Despite it's flaws however I still think it is a good game and I enjoyed my time playing it. I apologize to the die hard fans if my words seemed too scathing

I dont think negotiations are a good addition. I think perhaps they work better in SMT when they are directly your party members, but man I miss shuffle time.

Persona crafting became so much less interesting and much less varied between playthroughs without the uniqueness offered by shuffle time

One thing that really hindered my enjoyment was the forced momentos side quest in almost every link

It felt like in many links you would start to get to know a character just for some evil other character to be thrown in for fun and then you had to change their heart in momentos and that's it

If this was my first persona game, perhaps I would feel different. But I cant help but feel like almost everything in persona 4 was just better. Varying from drastically better to just slightly better. I prefer it in almost every way.