My eyes glaze over as I hit the X button on my controller. I've been loving Persona 3 Reload so far, having already enjoyed what little I played of its stylish Persona 5-infused reimagining in my preview last year, but boy do these teenagers love to talk. Social RPG elements are integral to the game, suffused between the dungeon-crawler segments I'm itching to get back to, so I suffer through them in bored silence and wait for night to fall.
I'm aware that this unique genetic makeup is exactly what makes Persona 3 Reload a Persona game at all. Having played a solid 10 hours of Persona 3 Portable, I thought it would be easy for me to jump back into Gekkoukan High in this fully-animated, non-visual novel-style remake. Try as I might to get into the story, though, the pace is just lacking for me right now; I'm struggling to find my protagonist's day-to-day school life more interesting than his far more action-packed 25th-hour shenanigans, and it's taking everything I've got to not just fast-forward through all the dialogue.
