Wasnt a dig at persona fans, more about the general complaints, we saw it with XVI too.
Altho I don't have a care in the world for Persona and its fans lol. Im just tired of the same old complaints.
I mean, referring back to proandrad’s comment: XVI’s RPG elements are barely utilized, that shouldn’t be up for debate. Leveling barely matters for your stats, you have “party members” but they have no stats, you can only have one type of weapon, weapon upgrades offer slight stat increases that also barely matter, exploration off the path “rewards” you with either essentially pennies or crafting material you have way more than ever needed, there’s no elemental weaknesses/resistances, etc.
None of the above was an issue with Final Fantasy VII Remake. Leveling does make a difference, party members have stats and are very customizable, you can switch party members to enjoy different weapon types, upgrading your weapon does make a difference, there’s some good rewards to be found by exploring and doing side content, elemental weaknesses/resistances are present, etc.
Ain’t no way we’re going to be hearing about a lack of RPG mechanics for VII Rebirth outside of a few people just saying random shit for the hell of it.
As for VII Remake being an action RPG and not turn based, I rarely hear that brought up as an issue anymore since it came out, I think the haters mostly moved on. And for XVI, I really didn’t hear the complaint of it not being turn based anywhere as much as people generalizing all those who didn’t like XVI with a ”oh, you’re just mad it wasn’t turn based!” which I think is unfair and isn’t helpful when we’re trying to discuss XVI’s shortcomings.
Really, the main thing about XVI and turn based: the issue isn’t it being not turn based, that’s fine, but the reasoning was stupid. Yoshi-P claimed turn based games don’t sell……and then a few months later Baldur’s Gate 3 sold insanely well, and also Honkai Star Rail was outperforming Genshin Impact in profit (and mind you, Genshin was easily the highest grossing gacha game prior to Star Rail’s release). Like, it’s okay to make an action RPG, but don’t be saying stupid shit about turn based games that reality will quickly disprove.
