this game has consumed most of my spare time, and i am so loving it

im going to have to steal a ps2 just to play this
nobody hates it.

I finished it once. Took like... 50 hours? I can't remember..

Then my ps2 died. Or i killed it...?
Isn't that awesome? It could've died just before the ending sending me into madness. But it held! haha.

Use that week! Unless you want a perfect game, just going once trough the story is enough. Know this, there are 3 endings. Check a faq or something, because getting the bad ending is....well, bad.
Anyway, good luck.

This game was shorter for me than The Journey in Persona 3 FES (I beat Persona 4 in about 58 hours). I did less in this game, granted, but there was still a 15 hour difference for me. It just depends on what you want to do in the game that'll make it longer or shorter. I plan on going through a second time and really spending a ton of time doing everything.

It's an amazing one, but now I'm really excited to see what Persona 5 will look like on a current-gen system(s).

That much playtime for $40 is just insane, most $60 games these days cant even compare to the value (I like stretching out my games play time for many months since Im poor).

You know what, you guys are right.. kind of silly to complain about something that totally kicks dicks.

@Gen Eric, he may be weak, but something about Kanji hitting someone with a table/chair/ect. is very gratifying.

Word!

Technically, there are five endings. Three of them are variants on the bad ending, but it's interesting to see the different reactions based on what happens to trigger the bad ending in each case. I'd say more, but I don't want to spoil anything.

Personally, I think Kanji is anything but a weak link. I don't have an opinion of Yosuke or the last party member (to save spoilers), since I didn't bother to max their links and make them worthwhile, but Kanji stayed in my party straight through to the end of the game. Even when he encountered bosses where he was of little use (either because they were strong against physical or zio- spells didn't work), I'd still use him as an item function. He was my economical way of healing and still having a free person (read as: Yukiko) to spell an enemy sometimes.

By and large, I think P4 is about on par with P3. Atlus fixed up a lot of the grief that did come with P3 and also balanced things out a lot more (no more ridiculous amounts of yen or annihilating combos via personas) and made enemies much easier, which is probably a sigh of relief to hear for anyone who is still running through P3 and thinking about picking up P4. Frankly, I still like the story in P3 better (at least for The Journey...I could live without The Answer).

But I definitely like the characters more in this game. They seem a lot more realistic to me, I guess...although Yosuke seems awfully similar to Junpei...

And Zockroach...save your chest keys. You'll miss them when they're gone at the end of the game and you can't open the more valuable chests anymore. Good luck, have fun.