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Persona 5 has been opening my Top 5's for a few years now and seems set to stay here for a while yet. I'll admit it can get a little boring to have the same games in the same spots over a long time, but what can I do? The moment I look at that image up there and put on some music from this game, I remember that this is quite simply on a different level. Much as these 5 games at the top of my list have had a mostly consistent ranking between them in recent years, the reality is I see them all as my favorite game in the world.
A common theme amongst those five, and certainly Persona 5, is that these are the kinds of games that completely took over my whole world from the moment I booted them up until long after I finished them. I mean, we're talking about a 100-hour JRPG that I played through in 8 days. That's 12.5 hours per day on average. If that sounds absolutely fucking insane, it's because it is, I'll be the first to admit. I was absolutely insane about this game. During that week, I felt like I was living the life of a Phantom Thief myself - stealing hearts in secrecy half of the time, and being a (barely) functional human being the other half. Pretending I was still capable of normal thoughts and conversations when really the only thing in my head at all times was the next palace infiltration.
And with each palace, each story arc, the narrative just pulled me in deeper and deeper, I was more and more invested, the game got unbelievably epic towards the end to the point where it couldn't have possibly lived up to its own hype, and yet, it did. Everything up to the last palace, the final boss, and the aftermath of your actions, it all added up to an experience I genuinely can't describe in words. Hell I feel like Atlus themselves don't really understand how to describe it, because they made an expanded version of this game whose added content, even if mostly good, failed to capture the essence of what made Persona 5, Persona 5.
This is a game about not giving in, about standing up against the bullshit society throws our way. We live in a world where the people in power have an increasingly absurd amount of wealth and control, at the expense of absolutely everyone else. The sad reality is we probably can't do anything to change that, but at the very least I'm glad this game allowed me to live out the fantasy of actually doing something about it. That's who I want to be beneath the mask.
