Well yeah. The dungeons are in the TV world, you’re a high schooler in the real world. They needed to introduce you to your party and provide the context in which you’ll be adventuring. Most JRPGs provide very scant gameplay in the first few hours. Sounds like OOP just isn’t into JRPGs, which is totally fine.
In Persona 4, it took me something like 5 hours before I got to my first combat scene. Then another few hours before I got into a dungeon.
Well yeah. The dungeons are in the TV world, you’re a high schooler in the real world. They needed to introduce you to your party and provide the context in which you’ll be adventuring. Most JRPGs provide very scant gameplay in the first few hours. Sounds like OOP just isn’t into JRPGs, which is totally fine.