Does Royal add enough to justify giving it another go?

[bulldog0890]

beating the base game the first time took like 120 hours. not sure i want to bother doing all that again if royal only adds like an hour of new content

[DaBa]

If you really liked the game on the first go, and it has been some time since you last played, then yes. There is both a dozen or two of completely new content towards the end of the game, but also small additions and unique bits all through the game that make the old stuff a bit different too.

Just one note: if you are one of those people who likes to min max their JRPGs, Royal will make the game even easier than it was before, you can get even more overpowered even faster, even on the hardest difficulty (mostly due to the new persona fusion mechanics).

[Beautiful Ham Sandwich]

This is a very long game, even if it adds more than an hour of extra content you'd still be replaying a 100+ hour long game. You have to decide for yourself, it seems like the extra content is actually quite a bit (I'm seeing different estimates of 15-30 hours), but are you willing to replay a 100+ hour game for it? If you don't like the idea of replaying games, 100+ hours is quite a bit of time to spend not enjoying yourself.

[DaBa]

Originally posted by Beautiful Ham Sandwich:

This is a very long game, even if it adds more than an hour of extra content you'd still be replaying a 100+ hour long game. You have to decide for yourself, it seems like the extra content is actually quite a bit (I'm seeing different estimates of 15-30 hours), but are you willing to replay a 100+ hour game for it? If you don't like the idea of replaying games, 100+ hours is quite a bit of time to spend not enjoying yourself.

You have a weird assumption that playing the game you've already played is time spent "not enjoying yourself". Especially if said game had a lot of changes made to it too. I've seen people play P5 twice in a row, back to back, just because they wanted to play on a higher difficulty. There are people who play the same game multiple times just top do challenge runs of different kinds. Or there are people like me, who like to replay games they REALLY like every couple of years.

Going into P5R with a mindset that you will be bored for 100 hours just to play 20 hours of new content is completely backwards. The first 100 should still be a good time, not a chore. A simple example: if you're really into min maxing your personas and the fusion mechanics, P5R gives you even more room to manouver here, you can really sink a lot of time making the most ridiculous and OP personas. I spent a crazy amount of time just rolling the dice and seeing what would happen. Did I need this much power? Nope. Was it worth it? YES.

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Here's a list of everything new and changed in the Royal edition over the OG
https://megamitensei.fandom.com/wiki/Persona_5_Royal

[Yürei]

I wouldn't say an hour of new content, but overall maybe 20-30 hours of new content with a bit spread out through the original game and most of it at the 3rd semester. Honestly, outside some new stuff and a lot of quality of life, the original content is mostly the same. Idk if you'll enjoy that. Stuff like Mementos and Okumura's palace got improved at lot imo. However, you're mostly playing through the same content until the third semester.

[Aether]

Royal's additional content is very good, but it's still at the end of a *very* long game and it's an understandable difficult ask.
That said Mementos grinding has been improved a lot - generally the busywork part is much easier than vanilla. It's just the story and main dungeons still take a biiig time investment.

Perhaps another way to look at it is ask what specifically might be holding you back. The dungeons? The grinding? The social links/confidants? General time investment?

[chipofsalt]

The game is 100+ hours if you're going blind and seeing everything for the first time. If you're familiar with smt/persona mechanics and just want to get to the last arc which has most of the story related royal changes, you can easily get there in around 60 hours.

That's still a lot of time, but there is other stuff in the original portion of the game that is new to royal. Obviously it's your money, and like others have said, the extra arc adds around 10-15 hours, but the extra bits added in to the normal story probably adds an addition 3 or 4 hours.

[Izlude]

Originally posted by bulldog0890:

beating the base game the first time took like 120 hours. not sure i want to bother doing all that again if royal only adds like an hour of new content

Yes. There are changes you will see throughout the entire game that make it fresh.

[Beautiful Ham Sandwich]

Originally posted by DaBa:

You have a weird assumption that playing the game you've already played is time spent "not enjoying yourself". Especially if said game had a lot of changes made to it too. I've seen people play P5 twice in a row, back to back, just because they wanted to play on a higher difficulty. There are people who play the same game multiple times just top do challenge runs of different kinds. Or there are people like me, who like to replay games they REALLY like every couple of years.

Going into P5R with a mindset that you will be bored for 100 hours just to play 20 hours of new content is completely backwards. The first 100 should still be a good time, not a chore. A simple example: if you're really into min maxing your personas and the fusion mechanics, P5R gives you even more room to manouver here, you can really sink a lot of time making the most ridiculous and OP personas. I spent a crazy amount of time just rolling the dice and seeing what would happen. Did I need this much power? Nope. Was it worth it? YES.

...I based what I said on what OP said, where are you getting all that? When I said 100+ hours is a long time to spend being bored, I literally started that sentence with "If you don't like the idea of replaying games". How did you come to assume I was talking about anyone but OP?

I wouldn't be bored with a 100+ hour Persona game again, you probably wouldn't be either considering everything you said, do you think someone that says "not sure I want to bother doing all that again" would be the same?

[Fozzy]

Absolutely. The new content is wonderful!

[bulldog0890]

Originally posted by Aether:

Royal's additional content is very good, but it's still at the end of a *very* long game and it's an understandable difficult ask.
That said Mementos grinding has been improved a lot - generally the busywork part is much easier than vanilla. It's just the story and main dungeons still take a biiig time investment.

Perhaps another way to look at it is ask what specifically might be holding you back. The dungeons? The grinding? The social links/confidants? General time investment?

ya definitely general time investment. its probably not ever gonna be worth it while theres still other games coming or on the back log. i'm just kind of curious what i missed. honestly might just be worth it to watch a lets play instead of just whats new

[Lamp]

Absolutely. They enhance a lot, even the usual bosses that you know and love/hate have extra stuff added to the battle.