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How Persona 5 Makes Homework Fun

This week we're super busy making a fun April Fool's Day video for Sunday, so in the meantime, please enjoy this rambling nonsense about the fun of doing boring stuff in Persona 5. We recently bought a PlayStation 4, and one of the games that Kotor wanted to try was Persona 5. He's never played any Persona games before, or even a Shin Megami Tensei game, but he'd heard that Persona 5 was basically more like Mass Effect than Mass Effect Andromeda when it comes to creating enjoyable party characters, so he figured he'd give it a try. Now he's hooked - but not in the way he'd expected. Combat is fine, neither great, nor terrible. The entire metaverse palace and memento stuff is entirely forgettable in the grand scheme of stuff - it's basically Pokemon but for teenagers. What's interesting is the life simulator, which crackles with personality. Kotor's been reliving his teens, and basically recreating his student life all over again, which involves either wandering around in the busy city, or studying at the library. An indication of how much fun he's having came when one of his friends recommended that he join their Fortnite squad, but he said that he was more interested in doing pretend homework in a single-player game. Kotor is not good at making friends. Perhaps that's why the game appeals! Anyway, hope you enjoy this video, we'll have something extra special for you on Sunday, so please do come back! It's going to be...well, it'll be unique, that's for certain... Thanks, BretonStripes (http://twitter.com/bretonstriped) and Kotor (http://twitter.com/kotorcomics) Title music by Tee Lopes (http://twitter.com/teelopesmusic) Incedental music: Jazz Brunch by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Quoted in this video: The Benefits of Playing Video Games by The Benefits of Playing Video Games Isabela Granic, Adam Lobel, and Rutger C. M. E. Engels (2014)(https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/amp-a0034857.pdf)