I’m at the casino palace and I still really don’t get this game...

I’m at the casino palace and I still really don’t get this game, I’m playing on hard and there’s little to no challenge anymore and story has just taken a massive nose dive.
I’m debating if I should just cut my losses or carry on with it, or even get Royal because apparently that fleshes things out better.
What am I missing?

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Maybe play past the intro?

You're only a few minutes into the game user, just go a bit further before giving up

kek, I thought about that before I posted but assumed no user would be autistic enough to think I meant the literal start of the game. Silly me.

if it still hasn't clicked for you, you should drop it honestly. the story doesn't get any better past this, and the game just keeps going at the same pace
honestly i didn't even realize how flimsy the story was the first time i played, maybe because of the hype i guess. it's on a replay i started seeing how dumb most of it is

The strengths of this game are not the combat or gameplay. It's the story and characters. It's a piss easy game even on merciless difficulty. I gave myself handicaps to make it a little more challenging but still, if you're going into this game looking for challenge you're in the wrong place.

You go into this game for her.

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Leave one or two party members behind if you want a little bit of challenge. The game doesn't make you bring four.

I romanced Kawakami, Futuba seemed boring as fuck

Take a break or something

I was just kind of hoping the story gets better, it’s clear as fuck that Akechi is evil but the game keeps trying to set it up as ‘but he might be a good guy’.

Didn’t play vanilla, but got this game just for her

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Now that is a high IQ shitpost.

of, if you want the story to be as good as possible, and you're not playing royal, you've fucked up. especially with akechi stuff. He goes from uninteresting in vanilla to best character in royal

People with taste this bad should be banned.

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The stort definitely moves on to a plot point that didnt feel very well hinted at until the next dungeon (unless you're already familiar with Megatens tropes)

I’ve got a PlayStation gift card laying around so might get royal then, I don’t mind replaying through it if they’ve improved a fair bit

3 new social links and a new month and palace added to the game. very much worth it.

In all seriousness I had to put down the game for a month after the palace. The exposition dump that occurs after still didn't answer many of my questions, and also just completely nonsensical patchwork over plot gaps.dude PANCAKES lmao
It wasn't until near the very end of the game where it all clicked for me. I'm not sure how I let myself get that far into the game anyway, because I was angry since after the first palace over the adhoc dungeon of the month formula. It took to getting to the absolute final dungeon before I understood the contrast between the thieves' "justices" and the public's willpower.

I’m guessing they already knew or something? Hence the ‘you got sold out’ at the start, plus Morgana and Futuba being suspicious as fuck about him and doing private research that you know fuck all about but is constantly referenced? I mean, that’s a guess but idk how them knowing would change anything considering your balls are kind of in a vice.

What was wrong with the pancakes thing?

How? Is it because he becomes an even edgier anime character? Akechi is the worst part of persona 5 royal or no royal. He is a psycho-murderer who isn't punished in any way and never shows any remorse, he ruins the whole dynamic of the story. All the characters kissing his ass even after the reveal almost made me stop playng.

Royal makes it easier and the story is identical until you reach the new arc which happens after beating the original story in its entirety
Don't bother

I don't see how you can be that far into the game unless you're enjoying something about it.

Why haven't you dropped it until now?

His social link is interesting and the relationship he has with you is interesting and a little bit gay and I like it.

>the story is identical until you reach the new arc
Don't say things without playing the game retard.

Honestly I was kind of enjoying the story up until the Big Bang burger palace, I’ve kept playing in the hopes that it gets better but so far nope

at least play through the end of the casino arc so you can look back on how stupid you sound right now

You're probably burned out, game is long as hell and overpadded. When I reached that palace I was tired of the game too.

Yea it moves on from all that pretty drastically. Akechi and his plot doesnt mean shit to what comes soon

Akechi was an interesting character with good dynamics with the pc when he was just presented as a genius detective with different convictions from the phantom thieves on what's justice (so like in the first 2 scenes you see him)
should have stayed that way, but it seems atlus has to pick the nicest character around and turn him into an evil edgelord for their bad guys now

I mean, he didn't exactly get off scott free. Pretty much everything he tried to accomplish blew up in his face because he wasn't as smart as he thought he was, and even his master plan to get revenge on was revealed to fail because Shido didn't give two shits about him and was going to have him killed afterwards anyways.

The DLC personas ruined any challenge that might have been present and once you get access to network fusions it's GG anyway.

This is what happens when you dumb down your entire product for waifufags.

The new social links don't change the actual story

yeah, they do. most of the story is the social links with main characters. maruki and akechi social links change the entire tone of the game.

meant for

>tfw cant play more than an hour of p5 without jerking off to joker doujins
bros

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Okay guys, I beat the vanilla version, is royal worth it?

The real spoiler isn't that Akechi is the betrayer. The real spoiler was that the party suspected him and knew he'd betray them since they first met him

Yeah I kinda guessed as much here

go on

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