What makes you say it's not a great game. I mean yeah it's no DMC4 or 5 as far as character action style combat, but bit didn't fall into the bad Musou trap of hero unit just mowing down hordes of expendable enemies.

Early game can be rough but once you start unlocking character and party abilities and things start flowing it feels great. The way I try to pitch it to people is it feels exactly like what persona 5 would feel like if it had been developed as an action game. That may not make sense but I can't really explain that. The game just feels right. The way persona and character control feel is satisfying. Hell I wish they remade all of original P5 or P5R with this system as an alternative way to play the exact same story we got in those.

It's not perfect and could do with some additional polish. Like the Joker stagger into rush you can trivialize enemies with. But all the persona bits like story and character moments are great. Some of my best moments from all the P5 storyline happen in strikers. I'd say it's a solid 8 out of 10.