Yeah, as Mars said this game has probably the longest tutorial I have ever seen in any game. For the majority of the time, it is an open world in terms of you can do whatever you want, but there are some times during storyline advancements you will be cut off from freedom. This is especially notorious towards the end of the game.Tried this one for an hour and I'm not necessarily wondering if it gets better, but if the gameplay changes. I think I've had about a total of 60 seconds of actual gameplay over this hour. There's a lot of exposition, running around, cut scenes, etc. It feels like watching an anime, with the over the top writing and everything. It's very well executed, but I'm starting to think it might not be my cup of tea if this is it. It was unnecessarily long to save as well, so I ended up playing more than I expected.
If you do decide to continue it, try to upgrade Kawakami as much and as soon as possible because she has a special ability to allow you to go out at night after palaces (which increases things to do). Not sure if she needs to be in a romantic relationship to unlock though, so you might need to google that. You can play it with a day-by-day guide if you want to try and accomplish almost everything in one playthrough and the guides help in making your stats really strong. But personally speaking, I went without a guide in my first playthrough and just enjoyed doing what I wanted to do and with whom without caring about getting the achievements or combining my persona to the strongest ones. But knowing some in-depth stuff like personas or unlocking a special skill like SP regeneration with Futaba makes the game easier to battle through. The first best piece of advice is to stock up on anything that increases your SP, the first half of the game is almost like a survival game when it comes to limited resources for SP.
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