Xenoblade, Limbus, and Meme Central

I think the funniest thing about it so far is getting to see how absolutely rude the game can be and get the opinions of someone who has no prior history with the series. His primary frustration is the game's insistence on having as many Personas as possible with different Arcana to maximize Social Link boosts, but you start with such a pitiful inventory for them and it only maxes out to 12 at level 30, even though you don't need one for every Arcana (like Fool, Hermit, Star, and Empress). A problem inherit to 3-5's formula, but not exactly the worst I'd say since you can repurchase really cheap low-level Personas, and the boosts they give are minimal at times.

Other things to note of amusement/frustration is 4's version of Shuffle Time and Arcana Chance, interesting in concept, but understandable as to why they were massively overhauled for Golden. Shuffle Time switches between the cards flying in set patterns as a timing game, or a memory game that doesn't even tell you where all the matches are. While Arcana Chance is literally just a gamble of if it helps or hurts you, with the Death, Devil, and I'd even argue Empress cards being the worst. Sometimes you might get fully healed, or have one of your good Personas just transmogrified against your will (should you accept the gamble).

The amount of enemies the game throws at you, their weaknesses (or lack thereof most of the time) and the overworld hitboxes/timing for Player vs Enemy advantage is very interesting. I'm used to always running Yosk-Yuki-Chie for the base element coverage, but I'm also a Golden player where enemy weaknesses are either a lot more balanced, or overall the encounters are just easier to survive. He misclicked a single action and Protag (named Gabe in this instance for fun) went from full health, to almost getting killed, and was only saved because of Kanji taking the blow (Yosuke was knocked out that same turn, and Yukiko was not doing great either). Welcome to Shin Megami Tensei, I guess. And even beyond that, he's properly equipped, maybe a little underleveled, but everything hits for 80-100+ damage unless resisted. It's kind of nuts

For QOL stuff I'm aware of, Golden Shadows feel a LOT rarer than in Golden (lol), I think he's only found two, but I found them all the time (heck, I found a way to abuse their spawning location in Void Quest to guarantee them). Nevermind how nice the Skill Card mechanic is, in addition to Golden's superior Shuffle Time, and how that makes every Persona viable in the long term with enough patience (which helps keep Velvet Room costs down)