Pretty excited to see the new story content, I’m really hoping they add more dungeons and fix that level scaling stuff

I’m currently at the end of October, I’m really impressed with the game, like I’ve been really digging it for the past week or 2 I’ve been playing it. It is a surprisingly faithful remake of the PS2 version but the added QoL features and improvements made from P4 and P5 makes it really nice to play. I’m still not the biggest fan of the characters and pacing of the game’s story, and I think that alone will always hold any version of Persona 3 back from me thinking Persona 3 to be better than Persona 4 or 5 or even compared to some of the other all time great Megami Tensei games like Digital Devil Saga or Devil Survivor for example. But it’s been great, Tartarus and the combat is easily the best Persona has to offer (although I miss the traits mechanics from P5R, and there’s less fusion spells in this game than FES which is a bit disappointing.) I think my only other problem is I don’t really like a lot of the redone tracks, I’m already not really into a lot of the tracks in the original, especially the ones with Lotus Juice doing the vocals, but new female vocals and Lotus Juice rapping are pretty irritating. It’s a shame because some of the new tracks are alright like the new intro song and It’s Going Down Now. But Mass destruction (a song which I already dislike) or when the moon is reaching out (which was my favourite tracks from the original versions) sounds way worse here. But overall, pretty good, 8/10

I've been playing the game on and off since March, slowly making progress through the game (Currently at the Ozaki Hope Tower dungeon). I think the game itself does get a bit of unnecessary slack, but with that being said, i still think it's one of the more weaker Megaten entries in quite a while (that isn't some obvious filler title like the Persona Dancing games or whatever.) I do like the emphasis on dungeon crawling which I feel like more recent mainline entries have been severely lacking in, but the dungeons that are here aren't good, they all feel pretty generic and besides like the setting, i couldn't tell which dungeons were what based on the map or dungeon gimmicks they had. Pretty disappointing as Persona 5/Royal or even a game like Tokyo Mirage Sessions, I felt they did a pretty damn good job with its dungeons, so SMT5 and Soul Hackers 2, I felt like they took a step back in this category. The combat itself I wasn't really impressed by, it lacked the flow that something like Press Turn or 1 More had, but even then, I found that even the combat systems from some older entries like the original Soul Hackers or Strange Journey was a lot more engaging and mechanically deep. I think the story is alright so far, the characters were fine enough, the music was pretty good (ignoring the dungeon music which got irritating after a while.) I do kinda hope they do take another stab at a game like this, because I feel like with a lot more polish with the combat and dungeon designs, I believe there could be a legitimately good dungeon crawler jrpg here, but as is, it's okay, but I wouldn't call it good either.

For me, Persona 4 Golden when it was only on vita was the first one i've played, the first mainline SMT game i've played was probably Lucifer's Call