I love first person dungeon crawlers and I've played a variety of SMT games before, but this game completely blows. Game is easy even on Expert difficulty but for some reason the enemies are always set to be significantly higher level than your party members throughout the entire game. This makes negotiation significantly more frustrating since you won't get the materials from them to fuse new Persona until you catch up in level. The thing is, once you fuse a certain early game Persona with the right spell, you are never incentivized to ever engage with the fusion system again right until the final boss. The game will then force you to grind for a few hours just so your level can catch up. Fun.

Everything in the PSP enhanced version is sped up to be twice the speed of the original PS1 version, but it still feels slow as molasses. I don't want to imagine how the original game was.

I did enjoy the music more than I thought I would, especially the vocal tracks. Story was decent too I guess, but definitely not worth dragging through this abysmal mess of a game.