persona 5
Persona 1: Outdated gameplay even for me and tbh i dont like the hybrid srpg/jrpg.
Story was ok.
Imo the weakest in the series, still a classic that should be played.
And it should be played for enjoying persona2 at its fullest.
Persona 2 IS&EP: Best story in the series and my honest favorite.
IS was way too easy (you can complete the main quest without fusing), in fact it should be played only for the plot that was really heart touching and mature.
EP was a bit harder but ps1 version is outdated.
Demon negotiation is the worst in the whole series.
Persona 3: Introduced the interesting concept that became the unique trait of the personas game, the visual novel side of the game.
I consider it an experiment since both the visual novel and the jrpg side were 6/10
Social links were ok but not memorable, the dungeons were just awful and lazy. Also you can control others characters only in the psp version.
Still you should play P3FES for 'The Answer'.
General atmosphere is cool an the death motif is interesting.
Persona 4: An huge disappointment. Just copypaste Persona 3, add a cheerful scenario, some waifus and here you go.
I can understand dungeons being lazy done in persona3 since i consider it just a test, but you just can't do it again. Pokemon Mystery Dungeon's dungeons were deeper.
Plot was interesting but it went nosense after a certain point and it was milked way too hard. In fact P4's ending is meaningless since the whole story "continues" with p4dancing all night and the arenas titles.
Persona 5: Objectively the best so far, maybe the plot is not as beautiful as persona2's but it's really good.
Also the gameplay is just perfect and really fun, finally we have some kicking designed dungeons, demons/personas as random encounters (shadows were ew), demon negotiation (even if way too simplified) and more other gimmicks.
By the way go play a real Shin Megami Tensei© game
Story was ok.
Imo the weakest in the series, still a classic that should be played.
And it should be played for enjoying persona2 at its fullest.
Persona 2 IS&EP: Best story in the series and my honest favorite.
IS was way too easy (you can complete the main quest without fusing), in fact it should be played only for the plot that was really heart touching and mature.
EP was a bit harder but ps1 version is outdated.
Demon negotiation is the worst in the whole series.
Persona 3: Introduced the interesting concept that became the unique trait of the personas game, the visual novel side of the game.
I consider it an experiment since both the visual novel and the jrpg side were 6/10
Social links were ok but not memorable, the dungeons were just awful and lazy. Also you can control others characters only in the psp version.
Still you should play P3FES for 'The Answer'.
General atmosphere is cool an the death motif is interesting.
Persona 4: An huge disappointment. Just copypaste Persona 3, add a cheerful scenario, some waifus and here you go.
I can understand dungeons being lazy done in persona3 since i consider it just a test, but you just can't do it again. Pokemon Mystery Dungeon's dungeons were deeper.
Plot was interesting but it went nosense after a certain point and it was milked way too hard. In fact P4's ending is meaningless since the whole story "continues" with p4dancing all night and the arenas titles.
Persona 5: Objectively the best so far, maybe the plot is not as beautiful as persona2's but it's really good.
Also the gameplay is just perfect and really fun, finally we have some kicking designed dungeons, demons/personas as random encounters (shadows were ew), demon negotiation (even if way too simplified) and more other gimmicks.
By the way go play a real Shin Megami Tensei© game
