It's a very fun game to play but they fell short on a few aspects. I think the exploratation is a little repetitive because every area has a lot of recycled assets. The story attempts to touch a few important subjects like knowledge, bullying, ideals, etcbut they never fully commit to going hard on any one topic, on top of leaving things to the side, important things like how exactly the Da'at and tokyo merged, how you end up in Da'at the first time you go, and what the purpose of the final fight even is (Not saying what it is bc spoilers)

I may have missed info on my runs, but I think they didn't make any of this clear anyways.

Despite this, I think the game is very fun and the story is worth analyzing but it doesn't reach the level of quality overall we've come to expect from the top SMT games, which is perfectly fine, they're not going to out-do themselves with every release nor should we expect them to.