this game sucks

The “routes” in this game are a complete mess. Each character has their own disconnected storyline, with some bits that connect overall story, and while it’s typical for fighting games from that era, the execution here is especially bad. You can kind of piece things together by playing every route, but it’s barely coherent. You dont know, if some things really happened or not.

The Persona 3 section starts strong, but quickly falls apart when they dumb down the P3 cast to match P4’s more naive perspective. It just makes everything feel off and underwhelming.

Power scaling is completely busted. You seriously expect me to believe Akihiko or Mitsuru would lose to any P4 character? The P3 cast fought literal death and those 2 pretty much kept training. Meanwhile, the P4 gang’s been out of "practice" of any sort for months, but somehow they’re on equal footing? Lmao.

Not even sure how much Atlus was involved in this one. Characters feel boiled down to surface-level quirks, a lot of their social link growth is gone. All of the character's personas are not the ultimate ones(and there is no official canon reason for it, aside arksys liking the original designs more, how fking stupid...), so coupling that with characters themselves, it makes it kinda feel like all the character growth in their respective games, never happened. Yukiko learning to cook? Nope, back to being a kitchen menace again, her entire story is about how bad of a cook she is still.

The only positive things I can say about this, that at least it was cool to learn how the anti-shadow andriods were made and the game itself can be funny at times. Not the mention the music absolutely slaps and is really well suited for a persona fighting game.

Minazuki is actually braindead dude it's hilarious