I’m… maybe halfway? through Persona 4 (at the boss fight against Teddy’s shadow). I’m about 30 minutes into FF6. Which JRPG should I spend too much time with while I’m between jobs?
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How are you feeling Persona 4 in 2019?
Well, I played the first half of it last year and then took a long hiatus. I was having a pretty good time with it but it was way too long (especially the interminable, boring dungeons followed by incredibly tough boss fights), and after the super problematic school camping trip scene I decided to give it a rest.
However, while I was still enjoying it I bought a cool Midnight Channel shirt from Fangamer, so now I feel really obligated to finish the game. I also gotta admit I want to know where the plot goes.
it isn’t going to get any better unfortunately
Yeah I voted for p4.
P4 is super problematic in a lot of ways but I really enjoyed the dungeon loop up until the end, and the final twist in the story is pretty cool.
This is also partly a reaction to my utter, complete, inability to pay attention to FFVI every time I’ve tried it and i’ve played P4 1.5 times. 
Final Fantasy VI is one of the most boring video game sI’ve ever played but it is leagues above and beyond the shitshow that is persona 4
i voted P4, but i want to take it back, because i remembered all its cool twists are at the very end of the game and there’s a bunch of horseshit in between i bet i would hate now.
Have you played FFVI before? If not go do that instead. You don’t seem that jazzed about the actual play part of P4 (it’s bad dungeons and hard bosses all the way down!) and the story just goes into more grating territory. Man i just remembered what happens with Teddie after you beat his shadow and gritted my teeth. Ahhhggh
FFVI has the best plot twist in the series halfway through and then turns into a worse game honk honk
P4 is a great game and got a lot of love and seemed to be the real breakout hit, but I’ll always prefer P3. Has any Japanese game developer handled adolescence in a decent way at all in the history of mankind?
Giftpia, possibly
i voted p4 because you might as well finish it, theres cool stuff in it and you havent caught the big fish yet
but if you play ff6 dont pick a version with bad fonts im begging you
The ff6 version I would play is the OG edition on the SNES Classic.
my one weird take is to wait on ff6 until the next release of the brave new world hack comes out with the original translation as an option and playing it in something with a fast forward button
depends on what you’re looking to get out of it though i guess!
Play something you enjoy playing, instead of trying to put a virtual check into a tiny box on a long list of wastes of times?
Seriously tho, i think you can watch the FF6 intro unfold, make your way to Narshe and leave it at that, in a kind of “what if terra never became sentinent” way, and enjoy it like that.
Both Persona 4 and FF6 I’ve restarted countless times (P4 I’ve never finished)
There’s something uniquely bad about their pacing even compared to other contemporary RPGs. They kept me going back but don’t have enough weird or unique elements to justify it?
Slay the Spire is so engaging moment to moment compared to these two
Uh ff6 is my favorite final fantasy
persona sux
alternatively play nocturne or greatest snes jarpeg romancing saga 2
earthbound
well since the floodgates have been opened and we’re offering third options now
play suikoden
I loved P4 right up until the midpoint. I think the beach sequence was right around there. I just didn’t care enough to keep slogging forward.
I eventually did and didn’t feel like it was worth it. I think I just don’t like the tedium of that style of JRPG to the point where I can’t suffer through it for the great atmosphere, fun characters, and varied locations. The fucking like, caveman-level transphobic goof-em-ups didn’t help either.
It’s impossible for me to say whether or not FF6 would be fun for someone just starting it. I have way, way too much rose-tinted nostalgia to give an honest answer. I want to say that if you liked Chrono Trigger, you’ll like FF6 a lot.