When does this game start?

[PossessingSpirit09]

I'm up to floor 40 in tartarus and akihiko is in my party; and I'm basically halfway through the year (technically halfway through the game if the calender is to be believed from what other players are telling me)

For the record, I have never played Persona 3, but I have played 4 and 5. 4 is my favourite

When does this game hit its stride? Its been basically really dull and boring for the past dozen hours with basically nothing to do but social links, stat raising and reaching the uppermost floor in tartarus you can get;

Please tell me it gets better and more meaningful? I have yet to get any social links with anyone in my party which is uncomfortable difference compared to the other persona games I'm used to

I'm so close to quitting the game out of boredom. I have no idea what I'm doing, and if I'm doing it optimally; and I cannot imagine new game plus this game if it turns out the front part of the game is this boring

[DilTinman]

You're not even close to halfway through this game yet, but it does pick up.

Honestly I don't know how you got through 4 or 5 (especially 5) if you think this game starts slow.

[Dank Sidious]

Originally posted by DilTinman:

You're not even close to halfway through this game yet, but it does pick up.

Honestly I don't know how you got through 4 or 5 (especially 5) if you think this game starts slow.

It starts way slower than either of those and the social sim parts of the game are even less eventful.

The story in this game doesn't go anywhere for a while and you are stuck doing the worst iteration of the High Schooler simulator. Both P4 and P5 are better paced when it comes to delivering story

[Lvl 10]

Based on your achievement you have finished the first boss only. (May 9)
You can check the calendar. Each full moon there's a boss fight.

The game indeed starts out slow but as you get more party members the story picks up the pace.

[DilTinman]

Originally posted by Dank Sidious:

Originally posted by DilTinman:

You're not even close to halfway through this game yet, but it does pick up.

Honestly I don't know how you got through 4 or 5 (especially 5) if you think this game starts slow.

It starts way slower than either of those and the social sim parts of the game are even less eventful.

The story in this game doesn't go anywhere for a while and you are stuck doing the worst iteration of the High Schooler simulator. Both P4 and P5 are better paced when it comes to delivering story

Nothing meaningful happens for the entire middle part of Persona 5 all the way until you get Haru. Persona 5 is notorious for having some of the worst pacing ever. Takes 4-5 hours before you even can freely do anything, gives you the best villain right off the bat and then everything drops off a cliff immediately after that. Royal fixes some of that, but not a lot, most of Royal's improvements don't pay off until the very end.

Persona 4 is better about keeping the mystery engaging, but has the same issue of not letting you really do a lot for quite a lot of the beginning hours of the game and also runs into some mid-act pacing issues.

Persona 3 is slow in the beginning about story payoffs, but as far as the gameplay goes opens up much faster than 4 and 5 and then once the story does get going doesn't really have much in the way of pacing issues going forward.

Social links being subjective, i think a lot of the ones in 3 are stronger than 4 or 5, but there's certain ones that are definitely better in 4 and 5. Though 5 has some of the worst resolutions to it's social links it possibly could, while 3 and 4 resolves them much better.

I guess if you're more into story beats keeping you engaged 4 and 5 sure start faster in that regard, but you can't tell me the gameplay is more engaging because you're on rails for far longer in those games than you are in this one.

To be clear, I'm more wowed they got though 4 and especially 5's slogfest middle acts if they can't get through this game's slower start.

[Dank Sidious]

Originally posted by DilTinman:

Originally posted by Dank Sidious:

It starts way slower than either of those and the social sim parts of the game are even less eventful.

The story in this game doesn't go anywhere for a while and you are stuck doing the worst iteration of the High Schooler simulator. Both P4 and P5 are better paced when it comes to delivering story

Nothing meaningful happens for the entire middle part of Persona 5 all the way until you get Haru. Persona 5 is notorious for having some of the worst pacing ever. Takes 4-5 hours before you even can freely do anything, gives you the best villain right off the bat and then everything drops off a cliff immediately after that. Royal fixes some of that, but not a lot, most of Royal's improvements don't pay off until the very end.

Persona 4 is better about keeping the mystery engaging, but has the same issue of not letting you really do a lot for quite a lot of the beginning hours of the game and also runs into some mid-act pacing issues.

Persona 3 is slow in the beginning about story payoffs, but as far as the gameplay goes opens up much faster than 4 and 5 and then once the story does get going doesn't really have much in the way of pacing issues going forward.

Social links being subjective, i think a lot of the ones in 3 are stronger than 4 or 5, but there's certain ones that are definitely better in 4 and 5. Though 5 has some of the worst resolutions to it's social links it possibly could, while 3 and 4 resolves them much better.

