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>>38902406
I felt the same way when I first tried it several years ago, but after giving it a second chance I've honestly kind of fallen in love with it.
There is a learning curve but I've never played an RPG that gives me quite the feeling of freedom it does. Right from the start of the game you're making a dozen choices that will impact the entirety of your playthrough, and it just never stops. Go where you want, do what you want, to who you want, when you want. The game is so open-ended it gave me agoraphobia when I first tried it, but now that I'm used to it every other Megami Tensei game makes me feel like I'm trapped in a box.
At the same time, it's not lackadaisical or directionless. You can play it like that if you want to, but if you want a challenge it does an amazing job of putting you under a crazy amount of pressure, then loosening its grip as you carve out small victories that keep adding up.
The combat is particularly good; battles go as fast as you can type so once you get used to the system you can have five battles in sixty seconds, with just as much depth or more than any other JRPG.
And the amount of content is stunning. There's something like 150 characters with unique dialogue, and for each of them not only are there all the different fall states, the characters have different dialogue depending on how they entered the fall state, and then some characters have additional routes on top of all that. Even after that there are still more scenes that only trigger under specific conditions. The dialogue folder is like 90 MB of plain text, it's bonkers.
If you're a big fan of the series EraMegaten is like Candyland on crack, and for me it honestly helped rekindle my love for Megami Tensei.
If anyone in the thread is on the fence, I really recommend giving it a shot. It takes a while to get it properly installed and learn how to play, but it's so much fun and there's just nothing else quite like it.