Look no further brother
I only got into the SMT series after having played Persona 5, then I got SMT 3 Nocturne, SMT IV on 3DS, then SMT V on Switch
But SMT V:Vengeance really is something special. It's chock full of gameplay. Not a lot of boring cutscenes or endless dialogues with your party members.
I loved Metaphor up until a certain point, where I kinda got tired of the samey looking dungeons, the endless chats between party members which can honestly go on for 10/15 minutes it feels like.
Vengeance is pure gameplay, you're constantly collecting new angels/demon's (over 270) for your compendium (kind of like how you collect Pokemon for your Pokedex), and you use them to fight in turn based combat, fuse them together to create new ones, lvl them up, customize their skills etc.
The game is a banger and honestly one of my fav RPG's in years. It has a demo as well, so you can check it out for free