Persona 5 Royal makes minor improvements to the vanilla versions gameplay, some boss battles are better and others are worse (FUCKING OKUMURA), and the third semester is good and helps to tidy the flow of the late game narrative (even if I think the need to max 3 specific social links to unlock it is dumb. That's probably a bit petty of me). But above all else, Royal did what I stubbornly thought was impossible: made me an Akechi stan. Akeshu shippers: I finally get it now.