>The biggest detriment is how frequently the game prevents you
>from choosing how to spend your time, coupled with the severe
>penalty of making it so any pursuit of combat takes up the
>entire day. As such, it puts stress on doing as much a given
>dungeon as you can in a single day, except you constantly come
>up against random reasons to go back home.

constantly? i remember a few times in the first 3 dungeons, and they were story related. are you experiencing a little min/maxing anxiety? i had that for a little while but decided to let it go because of how often my free time was being taken away very early on in the heavy tutorial sections. i'm not too concerned about missing an afternoon or evening because i feel like i still have a lot of free time to do what i want

>And this is especially frustrating because I really enjoy the
>combat, development of your personas, and most of the "social"
>content. Though I fucking hate that Social Stats are still
>hidden.

why won't you go to level 4, guts? i keep spending all my time grinding you. what do you want from me?!

>It's not that "the PS3 was a consideration", it's that this is
>a PS3 game that got delayed for actual years so that they
>could re-draw assets for the PS4.

that's right! i totally forgot this game was stuck in development hell because they decided to also make it a ps4 game. very unfortunate. why didn't they up-rez the textures if they delayed it for so long?