When this game is good, it's really good, and then the rest of the time it's conveniently knocking Akane out so she can't explain the puzzle to you.
My experience with ZTD is irrevocably tainted by fan expectations from sources outside the series canon, so I'm definitely a bit biased, but I would say it's a pretty okay game in isolation, just not a satisfactory conclusion to the trilogy. The game dances around 999 spoilers for some reason (?) despite basically explaining the VLR endgame to you within the first hour, so those returning characters don't get the full resolution they could have had. I do mostly enjoy the new characters and I think there's something to love in here regardless.
Play it for Junpei stomping out the store animation
My experience with ZTD is irrevocably tainted by fan expectations from sources outside the series canon, so I'm definitely a bit biased, but I would say it's a pretty okay game in isolation, just not a satisfactory conclusion to the trilogy. The game dances around 999 spoilers for some reason (?) despite basically explaining the VLR endgame to you within the first hour, so those returning characters don't get the full resolution they could have had. I do mostly enjoy the new characters and I think there's something to love in here regardless.
Play it for Junpei stomping out the store animation