I just finished persona 4 and it was unironically one of the best games I have ever played. My favorite part about it was its sound track, calendar and relationship rank system( S.Link) but most importantly its story. Calendar because similar to the real world you have to spend it wisely. Leveling up your personality (could be improved on), relationships or spent it leveling up your personas and friends. the S.Link because of my other point, its story. Its a deep complex story about the insecurities teenagers have to go through in a form of solving a mystery. Its characters are extremely unique therefore they are unrelatable at first since i cant literally relate to their situation but despite that the themes of their stories and their struggles turns them into relatable and extremely likeable people (see the irony there?), since maybe i cant relate to someone like Naoto but i can relate to their main idea of struggle or how their insecurity came about. But my real favorite aspect about the characters is how they remind me of multiple people I met throughout high school and my life how ive seen them grow more independent how they made their own value in life. Its a beautiful story and game, I do have some complaints though the gameplay is extremely repetitive and i think a bit outdated (probably the only justification of why its getting a remake). The thing of the gameplay i hate the most is how when you train to get powerful move then use it, rather than making power something complimentary late game or early game, its basically how you defeat the majority of the bosses (some exceptions) and enemies in the game (Combine personas thats the thing that made the gameplay not super super repetitive) I remember hearing once that this is a game where strategy really matters but for the majority of the time thats not the case (unless its like max difficulty, even then still repetitive) . Despite that its still a game worthy of playing and throwing your money away to. I played this every now and then throughout the summer and holy crap I miss that feeling you got the first time playing it already.
