>>69937923My problem with Persona 3-5 is that they're both a mid dating sim and mid dungeon crawler at the same time and both design philosophies are at odds with each other.
Proper dating sims are pretty short, because they want you to keep replaying and try for different routes. JRPGs are meant to be long often taking 75+ hours to complete. No way you'll ever want to try for a different route, because of the time investment.
On paper, the idea of playing a game that's 2 things you really like is cool. But then it gets annoying when both things get in the way of eachother. Like I wanna be invested in dating this character but then I have to do these mandatory RPG segments, of I get invested in the RPG but then its mandatory dating sim shenanigans time.
A proper hybrid game should only include 10% of one genre, like how Utawarerumono is a visual novel that is sometimes a strategy game and it works perfectly, Even FE13-14, as much as they try to emphasize the waifu/husbando bait, is only 10% dating sim.
