Its what Nocturne's gameplay could've been
it isn't as frustrating but still provides a decent challenge
the new skill system is interesting and keeping all your characters on you really makes the story tighter, speaking of which the story on this one is front and center which is unusual for an SMT game, but impressively the voice acting and cutscene direction is solid
the music is some of Shoji Meguro's best and the design for the characters isKazuma Kaneko at his most experimental I feel which is a wild thing to see.
Dungeon crawling is also non-linear but not frustrating