What a journey!

Although having heard a lot about Persona games, I had never played a Persona game or shin megami tensei game before this one.

You know when people ask "what's your favorite game?" Always hard to pin point one, right? There's nostalgia, there's different types of games, there's different experiences in life, etc...
But when someone asks "what are some of your favorite games?"
Now, that's easier! Everybody has an easy list they can just start to spill. And mine now has Persona 4 Golden among the first ones, easily.

The only games in recent memory that got me so invested in them were Yakuza 0 and Witcher 3. That's extremely high praise coming from me.

I bought this game less than 3 weeks ago and I'm standing now at 136 hours, 2 playthroughs and all achievements. And I just about finished downloading the anime. I haven't watched an anime or had any interest in them for more than 15 years.

The atmosphere, the story, the characters, the soundtrack... It's just perfect. You really do care about your friends and what's going on around your character. I won't deny the game has some issues, though. The dungeons are sometimes too long and there are some times that the game takes control away from the player for too much time. But coming up with these two points honestly feels like nitpicking.

This is the RPG that has the most satisfying "role play" I've ever experienced. I'm 29 years old and I wish I could be a teenager in Inaba for a year.

I can't recommend this game highly enough. It truly is worth the hype.

P.S. Yukiko best waifu.