#7: Persona 5 (PS4) Persona 5 is the longest I have ever taken to complete a single player video game before. Finishing my playthrough at about 120 hours. To put this into perspective, the total run time of the show Breaking Bad is 62 hours long. Suffice to say, Persona 5 is a lot of video game, and I haven't played it in over half a year, so it's a very challenging game to write about and perhaps why I've stalled a little bit in putting toge ther this top ten of the year. I'll do my best to make this succinct and not-spoilery. Persona 5 is comfortable and familiar, but also impressively risk-taking and exotic. It is a game that stretches the confines of familiar JRPG tropes to their absolute extremes. It is a game where you explore dungeons, collect swords, fight monsters, and open treasure chests. It is also a game about depression, teen suicide, social anxiety, ennui, The Patriarchy™, class discrimination, and the fantasy of enactin...
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