Coming off a high from P5R and wanting to consume as much P5 content as I could I jumped directly into this game after finishing Royal. The highlights of this game are the characters and their interactions, and more shenanigans with the old crew from P5. The story isn't as strong but does have some great moments, especially during the second half of the game. Sophia and Zenkichi are great character additions and I enjoyed them in the game. The combat, however, was my least favorite part of the game - exploiting weaknesses like you're supposed to in SMT games completely drains your SP and for some reason pulling off the combos with the proper element doesn't quite always work or is less effective. The bosses are also huge health sponges and get boring after a while. The dungeons are also mostly pretty boring and not as fun to explore as it's predecessor, and the sidequests feel like filler. Overall fun if you enjoyed the story elements of P5, but the combat is a very big drawback for people who enjoyed the combat in P5.