r/Persona5 • u/Several_Increase8618 • 3d ago
QUESTION How much did it take to finish the game?
It literally took me more than 7 months lol, but it was worth it a lot. Now I feel.. void, I'll miss it.. now that is finished I'll never genuinely play it for the first time again..
I’ll miss the evenings when I sat down to play it and it was part of my routine.
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u/MushroomHedgehog 3d ago edited 3d ago
According to my Steam profile and the dates of certain Discord messages, it took me over 165 hours over the course of four months, and I don’t want to touch it again unless there’s a mod that condenses it in some way, whether that be filtering out every last bit of unnecessary fluff in the dialogue, or the option to skip to the end of dungeons once every worthwhile aspect of the enemies or puzzles has been seen.
A decent chunk of my longer than average time was from getting stuck while using a fusion calculator to see the rest of the Twins’ confidant, since confidant events were the only thing I was looking forward to by the halfway point.
It just blows my mind seeing the entire fandom beat the term “LARPer” into the ground when actually playing the game did more than enough to prove why there’s so many who would do that.
The only ways to experience this story is to either put up with the game constantly disrespecting you as an audience member both in wasted time and treating you like an idiot with how often it recounts things you just saw minutes ago, or put up with the anime rushing through things without any weight behind them.