It really is a shame there are no male love interest options…mainly because the airsoft shop owner is super hot and could totally get it.

"You call this a steak? If you served this in any restaurant in New York City you'd be LAUGHED out of town!!"

Well, this is horrifying. Thankfully, I live on the 9th floor, but now I'm wondering if that gives me a false sense of security.

I was immediately thinking of my favorite Shirley Manson looks.

Well to pick a popular recent topic, I really appreciate Persona 5 for bringing back a few things that have been gone from the series for a while: guns as a secondary weapon, the Psi and Frei elements, and demon interaction/negotiation. A perfect wink to long-time fans of the series, without alienating anyone who is…

Well, it's all about the mystery, isn't it? At least for me, it is. How did a technically very impressive and beautiful place become this horrible, dilapitated ruin filled with violent, psychotic people? Piecing together what happened is what makes that game for me.

Yeah it's definitely flawed. I'm glad they were able to iron out some of the kinks in the later games. It's actually my favorite in the series, but that has more to do with it being the first I played. I can objectively recognize 4 and 5 as better games.

Heh…well, I remember that game a lot more fondly than you apparently do, but I would agree with you that Death and Inevitability (as well as Time) are the biggest themes there.

I will burn Madrid!

Hey, thanks for the heads up! Looks like I have another game to play this weekend!

Understandably. Maxing those out is certainly a lot more engaging than raising the social stats.

My progress in Persona 5 has slowed considerably, but that's only because I had a busy week without much time to play games. I'll be diving back in this weekend. I'm still in mid June, and am aware of who the third villain is thanks to the detective, but haven't actually met him in-game yet. As for what I'm mostly…

Main character in critical HP, weak to bufu, and this ice-themed boss will surely take him out when her turn is up.

Yeah, I really hate that argument. Something like Shovel Knight is a perfect example of this kind of thing done right. Obviously, SK is trying to recreate 8-bit platformers, but it did so by bringing back what most players loved about those games, getting rid of what most players (forgot they) hated about those games,…

I recently played through Mario Galaxy for the first time, and there's a game that knows how to guide you to your goal in big levels.

Might the difference be in the games' themes? I mean, Persona 4 was very much about accepting the truth about yourself, the good, the bad and the ugly, whereas Persona 5 so far seems to be more about the baggage that people place on each other, justified or not.

Heh, nobody seems to like Ryuji in these comments. I don't get it, I think he's cool. Out of all the "best bro" characters (Masao, Junpei, Yosuke, and Ryuji), I think he's my favorite.

Did you ever do a New Game+? Maxing all of the social links on a regular New Game on Persona 3…I'm not actually even sure if it's possible. Is it? At least with a NG+, your social stats carry over, so you'll never have to spend your time studying or singing karaoke, etc.

I love his "Grrrr…I'm pissed, damn it!" when he gets hit with Rage. It's kind of hard to take seriously coming from that tiny little voice.

The translation is pretty weird, but I have to say, I really appreciate just the sheer amount of text written for this game. Just about everything in the world is observable. A large amount of them don't even do anything except make Morgana make a comment or trigger a thought bubble from the protagonist, but there are…