Now let me start with the good first and foremost, because I don't want this to be an entirely negative review. Persona 5 has the best gameplay in the entire franchise so far, the combat is responsive and fast paced, the palaces are a MASSIVE step up from tartarus and the TV world and Tokyo is full of side content for you to do. (Plus, the Maruki Arc is one of the best additions to a persona game ever.) Talking on a purely gameplay focused perspective Persona 5 definitely would be a contender for one of the best jrpgs ever. However, the story and characters (Mainly talking about the party members and the antagonists here.) Are basically the achilles' heel of what would be a great game. Firstly, the main party members are the ones with the least chemistry between eachother in the entire series. The P3 gang has a similar problem but it's resolved during the answer and over the course of P3, plus there's no stupid situations like the Ryuji scene after Shido iykyk and there's no shitty scenes like the morgana situation before okumura's palace. The party members overall are just incredibly shallow and give you zero reason to care about them outside of a few outliers, (Ryuji and Yusuke.) Haru had the potential to fit into this outlier group but sadly she has zero development and screentime to be put into it. Now starting with the story, surprisingly the game starts off with a bang during the kamoshida arc. Kamoshida is a villain that actually makes you want to go in and take him down. Additionally his arc has actual stakes at hand, you'd think the game would get even better from here on out but sadly its the opposite. The following arcs are practically filler until Futaba and have forced as fuck stakes with villains you have no reason to feel threatened by, futaba's arc is surprisingly decent and pretty unique. Okumara's palace is annoying and has the same issue as Madarame's and Kanesheiro's. Sae's palace is decent enough but is practically just exists to give context to the beginning of the game and reveal Akechi as the (obvious) traitor. Shido's palace is actually pretty good and the battle against shido has a fucking kino moment that made me hype, though akechi's whole situation has a shitty ending that completely ruins Futaba and what little of Haru's character. Yaldabaoth is whatever, and Maruki's arc is probably my favourite one in any persona game I've played so far. And it actually has a philosphical narrative that makes the player genuinely question which side they should be rooting for. Overall P5 royal is a game you either love or hate, If you dont really care for story or plot (Then im not really sure why you're playing a JRPG of all things) then you'll love it. If you do care you'd most likely not like it that much, although that differs from person to person. It's not a bad or awful game but it was just a mediocre experience with some high points for me personally.