CHOICE AND CONSEQUENCE
We absolutely loved the Social Links introduced in Persona 3, and Persona 4 took them to another level, but we still feel like Atlus can get so much more out of them. Sure, they’re a great tool to enhance character development, but the S.Links can also be used for the benefit of the narrative and storytelling at large. What we’d like to see in Persona 5 is for the Social Links to have an actual impact on the progression of the story as well- how characters react, what decisions they make, how they react to the protagonist. These are things that should vary depending on how much a character’s S.Link has been developed. There are other ways, of course, through which Atlus can make the S.Links feature even better (we’ll talk about this in a bit), but even thisby itself would make for a much more immersive experience, and it would make the S.Link feature the undisputed pinnacle of the Persona series. Not even the masterfully crafted dungeons could compete with it.
