After 146 hours (and 38 minutes), I've seen the true ending and rolled credits on Persona 4 Golden. This was my first time completing any Atlus RPG and I'm so happy I did.

If I didn't already have an answer to "Are video games art?", P4G would be a decisive "YES!"

Yet, as much as I loved it and loved the experience of it...I can't really recommend it to anyone.

There's so much you have to be willing and able to look past; and even though that stuff's a small part of the game...it looms.

One thing that I am happy about: I spent all of my PTO to take a long end-of-year vacation. I didn't work a single day in December.

I have 3 more days before work starts back on Jan 6.

So ending P4G now where Yu has to say goodbye to the good life of Inaba while I am saying goodbye to the good life of not-working...it resonates.

I'm glad I finished it today before the rat race started back up.