DO NOT BUY Persona 3 Reload - VERY disappointing

Hello, welcome back to a new video. So

recently I've been playing the brand new

Persona 3 Reloaded, and as an avid fan

of the Persona games and JRPG games in

general, I knew I just had to play this

game. Unfortunately, so far it's been kind

of bland, boring, and uninspiring. So

because I'm kind of interested in Japan

and anime and that kind of stuff, I

thought this game would be right up my

alley. Unfortunately, it's kind of been

lacking in lustre. What I was expecting to

be an interesting, in-depth challenging

RPG game turns out just to be non-stop

constant boring dialogue and cutscenes

that you can't really skip through. You

can fast-forward through them, but you

cannot entirely skip them. So even when

you're fast-forwarding through all of

these boring cutscenes, it still takes

some time because it's just doing like a

2x speed or 4x speed. So in the beginning

of the game, you kind of have to do this

thing where you repeatedly have to go to

the school and then go to classroom and

then talk to a bunch of people and then go

back to the dorm room and then go to bed

and then go back to the school and then go

back to the dorm room and then go back to

the school and then go back to the dorm

room. And it's just the same cycle over

and over again. Each time you talk to

maybe a different person and some extra

dialogue unlocks and progresses you

further into the story. Now the whole

point of this game is you experience the

story and then it seems like everything

else when it comes to gameplay of a game

has just been an afterthought. So you get

to run around Japan, which is kind of

cool. Like this train station, for

example, looks pretty interesting. And if

you're into Japan, interested in traveling

to Japan, this is a good way to get a feel

of what Japan is like because it does

really look like Japan, and they've done a

good job with the detail. And all the

little NPCs have their own little

conversations with each other, and you can

eavesdrop and see what they're talking

about. And the detail in the game is quite

good. I'd say the graphics They're not

blowing me away, but it's like very nice

looking anime kind of style. It's got a

very distinctive style and persona of its

own, but the game does kind of have a very

flat looking, dull look. You're not really

going to be blown away by the physics or

the lighting engine or that kind of stuff.

It's a pleasant enough game to look at,

and it does make you feel like you're in

some kind of anime world. So after you've

finished exploring the world and seeing

what kind of shops you can't go into,

which is kind of annoying— it's a bit

annoying they got all these shops but you

can't actually go inside of them Maybe you

can go inside of them later. And also

there's like a little loading screen

whenever you try to enter a building or a

different room. It's not really fluent or

transient in the way that you can just

enter and exit buildings as if they're

actually built all into the same level.

So you go backwards and forwards between

the school using the map and the trains

and stuff like that, or you can just fast

travel around. And then these are the main

characters that you have to keep talking

to, and there's some kind of story about

how you've got some kind of magical

ability and you've got to gain control or

keep your ability under control so you can

fight off the evil monsters that come out

at night. So at nighttime, it's called the

Dark Hour, and this is when all the bad

things come out, all the monsters and the

ghosts or whatever. And this is when the

combat of the game begins. Now, I didn't

really like the combat of the game. I

found it kind of boring. I mean, the whole

thing about this game is everything's just

really tedious, boring, and slow-paced,

including the combat system. So in the

combat system, it's basically just really

bog-standard turn-based system. It's

extremely basic of a combat system.

There's barely anything to it. So here's

how the combat system works. You've got 3

options: attack, guard, and Persona.

That's it. Maybe you get more later on in

the game, but that's all I had when I

played the game. So attack obviously

attacks the enemy. You can just 2-shot

basically anything in the beginning of the

game. It's really boring. And then you got

your Persona, which does this silly,

like, trying to be edgy thing. Where he

shoots himself in the head to summon his

Persona. Now all the different characters

in your team will have their own Persona,

and they all summon the Persona by

shooting themselves in the head, which I

think is kind of stupid. I mean, they're

trying to be funny and trying to be dark

with like dark humor, but it just comes

across as kind of teenage cringe humor for

teenagers who want to be edgy and emo and

they listen to My Chemical Romance. I

didn't really find it amusing as a

35-year-old adult man. Didn't find the

idea of someone shooting themselves in the

head very amusing, but that's the kind of

vibe the game's going for. It's, uh, it's

whatever, I guess. So I don't really like

the combat system. It's extremely basic

and boring. And then you kind of go back

to daytime and it's back to normal, and

you go to school and you meet people and

talk to people, and then you have to

repeat this stupid whole process of going

to class and talking to some person and

then following them around and then go

back to the dorm and go to bed. And then

it's nighttime and then you re-enter the

dark hour to do some combat. And then

there's like a dungeon, the beginning

dungeon takes place in the school. But the

whole thing is you're just running around

in a school in the corridors whilst you

fight random little monsters on the floor.

It's just really boring. So unfortunately

for those reasons, I couldn't really get

into the game even though I love Japan and

I love— I used to love anime and I kind of

like RPG games. There's just nothing about

this game that really blew me away or

hooked me. The story was just very

bog-standard kind of silly fantasy

supernatural kind of anime story with

ghosts and an underworld, and the

character has a main— the main character

has like a secret ability or special power

that only he can control and command to

defeat the bad evil forces. It's just very

stereotypical and like bog-standard anime

writing. I didn't really find it very

captivating or interesting. And the

gameplay sucks. So everything about it

kind of sucks. The music is really

annoying and cheesy. I can't play it

because it's pretty copyright music. It's

just like very cheesy western pop music

trying to be hip-hop and R&B and catchy

and cool, but it's just kind of cringe.

And the gameplay is rubbish. It's just

boring turn-based rubbish. And story is

just like not very good. Maybe it's okay

if you're a teenager or you're a kid and

this is your first exposure to this kind

of storytelling and anime, but But I'm

kind of too old to be able to get into

anime anymore, so it's not really for me.

I'm not really the target demographic

since I'm not really a weeb anymore. And

there's just nothing really about this

game that I can say is a good game. I

guess it looks okay when you're running

around in Japan. It looks kind of like,

like what Japan actually looks like,

which is kind of cool. But apart from

that, if you don't really care about

Japan, then there's nothing about this

game that you would care about. So

unfortunately I have to give this game a

6.2 out of 10. Very disappointing and

lacking in several lustres and not really

worth the money. So the cost of the game

is a staggering £60, which is insanely

expensive. This game looks like it could

run on a mobile phone. It's just like very

basic 2D kind of animations, and the

combat system is not taxing at all on my

system. You could easily run this game on

an Android phone, especially like an

iPhone, iPhone 15 or Samsung S24 Ultra

would easily be able to play this game.

And it should not be £60, it should be

like £20 for this kind of game. It's not

really good for 2024, is it?