Sure, story is there, even though it really is nothing more than a glorified epilogue to a game that ended so perfectly. As a music/rhythm game, it has songs that are too long, and overall lacks content. No-brainer songs such as Never More is missing in the original list of included songs, set aside as a DLC so they can take more money from the fans who bought this supposedly full game.

If you are kind of a person who has no concept of what it means to be a responsible consumer, and just want to watch Nanako dance cute to some music you used to think is the best musical achievement in history of mankind, you wouldn't be disappointed. But otherwise, I wouldn't recommend this, not even to fans. Because fans, including myself, bought this, and it gave Atlus an excuse to do the same to P3 and P5, with even less content and even more exploitative DLC business model.

I'm really impressed about the extend they went for this little spin-off. They totally didn't have to and they did it anyways, it's not the best written story in existance, but it actually stands a fair chance.

Because they didn't go for just a spin-off, they wanted it to be a story that happened in-canon, and it actually works fairly well, sadly they really lazed out with P3D and P5D later.

The selection of music is great too.

Kanami is a lovely character, I really love her.

First things first, I really enjoyed the gameplay for this one. I found it super addicting. It's a rhythm game, but it also has a decently long story mode. I may be a little biased because I do love the characters and the world but I can admit that the story was a bit repetitive and the messaging could be really redundant. It's a fun playthrough though, definitely worth going through if you played the original game. Most importantly though, the soundtrack is absolute fire. There are some fantastic remixes here. Also the dance choreography is pretty impressive.

They clearly put some love into this title. If you've played through Persona 4 you've probably already played this. But if you haven't, you probably should

I played Persona 5 Dancing in the Starlight before playing this, and I can see why some people dislike that one compared to this. This has a lot of effort put into it for a spin off rhythm game. Like a full 10 hour, fully voiced story mode? Is the story good? Not really at all, but it’s definitely appreciated. The writing isn't great and feels super fan fiction-ey, and sometimes boarders the line of Kingdom Hearts level of annoying (just replace the word Heart with Bonds). Rise’s and Naouto’s new voice actors are kinda distracting, but they do a decent job imitating the old voices. But compared to 5s story and characters, there is WAY more effort put into this than the dumb confidants way of doing things in that game. And 5s makes me totally hate almost all the characters. The only character in this one that kind of felt like they were written differently and kinda got on my nerves was Nauto, she felt like a stereotype of herself. My one big complaint with the story mode though is how LONG it is. It’s impressive how much dialog they recorded for this game but oh my god does it take forever. Each chapter is basically made up of 3 Dances, and a chapter takes an hour to get through, so your playing the game for about 10 minutes worth of time then listening to people talk for 50 mins. It would be fine if the story was better, but like I said its kinda Fan Fiction lite. If anything, I guess it made me really look forward to when a song was about to come up I guess, because the remixes are pretty good. Otherwise, Atlus may have succeeded in making its most hate able character ever, Kanami, who is scientifically engineered to get on my nerves in almost every possible way, (maybe Mishima’s worse though, idk). Also, I don’t fully understand the special episode. Was it to just demonstrate that the story isn't cannon? Either way, the interviews in that chapter is the best writing in the whole game and felt closest in line to Persona 4’s writing, so I accept that part as cannon.