Persona 5

 PlayStation 4
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8.7

Generally favorable reviews- based on 5569 Ratings

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  3. Negative: 563 out of 5569
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  1. pogcifik
    Nov 7, 2018
    0
    Weird directing and anime style. One of the most overrated game. 0/10 would not play again.
  2. morendo6tee
    Nov 15, 2018
    0
    Extremely overrated: the story is bad and it pales in comparision to Persona 4, superior to it in all possible ways. The gameplay being uninspired doesnt help either but I'd forgive it if the story was at least all right.
  3. 360barrier
    Nov 18, 2022
    0
    a friend recommended this to me so I spent £150 to buy it even the persona 5 royal already came out and oh my god it was such a waste of time. if you want to play this buy royal the superior edition. be warned though because that game has a ton of pay to win micro transactions and also has and awful camera, awful graphics, awful controls and bad theme.
  4. Bloomball
    Jan 13, 2021
    0
    I generally don’t like this genre. I disliked this game even more than other RPGs. I won’t spoil anything here just in case you want to enjoy the game but it’s just my opinion.
  5. RwolfBonerush
    May 11, 2019
    0
    While artistic in design persona 5 is a slog of a game. The narrative and characters get progressively worse as the story goes on and the gameplay is mostly just reading. The game also give you fake diol huge options where you are given various ways to say the same thing, “say yes, say I agree, or say totally!” This happens dozens of times. Not only that but the game depicts gay charactersWhile artistic in design persona 5 is a slog of a game. The narrative and characters get progressively worse as the story goes on and the gameplay is mostly just reading. The game also give you fake diol huge options where you are given various ways to say the same thing, “say yes, say I agree, or say totally!” This happens dozens of times. Not only that but the game depicts gay characters as pedophilic sexual predators for laughs and takes aim at a surviver of sexual abuse ( Ann) in a comic sexual way in the game many times which she is clearly uncomfortable with. Overall a horribly flawed game with horrible pacing and a worse narrative, but very stylish presentation.… Expand
  6. mitochondria369
    May 20, 2019
    0
    I hated this game very much. The game featured a very poor story and the characters seemed to have been developed in a hurry. I did not like that my best friend told me I would like it. It is very disliked.
  7. Kingdomhear
    Nov 11, 2020
    0
    Dopo aver sentito parlare così bene di questo gioco lo ho provato...dura più di 100 ore !!! Bellissimo !!...
  8. MertE7
    Jan 21, 2020
    0
    Berbat bir oyun. Savaşları gereksiz derecede zor. 20 küsür saat oynadım şimdi oturup giden vakitlere üzülüyorum. Almayın aldırmayın. Anca weeblerin seveceği saçma sapan bir şey.
  9. Hawaiian
    Mar 24, 2020
    0
    Veo grandes fallos en el juego que afectarían al rendimiento de la consola. La jugabilidad es imposible y no se merece más.
  10. Huysolo
    Dec 1, 2021
    0
    The good: Visual
    The bad:
    - This game is grindy as **** And the game keeps reminding you how grindy it is by using a ****ty, outdated save system, repeated enemies in a castle, some could one hit kill your mc and a ****ty security levels which forces you to kill the same enemies in 3 **** round. And how to lower the security level you may ask, kill more of the same enemies until you ran    The good: Visual
    The bad:
    - This game is grindy as **** And the game keeps reminding you how grindy it is by using a ****ty, outdated save system, repeated enemies in a castle, some could one hit kill your mc and a ****ty security levels which forces you to kill the same enemies in 3 **** round. And how to lower the security level you may ask, kill more of the same enemies until you ran out of SP of course.
    - The story and the characters has little to no depth to them. All the characters need to do to overcome their problems is to have the same ****ty power up to defeat the bad guy. The dialogues are mediocre to bad which tons on cringy jokes    … Expand
  11. Akashdeep
    Sep 10, 2021
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. **** story with generic anime harem waifu **** **** port begging Fandom
    Play a real shin megomi tensay gaem like nortunce strange journey jack bros last Bible demi kids kyuuyaku megami tensei Ronde instead    … Expand
  12. ph45fs
    Dec 6, 2020
    0
    Um completo pedaço de merda, essa merda estar classificada como jogo eh uma afronta para a sociedade eh uma porra de uma visual novel RUIM, a unica coisa q vc faz nessa merda eh pular dialogo, musica de jogo porno japones, koikatsu party tem um grafico melhor q essa merda. historia de anime ruim genérica e previsível. nao tente jogar essa merda. ate o anime eh mais bem feito o jogo inteiroUm completo pedaço de merda, essa merda estar classificada como jogo eh uma afronta para a sociedade eh uma porra de uma visual novel RUIM, a unica coisa q vc faz nessa merda eh pular dialogo, musica de jogo porno japones, koikatsu party tem um grafico melhor q essa merda. historia de anime ruim genérica e previsível. nao tente jogar essa merda. ate o anime eh mais bem feito o jogo inteiro parece q foi desenhado por uma criança, a qualidade dos desenhos no anime sao mto superiores a esse esterco. NAO perca seu tempo com essa merda.… Expand
  13. xronnoz
    Sep 30, 2021
    0
    Poorly designed character with nothing, full of cliches and honestly a waste of time, if you like this game and it's your favorite the you have never played persona 3 or smt nocturne, too easy even in hardest difficulty.
  14. FilipWit
    Nov 27, 2020
    0
    Stupidly overrated. People only played the first arc and assumed the whole game is like that. The first arc is very good, yes, but the game never reaches anything close to that level later on. It's also way too long, the dungeons just drag on and on and on. It takes over 100 hours just to finish the MAIN STORY. The dialogues are crappy, lots of information is repeated for no reason, otherStupidly overrated. People only played the first arc and assumed the whole game is like that. The first arc is very good, yes, but the game never reaches anything close to that level later on. It's also way too long, the dungeons just drag on and on and on. It takes over 100 hours just to finish the MAIN STORY. The dialogues are crappy, lots of information is repeated for no reason, other dialogues state the obvious for no reason and there's also lots of fodder, text that adds nothing to anything, but the characters say it nonetheless. This game also has a randomly generated dungeon that has like 60 floors. The floors are about as generic and braindead as your typical randomly generated dungeon. But here's the kicker- in order to finish the game you have to go through all of those randomly generated crappy levels.

