Hmm, I beat FES 5 years ago and honestly almost everything except the huge plot points were a blur and you know what after playing through Persona 3's story again now after all this time, I gotta say it's not as good as I remember it which kinda blows. I used to say oh this one out of the last 3 has the best story and its genuinely well made, but I kind of don't agree anymore, Immortality / life and death is a great topic and to an extend its good but I kind of prefer the stories in 4 and 5 although they do tackle different things however I find 4 and 5 are more relatable and tackled very uniquely. I do personally feel like for over half the game nothing is really happening compared to 4 and 5. also its really on the nose for most of the runtime and theres a few characters in the game that i felt like they created just to kill off. Another game I really like that was kind of in the same vein that tackled life and death is FFXIV: Endwalker. that game also tackles existentialism in a really focused way.

Some of the aspects I really appreciate about P3 are how the persona evolutions are in the story and connected into id love it if they did this for 6 and maybe have a third evolution or a major change in the persona in the confidants/social links. I like how the casts is just generally not bogged down after they have there big moments and feel genuinely connected to the story. Reload overall too is genuinely more playable as well, I think that I actually had moments of really enjoying tartarus. where as 5 years ago playing fes i was legit dreading it.