Was anyone else disappointed with the reveals? (Spoilers)

[Door Into Summer]

Teddie being a shadow that decided to be human one day is some of the most stupid nonsense I have seen in a video game. Adachi's weak, coincidental reasons for killing including what little crime he actually did because someone else was was also coincidentally throwing people into TVs. The big bad behind the scenes who apparently did nothing but pumped gas for a year.

I don't know why I was expecting anything sophisticated from a game about teenagers hopping into TVs to fight shadows but I was expecting something a bit more creative. For a game with a story that's somewhat based on the complex concept of the unconscious and inner selves it sure is basic when it comes to what could have been deep and interesting story elements.

I was spoiled of the real killer long ago so I was expecting the midnight channel to be of Adachi's creation somehow with Teddie (because of his amnesia) being some sort of remains of the good Adachi once had left behind in the shadow world which is way more thought provoking than simply; "I want to be appealing to humans." This must be some sort of theme/chiche involving nonhuman characters eventually becoming human because P3 does the same exact thing with Aigis and I did't care for that either. Adachi could have been the fog god, or whatever it was exactly, testing humanity's resolve instead of the rando, lowly gas attendant. It comes off as if the writers came up with characters and events with no well thought out plan on how to link them together to be reasonable within the game's fictional world.

Seriously, though. Izanami was fueling peoples cars until you call her out. Probably would keep doing so if you didn't.

[Kalypso]

I love Persona 4, it was my first Persona, but Persona 5 is superior in every single way. P5 nearly hit mainstream while 1-4 are still very niche. Most people will like 5. Not many people i got to try 3 and 4 liked them, but still liked 5.

[no1schmo]

Originally posted by Kalypso:

Originally posted by Moonvalley:

Persona 4 is the best in the series, Persona 5 is the worst.

Despite base Persona 5 outselling every singles other Persona's first weeks combined (at the time, obviously) only in it's first week. If you define that as a bad game, you are just riding on nostalgia and a very big reason why most devs won't try anything new. They keep managing to bait people cuz people seem to have glued their rose tinted glasses onto their face.

Popularity doesn't equal quality. And usually with games, the success of one entry in the series is tied just as much, if not more, to the quality of the PREVIOUS title as to the title in question. 5's immediate success strongly implies that it's because a ton of people played previous games, mostly 4, in the years between the two releases, and thus were excited for 5.

I'm not agreeing that 5 is bad, because I haven't even played it, but pointing to sales as proof of quality is one reason why devs end up fundamentally changing the formula of their games and often tanking series--they often fail to realize they are building on success and instead look at their big seller in a vacuum.