Junpei on the p3p side raised his standing with me quite a bit. He's like a big bro to her, and it's just freaking awesome. Very happy there was no romantic option for the story feels. Shinji was definitely the best thing about P3P's new route, bar none though. I'll take losing the Gourmet King link for him.
I didn't like how 3 handled romantic interests. It kind of knee-capped a lot of the links I think. Some ranks were just wasted about how they felt about you, instead of dealing with their own problems and the like. Though I wonder if that's better or worse than how 4 handled it, with the slink scene normally playing out, THEN the romantic stuff literally tacked on to the end of the convos....
And I lose points with Koro because I hate the characters that get the instant death spells, as it's one less useful spell they have. Isn't Koro naturally weak to light too? It's enough of a pain in the ass when one of those spells actually hits a random party member that's not weak to it, but being weak to it? Yeesh.
Funnest moment of latest playthrough of 3: Doing great against the reaper, then a Mahamaon literally hitting EVERYONE. Recovered and won anyway, but man was that nasty.
Now.... *goes to find full burn my dread*