Why i HATE Persona 5 Royal - VERY DISAPPOINTING

Hello and welcome back to a new video. So

recently I've been playing the brand new

Persona 5 Royal, and as an avid fan of the

Persona games and JRPGs in general, I just

knew I had to play this game.

Unfortunately, after playing this game for

several hours, I realized that this game

is not exactly very good, and it's rather

bland, uninspired, and rather lacking in

luster. I found the game to be extremely

boring and tedious. If you're like me and

you absolutely hate cutscenes and loads of

dialogue from characters, then you're

really not going to like this game because

this game is probably 78% full of

cutscenes and dialogues that you can't

really skip. Sure, there's a fast-forward

button that is kind of like a skip button,

but it doesn't really skip the cutscenes,

it just fast-forwards them and speeds them

up. But it's still not as quick as an

instant skip button could have been. As

you can see in my video game footage, I

would say it's roughly about 15% action

and combat and 60% watching cutscenes

and trying to skip through dialogue, and

then maybe 35% aimlessly running around

Japan in Tokyo, which I have to say is my

favorite part of the game. As someone who

used to live in Japan for a few years, I

do kind of miss my life in Japan, and

being able to see the streets of Shibuya

and Tokyo again is kind of nice.

Unfortunately, this rendition of Japan in

a video game is not one of the best

renditions I've seen. Yakuza 6 and the

Yakuza games do Japan much better and in

much more detail. Even games like GTA

managed to do cityscapes in much more

detail and make it more realistic and

believable as a city. Unfortunately, the

cityscape in Persona 5 Royal just looks

kind of bland, dull, and uninspired. For

example, you can't even go inside a lot of

the buildings, and the people walking

around, the NPCs, they all have this very

blank-looking face that doesn't really

have any expression. They don't really

look like people, they just look like

robots walking up and down along a

predetermined path that they just patrol

up and down on. So for the majority of the

game, you'll be spending your time

basically watching cutscenes and reading

dialogue, or trying to skip through them

as quickly as possible if you're like me,

because the game is basically just an

anime series. It doesn't really feel like

you're playing a video game, it feels more

like you're watching an anime where you

can control the character now and then

just to run from point A to point B. If

you want to watch an anime then that's

fine, you'll probably like this game. But

if you're like me, not really interested

in anime, and if you'd rather just watch

an anime instead of having to play an

anime— I'd rather just watch an anime on

Netflix or on YouTube if I really wanted

to watch an anime where the story is

important. But I want to play a video

game, and this video game doesn't really

do the video game part of the video game

very well. And the story isn't really very

interesting for me either. I didn't really

find the characters to be captivating. I

didn't really find the story to be

intriguing. That's why I ended up skipping

through 90% of all the cutscenes and the

dialogue. It's because I just wasn't

really interested in the story of the

game. I wanted to play the game, but the

game wouldn't let me play it at all.

Let's say, for example, you were really

interested in the story. I think you might

as well just watch someone else play it on

YouTube and just watch a gameplay

playthrough, and that way you'll be able

to experience the story without having to

waste £50 and without having to waste your

time doing these tedious, mundane puzzles.

There are some puzzles in the game, But

they're so basic, they basically just

involve, oh no, I need to unlock this

drawbridge. Oh no, I need to talk to this

character so he unlocks the drawbridge for

me. And some basic platforming where you

just basically press the space button to

automatically jump over gaps. There's no

risk of falling because you can't actually

fall off ledges. So the platforming in the

game doesn't really feel exciting or fun

or challenging at all. This game is so

tedious and mundane, I kid you not when I

say there's actually a mission where you

have to go to school. And the tricky part

of this mission is you have to traverse

the Japanese Tokyo underground system,

which is basically like a maze. And as

someone who lived in Japan, I do remember

getting lost in the Shinjuku train station

quite often because it is like a rabbit's

hole and you have to follow the signage so

you get onto the Ginza Line train station,

which will take you to your school. And I

can't believe they actually made this a

gameplay mechanic where you've got a

mission to actually traverse and navigate

through a Japanese subway underground

station. It's just so dumb. It was kind of

nice. It brought back memories of when I

used to get the train to Tobita Shinchi to

have some adult fun whilst my wife was out

at work. But apart from that, as a

gameplay mechanic and as a video gamer, I

didn't really enjoy this part of the video

game. It just seems like such a waste.

They managed to create this very

interesting looking world and characters

and story and plotline, but the best

gameplay mechanics they could come up with

was automatic jumping over tiny little

gaps, traversing through some stupid

dungeon where you have to unlock

drawbridges and just basically walking

around Tokyo. It seems like they wanted to

create an anime instead of a video game.

It's kind of like, imagine if you get

anime writers and creators and you ask

them to make a video game instead of

asking video game developers to make a

video game. I don't know why they decided

to make a video game. They should have

just made an anime instead. It seems like

that's what they wanted to do because the

gameplay mechanics in this game are just

so dull and boring. So when it comes to

the combat, the combat is absolutely

terrible. And this is coming from someone

who actually enjoys turn-based RPGs. I

love the original Final Fantasy games

where there's actually a challenge and

like an in-depth combat system where you

could level up and upgrade stuff and it

got more challenging as the game

progressed. But the turn-based combat

system in this game is just so boring. I

felt like I was falling asleep. Persona 5

Royal brings nothing new to the turn-based

JRPG genre. You got your basic attacks,

you got basic abilities, your healing

spells, you got different characters who

take up different roles roles like tank,

damage dealer, healer, ranged fighter.

It's just so lacking in lustre and

unoriginal. I didn't find the fighting to

be challenging at all apart from just

spamming the space button to do a basic

melee attack or doing a special attack if

I felt like I wanted to do something more

interesting than just a basic melee

attack. But apart from that, the combat

was very dull and I didn't really feel

excited or scared every time an enemy foe

appeared and I had to do some fighting. I

just thought, oh no, another battle. I'm

gonna spam the spacebar so I can get it

over with as quickly as possible. The

fighting was just really dull, just like

the entire game. So it's come to my

conclusion that for these reasons, I

cannot recommend this game. I would have

to give this game a very paltry 2.6 out of

10. None of the game is actually fun. The

dialogue is very boring and you just want

to skip through everything. The cutscenes

are very boring. And not interesting to

watch. The combat is also very boring.

The only thing that's not very, very,

very boring is walking around the streets

of Tokyo, and that's just because as

someone who lived in Japan, I feel very

nostalgic when I see the streets of Tokyo.

So apart from that, I don't really have

anything else to say about the game. I

don't think it's worth £50 at all. I

reckon you could play it on Xbox Gaming

Pass for free if you feel inclined to.

But I wouldn't pay a penny for this game

until it becomes a lot better. Or maybe if

it goes on sale, I wouldn't mind paying

25% if it came down by 75% in

a sale. But I can't really say that this

game is worth playing or buying. If you

want to have a quick playthrough, then try

on Game Pass or just watch someone play on

YouTube if you want to get a gist of the

story, because I don't really think it's

that great. Thanks for listening and