Persona 5 Royal is such a hard game to rate. Is it better than the original? Worse? Both? Both. The QOL updates are nice, and the new portraits are great. The new music is pretty good, and I'm always down to spend more time with Akechi. The new characters are great, and the epilogue has some of my favorite moments. But the epilogue also has some of my least favorite moments. The ideas are good on paper, but between the fact that Kasumi was advertised as a party member but was only usable at the end, and the weird tacked-on nature of having an epilogue for this game in the first place definitely felt like there was some rushing going on behind the scenes. Of course, it's still Persona 5, and it's still an excellent game with fantastic music, an art style to die for, and charming characters, but it almost feels like Atlus could have left well enough alone with the original P5. I like egg boy though :)