This is my third attempt at getting through Persona 3 and I finally was able to finish it. The quality of life features are very much appreciated. I also can see why this is people's favorite, a lot of the themes and writing still hold up.

There's two major things keeping this from being a 5 for me. Tartarus is still a slog, while combat has improved and Tartarus floors are smaller, at a certain point you're still climbing dozens of floors of the same stuff. The other, some of the emotional beats fall flat on their face when it's followed by cheery overworld music immediately after. Not sure if it was this way in the original, but some of the flashy fun stuff kind of hinders the dread of the world that exists.