It seems short.

[fumie maeda]

Hello, apparently the game's length is similar to Persona 5, but when I see that we only have 5 months of gameplay compared to Persona, which is almost a year, I think we're probably going to have twice as many cutscenes, right? Or is the game's length really much shorter than Persona 5?

[Dagný]

Originally posted by 混合メッセージ:

Originally posted by pink:

took me 36hrs in game time to beat it, and did all the side content

Yep u cheated your way up with 1 shot kills and maybe even max exp rewards.

Bro 34 hours is impossible, why you try to pose like your a speed runner while using 100% cheats XD

1. U NEED sidequests or you had a build for your party beforehand but there is no way, especially mana related.

2. level 50 isnt possible aswell in that short time epsecially the first Loius fight where you can just tank´n´spank

Sometimes i ask myself why do cheaters pose with "look how good i am"
Even if you only 1 shot and still grind for level and max tier "classes" u still have to know what you want for your party. I could spoil here to burry you cheater face more but ye.


60-100h if you do everything, can min max dmg know how to spend you mana etc etc.

Its def shorter then the Persona 5 OG not the royal one.

It's probably possible if you skip all dialogue and don't give a rat's ass about the game.

[混合メッセージ]

Originally posted by Dagný:

Originally posted by 混合メッセージ:

Yep u cheated your way up with 1 shot kills and maybe even max exp rewards.

Bro 34 hours is impossible, why you try to pose like your a speed runner while using 100% cheats XD

1. U NEED sidequests or you had a build for your party beforehand but there is no way, especially mana related.

2. level 50 isnt possible aswell in that short time epsecially the first Loius fight where you can just tank´n´spank

Sometimes i ask myself why do cheaters pose with "look how good i am"
Even if you only 1 shot and still grind for level and max tier "classes" u still have to know what you want for your party. I could spoil here to burry you cheater face more but ye.


60-100h if you do everything, can min max dmg know how to spend you mana etc etc.

Its def shorter then the Persona 5 OG not the royal one.

It's probably possible if you skip all dialogue and don't give a rat's ass about the game.

The Story and chars are the best parts about the game. The music isnt as good as P5 level but really really good.

Imagine skipping ALL of it. I still say, 100% cheater and tries to pose now. I play on console so no cheats. But on day2 of its release wemod had it all, max xp and 1 shots.

[archonsod]

Originally posted by Klinestife:

jthe game's main dungeons seem shorter overall

I think part of that is P5's have a tendency to feel longer because they have a habit of blocking progress and forcing you out to do another quest.

[HoudiniFontmeister]

Originally posted by archonsod:

Originally posted by Klinestife:

jthe game's main dungeons seem shorter overall

I think part of that is P5's have a tendency to feel longer because they have a habit of blocking progress and forcing you out to do another quest.

A lot of moments in P5 where they stop you and make you ready 5 minutes of dialogue before continuing. The pacing in Metaphor is definitely better than P5.

[Zufuse]

I think I'm near end. Rella died...and I'm preparing to confront Louis. I met all the followers but some of them only on level 1. I checked that there will be some royal class archetypes and I can't wait to complete them. Currently, Strohl, Mc, and Hulkenberg have elite rank archetype, I want to max everyone. So I think there'll be 2-5 days before I complete this game. But yeah, it feels short. I feel like I won't be able to move on for a while after this.

[Balance Breaker]

Took me 70+ hours to complete 1st playthrough.

[archonsod]

Originally posted by HoudiniFontmeister:

A lot of moments in P5 where they stop you and make you ready 5 minutes of dialogue before continuing. The pacing in Metaphor is definitely better than P5.

The in-dungeon dialogues aren't the problem, it's more the amount of times the game throws an 'Oops, Ryuji forgot his pants again, we need to return to the real world to collect them and come back to open this door tomorrow' at you. Thankfully it's usually good with the safe room distribution so re-running the dungeon isn't a problem, but since you're restricted in what activities you can do after visiting a palace it means you're arbitrarily forced to burn two or three days on a palace because 'plot'.

[aelm03]

For those who already completed the game, please no spoilers, do you think they will continue the story with extra DLC?

I'm by the 8/17 and kinda disappointed tbh. Coming from P5R, was expecting a longer game. If feels too short if I'm more than halfway in

[archonsod]

Originally posted by aelm03:

For those who already completed the game, please no spoilers, do you think they will continue the story with extra DLC?

Hard to say. Studio Zero are already working on their next game
(https://www.famitsu.com/article/202410/20753)
It's possible they could do it as a side project, or have someone else do it. Depends on whether the rumours we'll see a P6 announcement at the Game Awards bear out or not - if it is indeed scheduled for next year I suspect that may be Atlus' sole focus.