    This game is good for like the first 10 or so hours, the rest is just a waste of time. So much pointless fodder in everything, don't bother.    … Expand
  15. timecop1994
    Aug 22, 2020
    0
    I just can’t enjoy this game and I can’t understand how anyone can call this a masterpiece. There is no gameplay at all, Its just walking from one point to another. The turned based combat is super boring. This is not even a game, its more like a anime in which you control your character to walk from point A to point B. If pressing button to skip to next line of conversation your thingI just can’t enjoy this game and I can’t understand how anyone can call this a masterpiece. There is no gameplay at all, Its just walking from one point to another. The turned based combat is super boring. This is not even a game, its more like a anime in which you control your character to walk from point A to point B. If pressing button to skip to next line of conversation your thing then this is the game for you. I personally feel like I wasted my money.… Expand
  16. nobugs
    Feb 16, 2021
    0
    Persona 5 is overrated trash. Do not believe the hype. Worst RPG ever made. SEGA SUCKS
  17. Pleh5645
    Nov 19, 2020
    0
    This game is stupid in every sense of the word. 40 hrs in and I still get killed by normal mobs. Even at level 30. I might as well play dark souls.
  18. eodnclfck
    Jan 12, 2021
    0
    개짜증나 진짜 ㅅㅂㅅㅂ 아니 게임 재밌게해서 로얄 샀는데 ㅈㄴ 후회중이다 존나 비싼데 컨텐츠 추가는 적고 어이없게 죽는게 너무 불공평함 진짜 ㅈ까라 내맘대로 평가할거니까
  19. Spookydabz
    Jan 24, 2021
    0
    This game isn't really that good cause it is a Turn-Based JRPG and has anime art-style.

    Play a real game like Mario Odyssey
  20. Charly345
    Apr 20, 2021
    0
    Now that I have finished the game I can say that it was the best RPG I have ever played.
  21. Dibalin
    Oct 24, 2021
    0
    Отсутствует русская локализация. Нет озвучки!
  22. Ssanghelic
    Oct 29, 2021
    0
    persona 5 es facilmente uno de los mejores rpg que he jugado en toda mi vida, empezando por su increible carisma, diseño, soundtrack y estilo grafico muy llamativos e innovadores, el sistema de confidants del juego que basicamente te permite que tu personaje adquiera nuevas habilidades a traves de administrar su tiempo en la vida real es de las cosas mas adictivas e inteligentes, elpersona 5 es facilmente uno de los mejores rpg que he jugado en toda mi vida, empezando por su increible carisma, diseño, soundtrack y estilo grafico muy llamativos e innovadores, el sistema de confidants del juego que basicamente te permite que tu personaje adquiera nuevas habilidades a traves de administrar su tiempo en la vida real es de las cosas mas adictivas e inteligentes, el sistema de calendario te obligara a tomar deicisiones de forma inteligente, su sistema de combate es extremadamente satisfactorio y hace que (a diferencia de en otros rpg) las batallas no se vuelvan cansadas o largas sino que todo lo contrario, ya que debido al sistema de debilidades de los enemigos y los personajes el juego te fomentara jugar de forma inteligente y precavida con tal de derrotar lo mas rapido posible a los enemigos, la historia aunque no es brillante es lo suficientemente entretenida para querer llegar al final y los personajes estan llenos de carisma (sin contar el hecho de que puedes conocer mas a profundidad a cada uno de los personajes) el juego dura mas de 100 horas pero de todas esas horas apenas un par las senti aburridas mas de 90 horas de puro entretenimiento, aun asi, recomiendo que mejor consigas persona 5 royale, ya que añade todavia mas contenido y equilibra el juego muchisimo mejor con tal de que no se sienta repetitivo.… Expand
  23. swaggysack
    Nov 13, 2022
    0
    My personal favorite game ever. Maybe not objectively the best and the fandom sucks for it. A great linear story that isn't surface-level and when finished will make you want to play Royal immediately after.
  24. MaddieStrange
    Apr 3, 2023
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Spoilers!

