The persona theming has been really strong the last few games. Persona 3 is about accepting death and the fact that youre mortal (which is why they need to shoot themselfs to use their personas), persona 4 is all about accepting yourself and your flaws , and persona 5 is about standing up against the world, not just letting things happen and taking fate into your own hands. Great series, really strong messages
The theming is strong but I liked that persona 3 was very mature but persona 4 was very anime-ish. It took some time to get invested in it as much as I was in persona 3 because the story in 4 felt a lot more simple. However, when it comes to game mechanics, persona 4 wins. If there was a persona game that had storytelling like 3 and game mechanics like 4 or 5?(Haven't played it yet) I would buy two copies just to support it.
What do you mean? There're no Persona 1 and 2. The series starts at Persona 3. Although I guess it's weird that they started the series at number 3 instead of 1, which caused a lot of confusion and people thought there are Persona 1 and 2.
There's actually 4 movies that were released that cover Persona 3, and they're all pretty good in my opinion. They do change some things from the games here and there but the main themes and story is pretty much left intact. Also yeah some of the main themes in Persona 3 are about death and appreciating life, hence the guns.
Yeah I love SMT but since they took the SMT logo off the Persona games a lot of people don't know that Persona is just a spin off of SMT hell I bet a bunch of people who like Persona haven't even heard of Shin Megami Tensei, it's just sad :(
PERSONA 2 - best plot, super dark PERSONA 3 - 2nd best plot, personal favorite, best songs, best MC persona PERSONA 4 - best characters, most visually appealing game PERSONA 5 - best gameplay, has the cutest girls and coolest MC Persona 1 - havent played it sorry Persona trinity soul - the title that must be erased from existence
I love them all, but i really don't see how persona 3's plot is so praised. Not only it takes ages to get going, it's frankly kind of generic. It's overall my least favorite game in the whole series. (And actually the first one i played)
I just had to tell these people one thing you have to play the games to understand the story you don’t just have to watch the openings it’s not like the JoJo openings
Every game basically has re-releases with the exception of Persona 2. Innocent Sin and Eternal Punishment are separate games, one set after the other. P2 is a duology, whereas P3FES is a rerelease with an expansion pack for P3, P3P is a remake on the PSP (with a number of gameplay changes due to hardware limitations). P4G and P5R are the same as P3FES, rereleases with additional content. The butterfly is the physical manifestation of Philemon, who is basically like the good deity of this universe. He is the one that gives the P1 crew their power and he created Igor. Igor is a recurring mentor character that helps guide each of the protagonists of the games and helps them fuse their personas. You called Igor the penguin in your Anime openings video, the short hunchback man with the long nose. People do not turn into Personas in these games, however Digital Devil Saga (which is another SMT spinoff) the characters do actually turn into demons. Personas are like the manifestation of a part of their psyche, they are part of the characters but are also physically separate at the same time. Persona 3 has four movies, which together cover the full plot of the game. These movies are actually quite good, but they are better experienced after playing the game since some context is slightly removed and some elements are changed/order of events are slightly jumbled. I'm pretty sure you can watch them without the game (can only properly confirm for the first one, 'Spring of Rebirth') its just that the game enriches the experience. I highly recommend them. The suicide imagery of P3 is very intentional. Each of the modern era games have a theme, Persona 5's is Rebellion and fighting corruption. Persona 4's is the hard truth vs the easy/convenient lie. Persona 3's theme is Death, coming to terms with your own mortality and dealing with the aftermath of it. Each of the P3 characters are affected by death in some way, the protagonist (blue hair guy on the train) for example lost both of his parents in a fatal car crash 10 years prior to the game so he's become very emotionally stinted and disconnected as a result, not even caring about his own safety. He's basically dead on the inside and very apathetic of everything happening around him. The story is EXTREMELY important. People play these games primarily for the story and the characters, the gameplay is fun but its not really the main selling point. Persona games often run 80-100+ hours for a single playthrough. You joke about the girl in blue with the book (Elizabeth), but she is SIGNIFICANTLY stronger than everyone in that room, with the only possible exceptions being the P3 and P4 protagonists (though likely only P3 Protag since he's canonically the strongest Persona user out of P3-P5). There's a big tone difference between each games. P3 is a very dark and serious game, whereas P4 is much more light hearted and chill. P5 is somewhere between the two. The 'suicide element' is from P3, whereas the upbeat stuff you're seeing is from P4. The Skirt pattern design is part of their uniform. Yasogami High School's uniform is the plaid skirt with a white top. Again the P5 school uniform Shujin Academy has plaid pants. The reason P5D is remniscent of P3D and is a (animation wise) better opening than P4D is because P4D was actually the first dancing game to come out. After it was successful they worked on and released P3D and P5D at the same time. There was a switch up, but its earlier than you think. P1 and P2 duology were done by a different game director and were much closer to typical JRPGs. P3 was a reboot of the franchise which added many new elements that are considered standard for a Persona game nowadays, the most notable of which was the idea of the Calendar Year mechanic. P4 and P5 still use this mechanic and have built on what P3 established, whereas P1 and P2 are very different games (and are largely ignored by Atlus themselves).
