This is my third SMT game that I have played, after SMT IV and SMT IV : Apocalypse. My honest opinion of this game is that it is a Flawed Masterpiece, it has everything that could piss you off like annoying random encounters, bullshit battles, mazes everywhere, and the Poor Remaster job. But it still has somethings that could be appreciated.

The Goods:
-A very dark, grim, and apocalyptic story filled with rich dialog and full voice acting. It holds up to the SMT game line.

-The music is pretty good.

-The main protagonist design is badass

-6 Potential endings, a lot of replay content (that's even if you want to repeat bullshit 6 times)

-Very challenging combat potential for those crazy psychos.

The Bads...
-Awful Remaster job and port, they did almost jackshit to improve from its original PS2 release.

-Random encounter rate is horrible, and the items that repel enemies for a short moment of time are only a little useful.

-Everything is very vague and you rely on going to story progression events by talking to NPC's or memorizing hints from characters.

-Everything is basically a maze puzzle, or a shit puzzle. Making you look up guides to navigate around.

-Make sure to start New Game in MANIAX or CHRONICLE for the extra content and True Demon ending. They do not tell you that, if you just start with normal New Game, you won't be playing entire DLC you payed for.

It saddens me that this game isn't getting as much modding support to "fix" the game. But in the future maybe the fps mod will stop the game from speeding when its above 30fps. And maybe a navigation mod to help you not get lost.

Cmon atlus... do you do anything right other than milk persona series?