Yeah, I’d describe the Persona games as a nice change of pace, but they’re not particularly deep. Persona divides it’s bandwidth between the JRPG and VN elements but doesn’t go too far in either as to make it overwhelming.

The core Shin Megami Tensei series is probably the better representative for that type of JRPG, but fewer people give a damn about those games because they aren’t cute Japanese high school simulator.