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Lunacid was extremely enjoyable to explore but the gameplay is a little lacking. The “holy” element is extraordinarily powerful against most foes, so your weapon choices are effectively limited. It’s also quite easy on default settings, while the difficulty slider seems to do nothing but inflate or deflate monster HP and damage.

I’d love to see a Lunacid 2 someday.

How’s the gameplay stack up as compared to P5R and SMT5? Do they go with baton pass, single-aspect party members instead of swappable summons and other Persona things or is it closer to mainline SMT?

P5R is fun but definitely harmed a lot by the combination of silent protagonist and the characters being children. The game being stupidly easy doesn’t help, either.

There was also a big issue with Anne’s backstory involving sexual harassment and assault by the teacher we’re investigating and our forced fourth party member being a bog standard “anime sex pest character” who immediately begins harassing her the moment he meets her. Kind of tone deaf writing there.

There’s some genuinely good character moments that are unfortunately hamstrung by the silent protagonist, especially when other characters get voiced lines in the same scene. I don’t expect P6 to change this but it’s a serious design flaw, IMO.

Great music and visuals and possibly the best UX I’ve seen since Dead Space. The definitely final boss added in Royal is on my top 10 favorite villains because… shit, dude maybe kinda has a point, don’t he?

Replayed Blasphemous and Blasphemous 2 for the fourth time since Blasphemous 2 just got a pretty good “legally distinct Castlevania” DLC for free recently.

Blasphemous 2 is still pretty far up on the list of greatest metroidvanias and can be had pretty cheap these days.