It’s not just the guys of P3, but I feel the girls who you do have social links with have noticeable development throughout the main story as well. If nothing else, I’d like to see more of that in the series. Either way, it’s something that I wish was better integrated into the games, having social links impact character interactions outside of them. It’s weird ending up in romantic relationships and having no one acknowledge it or anything.

You have different dynamics in the games though, and there is nothing wrong with preferring the friendships of P4. They are the group of friends where everyone just clicks and everyone has good times. P3 are a group born of necessity. They need everyone with personas to combat the shadows and figure out the dark hour. They grow into friendship through shared hard times and by living and working together. I feel like it’s like school or work where you aren’t going to mesh with everyone likely, but being stuck together for long periods of time can have you gain an understanding of each other and grow past your issues with each other.

I’m at the hospital at the moment so I’m going to have to end my thoughts. Hopefully they made sense as I can’t look back over them at the moment.