A major improvement on the base game. Still maintains some of the awkwardness of the story (and the quality starts to roll downhill at roughly the final palace and it doesn't really get BETTER) and the DLC is, uh, atrocious still (ATLUS! P-Team!) but gameplay wise? Major improvements, making it an incredibly smooth JRPG.

If nothing else, being able to exploit status ailments and technical damage to knock enemies down, and also passing the baton to deal tons of damage? Beautiful. (The bosses that incorporate technical/baton pass into their gimmicks are the best bosses in the game, incidentally.)