Persona 5 Royal Steals Four Hour Trial on PS Plus Premium

I genuinely don't think four hours is long enough to get a sense for whether this game is for you or not. This game is 100+ hours long, and most of that four hour period will be watching dialogue and cinematics. Consider that another similarly lengthy JRPG, Dragon Quest XI S, was provided with a ten hour or so demo, and that wasn't even gated behind a subscription.

Its neat to see more trials. But uh. This isn't the game to do it for. You barely get through the tutorial. You don't get to see much of what it has to offer.

4 hours? That's like 1/3 of the tutorial

Exactly what I was looking for. I have been hesitant to buy this as the battles look fun, but I may get bored with the tasking/school side of it. This will hopefully show me enough to decide.

I was about to type almost the identical comment. I can see playing only 4 hours actually turning a lot of people off since it's a bit of a slog/boring until like the 10-15 hour mark when it opens up and gets amazing.

Don't think that amount of time would even get you into Kamoshida's Palace which, honestly, is still a tutorial by any other name.

Frankly, I don't think Persona games lend themselves well to demos.

@ZoSo I think that's probably true of most JRPGs to be honest, they hardly every show their full hand in the first few hours.

I suppose the only way around that would be to make a very curated demo where you get access to a specific quest or dungeon with a set party and range of abilities. But then it means the developer has to spend resources making such a specific slice of the game, and I'm sure that's not ideal.

Yes, I don’t really think all the visual novel elements and brutal linearity of Persona demo particularly well. It’s more like reading a book and sometimes getting to play the battles. At 4 hours you are still really coming to terms with the structure, if you are new to these games.

It has to be said that is pathetic to require premium tier to play a trial of a game that is included in Game Pass' basic tier

I was kind of excited to check this out but based on the comments it seems like it would not be worth the time

@Logonogo oh don't let us put you off!

It's a top tier jrpg, really one of the very best imo.

Just bare in mind, good as it starts, ( that's subjective BTW), it gets much much better the further you get into it, especially as you start to recruit other members of the Phantom Thieves!

Give it ago, what's to lose?

@ZoSo Appreciate the feedback! I just didn't know if I should invest four hours into it if it is not really going to give me a good sense of how the game is. I think this a game I will inevitably play at some point down the road given its reputation

I thought it was great from the start, complaints that it's slow seem odd to me. Yes it slowly opens up new locations and stuff, but you expect that from an RPG, introducing new things along the way to stop it getting too repetitive.

Nice.

Lol it took me 171 hours to see the credits roll on my first play through. (O.G persona 5) loved it.

Currently playing through 4. Later 3 & strikers.

Missed opportunity for them to just straight up, put the whole game on for free. As always, Sony's greed shines through brighter than the sun lmao