@Incarna what? The Life will Change theme never had vocals when stealing treasure after sending the calling card minus a few key late-game dungeons. This is unchanged between the main game. Also, Take Over isn’t the “default” music theme, it’s the ambush music theme. It was the same in P4G where it went from just Reach Out to the Truth to Make History when ambushing and Reach Out in all other situations. All the old P5 DLC is free, so if you’re bothered by the new ambush theme, you can easily change to another outfit and hear a new theme (or just.... stop ambushing).

People loved Last Surprise, but many complained that it didn’t feel like actual battle music like every theme in P3 and 4 did. It was just acid jazz, which is good but not only gets boring after a while, but isn’t the most heart-pumping battle theme option out there. Take Over is an actual battle theme, and if you don’t like it, that’s fine. But it is there as a solution to a problem that you don’t really NEED to utilize.

You’re only 30 hours in, you haven’t AT ALL experienced everything new about the game. And even then, there’s so much more that you’re clearly not utilizing properly if you’re already bored; have you even used your grappling hook or found any Will Seeds? Are you actually paying attention to the new boss fights, or are you playing on safe and never realized how different they actually are? Have you actually spent time with Kasumi or Maruki yet? They aren’t ground-breaking changes, but they do very VERY much so make the game feel fresh compared to vanilla.

The third semester of Royal DESTROYS The Answer in terms of both length and quality. And the music in it is fantastic, have had it on replay the entire time I’ve listened to music ever since I finished Royal about two weeks ago. An overwhelming majority of it is significantly better than what vanilla had to offer, but you wouldn’t know that since you only heard the new battle theme and Maruki’s theme and decided to judge the entire OST and quit 30 hours in.

You did not platinum vanilla P5 in 90 hours, you’re either lying or you skipped crucial cutscenes. I’m a Persona purist, but I was so latched to the story of 5 when I first played it that I genuinely rushed through parts and skipped days just to continue the story, and my playtime still ended up being 83 hours. After my second play through, my total playtime amongst both play throughs on the same save file totaled 191 hours. I only had 78% of the trophies at that time. You by no means completed the entire compendium, every request, every Confidant (and actually read them), fused Satanael, AND defeat the twins in 90 hours. That’s a blatant lie.

Play the game, you’ll love it if you actually like Persona 5.