i will be forever thankful for the impact this game had on my life and all the friends i met thanks to it but holy shit, everytime i think on it i remember some new horrible thing about it. literally every group event in it is a nightmare! be it yosuke being gross, or morooka being gross, or just some other fucking miserable thing happening. the game also constantly walks back on its own themes. actually it's not the society that is wrong! once you accept your failings, you will realize that everything is fine and you should stop acting up actually! like literally every character is like "yk i shouldn't have been different and i will do what my parents want or w/e" like what. also. the nurse link . precursor of takemis and kawakamis of the world. horrible

but the good tidbits are still there beyond the oceans of trash... but i don't think they are worth it nowadays. still, yosuke's social link did something gay to my psyche back in the days. and generally, being a kid from a small town, i could relate to a story about kids from small town. the murder mystery is... fine. idk. i just outgrew this series severely

the dungeon variety is pretty great, though the floors remain repetitive. vocal OSTs are good, but at some point you will get sick of them, particularly Heaven and the track that plays in rise's dungeon lmao. that being said, to this day i am not sick of your affection, heartbeat heartbeat and signs of love, as well as backside of the tv, so who knows... shoji meguro really popped off with the osts for this one