So, for people like me who missed it the first time around, or the uninitiated, the Persona games (ever since 3) are a strange mashup of two of Japan’s favourite genres the fantasy RPG and the social simulator. This is a pimped-out all-guns-blazing stylish re-imagining of a game that was already top of its class. Royal is so much more than a repackaged Game of the Year Edition with bundled DLC, but it’s also a bit less than a rebuilt game from the ground up, like the FF7 Remake, the recent Resident Evils or Shadow of the Colossus. For the last 4 years Atlus have been spending their time honing, refining, slicing away chaff and adding heaps of new content into what has become Persona 5 Royal, a tremendous return to form for a genre that’s spent a decade on life-support. I was so disillusioned by this point I missed it the first time around. And after a hiatus of 8 years Persona 5 crashed onto the scene in 2016 reminding everyone of just how good JPGs can really be. Zelda: Breath of the Wild redefined the open world trope so relied upon by western developers. Thankfully there are one or two games that buck the trend and keep a fan’s hope alive. Masterful immersive titles used to come thick and fast, but in the last decade the genre has floundered against the rocks. At the same time, people like me who had grown up on high quality FFs 7, 8 and 9, Xenogears, Star Ocean Second Story, Suikoden and Chrono Trigger, were expected to stomach fifty awful Kingdom Hearts decimal points that did nothing but leave a bad taste in the mouth (Don’t even get me started on what we eventually got with III).
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The average quality of the JPRG took a nosedive in the mid-2000s – Final Fantasy churned out 12 and 13 and all its terrible sequels (and the less said about 15 the better), Xenosaga started well but lost sales with every instalment until it was cancelled, the Tales series died after Symphonia and still trades on the strength of Vesperia, only viewed as great in the dearth of other quality titles. Since then that side of the genre has taken over with franchises like Fallout, Dragon Age, Mass Effect and Elder Scrolls commanding the console market for whole generations. I had little exposure to any western ones during the nineties, and only really started to take notice of them in the early 2000s. As a teenager I was obsessed by JPRGs, or as we referred to them at the time, RPGs.
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