Nah, not at all. P5 feels like an internal beta build to P5R’s final release, there’s way too much different across both games. Other than the two new characters, three new social links, one new dungeon, one new semester representing 30 hours of new content (that does represent some of the best content the series has had), there’s also massive changes to combat mechanics (the new Baton Pass, the reloading of guns between battles, the Showtime attacks), most dungeons have been substantially redesigned (and all of them have been at least somewhat altered), every boss is redesigned, there’s entirely new locations in the world to hang out at, there are more exploration and characterization hooks like Will Seeds, Social Links mechanics have been altered (including mid rank events, free form gifting, post hangout conversations), there’s a BUNCH of new mini games and activities in the world (darts!), Mementos has seen a MASSIVE overhaul in look and music, plus mechanics like dark outs, plus the addition of Jose giving you more direct control over the layout of Mementos, the Persona compendium is larger, the story has been altered with more simple hangout scenes added to improve pacing, reduce repetition, and remove the single minded focus on the Phantom Thieves’ exploits the original game had, stealth and traversal have been overhauled (both leverage the hook shot liberally now, and stealth allows more sticky points to take cover), dialog has been rewritten to be less stiff than the original localization, the homophobic scenes have been rewritten, Negotiations have been made more transparent, I haven’t even gotten into latent abilities each Persona has and how much they change the meta game completely, every main Persona has a third evolution stage, there are more date events and spots, and of course, you get far more time to do things now; like just across the board and on every level, Royal is such a thorough, comprehensive, significant improvement on vanilla P5 across the board, it very legitimately almost makes vanilla P5 feel like an internal beta build that got a wide release, with Royal being the actual game they intended to make all along. They’re not even in the same category, vanilla P5 is good but very flawed. Royal is basically perfect.