Just beat the a game a few minutes ago, wanted to share my thoughts.
First off, how is this game taking people over 100 hours to complete, unless they're on hard mode? I did it on normal in 75. I kept thinking that there would be more past the final boss, but nope. Kinda felt anticlimactic in that regard.
In terms of gameplay, I'll say that this is probably the best playing JRPG currently out, and I'm afraid it'll ruin me for other turn based JRPG's in the future. The level of QOL enhancements you find in this game here are something that should be a standard for any turn-based JRPG going forward.
In terms of characters and story, I gotta say that I don't think any of these characters really hold a candle to the cast of P4. The characters in P4 felt more like a crew, the ones in P5 never really had that level of cohesion for me. I never really felt like they could hang out with each other and that I was the central focus of the entire group. The P4 team still had you as their leader, but they could be friends with each other as well. Speaking of characters, the cast of P4 felt more like actual people as well, instead of various archetypes, which is how I'd consider most of the cast of P5. P5's cast had little interaction with each other outside the designated confidant sections, and that did make it feel a bit stale.
Finally, in terms of the most important part of Persona, the waifu's, I'd only really consider Ann and Takemi as P5 waifu's. I mean, I still dated different six women, but that's just because dating one is great, so six must be amazing, right? Still, nothing in this game compares to the waifu trio of Rise, Chie, and Yukiko. I'll probably still buy this Ann figure (
http://myfigurecollection.net/item/520673), but unless they make a Takemi figure, that'll probably be all of the P5 merch I buy, compared to the mountains of P4 stuff I own. I somehow doubt that P5 will get the number of spinoff's that P4 got, simply due to the fact that the interesting characters of P4 helped propel those many spinoffs. I do like Morgana over Teddie though.