>But right around August/Dungeon 4 is when things have taken a
>turn for the worse; summer vacation is when the game seems
>like it's opening up and letting you take control of your
>days, but after that you get locked into like two weeks of
>cutscenes and now I want to strangle the damn cat every time
>it tells me to go to bed.
>
>It's not so much about min/maxing as much as it's "I just
>watched 10 minutes of talking, please give me some agency in
>this game", and instead it's "hey, buddy, you just had a long
>day of pondering deep thoughts, you should definitely sleep".

this is my least favorite part of the game. as a person who routinely skips all cutscenes as quickly as possible in nearly every game, it's frustrating when being forced to thumb through 10 minutes of text when i just want to try the burger challenge. lucikly the writing in p5 is pretty good