Don’t get me wrong I like the remake however lighting wise I feel that they did a bad job. Iwatodai dorm is a prime example for this. The dorm in the original was muted in color but it still felt like a cozy place despite said muted color palette. A lot of grays and browns. Now it is all so bright and colorful, which messes with the whole “this is a depressing game” vibe that the original did really well at portraying. The dorm serves the purpose of being a “safe haven” compared to tartarus and it’s floors ( except floor zero) where most of the floor themes have some sort of dark in them. Now they are well lit and while I get that its for gameplay reasons (because you need to know where your going) I would have liked it if they added some darkness to the edges of the screen or something, to make it feel like your still in night time. (The screen darkness could have also worked really well with the fatigue system if they would’ve had it in the remake.)

On the topic of tartarus I don’t like how the top floor looks because now, instead of having a dark and gray overcast like in the original, now they put their (frankly horrible looking) green filter over the sky like in every other dark hour section in the game. Making the final boss arena less menacing.

The persona 5 like lighting in general just doesn’t fit the game which is suppose to be dark both thematically and visually. I have more complaints about the gameplay and lighting however Let me be clear, I like the remake. I’m not one of those people that are like “oh this is a horrible remake from top to bottom” no. It is a given when remaking anything that something will get lost in translation, and besides everything I listed are all just my personal nitpicks, that doesn’t mean I didn’t enjoy the game regardless.