History YMMV / PersonaQShadowOfTheLabyrinth

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PrsRmoqg9s "Friends"]]. It fits quite well with it's accompanying boss.

** And lastly, the fact that all of the above can be combined into one character easily via Sub-Persona. Naoto's main balancer was that she had very high SP consumption and a more specialized than most move pool which can be completely overwritten by just giving her a Sub-Persona with high SP and whatever moves you want. And said moves can easily be an Ailment Circle (tries to inflict it's ailment to the whole enemy side when it's cast and at the end of the next 3 turns, low SP cost making it spamable until it hits), Impure Reach which boosts both her Hama/Mudo skills AND her ailment attacks, Stagnant Air to make that ailment 2-3 times more devastating, and bring it home with a good multi hit move which by the end of the game can go up to about 8 hits which almost guarantees a critical... which gives a boost which means a free Megidolaon. And that says nothing about whatever you decide to do with the rest of your team during this time.

* StopHelpingMe: If your party members are afflicted with a status ailment or low on HP or SP, you will be reminded of it very frequently, in battle and out of it. It's doubly annoying in battle, as your navigator will say something like "So-and-so's been afflicted!" which is immediately followed by someone in your party remarking about their condition.

** Mixed with ForegoneConclusion, in the P3 route in the last dungeon Ken reconsiders [[spoiler: getting revenge on Shinjiro. With the events of the game being forgotten, players of P3 knows that rhis is rendered moot]].

* DiscOneNuke: Shinkuuha. A strong Ranged attack that hits twice and deals STR-based Almighty damage for only 82 HP. It's available once your main character can fuse Matador (at level 22), and it can be passed to pretty much any physical-oriented Persona. And by the time skill card extraction becomes possible, money is easy to get, so you stick it on every physical attacker in the cast.
* DudeNotFunny!:
** A lot of the girls' treatment of the boys falls into this - Yukari's treatment of Junpei, which is far meaner compared to their home game, Yukiko's reaction to others saying how terrible of a cook she is, and Mitsuru's tossing around empty execution threats over minor things, such as Yosuke getting startled at one point in the Evil Spirit Club are just a few examples. The worst of it is arguably Elizabeth and Margaret's treatment of Theodore.
*** To expand on the latter, some people see it more as an abusive familial relationship than anything to laugh at.
** A brief scene in the Inaba Pride Exhibit (one that leads to Shinjiro and Akihiko having a competition seeing who can get closest to a fire before passing out) presents the notion that Akihiko has absolutely ''no'' concept of what sexual harassment is. He's confused at Chie for not taking her clothes off due to the heat, and he makes it clear that he's ready to strip down, until Shinjiro steps in. It makes it seem he truly ''is'' completely socially inept, as opposed to simply being awkward and aloof in his home game.
** Teddie's flirting, which is not helped that he does it almost constantly.

*** Most of the Destined Partner scenes with the P3 Protagonist are this [[spoiler: because him dying means he'll never get married for real.]]

** There seems to be new Persona designs. Like ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIV'' before, feelings are conflicted on it.

* [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap Rescued From the]] [[TierInducedScrappy Tier-Induced Scrappy Heap]]: Ken and Naoto. In their original games, both had OneHitKO skills as specialties, while their other aspects lagged behind. However, because Hama and Mudo hit rates have been increased to GameBreaker status, they become MUCH more useful. Naoto is elevated to GameBreaker status with this and her other aspects (see above) and Ken is now a FragileSpeedster rather than a MasterOfNone, who also makes as a decent support character with his luck; from a character standpoint, the latter has good interactions with other characters (mainly Kanji, a major EnsembleDarkhorse).

** Rei. While she is praised for her story, her constantly rambling about food gets grating for many players.

*** Most of the Destined Partner scenes with the P3 Protagonist are this [[spoiler: because him dying means he'll never get married.]]

*** Most of the Destined Partner scenes with the P3 Protagonist are this [[spoiler: because him dying means any potential romance with him is doomed.]]

*** Most of the Destined Partner scenes with the P3 Protagonist are this [[spoiler: because him dying means none of his LoveInterests will win him.]]

** The boss of the third Labyrinth, Kind Doctor, has some powerful spread attacks and two nurses to constantly heal him and give him stat boosts. They're also weak to [[StandardStatusEffects status effects]] such as paralysis and sleep, making it possible to finish the fight without ever being attacked. The nurses don't even have that much HP, and if you defeat them the main boss lacks any gimmick to make the fight more interesting than just attacking till you win.

** Special mention to the Phantom Mage of the 3rd dungeon, his Wind Corrosion skill will make every party members weak to wind. If not dealt with quickly, he'll cast Magarula, which can wipe out the party in a single turn. Worse still are when you run into a pair of them during a P-Spot ambush. Since they go first, you may not even get a chance to fight back: Wind Corrosion, Magarula, game over.
* EarWorm: The battle music "Light up the Fire in the Night", both the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=454IG6mfiK8 Persona 3 version]] and the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNoqBPlOvZg Persona 4 version]].* FridgeBrilliance: Aside from the stoic Zen, Aigis isn't smiling when she sees Teddie [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXn3TLAw7Ekt=2m20s in the intro]] is because she has not gone through her character development yet since the ''P3'' cast came from well before November, [[spoiler: before gaining her memories of why she was attached to Minato in the first place. And also losing her robotic characteristics due to being broken by Ryoji.]]
** To add to this, she also seems to be shooting Teddie on sight in her character trailer whereas in ''Arena'' she was able to make judgment calls before attacking him.

