Dear Atlus,

I'm really happy about how awesome Persona 3 was. No, really. I've recommended it to several people, I've enjoyed it enough to buy FES and the sequel when I had the opportunity, and by and large I've greatly enjoyed the eighty-odd hours I've sunk into the game.

No, wait - make that eighty-two hours. Because, see, those last two hours? We need to talk.

I understand where you were going with the last boss. I really do. But this is a fucking problem. Your fucking last fucking boss has fourteen fucking forms to fucking kill before the fucking boss fucking dies. Fourteen fucking forms.

Fourteen fucking forms.

This is a fucking problem here, guys. Because those fourteen fucking forms are not fucking interesting as fucking battles, and they're fucking filler. I had to fucking fight the fucking boss for a fucking hour before I got to the actual fucking boss fight.

And then?

Another.

Fucking.

Hour.

Because she fucking periodically fucking reflects every fucking attack and forced me to fucking spend another fucking hour fucking fighting her, with no fucking breaks or fucking refills or fucking save points or any-fucking-thing to fucking indicate you realized this fucking boss required a fucking commitment on fucking par with fucking watching the fucking Lord of the fucking Rings special e-fucking-ditions to fucking just get through it.

But okay. Slow and steady, right?

Except that then your fucking boss charmed Yukari and got fucking healed back to fucking full, you motherfucking dogfuckers, which meant that the past fucking hour of fucking playing this fucking fight was just fucking wiped to fucking shit!

You shitfucking fucknuts, if you're going to fucking make me fight your fucking boss for two fucking hours just to get her fucking feathery fucking ass down to a fucking sliver of motherfucking health, don't then give me the fucking chance of fucking having two fucking hours of fucking work set fucking back to fucking square one! What the fuck did your mulefisting limp-wristed cockwrinkle of a ball-licking douchehorse scenario designer think would fucking happen, you vomitous man-slugs?

This is not good design. I expect this will be corrected in the next installment, or I will be mad.

Love,
Eliot

PS: Okay, it's kind of Yukari's fault and not the boss, but everyone but Koromaru and Junpei learn Diarahan. It had a unpleasantly high chance of happening.

PPS: Also, what the hell is with Mitsuru's dialogue if you max out her link prior to a date? Is she breaking up with you or what? I took a lot of time to get her to do the horizontal bop with me, don't want all that wasted.