Does Difficulty in Persona *REALLY* Matter?

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[kieroncampion]

The games are only easy if you know how to play. I died a lot during P5 because I had know idea what I was doing.

[giovi]

My first persona game was Persona 5 and, in reality, if you're playing without knowing the bosses, it's quite difficult because, for example, i was stuck at Madarame's boss fight.
Then I played Persona 3 Reload and the hanged boss fight was very difficult for me.

[rininabin]

Literally every other Atlas game gives me the difficulty I need. Trust me I don't need it in persona okay

[Jermaine]

For you, a Persona vet yes the game is easy. But for general groups or newbies it’s got a few difficulty spikes

[nocturne]

The begining of yukikos castle was brutal but after that the difficulty slowly nose dives 😂

[verymelonman]

Even if some people find the original versions (Not FES, Golden, or Royal) of Persona 3, 4, and 5 too easy that's not the same as the games actually being easy. A truly easy game would be something literally anyone could beat, and games that easy do exist. The Persona games aren't something everyone could finish getting to the end of, and that's why it's difficulty matters. No different than any how some people can't beat other hard games, while others find those games pretty easy themselves.

[GenVlt]

totally agreed with what you said. I played my first persona game a year ago (Persona 5 royal) and it was my first turn based game. The fact that it wasn’t too hard made me a lot more engaged in the game. Now that i am good, i still find persona 5 royal fun to play for it’s mechanics, story and characters

[matchingbird]

It’s very humbling hearing people say Persona games are easy when I still get stuck on bosses

[sandow]

At the end of the day, it boils down to preferences. Some people are more casual and want to play on an easier difficulty, while other people want to be challenged as much as possible

[Akechi_The_Phantom_Detective]

To put it simply, no and I kind of feel that's the case with most RPG's because it's a numbers game and once you figure out how to turn them to your advantage you can't really unlearn that information. In RPG's I always find the only true challenge on repeat visits are self-imposed challenge style runs. I do appreciate Episode Aegis coming back with Heartless Difficulty and I think Strikers and Q2 did a fantastic job with their Merciless and Risky Difficulties as well.

[hollamonm]

Time management is crucial in Persona and honestly, the Life Sim side is what makes it "difficult" I recently beat NG+ Reload... I had an inoptomal use of the and uh.... yeah, bit me in the butt. But that's like the sort of thing you need to know, for maxed out S. Links with the max number of them. If I'd used my time better, well, let's just say I wouldn't have missed Aeon and Lovers (romanced Mitsuru, so since I lost too many days, Yukari ended up taking the hit instead of Mitsuru), just a dumb NG+ mistake, but damn can optimal time usage really make the game far easier...

[shirrenthewanderer]

I would say that later Person games are easier simply because it's less convoulted to IV breed, EV train the "pokemon" you want with the TM you want on them. You got skill cards and you can select when skills your new person will inherit, and you can buy back the personas you used.

[GalSep]

I'm actually happy that games can have those super easy modes. I have a full time job and have to deal with other shit in my day to day life. So having easy games were I can experience the whole story in persona without having to grind an already stupidly long game is appreciated. I finished P3R and P5R and if it wasn't easy I wouldn't even finished them bc those are incredibly long as they are

[Litten-sbeg]

Hmm, maybe a good middle ground is to keep the easy-medium-hard the average persona experience while making Merciless's difficulty more akin to SMTVV medium/hard ? (only smt game im playing through so far and basically thebonly comparison i can make)

I feel like then we'd have some sort of compromise for both players.

[Khalood]

if it was as easy as you say then i don't know what your eating... they are still Difficult to me..

[KhilleyTV]

I was never much of a turn based guy until like Baldurs Gate 3 dropped. Then I played Persona 3 Reload for the very first time and said “I’ll play on hard” but honestly forgot part way through. It was my first genuine JRPG experience and it whooped my ass until I sat down to really experiment with what I had and what I could do. I ended up beating the final boss pretty easily but every journey into Tartarus or full moon events were always filled with anxiety cause I was never fully confident that I wouldn’t get curveballed. Anyways after 100%ing the game I moved into P4G and honestly…I still got my ass kicked at times. I played on hard again and Shadow Mitsuo and Ameno Sagiri both completely cooked me and forced me to again go and revise my strategies and my set up. I eventually got through but other than those two bosses I think I had learned so much from Persona 3 that I was able to beat that game with a much easier time. These games are only hard to me when you’re learning them and you aren’t actively overpowering yourself whether by choice or by accident. And that’s perfect for me. I love the collectors side of the games, getting all the personas, best gear, costumes, and achievements especially. I’m 6 trophies away from the P4G platinum even. These games have really educated me on JRPG’s and similar genres that hell I even want to play shin megami tensei 3, the one that’s supposedly super hard but has fucking DANTE. So TLDR, yeah they’re easy but that’s never been a fault for me at least

[geherrit]

I´d say playing persona for the first time and playing several entries to the series changes the difficulty a lot. Knowledge of the mechanics is such a game changer, without you might struggle, with knowledge you win in the first round of most fights. Part of it is that weaknesses/resistances are not allways obvious like in pokemon for example where you would clearly recognize a water or fire type. But already knowing this beforehand and adjusting your tactics is insane.

[Legendaryyy]

I wouldn’t say FES is easy

It’s… more like…. Sometimes they are challenging and the Tartarus bosses were actually fun to face.
I wouldn’t say FES is impossible to complete but it’s the hardest in the series besides Persona 1.

[bct]

Damn, got the answer not only 5 seconds in. Thanks!

[groovydude]

I agree with what you said while Persona 5 Royal is to easy for me the gameplay of Persona 5 Royal is polished that it makes me love playing persona 5 despite it being easy.