No sorry the whole thing in the newer games is that the mc is a special chosen baby boy that no other party members come close too, the trade off is that u can do deeper startergy and stuff than in the older games, as you have so many more options for the mc, also the dungeons suck even in reload but i could deal with p4 cause as said before, they are smaller. Either way the social aspect is the make or break if you don't love that aspect u probably wont like modern persona as much