it's sad that people are praising the mediocre writing and the halfassed trend chasing this game exhibits

I had fun using physics mods that allowed me to launch myself from one platforming challenge to another, making use of the marketed freedom, but the actual challenges themselves are rigid and straight out of Forces.
Cyberspace sucks.

The Final Horizon challenges are actually fairly fun, and some of its Cyberspace levels are GOOD.

Good with physics mods and at LEAST a 50% sale.

I have no real issues with the gameplay even if it is a bit of a shock compared to main P3.

I think this is genuinely terribly written in every aspect, from premise, to beginning, to end. Metis is a pointless character, the fights with your squad at the end make no sense because Yukari all of a sudden ignores everything that Akihiko says about not returning to the past.

But oh wait! That doesn't even matter, because they can literally see when Makoto became the Great Seal, so all that fighting was for fucking nothing.

Final boss should have been Makoto, not 3 fights before the actual final boss.

I'm genuinely shocked. This is my first Persona game. It was free on game pass, and at a time of boredom I pulled the trigger and tried it out. The first hour I was like "wtf is going on" and I thought this would be just a weird anime game I wouldn't like. I was wrong. This game honestly blew me away. This consumed the last 2 weeks of my life. After the first 10 hours in I was like "Oh my god... I get it." There are so much incredible things about this game. The combat is pretty good. (reminds me a lot of Pokemon and Paper Mario) The dialogue and voice acting is top notch. So many funny, sad, and happy scenes that were enhanced by the voice acting. The characters are also really awesome and by the end of it I felt like I honestly knew them. And the music goes ridiculously crazy; I heard lyrics in the first hour of playing and I was "dog what is this" but soon after I'd be singing along to "Color Your Night" lmao. And the ending….very emotional, shit had me staring at the main menu after the credits rolled. Found an amazing new series to start playing. Time to play 4 and 5!