame]

Haha now that I understand lol. My son has mine till it’s late lol 😂

[@popsgarcia2859]

I dont like the side quest structure "beat in one turn" and at least let us use four party members..

[@deatho0ne587]

This and the Mario S"RPG" are what I see as good entry points into the SRPG genre.

[@faytatreides6894]

It's nothing but a low down cheap cash grab off the back of a great game. They can stick it where the sun don't shine.

[@bekerashes]

For real, they milking the same game for almost 8 years now

[@sabinrenefigaro4192]

Yes, this game is just a quick cash grab. The strategy gameplay is really basic, story is meh. Wasted $50 for this crap

[@therealjaystone2344]

The game bombed = good

[@bekerashes]

The art style is a downgrade and just looks like a cashgrab. Persona 5 was released on ps3 era, it’s funny how they continue to milk it

[@therealjaystone2344]

Good thing the game bombed and no more p5 spin offs

[@bekerashes]

@@therealjaystone2344I’m all for p6 tho, kinda tired of recycling, remastering trends

[@Bwdh23]

@@therealjaystone2344it did not bomb?

[@goroadachi9489]

@@therealjaystone2344No it didn’t bomb

[@goroadachi9489]

Also if this is a cash grab then this is probably their highest effort cashgrab ever. They put a lot of effort into this. Also the other Persona games were milked to death as well

[@JRPG_Master]

Lost Eidolons ia way better than this crap. Im the biggest fan out there 😢 Very disappointed with this.

[@FallingStar1080]

South Park Fractured But Whole is better than this