I've become way more fond of this game after finally going the entire mile and finishing this game. I've played P3 a ton of times before but the mindnumbingly slow beginning always made me drop it, until a couple months ago, when I decided on a whim to finish this game for the first time. I ended up really enjoying it once the game started picking up at yakushima beach, Tartarus is an absolutely horrid dungeon despite this though. Going through a series of randomly generated dungeons while fighting the same 10 enemy reskins gets old, REAL OLD fast. It's better than p4's dungeons but thats because it's not a series of bland hallways like those. The developments in the story and the characters definitely made a huge chunk of this experience for me. (Shoutout to Fatlus in 2006 for actually making the characters have their own character development without the players input.) Seriously why has no other Nusona game done this? For a franchise all about relationships you'd think characters having their own growth throughout the story would have been standard in this series, yet only P3 did this. But yeah, Persona 3 went from a game I had mixed feelings into becoming my 2nd favourite persona game, P4 will always be my baby...