I've begun playing Persona 4 Golden! I have to say, I'm really enjoying myself so far. The character interactions are hilarious. I'm on the 1st of May, so I have three teammates: Chie, Yosuke, and Yukiko.

Admittedly, the intro video does spoil who will end up becoming my final party, but I don't mind that so much, that intro was so funny and hippie.

I'm liking the non-playable characters as well. I like Dojima and Nanako, and how obviously their relationship is strained. I imagine that will be resolved by the story's end. The school is good, and the source of many S.Links. I've started the Chariot and Sun links currently.

I'm really surprised how early you can start the Aeon S.Link. In P3P, it could only be activated in the final month of the game. I guess that explains why the weakest Aeon persona is Lv. 18.

In regards to combat, I like it. The lack of a clock is going to really bother me though, as I still use SP like I drink water to get All Out Attacks and strike weaknesses. Yosuke is proving to be a very powerful teammate. Chie is as well, though she ends up slipping more often than other characters. Fortunately, the newly introduced bonuses you get from Party S.Links means that Yosuke can help her back up.

There's more player stats to level up, which will be an added challenge. Anyway, I'm really enjoying it. Mr. Carny watched a few minutes and he seems really excited to play that as well (he's still on P3P, end of September).