When does this end?

[Biscuit]

Went with true ending route but it's dragging on unbearably. It's not even fun. At what date does the game end? I'm on January 9th after sumire boss fight. Maruki told me to come back in feb . I can't take this anymore

[Burdpal]

Sounds like you're burned out and you need to take a break.

Video games are meant to be fun. If it ceases to be an enjoyable experience, move on to other things or jump back to it later.

[Lynfinity]

February 3rd is when you fight Maruki. After that, there will be numerous time skips up until certain days. These days being:

- February 13th and 14th.
- March 14th
- March 19th

March 20th is when the ending takes place.

[Biscuit]

screw it, can't bother to sit through 25 mind numbing days till the 3rd
I can't see why they couldn't just wrap things up after the casino palace. It was an excellent place to finish. There was no need for boss fights for shido, akechi or maruki. Ruined the ending for me.

[Exarch_Alpha]

Well, toodles.

Better luck next time

[Nibbie]

The fight against the Graile was the end of P5, what you are in now is the Royal additions. Yes its long, but it dragging on or otherwise being bad is just subjective.

[Lynfinity]

Originally posted by Biscuit:

I can't see why they couldn't just wrap things up after the casino palace. It was an excellent place to finish. There was no need for boss fights for shido, akechi or maruki. Ruined the ending for me.

Well, first of all, 3rd semester is basically an optional content. If you don't level up Maruki's confidant, you get the original P5 ending after defeating the Yaldabaoth.

Second, all of those boss fights make perfect sense:
- Shido is the reason why Joker got a criminal record to begin with AND he was trying to take control of Japan through the use of the Metaverse.
- Akechi is an accomplice, who also tried to set up the group and attempted to kill Joker.

There's absolutely no way the game should've ended before dealing with them. You're just burned out, simple as that.

[easytarget]

It ends about 50 hours after it should.

[Biscuit]

lol

[Arifufu]

u can pick maruki's reality on 2nd feb then u can fast forward to 15th march if u wish ofc valentine will be skipped and pretty much others also skipped, there's no one force player to fight maruki tbh, it's player's choice.

or since u mention casino should end this game, u can ignore maruki confidant completely and get original p5 ending by ditch him to make this game shorter to end

[Biscuit]

Originally posted by Arifufu:

or since u mention casino should end this game, u can ignore maruki confidant completely and get original p5 ending by ditch him to make this game shorter to end

That's what I would have done but I wanted to see the rest of yoshizawa's social link. Was the sole reason for going for true ending. TBH I would have just read a walkthrough about the ending otherwise.

[nephalim]

The 3rd semester is unnecessary trash, feel free to skip this tacked on content if you don't like it.

[Peelsepuuppi]

Yeah I agree the game drags on too much in Royal. It's already a really long game that has a satisfying conclusion. In royal you essentially just play an extra filler arc that doesn't really add to the story or character developments of the original cast at all.

Thankfully the filler arc is basically as long as any other single arc in the game + a new mementos segment.

Casino is a bad place to stop though. I don't understand why you think the best place to stop is just before the main antagonists of the plot are revealed and a lot of the mystery that the game was building up is finally being addressed.

[Biscuit]

Originally posted by ToveriJuri:

Casino is a bad place to stop though. I don't understand why you think the best place to stop is just before the main antagonists of the plot are revealed and a lot of the mystery that the game was building up is finally being addressed.

Shido was outed ages before the mc 'remembers' him from before and while the shido-akechi thing was interesting, it didn't really need another palace. Maybe finish it by narration or just one boss fight a day or two later. There was a lot of excitement in the casino palace ending and going back to a much less interesting ship palace practically 2 weeks after it all felt like a waste.

[Peelsepuuppi]

Originally posted by Biscuit:

Originally posted by ToveriJuri:

Casino is a bad place to stop though. I don't understand why you think the best place to stop is just before the main antagonists of the plot are revealed and a lot of the mystery that the game was building up is finally being addressed.

Shido was outed ages before the mc 'remembers' him from before and while the shido-akechi thing was interesting, it didn't really need another palace. Maybe finish it by narration or just one boss fight a day or two later. There was a lot of excitement in the casino palace ending and going back to a much less interesting ship palace practically 2 weeks after it all felt like a waste.

Wrap up the main plot and deal with the main antagonists of a JRPG just through narration? I'm glad you aren't designing JRPGs

Dragging the game unnecessarily and finishing it really fast anti-climatically are both bad options.

The types of stories that go from. "This is the present and now let me tell you how we got to this point" type of stories never end almost immediately after "now we are back to present" for a good reason. Because that is really unsatisfying for the viewer.

[Biscuit]

hm