I'm currently playing P3P for the first time. I'm playing as the femc as I don't think anyone in their right mind would play this game as Makoto. Anyhow, I'm really liking it so far. I thought the controls and visuals would be a lot worse during the social sim part, but it's surprisingly okay-ish. The audio is honestly cancer doe. And that is with the most popular mod installed that supposedly fixes the audio. Needless to say, there are problems remaining... Speaking of mods, I also installed the fanmade animated cutscnes for femc. They're pretty awkward. Granted, that isn't to say that the originals were perfect, but Kotone's movements are even moar awkward than Makoto's. Still, very impressive mod.

I'm playing on maniac. It's been a while since I last played FES on hard, but I honestly think this is slightly harder in some areas. Regular encounters are easy as shit. I'm defeating everything with ease. Hell, I'm using their weapons. Not personas. Weapons. On maniac. Yep. But for the floor guardians, man, they're rough. I've only (barely) cleared the first block. They're were tough as shit. In FES, they were easy, since all you had to do was stunlock them. But they removed that ability in portable. It no longer takes a whole turn to get up. Maybe the game gets easier later, but I honestly think maniac is harder than FES on hard when it comes to the floor guardians.

I have a lot more thoughts, but those are my main thoughts so far.

Also, it says "custom" because I set the EXP gain to normal instead of low, because fuck that.