Is that code for "I'll start yelling at the computer screen"?
There's nothing much to it, it's simple turn based battle systems with weaknesses and cheap insta kill moves. Which really sucks in a game where if the main character dies, it's game over. You just have to tolerate the gameplay for the characters, really.
Persona 3 and 4 both have terrible gameplay. In such long games it's amazing to see there be almost no dungeon design in either. If you can't tolerate the gameplay, I'd say just skip the games entirely, ain't worth sitting through 70 hours of gameplay you don't like.
Have you ever really seen someone dying from starvation though? If not, you have no case here.
Just don't eat. Nothing has ever proven that eating is good for you.
Now that is pretty manly, I think part of it is that 16bit charm though, so good.
That's lame. At least the information about which quests you've beaten carries over, so you don't have to replay everything at least. But yeah, something like that can really hinder trying to be a completionist.
Which trophy? I have the platinum from Dragon's Dogma and I can't think of anything that fits that. Unless you mean the one that forces you to replay the game.