History YMMV / PersonaQ2NewCinemaLabyrinth

** While their [[spoiler:real-life counterparts at least have a FreudianExcuse going alongside them,]] the Overseer and Mother Computer are one of the very few major targets in this game that are completely and utterly evil, with their whole reason of existence being based on oppression and hypocrisy. In fact unlike Kamoshidaman and the Herbivores, they don't even get to [[spoiler:show up in the edited movies and remain destroyed in them instead of being changed.]]

%%%%* ThatOneBoss: HIDDEN UNTIL PROPERLY DISCUSSED. (Basically every one of the five bosses AND the ultimate boss qualify into this trope. They either have ridiculous amounts of HP ([[spoiler:Super Kamoshidaman, Yosukesaurus and Enlil]]) or feature gimmicks that can draw out the battle to unbelievable lengths ([[spoiler:Mother Computer and Doe]]). It's also telling when you can defeat an [=FOE=] with no problem before even going after the dungeon's boss (compared to ''VideoGame/PersonaQ'' where the [=FOE=]s are more difficult than the boss).)

* AnnoyingVideoGameHelper: Every time you return to the hub, the characters will ''always'' remind you to buy a Goho-M if you don't have one, that your current roster of Personas are full, or that you have incomplete Ticket Requests at the box office.

* ComplacentGamingSyndrome: It's very common to see Let's Players on [=YouTube=] to have a set party of the four protagonists (Joker, Yu, [=P3=] hero, and [=P3P=] heroine) plus Akechi.[[labelnote:Why?]]RuleOfCool aside, the Ultimate Personas of all the protagonists have a very wide spread of resistances and no weakness barring the [=FeMC's=] weakness to Curse. Akechi is included because his ultimate Persona loses his Curse weakness, and he also innately learns Debilitate.[[/labelnote]]

** On a more general level, magic is actually good in this game as your characters have more SP than in the previous ''Q''[[note]]In the previous game, you can be at the endgame and some characters will have less than 100 SP at level 99. In this game, they can go well over 200-300SP mid to late game[[/note]] and the majority of bosses have weaknesses, unlike the previous Q's total [[InvertedTrope inversion]] of LinearWarriorsQuadraticWizards. This makes all magic-based party members a lot better.

* HolyShitQuotient: The surprise appearance by ''[[VideoGame/Persona3 P3P]]''[='s=] female protagonist in TheStinger of the first full trailer blew the entire ''Persona'' fandom away!

** After being constantly shafted from [[VideoGame/Persona4Arena other]] ''Persona'' [[VideoGame/Persona3DancingInMoonlight spin-offs]] and the [[Anime/Persona3TheMovie anime movies]], fans were beginning to lose hope that ''Persona 3 Portable''[='s=] female protagonist would ever see the light of day again... And sure enough, come this game, she appears as one of the new characters.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot:
** Minor nitpick, but it would have been cool if Wildcard Order all-out attack that ended Enil's final boss form would have the explosion in the end. Only this time we have Hikari's special portrait in it as well.

* ComplacentGamingSyndrome: It's very common to see Let's Players on [=YouTube=] to have a set party of the four protagonists (Joker, Yu, [=P3P=], and [=FeMC=]) plus Akechi.[[labelnote:Why?]]RuleOfCool aside, the Ultimate Personas of all the protagonists have a very wide spread of resistances and no weakness barring the [=FeMC's=] weakness to Curse. Akechi is included because his ultimate Persona loses his Curse weakness, and he also innately learns Debilitate.[[/labelnote]]

* ComplacentGamingSyndrome: It's very common to see Let's Players on [=YouTube=] to have a set party of the four protagonists (Joker, Yu, [=P3P=], and [=FeMC=]) plus Akechi.

* EarWorm:
** "Road Less Taken" is just as catchy as the previous opening. And considering how many times one would re-watch the trailer (don't lie, you did), it'll be stuck in your head.
** The lobby theme has lyrics this time, [[https://youtu.be/5cU61N9tC1Q and it'll definitely get stuck in your head]].
** The [=FeMC=] battle theme, "[[https://youtu.be/QHN6hUWaH3E Pull The Trigger]]", brings her back with a gusto.
** The Investigation Team's battle theme "[[https://youtu.be/LH_4FdDiZZM Remember We've Got Your Back,]] is a catchy tune.
** The Phantom Thieves' battle theme, [[https://youtu.be/mve-Na4IbXA "Invitation to Freedom"]], a catchy tune that serves as a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech against the rotten adults and those who are too cowardly to do anything about them.

** EverybodyLives...Although it is pretty clear for the ''Persona 3'' and ''Persona 5'' cast, [[spoiler:[[EtTuBrute that]] [[BolivianArmyEnding doesn't]] [[HeroicSacrifice last]] [[KilledOffForReal too]] [[FateWorseThanDeath long]].]]

** [[AmericansHateTingle A lot of Western fans]] warmed up to Akechi due to his interactions with characters like Naoto, Ken, Koromaru and Teddie, and attempts to be helpful even while still being mistrusted by the other Phantom Thieves. They also sympathize with his [[spoiler: genuine, but [[AllForNothing ultimately]] [[ForegoneConclusion futile]], [[RedemptionFailure attempts at redemption]].]] Helping things is that he also is around for the entirety of the game, allowing him more chances to endear himself to players.