Each main game has a specific theme and even different ways they summon their Personas (which yeah, are more like Stands from Jojo, not transformations) Persona 3 was the one with the shooting themselves lol. That is often considered the darkest of the series, the whole theme is centered around death with its motto "Memento Mori" roughly translating "Remember you are mortal". But about that...they arent shooting themselves lol. Those arent even guns. Those are called Evokers, and they are in the shape of a gun, and you point it as if to shoot yourself to kinda trigger your fight or flight response to summon your Persona in that game. And yeah, there are 3 Rhythm games for the series, with music this good why not? Lol. The first was the P4 one, which was actually a sequel with it's own story. Then years later they made P3 and P5 dancing at the same time, these with little to no story, mostly just fun character interactions, but still fun rhythm gameplay! The Q games were spinoffs that not only brought the cast's of P3, P4 and P5 together in one game, but crossed over with another series. It had the characters, music and themes of Persona, but it used the gameplay style of the Etrian Odyssey series, which focuses on 1st person dungeon crawling with the turn based battles. P3 was a swap for the series and started "Modern" Persona. P1 and both P2 games were more normal JRPGs, while P3 onward mixed the RPG with social simulator, which increasing your bonds with people would give you advantages in battle later.
All though these people don’t care too much and its been 2 years. “Persona” is actually first when it comes to “stands” because the first smt game came a month before the first part of jojo, not to mention the third part of jojo that came out 3-4 years after the first smt game.
The opening you guys watched after the first one was for a remake of the first game. Basically, every game in the franchise had a remake that either improved/added on to the experience of the original game. Idk about the ones for Persona 2 (Innocent Sin and Eternal Punishment), but the remakes for Persona 3 onwards were more like expansions to the original games, on top of some fixes probably :3
P2 Innocent Sin has a sequel in P2 Eternal Punishment P3 is the original game, P3 FES is updated gameplay with a sequel segment, P3P is P3 with even further updated gameplay, but with an optional female protagonist route which has different friendship options. P4 is P4, P4G is updated version with additional characters and an additional story segment added in. The same applies to P5R with P5.
The psp games for 1 and 2 are remakes I believe and persona 2 was released in two parts eternal punishment and inocent sin inocent sin being released first and eternal punishment the second one
They’re not remakes. You can either say it’s a port or a remaster. If it was a remake they would have built everything from the ground up. They prob took assets from the ps1 games and put it on the psp and changed some things
Persona 3 Dancing in Moonlight is a rythm game. Currently playing it and it's very fun. There are a total of 3 Persona rythm games, based on P3, 4 and 5. You can get them bundled as Persona Endless Night Collection.
Never got the chance to play P1 and P2 but on P3, P4 and P5. The themes of this games are: P3 - Accepting Death (it has something to do with unlocking their "power" by shooting themselves with a gun but its not actually a real gun, accepting death because the story is about death itself, like how people deal with their loss, people facing it in a short time, do you have regrets if you die, and more.) P4 - Accepting the truth (playing it has an ingenious way of encouraging players to visualize relating to themselves within a video game. thus its about the characters in the game accepting their "true self") P5 - Freedom (breaking free from slavery to corrupted adults in the society)
the play order is Persona, Persona 2: Innocent Sin, Persona 2: Eternal Punishment, Persona 3 FES, Persona 4 Golden, Persona 4 Dancing all nigth, Persona 5 royal, Persona 3 dancing moon ligth, Persona 5 Dancing Starligth, Persona Q, Persona Q2
7:13 Funny you should say that, that opening in particular always reminded me of the opening for Steins;Gate - Linear Bounded Phenogram. Especially the latter half, with the moving picture frames.
