Somehow I missed the original thread on this topic. Oh well.

The game has been out for a few months now, but I still can't get over how awesome this game is. It makes so many improvements over the already-awesome Persona 3. I love that you no longer have to explore Tartarus alone after your first trip through of the night. I love the ability to control your teammate's actions directly, and the Defend option. I love the addition of Skill Cards to take a ton of the randomness out of the levelling system, letting you build any Persona up almost any way you want. I love the amazingly brilliant changes to the character interactions that they brought in with the female character.

And I am gobsmacked at the sheer quality of the gaming experience. So much of the original voice acting is intact, and they added so much more for the changes with the female character. They lost the cutscenes, which is a shame, but the stylization of those sequences through images and music is still beautifully executed, and I didn't even really realize that the cutscenes were gone until it was pointed out to me. Tartarus, the Shadows, and the battle scenes are still as glorious as ever before. I am amazed at how much they managed to fit in to this game. It is simply incredible.

My only real disappointment with this game is that it lacks P3 FES's extra content. The Answer was a great addition to the original game, and I really wish they had left it in the portable version.