My biggest mistake was playing the original fairly close to this one's release, making me space out with some of the repeated dialog/interactions, but that's hardly the game's fault.
I really liked Persona 5, then I absolutely loved it when returning to it, and this has definitely added a lot of great gameplay to an already rich game. The changes to Mementos that makes grinding FAR less time-consuming is, perhaps, the best addition. I'll never get pissed off that a JRPG streamlines, and I REALLY have a hard time understanding people who do.
I'm happy they changed some of the cringier stuff, and the only thing I'm REALLY unhappy with is that still, in 2020, in the FIFTH Persona game, your romance options, and the S-links in general, still feel like bolted-on side stuff. We're a LONG way from Jeff and Vinny rightly getting pissed and pointing out that Dojima really SHOULD trust you with his S. Link maxed out, and I get it, with all the myriad compositions of possible people, but the fact that there's no interlude in the add-on content feels, frankly, cheap. Persona 4: Gold set the standard for that, so the fact that this is a step back for character interactions is disappointing.
That out of the way: good LORD, the new stuff is so excellent overall. Persona 5 was bold in its time, and has only become moreso in the years since it came out, and I really admire how much of a stand the writers were willing to make in an industry that prizes its "let's keep our heads down and not make waves"-style bullshit.
I do have some issues with just how much the Goku/Vegeta dynamic infects the stuff with Akechi, that guy gets a LOT of slack with the whole "you're a multiple-times murderer we're still supposed to find not just sympathetic, but actively rooting for????" for a game set in a fairly non-fantasy setting, it's never a leap I'm willing to make... that having been said: KUDOS to them for sticking to their guns and not giving you an easy way out. I REALLY admire how the added content ends, it sticks the landing in a way few things do.
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