As much as I love the Persona franchise, it has not had the best relationship with queerness throughout the games (as much as I like to headcanon various characters), and I think that Persona 4 Golden is the worst at handling queer topics. It gets very close to some good stuff, especially with Kanji and Yosuke and how they could've been really good at reflecting internalised homophobia/biphobia, but the stuff with Naoto was very uncomfortable to play as a trans person, even though I doubt the writers were even thinking about trans people while they were writing Naoto's social link and character arc. I also fucking hate Teddie so, so much. He's not homophobic, he's just really annoying and creepy.

But beyond that, I really like this game, although I think it's my least favourite mainline Persona game. I think the Midnight Channel and the way that the game uses Shadows to reflect insecurities and trauma is really interesting for character development. And I think the characters are great, my personal favourite is Yukiko but I also really like Yosuke because I grew up in a small town and I knew so many kids like him when I was a teenager. The music is also great, I listen to Heartbeat, Heartbreak all the time.