How come that no one ever addresses how fucked up the saving system in this game is. The game never saves automatically, it's common that you don't get a chance to save for 30 to 45 min between cutscenes...

And the dungeons, for fuck's sake. It's the second time that after more than half an hour without being able to save, some random ass overleveled guy just obliterates the leader with two consecutives strikes. I had full health!! 40 min gone!

Look, I don't think this prevents the game from being amazing, but I don't understand how nobody addresses this huge issue, it's not 1997 anymore

Yeah, I'm with you. I lost about an hour and a half of game time in one dungeon section, as the enemy just before a save room kept taking me out. Searching for those save rooms has become a bit like searching for a new fire in Dark Souls. 

The save doesn't bother me. I played Nier Automata just before Persona 5, so I was way over prepared for no checkpoint gameplay. I lost 9 hours of gameplay on Nier Automata thanks to a glitch with the beta cuck 9S and the Final Boss fight, so I have a habit for saving every ten minutes thanks to that.

I like that the game doesn't have autosave, that's even when I lost 3 hours of grinding because I died and hadn't saved in awhile.

Are you serious? This game is generous with saving. The beginning of every dungeon and multiple save points. Not only that you can save basically anywhere in the real world. I don't recommend you play any rpg  made before 2010

What does not allowing you to save every 10 minutes have to do with 1997? PERSONA is a dungeon crawler, not being able to save when not in a safe area or very limted save area inside dungeon is a staple of the genre. Dungeon crawlers involve major preping before venturing. That's the major appeal.

That's exactly what it's suppose to feel like. 

You must be new to JRPG's.

Not saying it's a good saving system, but for it bother you only now like..?

And that's good?

Yeah, that's not exactly ideal. Persona 5 is as much about playing through the story as it is getting to new gameplay areas. It's not a huge problem, and I'm still enthralled by the game, but I really wouldn't mind an auto-save system as well.