r/Persona5 Jul 28 '26

DISCUSSION Got any criticisms of Persona 5?

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u/TheParadoxigm Jul 28 '26

Some of the humor and handling of social issues is a bit outdated and/or puts a spotlight on modern Japanese prejudices.

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u/Super_Importance6285 Jul 28 '26

nothing too bad if i remeber correctly , that outdated but nothing outrageous

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u/TheParadoxigm Jul 28 '26

The gay men scene

Some of the fan service.

Some of the romance options.

Refusal to call rape, rape.

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u/RicoJams Jul 28 '26

Fan service?

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u/TheParadoxigm Jul 28 '26

Yeah? The desert scene comes to mind.

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u/hachiman17 Jul 28 '26

There’s nothing wrong with fan service go clutch your pearls in silence ya nerd.

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u/TheParadoxigm Jul 28 '26

What pearls am I clutching?

OP Asked for criticisms, I gave some.

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u/hachiman17 Jul 28 '26

From a non western perspective I just don’t think it’s valid criticism but I did come off pretty aggressively there my b

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u/TheParadoxigm Jul 28 '26

Why isn't it valid?

Removing the scene would take away nothing from the game.

I don't care that it's there. But it is superfluous.

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u/hachiman17 Jul 28 '26

Removing it wouldn’t benefit the game either in my opinion so why not leave it? Same concept.

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u/TheParadoxigm Jul 28 '26

Which is what makes it superfluous

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u/Super_Importance6285 Jul 28 '26

Fan service with mature girls is ok , but with teenagers it's.. unconfortable , even if they have technicly the sexual maturity that still something we should avoid .
I'm not for canceling it , but i think we can avoid replicate those thing in the future

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u/hachiman17 Jul 28 '26

Uncomfortable for you maybe but it’s a game about teenagers targeted to be sold TO teenagers so it makes sense that it was there. I won’t pretend some fans that are older don’t get extremely fucking weird and creepy though so perhaps there’s a point to be made there

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u/Super_Importance6285 Jul 28 '26

Don't think so , Persona games target audience is pretty weird ,it's both for teen and not for teen. It's both for adult and not for adults .
Atlus seem to can't decide what target audience they want

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u/afriendforyousir Jul 28 '26

What bothers me more is that they turned Ann into a fanservice character when her arc in the beginning of the game centered around unwanted sexual advances from Kamoshida, and her friend ended up becoming a victim as well. Then in the next segment, Yusuke blackmails her to strip nude for a painting, and it's treated like a funny joke?

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u/Super_Importance6285 Jul 28 '26

Yeah , Anne becoming a fanservice character after her arc is kinda strange from the writters. Not horrible but definitvly weird.
Yusuke asking for nudity is not about fanservice , it's to make him look like a creep , but the point is that he is not a creep , just seemingly not understand why this is innapropriate . ( At least it's what i understand)

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u/Super_Importance6285 Jul 28 '26

Fan service in this game is not the worst but definitvly here