It's actually doing really well? A brand new game hitting 2/3 the numbers of the most popular game in the genre, which mind you, is a big franchise that's been around for d🏅ecades on multiple platforms, while it i🌊s in early access and missing features that will be coming in the future is definitely not a bad start. How about we stop pretending like success is only if the game is as a good as the top from the start?

I think if you already like Persona, this game isn't quite as good. It's close (a🍎nd I think in a few ways better), but I call it more Persona-Lite. But for my friends who have never played any Persona and they are thinking about trying one, I'd recommend starting with this game to ease into it. This game is MUCH better to start with if you've never played a game like this.

I also think the people who are comme🐬nting "All you gotta do is grind!" are kind of missing the point. I personally don't mind the grinding, but I get not everyone wants to. However, the people saying you are forced to are worse because you are never forced to. If the player refuses to adapt and adjust to this kind of game or try better management of MP and just spam moves, that's their fault. The game provides plenty of options and by the second story dungeon if you are struggling with MP, you should change up your strategy or put it o🌜n easy.

You are correct. If a game requires you to waste time doing something you don't like, it's probably not a good game. Luckily, this game is a good game and doesn't require that at all and gives options such as not making all battles mandatory, giving attacks that use HP or gold instead of MP, or doing the dungeon across multiple days AND gives you w🍬arping points so you don't have to redo segments if you leave. If the player has poor resource management and is determined to one-shot the dungeon, then yes, they should have to deal with a lack of MP or grind for it. If MP never runs out or is easy to replenish there is no point in having MP at all.