This wonвЂ™t carry much in the way of spoilers, either, but I wonвЂ™t be outright avoiding them. IвЂ™ve played it more often and recently than the original, and itвЂ™s improved on nearly every aspect of vanilla P5. In addition to the general anime aesthetic, Persona 5 features many hand-drawn animated cutscenes.ДЇor this essay, I will be using Persona 5 Royal as the basis. However, Persona 5 offers a different kind of experience that has cemented its place among my favorites, and itвЂ™s one I never knew existed before I played it. Other than that, you play the same dungeons in the same order, events fold out the same way, and thereвЂ™s no options to play differently. You can make the decision to get a bad ending if you fail to meet a deadline, relent to the villainsвЂ™ demands, or you can pick which girl you want to romance (or how many). The thing about Persona 5, though, is that itвЂ™s short on that.

My favorite game of all time, Breath of the Wild, lets you play the story in any order you like, or ignore it entirely. IвЂ™m a lifelong fan of Pokemon for the ability to endlessly customize my team, different weapons or fighting styles in Skyrim can offer hundreds of hours of replay value. Give your player the freedom to choose how, where, and why they play. If IвЂ™ve replayed it, oh, weвЂ™re in danger.Д«ut when I talk about my favorite games, there is usually a through line, the ability to customize. If IвЂ™ve finished a JRPG, itвЂ™s safe to count it amongst my favorites. I can tell you that Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is a garbage game that I completed, because it only took like 15 hours to complete. ThatвЂ™s a problem with writing about JRPGs, I have to put in dozens or hundreds of hours just to hit that end screen. For the sake of abandoning all objectivity, I will admit that Persona 5 is one of my favorite games of all time.

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