This game can be the most entertaining game combat-wise with it's cinematicity and most fights feeling fresh and different, interesting developed characters and a nicely streamlined yet intricate way to upgrade skills & relationships.

This game, however, can also be mind numbingly boring and repetitive when it makes you sit through what can essentially be a 1-2 hour cut scene out of nowhere, with no chances to save. I genuinely believe that ~40+ hours of the game was dialogue. In addition, the new post game added in Royal is pretty awful and doesn't add anything new to the game, just stretches it out another 20 hours or so.

Apart from these main criticisms, I loved this game thoroughly and my girlfriend even got hooked, watching me play through roughly 80 hours of it herself. The music is catchy and funky, the UI is almost unmatched with how nice it looks and how surprisingly cleanly it functions (most the time) despite it's uniqueness.

As my first JRPG outside of Pokemon, this has shined a light to me that I may have a new favourite genre of game, and I look forward to Persona 6 whenever it may come.