this is a review for specifically the port, i switched my save to this pc port briefly from the psp version just to try it out and this is like bafflingly bad port. not only is it all (bad) ai upscales, and they still use the low quality psp compressed audio, but also this is a game controlled with a cursor. and instead of making that cursor the mouse cursor, you know, the most obvious thing ever, they make it so you have to click and drag the cursor around with your actual mouse cursor. how on earth do you mess that up. genuinely what kind of level does the brain have to be operating at to not connect that. i mean obviously this was made with some dental floss and a piece of chewed gum but like having the mouse cursor being the cursor is like the bare minimum. come on. maybe im insane for writing all this out over such a small thing but like come on. come on. it's a cursor. its a cursor come on why did they make it like that come on, com

kinda surprised how much i wasnt completely sick of this by the end of it (to the extent that i even went back to play the alternate route, which was a big mistake!)
gains a lot of points for how this game involves practically zero grinding (with the exception of the ultimate personas, which are optional but still annoying to grind for) which is pretty uncharacteristic in my admittedly limited experience in the genre. the story was obviously nothing special but it too gains points in my eyes for how hilarious the dialogue is before every boss fight. it basically goes like this almost everytime
"this is my tragic backstory! don't you feel bad?!"
to which the main characters answer almost every time
"no. pussy. we're gonna fucking kill you bro. you're pathetic"
it never gets old it's so goddamn funny, it levels out to typical apologies and understanding, and stuff after the boss, but the pre-boss dialogue is still funny. maybe unintentionally so, but either way. and oh yeah obviously thats highly exaggerated do not worry prudes there are no uses of "the f word" in shin megami tensei persona, and they do not in fact directly tell people they are going to kill them they only do it indirectly and also imply they should've killed themselves

anyways this is all only for the main route, the snow queen route has none of this. lots of grinding, annoying save points, i mean i'm not opposed to limited save points but having easily the 4 largest dungeons in the entire game by a WIDE margin have zero save points in the middle is just annoying. especially for thanatos tower, which is just the worst. on the bright side, it doubles down on the dialogue before bosses. anyways, skip the snow queen route, play the main route if you want. :)