I started my Persona journey with Persona 5 and then worked my way backward through Persona 4 and now Persona 3. If I had played this one first I think I may have liked it better, but it doesn't even come close to 4 and 5 for me. It plays much more like a visual novel and the story and social links are pure ass for many, many hours. Things improve as you go on but I just wanted it to be over.