The series is riddled with heavy, heavy in symbolism, like dripping with it. The gun? Yea, to use you're power you have to face youre own mortality. The constant mas ripping in P5? Well, just show your true self. Persona? Well, kinda a term for the facettes of ones personality which change based on with whom you interact. Also these are often re-releases, because mother atlus wants to milk em.
In my opinion, if you only plan to play 1 game, play Persona 5 Royal, as Persona 3 and 4 have great anime adaptations. However, as someone that has played every Persona game starting from 3, it's definitely better to experience 3, 4, and 5 in game format. With Persona 3, you should play either Persona 3 FES or Persona 3 Portable, the first one was on PS2 and has anime cutscenes throughout plus a sort of sequel included in the game, whereas Portable doesn't have those things but instead has some QoL improvements made in P4 plus an option to have a female protagonist instead. Maybe not feasible due to time constraints, but probably the ideal to do would be play P3FES and afterwards replay it with P3P as the female protagonist if you ever feel like playing it again, as the social links (all the character stories and bonds) are different for the female protagonist. With Persona 4, straight up play Golden, it's the definitive version plus it's very accessible being on Steam. With Persona 5, play Royal, it's also the definitive version and that's on PS4. Persona Q and Q2 are spin-offs where characters meet, in Q the P3 and P4 cast meet, and in Q2 it's the P3, P4, and P5 casts, and even the 2 different P3 protagonists appear together. The arena games are fighting games where the story is a sequel to both P3 and P4, also worth checking out. And yeah, the dancing games are all great, only the P4D game has a significant and actually good story, P3D and P5D are literally the characters being summoned because the P4 cast danced in P4D to compete and see which cast has better dance moves.
That said, Persona 4 Golden is my favorite videogame ever :) and by the way, each story is completely different, P3 is about an extra hour that happens at midnight when some weird stuff happens and only a limited amount of people, that being the main cast, can experience it and summon their personas there. In P4, it's about trying to find a murderer, as bodies start to appear soon after the game begins. In P5, the story is about the protagonist having access to an alternative reality, where they can change evil people's hearts, doing this as "phantom thieves" and trying to avoid being caught.
Persona 2 was split into 2 different games with eternal punishment being a sequel to innocent sin. Persona 1 and 2 got PSP remakes and persona 3 also got a PSP rerelease called persona 3 portable that added a optional female protagonist. Ever since persona 3 the series has had a social Sim element to it.
Persona 3 is my Favorite but If your getting into the series you should start off with Persona 4 and 5 because those are nicer too new players but Persona 3 and before will kick you ass
Hey idk if you guys will read this comment but this is my recommendation on the game order, I would watch you guys play btw! Persona 5 Royal (ps5) Persona 4 Golden (PS Vita & PC) Persona 3 FES (PS3) Persona 2 (PS1 & PSP) Persona 1 is extremely outdated but its on PSP if you wanna try it eventually. You dont have too worry much about the spin-offs! Also, you can play them in any order, but I really recommend going backwards. The older games are harder to get into, Persona 5 is just really good for newcomers to the series. Like some people maybe already said, they’re all their own stories. You can legit play in any order (the only connection is a few missable easter eggs). But I recommend this order heavily. It will just make for a more fun experience
If you qa t to get into the games then I would suggest starting with 3, 4, and 5. You can do any order that you want as they are great standalone games with only mentions of a few characters in them for long time fans. The spinoffs are the ones where they lean heavily on the needing past games knowledge to be able to fully appreciate it. For versions, 3 you can go for FES or portable, Golden for 4, and Royal for 5. They are basically the definitive editions of the game with improved gameplay tweaks as well as additional story to go with the original ones.
Shooting by gun is how you summon a perrsona in p3 but I guess you already figured that out also if you want to understand the series play the games or watch the animes
Personally, Persona 3 is my favourite Persona game. I just really liked the story :D The music & style are some of the things Persona fans love about it.
