I did the regular ending first, thought I could refuse to go on the train, so accidentally said yes when the game asked me to go home, I thought you were referring to my real home in the city. Reloaded last save as soon as I could, story leading up to the dungeon was good and I actually liked the gathering at the special headquarters for a last time. 
Did the first floor this morning and I actually really liked the design of it, so looking forward to going in again. Have enough go home's left to do one floor at a time if I just wanna play this in small bits. No regrets at all.

Didn't know Marie wasn't in there at all, I knew the dungeon wasn't in Vanilla. They've added quite a bit then to Golden, there was no Christmas eve, no New year, no ski trip and no Valentine's Day in Vanilla? All of them had some memorable moments, they did a good job on them, didn't feel like they weren't there before at all.

The Hollow Forest just felt a bit too long for me, floors were pretty big, and since you're SP gets drained all the time, it's basically just press triangle for rush mode, check your health and if there's a new enemy, see if they're not resistant to physical attacks. Using the items you've collected on the floors made the boss there easy enough as well. Marie's lines at the start of each floor where awesome of course.

I'm not sure if I ever get around to a second round for this, I really want to, there's some more stuff I wanna check out / try to complete on a next run, so I'm glad you had hints to get the most out of the story for the first round, guessing a second go on easy will be more social link focused for me, while also trying to read all the books. And finish that meal during a rainy night, missed out on that as it started snowing fairly soon after I got all my skills. Don't think I'll even complete the compendium, would be nice to do that though, I like the designs. Don't think I've even seen a Ultimate Persona, I keep forgetting the names. Do you need to be max level for them to unlock?

No alternate clothing?!!! That was one of the reasons The Hollow Forest felt a bit flat to me, they all changed back in their regular clothing while I just had them all given the Geikko suites I got from doing the last quests. Glad that I'm able to see them now in the last dungeon (two more floors done now, getting there in between working), Naoto looks very good in them.

I have a couple there, usually missing one Persona so can't make them, and since I don't have the cash to get the others, I can't be bothered this round. They're often quite a few levels lower than my own too, so not in a hurry to make them right now. MC is at 95, all the others in my team are 90+, all the fuseable Persona's are close to level 80, so quite a big difference.

doesn't carry over (or does it?!) so no point spending ages on compendium right now as it'll be clean slate again soon. (I don't know, I'm just speculating.) (also, I am aware I can't get 100% compendium without 100% social links which I'll have to probably use a guide for. )