Yeah, as Mars said this game has probably the longest tutorial I have ever seen in any game. For the majority of the time, it is an open world in terms of you can do whatever you want, but there are some times during storyline advancements you will be cut off from freedom. This is especially notorious towards the end of the game.
If you do decide to continue it, try to upgrade Kawakami as much and as soon as possible because she has a special ability to allow you to go out at night after palaces (which increases things to do). Not sure if she needs to be in a romantic relationship to unlock though, so you might need to google that. You can play it with a day-by-day guide if you want to try and accomplish almost everything in one playthrough and the guides help in making your stats really strong. But personally speaking, I went without a guide in my first playthrough and just enjoyed doing what I wanted to do and with whom without caring about getting the achievements or combining my persona to the strongest ones. But knowing some in-depth stuff like personas or unlocking a special skill like SP regeneration with Futaba makes the game easier to battle through. The first best piece of advice is to stock up on anything that increases your SP, the first half of the game is almost like a survival game when it comes to limited resources for SP.
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