Highly recommend playing the games, they're all pretty great. Maybe you guys could livestream a playthrough someday! You could start with 3, 4, or 5 honestly. The older ones are okay, but feel vastly different, almost inferior, to the ones I listed. They can be super frustrating if you aren't already familiar with the SMT series... If you have a PS4, Persona 5 Royal is the more recent and most beginner-friendly game I'd say. If you have Steam, you could also grab Persona 4 Golden which was recently ported. Really good port and cheap too! Some highlights: - Cool visual aesthetic, these games always have STYLE! Also, the OSTs are fantastic. - Lovable/memorable characters - Lengthy, Interesting stories full of twists and turns (The Persona games all have really fun stories, there are a lot of choices you have to make in these games which can impact your playthrough as well as the ending). JoJo was a direct inspiration, so expect a lot of goofy humor mixed with surprisingly dark/emotional moments. This ain't for kids. - PERSONAS! If you're a fan of JoJo and/or monster taming games like Pokemon, you'll really enjoy this game! You negotiate with demons in order to convince them to fight by your side, like Stands. Each demon has unique skills, strengths/weaknesses, personalities, and... you can FUSE them together to make different personas, choosing which skills or traits you want to carry over. Lots of unlocks and customization options there. There's a lot more that I'm missing, but yeah... Check it out sometime. You won't regret it.
I really like the openings for the first p4 and p5 not their enhanced editions. I don't know why exactly but I feel like the first ones are more true to the experience of the game and the enhanced ones are more based off of the fan base since release or something, idk.
The only way how i remember all persona games is on short story or meme P1: idk i haven't played it yet P2 Innocent Sin: funny looking guy with mustache and dope sunglasses P2 Eternal Punishment: im not crying you are P3: wait you saying i must use this gun to summon my persona and i must accept death ......... okay P4: scooby doo gang but in a Japanese anime way P5: hey you tried you should go to bed you naughty boy
The Best one for start playing the Séries, is Persona 4 The Golden even If P3 FES is my favorite, (yes, I like pain....) P4 Golden is the Best to start the séries with.......
I’m telling you now. The story does matter. I’ve only played persona 5 and haven’t even beaten it yet, but the game is very story heavy. And that leads me to believe the others are. Especially after persona 3’s opening. But yeah. The story matters a lot
everyone is crazy about Persona 5 now, sure... but let the sheer amount of time dedicated to Persona 4 characters in this compilation be a testament to just how iconic and important 4 is to the series as a whole, even to future installments, the only reason Persona 3 and 5 had dancing games was because Atlus expected them to do as well as 4 Dancing did Persona 4 just refuses to die and it's not going to just disappear soon
The Persona Dancing games are fun rhythm games P4D is my favorite and P3D and P5D came out on PS4 and PS Vita but P4D was released on the PS Vita and PS4 but a lot of people don't know that you have to buy the P3D and P5D bundle to get P4D on PS4 because it is hidden inside the description of the games on the PS store and PS Vita's are a Rare handheld which I got the Persona 4 PS vita which is a rare one
Revalations persona is 1 also has psp remake Persona 2 eternal punishment and innocent sin I forget which is first but ones a sequel to the other woth same characters both had psp remakes Persona 3 is original Peraona 3 fes is an extended rerelease with slight changed/extra content. Persona 3 portable is a psp port of 3 fes with some things removed but the option of changing the story up by picking a female main character. Persona 4 again the original release Persona 4 golden the extended revised definitive edition. Persona 5 royal is the extended revised version of persona 5.
Persona 5 is my favorite... While the vanilla version has more coherent story I advice you to play Royal version just for the gameplay and the new final boss which is probably my favorite antagonist of all time. (The problem with Royal story is that it adds story bits just for the sake of adding them.) Persona 4 is really good, it's a mystery story where you have to find the killer, while saving the next victims from being killed. I never expected any of the twists... Characters are the best written in Persona series but the game as whole pales in comparison to P5. Persona 3 has the most thought provoking themes (the game's main theme is "Death") and most outlandish premise, but otherwise pales in execution and gameplay compared to P4 and P5.
P1 and P2 are great games, but you'll find the best enjoyment from P3Fes, P4 Golden, and P5 or P5R. And no you don't have to play them in order, it only helps you get injokes or references to other games. So please give these games an honest shake.
P4 was described to me as a the "most cheerful murder-mystery game ever" 😃
I like to describe it as "Scooby Doo except JoJo"
@@AdumskaH dangit I wanted to make that joke, but you beat me to it!
