While I’ve always found the Persona games mugh less enjoyable than the mainline SMT games (Persona 5 was the only one I truly liked), Persona 4 is a competent JRPG. Might as well pick up again, since I only played it on PS2, more than 10 years ago, and never got anywhere close to Golden.

...I take it you aren’t familiar with Kotaku’s style of reviewing? If those are seriously your complaints, I agree that you should look for criticism to consume elsewhere.

Many gushing reviews read like the rather naive words of college sophomores reading Upton Sinclair for the first time and feeling like their eyes have finally been “opened”, so I don’t believe that is a knock against this particular piece.

HOLY SHIT YES

Yeah, we can’t get enough of those. The more, the merrier.

Oh, I see. My point is, if you like tea that comes in bags, you will most likely enjoy loose leaf teas. I’ve seen quite some people that simply did not get any enjoyment from tea bags, however, but ended up becoming tea lovers once they tasted the good stuff.

By the way, if you like tea with sugar, you could try…

Two good places to start are Teavivre and Yuunam Sourcing (I was going to provide links, but Kinja is not working properly. A simple google search should bring them up, though). Both are Chinese companies with US-based branches that ship directly from the country, which should make things easier. I don’t know if they…

Twinings is actually far from fancy - it is a mid-level brand at best, and I’d really hesitate to describe their taste as anything approaching top-class. It is mostly a nice enough, functional tea that you drink when you don’t have loose leaves on hand - at work, for instance.

It’s not impossible to find loose leaves in your average grocery store, but it is unlikely - and in the event they DO have them, it probably won’t be a high-quality product, even at high-end locations. Loose leaves require special packaging, handling and don’t sell quickly, so they don’t really fit the business model…

Have you been drinking tea that comes in bags? If your answer is yes, you might want to consider switching to loose leaves; I know many people who used to say they hated tea, but changed their minds once they tasted some actually good tea.

Drinking tea right now: Jasmine Pearls. I absolutely adore them.

Zack is quite apt at over-analyzing silly gags and getting hurt by them. It is pretty much his schtick at this point.

That’s just his schtick. See his previous posts: everything he says makes it really clear he considers himself a paragon of morality. I wouldn’t bother.

VI is not strictly a “mainline game”, since it is not canon. The story takes place in a parallel world and it has been described as a “festival game” by the producer. It is also MUCH less violent and has no fatalities.

That’s the article’s criticism, yes. The person I replied to, however, is criticizing the design itself, implying that it is utterly absurd, which is why I pointed out that they must not be familiar with japanese fighting games. Compared to some of the designs out there, she is outright tame.

She’s been a very popular character in the series for years. This is her first time appearing in a mainline game, though.

Well, Summer woudl believe her.

You can play it right now. It is ridiculously easy to find. The point is that Nintendo’s efforts are just for show, in the end; anyone who wants to play this will still be able to. Look at AM2r: for all of Nintendo’s efforts to wipe it off the map, it is still widely available and is being constantly improved and…

This is essentially just for show. The same thing happened with AM2R: not only is it still widely available, but fans have even patched and improved on the base game.

In that case we can just resort to piracy, I suppose.