I guess if you're more into story beats keeping you engaged 4 and 5 sure start faster in that regard, but you can't tell me the gameplay is more engaging because you're on rails for far longer in those games than you are in this one.

Yay. It takes only 3-4 hours to get to watch text boxes about my MC playing arcade games, eating burgers and doing part time jobs while also having some of the most uneventful and boring social links in the franchise. Holy shit some of the male classmate ones are horrible.

Such pacing, much story, wow.

[PossessingSpirit09]

Originally posted by DilTinman:

You're not even close to halfway through this game yet, but it does pick up.

Honestly I don't know how you got through 4 or 5 (especially 5) if you think this game starts slow.

Honestly not sure either tbh; but I definitely have fonder memories of either than this one..

I did play them in the more vulnerable times in my life so it may have affected me more; I used to be more immersed in games

[PossessingSpirit09]

Originally posted by Dank Sidious:

Originally posted by DilTinman:

You're not even close to halfway through this game yet, but it does pick up.

Honestly I don't know how you got through 4 or 5 (especially 5) if you think this game starts slow.

It starts way slower than either of those and the social sim parts of the game are even less eventful.

The story in this game doesn't go anywhere for a while and you are stuck doing the worst iteration of the High Schooler simulator. Both P4 and P5 are better paced when it comes to delivering story

Yea I think I just have a problem with how the story is being delivered to me . . . differing expectations might be

[PossessingSpirit09]

Originally posted by Lvl 10:

Based on your achievement you have finished the first boss only. (May 9)
You can check the calendar. Each full moon there's a boss fight.

The game indeed starts out slow but as you get more party members the story picks up the pace.

ur kidding.... but doesn't most if not all persona games end by december? looking at the calendar i just get real anxious

[Dank Sidious]

Originally posted by PossessingSpirit09:

Originally posted by Dank Sidious:

It starts way slower than either of those and the social sim parts of the game are even less eventful.

The story in this game doesn't go anywhere for a while and you are stuck doing the worst iteration of the High Schooler simulator. Both P4 and P5 are better paced when it comes to delivering story

Yea I think I just have a problem with how the story is being delivered to me . . . differing expectations might be

IT does get more interesting later, but I actually liked that P5 interrupts the monotony of the Visual Novel part of the game more than this game does.

[DilTinman]

Originally posted by Dank Sidious:

Such pacing, much story, wow.

Okay.

Anyway,

Originally posted by PossessingSpirit09:

Originally posted by DilTinman:

You're not even close to halfway through this game yet, but it does pick up.

Honestly I don't know how you got through 4 or 5 (especially 5) if you think this game starts slow.

Honestly not sure either tbh; but I definitely have fonder memories of either than this one..

I did play them in the more vulnerable times in my life so it may have affected me more; I used to be more immersed in games

That's fair i suppose. Try to stick it out with this one though, i promise it picks up and has one of the more impactful and meaningful conclusions in this series, up there with Persona 2 for me, and it's even better done in the remake in my opinion as well as keeping it's themes tightly knit with it all.

[DilTinman]

Originally posted by PossessingSpirit09:

Originally posted by Lvl 10:

Based on your achievement you have finished the first boss only. (May 9)
You can check the calendar. Each full moon there's a boss fight.

The game indeed starts out slow but as you get more party members the story picks up the pace.

ur kidding.... but doesn't most if not all persona games end by december? looking at the calendar i just get real anxious

This one actually goes all the way to the end of January, something 4 and 5 didn't do until their re-releases added months into them.

Also as for why you not being halfway through it yet even though the months don't line up, as the story picks up, revelations and dungeon crawling gets longer to further pace things out.

[Dank Sidious]

Originally posted by DilTinman:

Originally posted by Dank Sidious:

Such pacing, much story, wow.

Okay.

Anyway,

Sure, address the snappy little meme comment at the end instead of the actual point being made.

[RVRZERO]

You are still in the first quarter of the game, it will get good don't worry just wait.

[DilTinman]

Originally posted by Dank Sidious:

Originally posted by DilTinman:

Okay.

Anyway,

Sure, address the snappy little meme comment at the end instead of the actual point being made.

You ignored everything i said so i'm going to ignore everything you said.

[PossessingSpirit09]

Originally posted by RVRZERO:

You are still in the first quarter of the game, it will get good don't worry just wait.

I'm assuming the game gets more dense towards the latter end part? cuz its been like half a year of nothing happening XD