Persona 4 improves upon everything that Persona 3 introduced , the combat itself was fixed, as all party members can now be directly controlled by the player, and dungeons that while still tedious and sometimes boring are a marked improvement over tartarus.

The social sim aspects of the game have also been revamped with with the 3 social stats having been removed and replaced by 5 different stats, too account for the increased number of stats the game is far more lenient with free time than it's predecessor.