As someone who wasn't a massive persona fan nor someone who had the chance to play the original playing this after playing persona 3 reload and persona 4, I was expecting great things, not to say I didn't get that but the game was missing some things in terms of the phantom thieves development and just general story build up However, the third semester and everything from Akechi's resolve and Dr.Maruki as a whole made it very enjoyable but I don't know if I can put it over the other 2 games.