Naw I'm done with this trash. I will start off by saying I've never played a tactics game that I've actually liked but I thought I'd give this a chance considering how much I like persona and I will try to keep my criticisms off the tactics genre as much as possible.

The designs are butt ugly. The music has way less energy than it does in any other persona game I've played. The story is forgettable and uninteresting and the characters are basically just devolved to their most basic character traits. I was hoping for some interesting development or fun evolution to the persona/smt combat/monster collecting systems (which is what I got in droves from P5S) but in the 3-4 hours I gave this a shot I got pretty much nothing out of it but boredom and frustration with the dragged out wordy cutscenes.

Holy cow this was a huge jump in quality! Visually models have improved a lot and the animations are so on point and hilarious! Also the wild scenarios you could get yourself into whether you succeeded or failed at rolls made me feel even better when I won or not as bad at all even if I failed. This on top of the incredible dice mechanics that had me on my toes the entire time. The fact that you could retry rolls and rely on modifiers to turn the tables in your favor was so so much more enjoyable to me than other games where dice rolls happen instantly and you can't do much to affect their outcome. I had a smile on my face the entire time I was playing this.