** A meta-example: The Map. The Jump Scares in the Evil Spirit Club are mitigated by the fact that the player is likely going to be looking at the map at any given time, rather than looking at the top screen. As such, the sudden appearance of the FOE goes relatively unnoticed.

** Although Yukiko is not as bad as the above, she's generally inferrior in many ways. Her element being fire makes it one of the more common elements since the P3MC, Junpei, and Koromaru also use it but can use more versitile skills that fit better in combat. Adding to that, she doesn't learn Mind Charge to overpower Mitsuru or Naoto, and her counterpart, Yukari, has better healing skills and wind spells, which makes her valuable in battle. In short, Yukiko CantCatchUp.

* EarWorm: The battle music "Light up the Fire in the Night", both the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=454IG6mfiK8 Persona 3 version]] and the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNoqBPlOvZg Persona 4 version]].
* {{Flanderization}}: Given the LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters, many characters' personalities are boiled down to one single quirk, exaggerated to massive levels:
** Compared to his original game, Akihiko's become a straight up BloodKnight whose every line of dialogue is either looking for a fight, trying to compete with Shinji, or obsessing over protein. He even ''says as such'' when he introduces himself in the P4 route! This causes Shinjiro to be hit with this, since it causes him to be more aggressive to Akihiko then he was originally.
** Similarly, Chie's love of meat is brought up in the vast majority of her dialogue, and in the Evil Spirit Club, she continuously screams in fear of ghosts.
** Teddie has his LovableSexManiac levels turned up to maximum. Almost every line of dialogue is a shameless flirtation.
** Since she's so OutOfFocus, Marie offers little to the game other than her poems. To a few of her detractors, this is not a bad thing, as her poems tend to be pretty amusing.
* FridgeBrilliance: Aside from the stoic Zen, Aigis isn't smiling when she sees Teddie [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXn3TLAw7Ekt=2m20s in the intro]] is because she has not gone through her character development yet since the ''P3'' cast came from well before November, [[spoiler: before gaining her memories of why she was attached to Minato in the first place. And also losing her robotic characteristics due to being broken by Ryoji.]]

** Yosuke fares better than the others, but also has more focus on his obsession with girls and the subsequent fear of their cooking (though this is not as bad since their cooking is legitimately that bad). When he isn't doing either, he's usually teasing Kanji in some way.

* TheScrappy: Teddie has been less liked in this game, mainly due to him acting even more full of himself and desperate for female attention than in other recent portrayals and being a TierInducedScrappy. The former may have to do with this game being set Mid-October for the Persona 4 gang, which was when Teddie was at his peak of being drunk on the material pleasures of the human world, just before his inevitable [[HeroicBSOD mental breakdown]] upon witnessing [[spoiler: Nanako's apparent death,]] but that doesn't help newcomers to the character or those who had tried to eliminate Teddie's most bratty phase from their memories in first place. And while he's also a LethalJokeCharacter with the strategy stated above, a somewhat comparable result can be reached with a well-leveled Ken, who also comes with a better speed stat.

** Unlike the party's other [[FragileSpeedster Fragile Speedsters]], Yosuke doesn't have much going for him aside from speed. He lacks Ken and Koromaru's OneHitKill specialty, his Magic is decent but not the best and his strength is somewhat low. Like Teddie, he's lost his more varied skills from his home game, including his healing and buffs, and only gained Wind-element physical attacks, which he isn't great with due to his low Strength. The worst part is his extremely low Luck, which seriously hampers his ability to act as fast status or Hama/Mudo support with Sub-Personas, which would otherwise be his saving grace.

* TheScrappy: Teddie has been less liked in this game, mainly due to him acting even more full of himself and desperate for female attention than in other recent portrayals and being a TierInducedScrappy. The former may have to do with this game being set Mid-October for the Persona 4 gang, which was when Teddie was at his peak of being drunk on the material pleasures of the human world, just before his inevitable [[HeroicBSOD mental breakdown]] upon witnessing [[spoiler: Nanako's apparent death,]] but that doesn't help newcomers to the character or those who had tried to eliminate Teddie's most bratty phase from their memories in first place. And while he's also a LethalJokeCharacter with the strategy stated above, a somewhat comparable result can be reached with a well-leveled Ken, who also comes with a better speed stat.

** Outside of battle, party members will always remark on the presence of a FOE, Power Spot, evejt, etc... even when it's in plain sight.

* BaseBreaker: Akihiko, Chie, Junpei, Yukari, and Teddie are quite the topic for fans to debate over. Namely are if they are hit with horrible {{Flanderization}} or if it's not a big deal since all of these quirks occurred before they had their CharacterDevelopment.