You're not required to min-max and the actual combat's pretty easy as long as you remember each enemy typically has some sort of weakness to one of the elements/attack types. Honestly I think it's pretty easy even on the hardest difficulty, because while enemies do hit harder - you do too. From the wiki:
If an attack's element is Resisted by the target, it will deal x0.5 damage. If the target is Weak towards that element, the attack will deal x1.4 damage. If the difficulty is set to Merciless, the damage from exploiting weak points will also be tripled in comparison to the normal damage an exploitative attack would deal.
The game's not a chore and if you pick up Royal (instead of base P5R) they went back and improved a lot of the tedious mechanics by adding new things/confidant skills. A good example is they fixed a lot of the tedious travel you had to do in a palace (dungeon) to get places by giving Joker his grappling hook in P5R.
It can be kinda grindy at some points if you try to just speed past the dungeons (there's really hard exp caps so teh game is basically balanced around being like, two/three levels below it) and the stats from a single level up are surprisingly important but it's a really fun classic JRPG that has relatively simple mechanics overall. Hit weakness, apply buffs/debuffs and just kill a bunch of shit.
Is that game like, quite fun and not super confusing and min-maxxy? I'm looking for an RPG to play
You're not required to min-max and the actual combat's pretty easy as long as you remember each enemy typically has some sort of weakness to one of the elements/attack types. Honestly I think it's pretty easy even on the hardest difficulty, because while enemies do hit harder - you do too. From the wiki:
The game's not a chore and if you pick up Royal (instead of base P5R) they went back and improved a lot of the tedious mechanics by adding new things/confidant skills. A good example is they fixed a lot of the tedious travel you had to do in a palace (dungeon) to get places by giving Joker his grappling hook in P5R.
It can be kinda grindy at some points if you try to just speed past the dungeons (there's really hard exp caps so teh game is basically balanced around being like, two/three levels below it) and the stats from a single level up are surprisingly important but it's a really fun classic JRPG that has relatively simple mechanics overall. Hit weakness, apply buffs/debuffs and just kill a bunch of shit.
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This is good info, thanks 👍