u/DangerDrama

recently got into atlus, played p3r, now really enjoying p5r and till revival comes out I actually had my eyes on this game too
First of all I've seen the UI and thats honestly what REALLY tempts me to just play the game though after reading the steam reviews I got mixed signals so I guess I just wanna see more opinions
(not to mention one guy spoiled something that happens in the last dungeon in his complaint but I guess that's my fault for reading those?) I get that this is THE metaphor subreddit but I dont want bias or anything
sidenote this might be a me problem but I feel like my enjoyment of p5r is being slightly bugged by the fact that this game is on my mind-- I'm normally a multiplayer guy but when I buy a story driven game I wanna make sure I wont be forcing myself to play it especially since i enjoy 100%ing games and I dont want it to be a slog
most reviews I've seen so far are normally praising the game a lot or full on saying it's one of those cases where they're let down by the hype. So I'm just really curious

been enjoying the game so far, and now on my 2nd run I have finally reached day 49 (the so called big bad everyone's been talking about)
REASON I made this post in the first place is cause I have backward clock in my facility and since I wanna feel VALIDATED I wanna know whether using it on this day counts as cheese/exploit (cause if it did it would hurt my pride) Then again, a part of me is gaslighting myself that I could do it with enough effort but I might just take it up the ass
I wanna know if y'all actually liked the thrill of it being that hard or if it was genuine torture to the point where you just wanted to finish the day no matter what

recently while fighting >!binah's core suppression!<, specifically near the end I had some INSANE lag and I was wondering whether that's a one time thing or if it has something to do with the memory leak everyone's been on about (hey at least I beat it though)
I've been hesitant on modding my game both because I wanna experience it how it was meant to be played but also because I was scared of bricking my save
if what I had was a memory leak I might want to reconsider ( to clarify no my pc isnt an old fart )

Now on my 2nd run cause I couldnt do binah's suppression and I'm trying my hardest to get on each department 5/5 EX nuggets with preferably all 120+ stats
with each department I expand I lowkey fall behind (and I had a dude die while suppressing apoc bird)
Am I meant to train them up until the midnight ordeal?? Or dusk? I'd get to qliphoth level 10 between days like 1-20 but now I feel like it's a bit excessive to go through those two ordeals