Persona 5 Royal review

So last week or the week before, I beat another game. About a month or two earlier, Crystal was watching a SwitchUp video on YouTube, and they were talking about JRPGs, and mentioned that Persona 5 Royal had been released on the Switch for a while. And said if you have never played one of the best JRPGs ever, you should, and that it was on sale.

Spoiler Alert: it wasn’t, but Crystal found a work around to a place that did offer it for sale. So after it downloaded and I was at work, Crystal started playing, so she could experience the opening by herself without trying to ignore it while I was playing beside her.

I believe the next day I played it for the first time. Let me say this: this game is amazing. I found it to have a bit of a learning curve. So much so in fact, I’m really enjoying my 2nd play through more than the original play through.

This game has a mix of life sim, and turn based combat. It’s crazy how well they blend together. You have to learn how to balance “work” (combat and dungeons) to “home” (school, part time jobs, hanging out with friends). It’s a delicate balance that you have to find very quickly.

Almost immediately, after completing the game, I started a second play through. The game does reward you for playing again, which is new to me, but I like how they do it.

Spoiler alert: the last nine photos are end game, before the system stopped allowing me to take screenshots.

Lockup Library game score: 9/10