Just started Zero, but I was only able to play it for a little more than an hour, so it's hard to give any detailed impressions.
I'm super excited to continue playing tomorrow night, though, so I guess I'm hooked. :D
That very early dialogue in the bar about Kiryu being fine the way he is was so good. It told me so much about the characters, even though it's my first game in the series, and made me care about both instantly. I like how earnest he is, and how he likes to do things right, even if they're not the right things.
I also love how the game incorporates some of the extra gamey aspects of it in the narrative and tells it with a straight face, like "use your money to upgrade your character". For some reason that REALLY works for me, I like it way more than seeing yet another skill tree in a AAA game that I'm supposed to pretend it's not part of the world in any way.
Turned off the minimap from the start, but turned up the amount of tutorials, since they recommended that for a first time player. I hope I'll be fine without the map.
The game is a lot better looking than I expected, being a cross gen game and all. It looks really good, especially in cutscenes. The SSR on puddles was very surprising. Persona 5 is much more obviously a PS3 game than this one.
But yeah, great introduction so far, showing me the city, some characters and activities, loved doing the karaoke sequence. With how early that first scene with no lip sync was, I thought there would be way less voiced dialogue and scenes with lip sync than there are, the fact that I've got so many of them already makes me very happy. I hope it continues this way throughout the main story.
Not sure how much side content I'll do, since the main story alone seems to be around 30 hours, but we'll see. I'm afraid of what will happen when I try shogi.
EDIT: The japanese intro song is way better and I wish we got that. :(
