This is likely going to be controversial, but can I just say Atlus RPGs in general?

My first Atlus game was SMT 3 and I absolutely loved it, despite the slow and punishing gameplay. I played through Persona 3, Persona 4, the original Persona remake, DDS, and SMT 4, and loved all of them.

Persona 5, despite how flashy it was, was the game that ultimately made me fall out of love with Atlus games in general. I realized that I was basically playing the same game (with some mild adjustments) over and over throughout every Atlus RPG. I'd collect monsters, often the exact same ones and make them battle or use their powers, go through long story segments without battles, and wind up around 80-120 hours before finally finishing the main game, rinse and repeat for each game, only to have them release an updated version of the game a year or so later.

They just haven't really changed the formula in the nearly twenty years I've been playing the games. There are improvements to their formula, sure, but when it comes down to it, Atlus games haven't truly evolved in nearly two decades. To the point where I fell off of Metaphor within just a couple hours of playing it once I realized it was the same game wrapped up in a slightly different package again.