Well as we both know Wolf if the story and characters are good, I can tolerate bad dungeons. I don't think there's a dungeon in existence that fills me with mor dread than Babel Tower. I've been traumatized since my first playtrhough of the game where I missed that one platform jump which sends you falling all the way through a loading transition and back to the bottom of the final stretch of the dungeon.

But I've overcome that and beaten the game several times and rank it as my favorite JRPG ever. So if the dungeons in P2 are just lame or bland, no big deal.

Tell me Wolf, since you like Persona 2 and 3 so much, why is Persona 4 so popular? I have done a "JRPG with the Best Plot" thread on multiple forums and Persona 4 is brought up again and again. Other SMT titles are mentioned but not as frequently. P4 also got an anime right and a bunch of other crap.

Speaking of other SMT games however, this guy's summary of Digital Devil Saga sounds like it be right up my alley. This sounds almost like a condensed summary of Xenogears:
As for suggestions, I cannot suggest the SMT: Digital Devil Saga series enough. Holy crap, the combination of mythological references, meaning of life stuff, mystery, and the ways it plays with characterizations, I love it.