The most obvious criticism to make is towards the story, is blatantly dumbed down vs previous games. I will ignore that and judge it simply on its own merits. A quick disclaimer here though is that since I hate turn based combat, my bf was actually the one playing and I was just watching and talking about it.
However, I can’t talk about bad things P5R does without discussing this first…
The game actively continues the dangerous notion that it’s okay for adult women to prey on teen boys and it’s disgusting. There is no justification for why they are constantly sexualizing the teacher in front of the kid and allowing you to date her. This genuinely needs the least amount of explanation, it’s just gross.
Now onto the main issue I have.
The game is extremely inaccessible with its design and gives me and my bf massive headaches to look at for too long.
Before I delve deep into this it’s worth noting that P5R did fix a lot of these issues actually. However, P5R is also an extremely overpriced DLC which is an entirely different matter.
The game has an extreme over reliance on movement in its UI making everything extremely hard to read or focus on. When you select a dialogue option, the background behind the text is moving. Characters names are obscured like a captcha in dialogue boxes (which move). When standing still in the overworld every icon on the screen is moving (most notably the weather icon is moving the most) Even when the game is paused the background is constantly moving. The worst offender for this is the dungeons which have a terrible warping effect on the side of the screen that cause really bad tunnel vision.
I spend a lot of my time when I do UX/UI design (I’m a front end developer) making sure my design is as accessible as possible. I am a big believer that video games can be art and are fantastic at it… but P5 felt like it was constantly fighting against having anyone play it by being the single most headache-inducing game I’ve ever experienced.
Anyway that’s my big rant about how perpetuating harmful notions about allowing boys to be r*ped is bad and also a giant wall of text on how the UI is terrible and actively harms a portion of it’s player base.
Anyway, I don’t hate persona at all, just this one entry. I plan to watch the bf play P3R when it comes out cuz Persona 3 was fantastic and the remake looks like it’s going to be good.
Conversely I really liked how dynamic the UI was and that was one of the things that made it stand out. I didn’t even think about that it could be a problem for some people but feels like the kind of thing that could be turned off in an accessibility menu in the next one hopefully.
The most obvious criticism to make is towards the story, is blatantly dumbed down vs previous games. I will ignore that and judge it simply on its own merits. A quick disclaimer here though is that since I hate turn based combat, my bf was actually the one playing and I was just watching and talking about it.
However, I can’t talk about bad things P5R does without discussing this first…
The game actively continues the dangerous notion that it’s okay for adult women to prey on teen boys and it’s disgusting. There is no justification for why they are constantly sexualizing the teacher in front of the kid and allowing you to date her. This genuinely needs the least amount of explanation, it’s just gross.
Now onto the main issue I have.
The game is extremely inaccessible with its design and gives me and my bf massive headaches to look at for too long.
Before I delve deep into this it’s worth noting that P5R did fix a lot of these issues actually. However, P5R is also an extremely overpriced DLC which is an entirely different matter.
The game has an extreme over reliance on movement in its UI making everything extremely hard to read or focus on. When you select a dialogue option, the background behind the text is moving. Characters names are obscured like a captcha in dialogue boxes (which move). When standing still in the overworld every icon on the screen is moving (most notably the weather icon is moving the most) Even when the game is paused the background is constantly moving. The worst offender for this is the dungeons which have a terrible warping effect on the side of the screen that cause really bad tunnel vision.
I spend a lot of my time when I do UX/UI design (I’m a front end developer) making sure my design is as accessible as possible. I am a big believer that video games can be art and are fantastic at it… but P5 felt like it was constantly fighting against having anyone play it by being the single most headache-inducing game I’ve ever experienced.
Anyway that’s my big rant about how perpetuating harmful notions about allowing boys to be r*ped is bad and also a giant wall of text on how the UI is terrible and actively harms a portion of it’s player base.
Anyway, I don’t hate persona at all, just this one entry. I plan to watch the bf play P3R when it comes out cuz Persona 3 was fantastic and the remake looks like it’s going to be good.
Conversely I really liked how dynamic the UI was and that was one of the things that made it stand out. I didn’t even think about that it could be a problem for some people but feels like the kind of thing that could be turned off in an accessibility menu in the next one hopefully.