OK,
So I bought the game when it was released, preordered and everything, and I was just completely disappointed by the game. I really love atlus and skike chunsoft's games (Bearsona, 999, VLR, blazblow, Megaten), but this game...
So obvious problem is obvious, no jap VA option. I can live with it. I just hope that atlus gives us the option for P5 like they did for P4 arena. The one thing I will say is that most of the girls sound the same... not sure if its the same person being the VA for multiple or if that is just the talent of American VAs.
I think that the creators only care about how cute you think the girls are. That was the foremost thought in development and everything had to have come second. The game is average at best in my opinion.
The major problem with the games are the dungeons. They all look the same and are super repetitive. the only thing that changes from dungeon to dungeon is the skin color for the walls and floor and the difference is minor at best. The dungeons go on forever and a day and every room has like 4-5 groups of enemies in it. Killing every moster in the dungeon is completely unreasonable. The grinding is unreasonable too since you can only take one girl into a dungeon at a time and that is the only way they level. The game also tells you to take in the girl with the elements that are strong against the dungeon, but that changes every dungeon soooo yeah.
It is also super easy at the start. The girl I went for was Nariko and she is earth element and is weak against wind. I took her into a dungeon that was wind and water element (she is stronk against water), but the boss happened to be a wind monster. The girl's element determines the MC's element since they attack together, but even with that I crushed the boss. I skipped all of the monsters on some of the floors to speed things up too. That was the 2nd or 3rd dungeon. But on the fourth dungeon the difficulty takes a huge spike. Its just absolutely rediculous. This game is not good enough to warrant all the the hours it thinks I should grind for.
The other major problem is that unlike in persona games there is nothing to do outside of the dungeons other than talk to girls. The relationships are also limited by the amount of dungeons you clear. So after talking to one girl 3 times you might as well get back to the dungeon grind cuz you ain't getting anywhere without it. To be honest the conversations were fairly bad and it felt like talking to a robot (a poorly voice acted robot). The options you have to respond with are so generic that your character is basically an ass or socially inept or just robotically saying what they want want to hear. Its kind of stupid to be honest.
I'm not an offical reviewer, but if you want a good jrpg with a good story, great gameplay, and compelling characters go play persona or megaten4 or Bravely Default. Seriously guys, go buy bravely default instead of this game. It is so much better.
If you guys have any other questions about the game then ask me because I can probably answer them.
Hentanize wrote...
It's out in 2 days over here so I tried the vita demo after the 3ds one since they have different content. Damn the VAs are so cringy during the anime cutscenes. It's possibly the worst dub I've ever heard in a game. Hentai dub is godlike in comparison.
Save yourself the money man, don't buy this bad game.