    Despite the fact that this game gave us Morgana, a character that I hate so much that 5000000 characters would not be enough to space to list all my objections to his existence, the game remains one of the best I've ever played and absolutely poggers.
    The game's greatest strength is definitely it's characters and story, but the thing it does better than any other game is it's ability to make you despise it's villains. I'm talking "want to rip their spines out and whip them with their own vertebrae".
    First you have the Alpha male, the bully, the jock, the King. He's a representation of the Japanese schooling system, and the game is so brazen about it's critique that it turns the school into a sick palace made by this guy's mind.
    Then you have what is essentially a critique of the unfortunate tendencies of the Japanese to exploit child labour, paired with a metaphor for an internship model, showing actual monuments to people that this system has completely ruined.
    Following that is a crime boss who sees the entire city as his own personal bank, to the point of making civilians into ATMs. Yet another unsubtle kick to the bollocks for Japanese society, this time for the way it treats it's people. They had to dress it up a little in the form a crime boss, but frankly the criminal aspect is almost negligible in this sequence.
    The next villain is a bloody CEO, and just in case you thought he was going to have some redeeming qualities, he's also willing to sell his daughter into marriage with an abusive pervert! Then we get a look into how this man sees the world, and it's... He sees people as slave labour. Straight up, people are his slaves and he will use them as literal fuel for a corporate furnace.
    Next target is the Justice system, and they decided to compare the Japanese court system to a Las Vegas style casino, where all the games are rigged and the house always wins. Not a lot more to say about that one other than the fact that the final boss is portrayed as an unstoppable war machine, really hammering home the point that the system is vicious and violent and will squish anyone under it's fat wheels.
    Second to last is a politician, and holy cow, this one's taken all the hate that was carefully cultivated by all the other villains and then given us a cathedral to people like them. Not a literal cathedral, mind you, but a cruise ship, filled with the mental projection of people who could have hypothetically been other villains in the story (hundred of them) and having them all ruled over by the Prime Minister of the country, dressed as Napoleon, and steering the elites through the sunken wreckage of the country.

    So, you'd think they'd stop there, having systematically attacked every aspect of Society. But wait, there's more! The last boss is actually Society itself, manifested as a god who would genuinely like to destroy the world because it view people (meaning that Society views people) as without purpose, worth or point of existence. It turns the entire world into a barren hellscape, pulled from the little minds of the people that make up Japan's society. The message is obvious. "This isn't the fault of the Elites, the Criminals, the Bullies and the Bastards. This is your fault!"

    And while the game is far from subtle in it's spiteful views on Japan and it's people, it really takes the time to make them seem even worse, by sprinkling in minor villains ranging across thieves, abusive parents, abusive teachers, horrible employers and bullying children. And then there's school, in which you will be given titbits of useful information, all loosely tied to the current villain and white a right piece of filth they are. (Example, meeting the CEO who view his employees as robots, then a few days later learning that robot translates to Slave Labour)

    Loads of games try to get political, pitting you against the world and letting you change it through choice and action, but those games are usually set in other worlds, not in modern-day Tokyo. And even games that shape the world around broken systems and abused power, don't manage to tie it's villains to the world in such a perfect way. Usually, JRPGs don't give you a huge amount of satisfaction with every move you make, but I cherished every single attack I threw at those bosses.

    Characters are also brilliant, as is animation, graphics and I'd be mad as a hatter not to mention the sexy HUD and Menus. All in all, one of the best games ever made, and I'd say anyone who doesn't like it needs a change of heart.    … Expand
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#1 Best PS4 Game of 2017
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#4 Most Discussed PS4 Game of 2017
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#2 Most Shared PS4 Game of 2017

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93

Universal acclaim - based on 98 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 97 out of 98
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 98
  3. Negative: 0 out of 98
  1. Cubed3
    Jun 4, 2019
    90
    Persona 5 is an absolutely amazing game that convinces with its art style, music and story. It has anything one could ask for such a game and more. The turn-based battle system offers a wide array of opportunities. While it may not be everyone's cup of tea, it is definitely recommended to give it a go.
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  2. PLAY! Zine
    Feb 22, 2018
    90
    Persona 5 is a great example of quality jRPG game, with a good story, great battle system and fabulous artistic style, this is a must have for the fans of the series and the genre.
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  3. Power Unlimited
    Oct 19, 2017
    93
    Persona 5 beats every other turn-based RPG in terms of production values, combat, story, symbolics, character design, music, pace and variety. 2017 is a great year for gaming and Persona 5 confirms this with a load of unmatched swagger.
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