• Put some research into finding a way to not have 1/4 of the characters be pedophiles
  • Turn down the dating simmyness by about 70 %, let the other characters develop interpersonal relationships
  • Keep turning the "main character actually having character traits" dial, we can reach 10 % by 2050
  • Maybe two fewer Revolver Ocelot voice Mr. President scenes than in 5
  • Since we are doing social themes, how about "communism is good"?
  • Ska soundtrack
  • BabaIsPissed [he/him]
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    2 years ago
    • let me be gay please. Persona 2 did it more than 20 years ago this shit is getting embarrassing
    • also let people play as a girl. P3P did it.
    • no high school setting. From college onwards
    • no mascot character for the love of god
    • release your epilogue content as DLC instead of a new fucking game. This was excusable on the PS2 but holy shit it's so scummy to keep doing it
    • stop retreading the same plot over and over.
    • social links shouldn't be just you agreeing with a person.
    • they should bring back reverse social links but 10x more frequent.

    I actually like these games BTW

    • Orannis62 [ze/hir]
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      2 years ago

      let me be gay please. Persona 2 did it more than 20 years ago this shit is getting embarrassing

      Or even just don't make an exception in the game's themes for queer people! P5 is like "break free from societal expectations! But not, like, in a queer way" and it drives me up a fucking wall. Though that's still better than P4's core theme of "anything about you that you don't like is just you being delusional and you need to accept the 'truth' about yourself and conform". Naoto accepting the "hard truth" that she can "never pass the barrier between the sexes" makes me want to throw up- and hey, what do you know, it also conveniently makes Kanji's attraction to her not gay, isn't that interesting.

      no mascot character for the love of god

      I'm still so confused by how P3 had 2 mascot characters that were relatively inoffensive (Koromaru and Aigis), and then P4 and P5 made two of the most obnoxious mascots I've ever seen (at least it's not a straight "things getting worse" progression- Teddie is by far worse than Morgana)

      social links shouldn’t be just you agreeing with a person

      100%. So much of the social links end up feeling so manipulative- which, I mean, they're clearly borrowing a lot from dating sims, which are Manipulation: The Genre. But still.

  • amber2 [she/her,they/them]
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    2 years ago

    In Persona 5, you accidentally make a billionaire get a heart attack, and then the public is suddenly "The Phantom Thieves really kill? no dignity"

    Persona 6 should adapt to the pro-assassination attitudes of 2020s Japan

  • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Persona devs have heard your complaints and assure me that the next game will be at least 50% pedophiles

  • macabrett
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    2 years ago
    1. don't be openly transphobic and homophobic
  • MerryChristmas [any]
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    2 years ago

    Make it take place at a university. Or better yet, make the main character an adult. Acknowledge that the player base is aging.

    I'm just so sick of reliving high school in JRPGs.

    • AtomPunk [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Make the final boss actually be your boss from work

      • ssjmarx [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Game revolves around recruiting people to the Phantom Thieves, then in the final story arc it turns out that the Phantom Thieves are also a union.

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      7 days ago

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    • Cromalin [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      boy do i have a persona game for you! also it has the brand new feature: gay people real, and not in a homophobic way! and a femmc! amazing how all this was figured out 25 years ago, and atlus hasn't managed it since!

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    29 days ago

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    • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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      2 years ago

      This sounds like an awesome game I would 100% play if I didn't instantaneously die of boredom once a battle menu comes up in an rpg.

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        29 days ago

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        • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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          2 years ago

          I borrowed it three, going on four years ago from a friend. I know it's good, but literally any game with action elements(MGS 1, Control, Shovel Knight, Skyrim, any Zelda, 2d Metroids, JJBA: Eyes of Heaven, Medievil remake) is easier to 100% complete than the tutorial of P5 for me.

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  • jabrd [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Japanese games and adding weird pedophilic undertones. Name a better duo

    this comment brought to you by wtf harvest moon?? gang

      • jabrd [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        You can find magic seeds that transform into childlike forest spirit pixies that you then can raise to “adulthood” that you can then date. And yes they’re the worst kind of “anime = childlike” offenders. My wife quit playing the game when she discovered this

        • MC_Kublai [none/use name]
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          2 years ago

          THEY ADDED FUCKING GROOMING???

          :agony-shivering: :agony-acid: :agony-consuming: :agony-immense: :agony-limitless: :agony-mescaline: :agony-shrooms: :agony-deep: :agony-4horsemen: :agony-minion:

          • jabrd [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            The player finds a mysterious crystal in the mine and decided to take it home. After several days, Soleil will be 'born' from the crystal as an infant sprite. They are unable to speak properly and is basically a child, exhibiting a small sprite-like body. As they get older, Soleil will be able to briefly hold an adult body, as seen in some events. But, if the player manages to develop a relationship with Soleil, they will take on the form of a normal human and may be married.

            https://harvestmoon.fandom.com/wiki/Soleil_(LoH)

              • jabrd [he/him]
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                2 years ago

                Yep, and that’s the adult version. The infant version is literally wearing a diaper. It’s the most pedo bait shit I think I’ve seen in a videogame. Absolutely disgusting

              • SoloboiNanook [comrade/them]
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                2 years ago

                christ and even besides that they are insanely bad lmao wtf harvest moon gotten weird since i was doing dfrinking competitions in 64

  • WoofWoof91 [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    don't have a fat character that's just there to be the punchline to shit jokes

    persona 4G: "Look! She's fat! It's funny! LAUGH! LAUGH! LAUGH YOU DIPSHIT!!"

    • macabrett
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      2 years ago

      persona 4g is the first atlus game I ever played and I don't think I'll ever play another

      it was such an egregiously mean game. fatphobic, homophobic, and transphobic

      I have no idea why people recommend these games to people.

      • WoofWoof91 [comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        the bizarre thing about golden was that the original wasn't as bad about most of it
        like scumbag blonde kid was making progress on not being a homophobic dickhead, then the bits they added in golden made him backslide HARD

      • MC_Kublai [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        Give SMT Nocturne a try. Pure, delicious press turn combat, amazing art direction, interesting dungeons and world building, and nary a bigoted joke (to my knowledge)

        • macabrett
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          2 years ago

          no thanks, I also found persona 4 incredibly boring

          • MC_Kublai [none/use name]
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            2 years ago

            I mean I was trying to indicate that Nocturne is the antithesis of P4, but you do you :shrug-outta-hecks:

          • Redcuban1959 [any]
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            2 years ago

            B-but you can fight dante from the hit series devil may cry and even recruit him :cri:

      • Cromalin [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        p4g is the worst game I've ever played to completion. i really love the gameplay, and a lot of the characters are good, but the bad parts are so bad