In Persona 5 , you could brute force a dungeon with a balanced team. In P5X, if you fail to pull a character with a Wind-elemental Persona and you enter a Wind-weak boss dungeon, you will hit a paywall-like difficulty spike. The game heavily incentivizes pulling for the featured "Rate-Up" character each patch.
At its core, P5X retains the day-by-day calendar system that defines the Persona series. You play as a silent protagonist named "Wonder," a high school student in a alternate Tokyo who awakens to a Persona. p5x gameplay