Not feeling it
SO I started persona 5 royal, was really excited to play the game, as this will be my first persona game and only game with Calander system I played before was fire emblem three houses and I loved it even with few short comings here and there but I still enjoyed it enough to complete all the routes there.
After enjoying FE three houses so much, I looked into other jrpg and persona was a big one so I bought Persona 5 Royal in steam and was enjoying it at the start really feeling the game and everything but then I really started to I don't know but feel I don't have a choice or even when I make one it doesn't matter, I am feeling it really bad right now as I just entered 3rd palace, and everything with Makoto I feel like I was just there not playing but just watching an anime.
I know choice to make your decision is a big thing in games and I enjoy even the games where you dont have a choice like E33 and I loved that game to heck even with game story giving no choice to me and I was just there to watch family drama over a minecraft server, but still that didnt feel because story was engaging and even if I dont agree with actions or decision made by characters that I would have want to have a choice in.
BUT back to persona 5 royal I am feeling more and more like I dont matter, that for example I am still over the moon over Makoto's dragging us into a mafias hideout, I understand and still at least wanted to critics her, say something about it, have some actual dialogue that I can vent through but instead I get cutscene but cutscene even I am just watch everyone just doing water ever while I get no say in anything, it is happening and I dont get to even express my opinion on something a character did, I am not saying give me option to stop mokoto from doing this shit or leave her after that debacle, I know that is asking for too much but atleast let me live with impression that I have a say and not just forced to agree with story and characters even when I dont.
While It may look like I am complaining about just this one incident, but this is something I have been feeling more and more as I play. For example, just something previous with ruji where he had an encounter with homos?? Like I really wanted to stand up for him but NO game has to force it for the laughs (juts saying if this had been ann or mokoto, this wouldn't be taken for laughs).
PS. I feel Like I don't have a say or choice in games story, and game doesn't even pretend so much as to give me one. Asking should I continue playing further? or that's just how it is?