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This is my complaint with the game too @LtSarge — I am in late July now I think, the Summer holidays have started. The narrative has definitely got more interesting, more stuff has happened and I am enjoying the way my roster of playable characters is growing, but the overall loop in Reload is extremely lacking for me. So much time just feels sorta… wasted. You go weeks at a time in Reload where literally nothing happens at all, and could just be skipped. P5 Royal made everything matter, even hanging out with someone who had no real bearing on the story or something would still give you a tangible benefit in battle or something, but Reload doesn't really have any real such equivalency.

There is no real reason to not do your next stretch of Tartarus in one sitting, but if you do that, you realise just how lacking and honestly just kinda boring the rest of Reload really is. I am just hanging with these random people at my school or around the town that have absolutely no bearing on anything. And it isn't even like they are interesting little stories either, just the most milquetoast high school anime fluff.

I thought the problem was solved when you unlock the ability to hang around with your party in the dorm but after I think three of those, it warned me there would be no benefit to doing these any further.

So there I go back to working my 60th shift at the coffee shop again as I drift through this desperate to get to some combat again.

It is funny too, because this is exactly what I thought Persona 5 was for years, which is why I bounced off it so much. But then Royal made the social side feel more interwoven with the JRPG side, and it just gave you brilliant characters you wanted to spend lots of time with and I ended up adoring that game in the end. I guess these were innovations that came after Reload existed and they felt somehow the original vision for Reload would be lost including these or something?

So what you end up with is this really boring, vanilla,