Persona 3 is probably the weakest of the Persona franchise with absolutely awful dungeon design. The social aspect of the game, where you make friends in order to create powerful demons is interesting and overall the plot has a decent amount of mystery that will keep a player going but there are so many missteps in it's design it's sort of hard to recommend

The addition of a new playable character is cool so players coming from FES or the original release can get some new content but unless you're a hardcore SMT/Persona fan then skipping this one in favor of 1,2,4 or 5 is an understandable course of action.

I'm hoping that with the remake coming in 2024 that they will fix Tartarus and I can sing this games praises the same way I do for every other entry in the franchise but unless you have some serious boredom resistance then give this one a miss