[Unforgiven]

Originally posted by 混合メッセージ:

Originally posted by pink:

took me 36hrs in game time to beat it, and did all the side content

Yep u cheated your way up with 1 shot kills and maybe even max exp rewards.

Bro 34 hours is impossible, why you try to pose like your a speed runner while using 100% cheats XD

1. U NEED sidequests or you had a build for your party beforehand but there is no way, especially mana related.

2. level 50 isnt possible aswell in that short time epsecially the first Loius fight where you can just tank´n´spank

Sometimes i ask myself why do cheaters pose with "look how good i am"
Even if you only 1 shot and still grind for level and max tier "classes" u still have to know what you want for your party. I could spoil here to burry you cheater face more but ye.


60-100h if you do everything, can min max dmg know how to spend you mana etc etc.

Its def shorter then the Persona 5 OG not the royal one.

Are you 12 or smth? It's easy to beat and no you don't need any side quests for any builds, you also don't need to cheat to reach lvl 50 in 30h and you also 1 shot literally any enemy with ambush into weakness

[bruh]

62 hours and i think im nearing the end of the story, game is still long as hell. glad there is no padding like in persona 5

[ShockedHearts]

a week in this game feels like a month in a persona game sometimes lmao.
just a lot more dense content compared to open air days where you spend 2-3 weeks in persona just raising stats and thats it.

in this game your stat raising is done via a dungeon or something that will take hours to complete and explore, and wow that was 1 day. ok onwards to another dungeon. a few more hours passes. ok 2 days have passed.

ysee where im getting at?

in a persona game 3 weeks woulda already passed lmao

[Star Sage]

Compared to Persona 5, it's a lot of density versus variety. Persona 5 has more things to do, especially Royal, but they're very basic activities, some of which don't do much for you in terms of story, and almost every social link is one scene and done for every level, even the last one that's supposed to be wrapping up their arc.

This one has very activities in general, but each one has a small story attached to it, learning about the world, the people, or even just finding something amusing to do. From debates, to testing your courage with a bungee jump, to later on an arena. And while there's only 8 levels for each social link(called followers here), each one is longer(and sometimes better written), with more story in each part, sometimes multiple scenes together.

Meanwhile the story dungeons come in fewer number, but they don't pad out. There's not single scene, stop, then 30 mins of dungeon, then single scene, stop, repeat. There tends to be smaller things throughout to expand on the story(helps that the dungeons are real things, not metaphysical realms), and that you meet every major character before the halfway point save one, allowing them to present themselves, their story, and be characters(I'm looking at you Haru).

That being said, it DOES have to spend time introducing the world a bit, something Persona 5 and even SMTV did not. Though between this, P5, and SMTV, I'll still say, I think SMTV plays the best. Though of the 3 stories...I want to say P5, but I do think this one does more WITH its story and characters, and the ending is a bit more hopeful, since you have already made a major change in the world by the end, and you have the power to keep going with that, whereas persona games tend to imply you'll keep going, but with their real world setting it won't always work.

[Катюша]

It is much shorter than Persona 5. Metaphor took me around forty four hours for the first playthrough, which included doing everything, except for the superboss.

[Unforgiven]

Originally posted by Star Sage:

Compared to Persona 5, it's a lot of density versus variety. Persona 5 has more things to do, especially Royal, but they're very basic activities, some of which don't do much for you in terms of story, and almost every social link is one scene and done for every level, even the last one that's supposed to be wrapping up their arc.

This one has very activities in general, but each one has a small story attached to it, learning about the world, the people, or even just finding something amusing to do. From debates, to testing your courage with a bungee jump, to later on an arena. And while there's only 8 levels for each social link(called followers here), each one is longer(and sometimes better written), with more story in each part, sometimes multiple scenes together.

Meanwhile the story dungeons come in fewer number, but they don't pad out. There's not single scene, stop, then 30 mins of dungeon, then single scene, stop, repeat. There tends to be smaller things throughout to expand on the story(helps that the dungeons are real things, not metaphysical realms), and that you meet every major character before the halfway point save one, allowing them to present themselves, their story, and be characters(I'm looking at you Haru).

That being said, it DOES have to spend time introducing the world a bit, something Persona 5 and even SMTV did not. Though between this, P5, and SMTV, I'll still say, I think SMTV plays the best. Though of the 3 stories...I want to say P5, but I do think this one does more WITH its story and characters, and the ending is a bit more hopeful, since you have already made a major change in the world by the end, and you have the power to keep going with that, whereas persona games tend to imply you'll keep going, but with their real world setting it won't always work.

the problem i have with the game (one of my only 2 problems) is that this "density" is mostly just wasting days and nights to lvl bonds, it's a super annoying mechanic combined with virtues that also always take a full day or night so it feels like the density is big but more than half of the calendar time you spend lvling virtues and bonds (which is basically nothing cuz it takes 30 seconds)