** While still polarizing, a lot of fans warmed up to Akechi due to his interactions with characters like Naoto, Ken, Koromaru and Teddie, and attempts to be helpful even while still being mistrusted by the other Phantom Thieves. They also sympathize with his [[spoiler: genuine, but [[AllForNothing ultimately]] [[ForegoneConclusion futile]], [[RedemptionFailure attempts at redemption]].]] Helping things is that he also is around for the entirety of the game, allowing him more chances to endear himself to players.

* CrackPairing: Believe or not, a pairing between the ''P3'' Hero and his female counterpart is rather popular. The way they look at each other in one of the game's cutscenes suggests there is something between them. [[ScrewYourself It'll still take you 0 seconds to realize why this is labeled as a crack pairing.]]

** More directly, the reason the game doesn't have a dub is most likely an incredibly low sales expectation, given that in Japan it sold less than half as many copies as its predecessor and was also preceded by the poor-selling Persona 3/5 Dancing games. Frankly it's a miracle that it got a physical release outside of Japan once the numbers started coming in.

** Much unlike Rei from ''Persona Q'', even from the moment you meet her, it's quite clear Hikari has not had the best life. [[spoiler:And the fourth film shows exactly ''how'' she hasn't. If she tries to help somebody to get out of an unjust situation, they turn on her back and ''assist'' the very people who made the unjust decisions, and when she tried to pursue her own dream she gets a backlash in the face. All of these events accumulate into extreme depression and transformed her into a borderline suicidal shut in, which is further amplified by her LivingEmotionalCrutch father who was the only person that she had a good relationship with asking her the trigger word in the ''exact phrasing'', ignorant on how she would feel, causing her to suffer from hallucinations of people telling her that she is abnormal and believing that ''her father'' thought of her that way. Nagi ignorantly eating away the very last parts of her positivity by showing her movies made of pure negativity was the last straw. While the game only states that she wanted to discard her self, her issues are so horrendously crippling that you can easily imagine her getting DrivenToSuicide.]]

** While still polarizing, a lot of fans warmed up to Akechi due to his interactions with characters like Naoto, Ken, Koromaru and Teddie, and attempts to be help. They also sympathize with his [[spoiler: genuine, but [[AllForNothing ultimately]] [[ForegoneConclusion futile]], [[RedemptionFailure attempts at redemption]].]] Helping things is that he also is around for the entirety of the game, allowing him more chances to endear himself to players.

** Much unlike Rei from ''Persona Q'', even from the moment you meet her, it's quite clear Hikari has not had the best life. [[spoiler:And the fourth film shows exactly ''how'' she hasn't. If she tries to help somebody to get out of an unjust situation, they turn on her back and ''assist'' the very people who made the unjust decisions, and when she tried to pursue her own dream she gets a backlash in the face. All of these events accumulate into extreme depression and transformed her into a borderline suicidal shut in, which is further amplified by her LivingEmotionalCrutch father who was the only person that she had a good relationship with asking her the trigger word in the ''exact phrasing'', ignorant on how she would feel, causing her to suffer from hallucinations of people telling her that she is abnormal and believing that ''her father'' thought of her that way. Nagi ignorantly eating away the very last parts of her positivity by showing her movies made of pure negativity was the last straw. While the game only states that she wanted to discard her self, her issues are so horrendously crippling that you can easily imagine her DrivenToSuicide.]]

** Much unlike Rei from ''Persona Q'', even from the moment you meet her, it's quite clear Hikari has not had the best life. [[spoiler:And the fourth film shows exactly ''how'' she hasn't.]]

** Even from the moment you meet her, it's quite clear Hikari has not had the best life. [[spoiler:And the fourth film shows exactly ''how'' she hasn't.]]

* GameBreaker: [[GameBreaker/Persona See here]].

* GameBreaker:
** [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique Shura Tensei]], a buff skill that returns from the previous ''Persona Q'' game, remains incredibly broken. At the cost of half of a character's maximum natural HP after each attack (which can easily be recovered with Navi skills), their damage output is ''tripled''. Firing off Links, or boosted physical attacks, in this state all but guarantees a win against the majority of enemies and [=FOEs=] in the game. It's disliked among many players because of how extreme the move is, both in risk and reward.
** Aigis is just as broken as she is in the first game with her Orgia Mode. Give her Yoshitsune and unleash a Boosted Hassou Tobi under Orgia Mode after using Power Charge, especially with Heat Riser in effect on her and Debilitate on the enemy, and she can easily start dishing out a total of 15,000+ damage per set.
** Did you dislike the fact that magic wasn't viable in ''Persona Q''? [=P3MC=]'s unique passive ability, Fool Card, gives a 1.5x boost to all magic damage except Bless and Curse. To put it into perspective, this is the equivalent of six "Element Turbo" passives (all of which are inaccessible until [[PostEndGameContent levels well above what you're expected to be at for the endgame]]) in ''one slot''. His endgame upgrade, Judgment Card, shoots this up to '''1.85x'''. They made his Magic extremely low to try to balance this out, but he still outdamages specialists with far higher Magic than him. Aside from that, his Luck is still excellent, and his Strength and Endurance aren't half bad either, ''and'' he gets first dibs on Heat Riser. He can pretty much do anything you want him to.