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What are you playing this weekend? 2024-02-17 (self.nintendo)
submitted 9 months ago by picandocodigo to c/nintendo
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I am just now about to turn on the Switch for the first time this weekend to play some Huntdown.

What about you? What have all of you been playing?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I got about45 minutes into Persona 5 Royal (so almost through the intro!), but I don't think I'll be going much further with that one. I'm still playing Platinum otherwise, and debating a Fire Emblem run soon, just because it's been a little while.

[–] slimerancher 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What didn't you like about Persona?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't feel like I played it enough to give it a full or fair assessment, so this is just "at first glance":

The biggest issue I had with it was getting a firehose of gameplay tutorials only to be provided very little opportunity for gameplay. I felt like I was frequently darting from cut scene to cut scene, and while I love story this was so start and stop as to be frustrating. The pacing was just...off.

I also admittedly didn't care for the brief glimpses of characterization that I got, especially the "every adult character is a completely miserable human being" which was just draining. The protagonist not getting much characterization is less an issue because player characters are often blank slate. It really was overwhelmingly the side cast, and most were NPCs.

It is possible that I will pick this game up again at some point and completely fall in love with it. The art style is beautiful and there is a quality to it of playing through an anime. Maybe if I liked the story more or any of the characters had grabbed me I'd be more excited. Sometimes it's just about timing, you know?

[–] slimerancher 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I have yet to play Persona 5 but that cut scene to cut scene thing sounds like a Persona game.

The gameplay, once you get to it, is supposed to be pretty good, so, I would recommend you to give it a fair try, once you are in the mood.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The brief snippets of gameplay I got to experience weren't half bad. It's not one I would necessarily discourage other people from trying and I might even recommend looking into it depending on what I knew about their tastes.

Objectively, I don't think what I experienced (limited as it was) was a bad game. I think it was a frustratingly paced intro to a game with potential. How much potential, I don't know. I've heard mixed things.

You'll have to let me know what you think if you give it a play through.

[–] slimerancher 1 points 9 months ago

Sure, will do.