>>716129064
>I'm interested on why you find the exploration shitty
It's very boring. Since going 3D SMT has had awful level and dungeon design because it never makes use of 3D space prior to V. You have a semi-nonlinear large field map with lots of locations, but said locations don't have much meat to them. The dungeons are just straight lines like the Demon Domains. Regular areas like the towns and parks are very small and don't contain much to collect or interact with. There's no verticality, going up and down areas is just contextual prompt you find. There's barely any branching and looping paths with totally optional areas, it's just linear hallways that are slightly wide. The addition of no randoms is good, but not good enough, since they don't actually have different properties. They just bumrush when they see you or sometimes ambush you. The homogeneity of the ruined Tokyo environments sucks even if I liked the cyberpunk the most out of all the games. It's one big ruined urban hellscape with a few Domains™ and the endgame area squished in. There's sidequests and they don't really contribute to the gameplay.

>>714703165
Even SMT kinda dropped that sadly.
Bit at least in some you can make it so.