No way this gets Game of The Year

[VileVeego1]

The calender system and sleeping requirement disqualifies this game in my opinion.

[lawjax]

Time management is a major part of this developer's game design philosophy. Much like any fan continues to play games that are part of a preexisting IP, such as Fromsoft's Souls series, or Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed, or Activision's CoD, people come to Atlus for this particular style of gameplay because they are good at creating the architecture for it.

As for whether or not it's a contender for GotY, I'd be more likely to dismiss it for its very plain and frankly boring writing rather than the game mechanics themselves.

[Lynfinity]

No way people still care about The Game Awards.

[Stan]

You guys need to stop smoking that stuff

[Sylph]

Silent Hill 2 remake and SMTV:V were better in my opinion but hey these are the same people who let a "DLC" get nominated for "GAME" of the year

[Potjack]

The game mechanics are cool. Maybe you're just bad at time management and math? It's okay, I didn't get how math really worked until middle school. You'll get there champ.

[Sylph]

Originally posted by Potjack:

The game mechanics are cool. Maybe you're just bad at time management and math? It's okay, I didn't get how math really worked until middle school. You'll get there champ.

lol better than me. i had to cheat in high school because dyslexia

[VileVeego1]

Originally posted by lawjax:

Time management is a major part of this developer's game design philosophy. Much like any fan continues to play games that are part of a preexisting IP, such as Fromsoft's Souls series, or Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed, or Activision's CoD, people come to Atlus for this particular style of gameplay because they are good at creating the architecture for it.

As for whether or not it's a contender for GotY, I'd be more likely to dismiss it for its very plain and frankly boring writing rather than the game mechanics themselves.

Seeing "The day of our hero draws near , blah ,blah, blah...." a few thousand times started to break something in my soul. Lol.

[Forcelikeobi]

Nominated.......will it win? Absolutely not. I still think it's pretty awesome that a Persona type title was even considered at all. The English voice cast alone is extremely talented for being a lot of new actors in the genre.

The damn deadlines with the calendar system make you feel kind of flustered at times to get things done quickly rather than actually chill and enjoy the game. But, I got used to it pretty fast and realized it wasn't all that drastic or chaotic.

[Panophobe]

You can see from my small handful of other posts that I'm by no means a fanboy for this game... but those two parts are arguably the BETTER aspects of the game. The parts that aren't either generic as ♥♥♥♥, or just plain half-ass.

And on a similar note, they do deserve credit for making side-quests not QUITE feel so weird. In most games, it feels like "oh, I know you're on your way to stop the inevitable end of the world from the evil magic zombie god, but can you go collect three flowers and a lizard skin for me. I'm busy shoving my finger in my ass and can't dare do it myself."

This game, with the calendar system, and teh explanation for the days you have to get it done, at least makes the time to side quest -make sense-.

[Giganx]

This is a good enough game to win GoTY absolutely.

GoTY isn't about the quality of a game, though; it's about checking very specific boxes. This game wasn't contentious enough to spark a ton of drama between the warring factions in the gaming industry, so it won't get much attention. Nowadays the people voting aren't the people who enjoy video games; it's the people who have an agenda to push.

[Kamos]

Who honestly cares about the Game Awards in 2024 lmao, have you seen the judges for example? They basically get to decide who wins not the players who vote.

IGN
Inverse
Jeff Gerstmann show
Kinda Funny
LA Times
Minnmax
PC Gamer
Polygon
Venturebeat
The verge
Touch Arcade
What's good games
Game Rant
NPR
Pride
Variety

Can anyone seriously look at the above list and think they know what's best? Especially the big outlets like IGN, PC gamer etc. The only thing they're missing to complete the circus is Kotaku.