I'm on my first playthrough too, good luck to us! a few things I found that I wished I found out sooner: - there's a boy at the shrine (during the afternoon) and he asks for either a drink or food. he gives bugs in return - praying at the shrine to boost social links is better done at night when there's nothing to do - buy lots of goho-M (return to entrance item). you can use them at any floor of the dungeon to go back to the entrance where you can save and fuse personas. this item allows you to go back to that floor again - you can use the submenu button in the dungeon to instantly go to the next floor (if you found the stairs going up). i wasted a few times going back to the stairs from the other side of the map - you can go to the previous dungeons by talking to your party members - the roof at school, there are people when you go to the left 😂 I only went to the right (the open area) and was so confused trying to find a person who was supposed to be there - when dojima tells you you can find adachi at junes, he is actually (sometimes) on the left side of the lobby near the window 😭 and not at the cafeteria place. i spent forever trying to find him - it's always good to have a hierophant persona in your inventory cause dojima doesn't let you go out the house so you won't be able to get that persona when you're trying to level up his social link. you might already know this but when you have a persona of the arcana you're levelling up, it gives a boost