the base game for this was good but felt empty and rushed and claustrophobic at times, in a way that felt thematically nonsensical near the end. this remedies that, and adds a final act that actually poses interesting thought experiments. however: making people spend more time with akechi than the first game is terrible! that dude sucks and his existence annoys! and also xp scaling with difficulty means that fundamentally, you'll just have to grind more in place of difficulty (ik u could just face bosses with weaker teams but frankly it makes mementos a slog, it limits your interaction with the world greatly, specially early game, and just takes some of the magic away from the setting)