Seems to deserve its own thread, considering it's likely to be a major GotY contender.
You might also like the mainline Shin Megami Tensei games, they don't have the life sim stuff and focus more on combat and the creature collecting aspect. SMT V's combat system is way better than Persona 3-5's and I believe Metaphor borrows some aspects from it (Press Turn icons).I played like two hours of the demo and was immediately sucked in.
I usually stay away from anything that could be considered anime/weebish since i never really cared for it outside of the newer Final Fantasy games, but gave this a shot since the worst a demo could cost me is my time. Shit had me interested right away. Interesting political undertones, classic vibe of randos having to slay what is essentially a demigod like figure, deep class/bond system. Instabuy.
Persona didn't click with me because of the weirdness/it being a high school social life sim. This basically takes care of my biggest disconnect.