A pleasant surprise. Atlus could have easily just milked Persona 5 and given us a lame cash grab, or hell, a gacha (cough Square Enix), but nope. This is an honest-to-god sequel. And dare I say it, it stays true to its themes better than the original, and isn't constantly backpedaling on itself. All I can say without spoiling it is that it just makes more sense narratively from beginning to end. That being said, this game has the same basic formula as Persona 5, and that comes with its less charming trademarks, such as characters constantly repeating things that were already really obvious to the player (which can be forgiven cause, let's face it, Persona fans at large are fucking morons), or Ryuji being singled out and picked on by the rest of the group for no reason. However, it's (mostly) fixed the endgame asspulls and everyone gets a roughly equal amount of screentime, so in my heart, it gave my problem child game a pretty good sendoff. Overall, I'd definitely recommend it for fans of the original, but probably not for JRPG fans.