P4 is absolutely the lightest persona game by far XD
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@@niko-dg8cg it totally is.
Persona 2 is darker, 3 is WAY darker and 1/5 aimed to be darker too (with questionable results).
"I wonder if the story matters"
The story is the biggest part, IT'S VERY IMPORTANT.
I remember the literally HOUR long story segments and the several hours it took to get to real gameplay in P5.
The persona theming has been really strong the last few games. Persona 3 is about accepting death and the fact that youre mortal (which is why they need to shoot themselfs to use their personas), persona 4 is all about accepting yourself and your flaws , and persona 5 is about standing up against the world, not just letting things happen and taking fate into your own hands. Great series, really strong messages
Persona 4 is also about finding the truth within a fog of lies. (hence the foggy setting)
The theming is strong but I liked that persona 3 was very mature but persona 4 was very anime-ish. It took some time to get invested in it as much as I was in persona 3 because the story in 4 felt a lot more simple. However, when it comes to game mechanics, persona 4 wins. If there was a persona game that had storytelling like 3 and game mechanics like 4 or 5?(Haven't played it yet) I would buy two copies just to support it.
Persona 5 is about "Adults is bad"
wait i thought Persona 2 IS was about accepting yourself and your flaws?
Memento Mori
The amount of people in the comments dismissing P1 and 2 without ever having played then... 🤦♂️
It’s a shame too, there very solid games.
Agree, persona 2 IS and EP are by far the best persona games in terms of gameplay and story.
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its just that when i die, its to the save point, not saving progress already done
What do you mean? There're no Persona 1 and 2. The series starts at Persona 3. Although I guess it's weird that they started the series at number 3 instead of 1, which caused a lot of confusion and people thought there are Persona 1 and 2.
@@tadfibonacci4926 Pain.
There's actually 4 movies that were released that cover Persona 3, and they're all pretty good in my opinion. They do change some things from the games here and there but the main themes and story is pretty much left intact. Also yeah some of the main themes in Persona 3 are about death and appreciating life, hence the guns.
This music is so chill
The music: *BURN MY DREAD*
Dream of a Butterfly underrated op
One of my favorites
yup
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"Aw, I like that dog" "It's a good dog"
It only takes the openings to realize that Koromaru is a good boi
Remember when persona was still treated as a SMT spinoff, good times right!
Yeah I love SMT but since they took the SMT logo off the Persona games a lot of people don't know that Persona is just a spin off of SMT hell I bet a bunch of people who like Persona haven't even heard of Shin Megami Tensei, it's just sad :(
Well it was different enough to be it’s own identity so I don’t really mind either way.
PERSONA 2 - best plot, super dark
PERSONA 3 - 2nd best plot, personal favorite, best songs, best MC persona
PERSONA 4 - best characters, most visually appealing game
PERSONA 5 - best gameplay, has the cutest girls and coolest MC
Persona 1 - havent played it sorry
Persona trinity soul - the title that must be erased from existence
I love them all, but i really don't see how persona 3's plot is so praised. Not only it takes ages to get going, it's frankly kind of generic. It's overall my least favorite game in the whole series. (And actually the first one i played)
@@saeros9760 i mean persona 4 is also kinda generic, only persona 2 is the freaky one
Question from 28:00 : Yes people love it for the story. Its actually got a really good one IMO. Persona 4 is easily my favorite of the series.
The p3 movies are phenomenal. Its P5 the anime that people tend to dislike
Persona 2 is actually 2 parts, innocent sin and eternal punishment
And both got a psp remake
Also they were always stands
I just had to tell these people one thing you have to play the games to understand the story you don’t just have to watch the openings it’s not like the JoJo openings
Every game basically has re-releases with the exception of Persona 2. Innocent Sin and Eternal Punishment are separate games, one set after the other. P2 is a duology, whereas P3FES is a rerelease with an expansion pack for P3, P3P is a remake on the PSP (with a number of gameplay changes due to hardware limitations). P4G and P5R are the same as P3FES, rereleases with additional content.
The butterfly is the physical manifestation of Philemon, who is basically like the good deity of this universe. He is the one that gives the P1 crew their power and he created Igor. Igor is a recurring mentor character that helps guide each of the protagonists of the games and helps them fuse their personas. You called Igor the penguin in your Anime openings video, the short hunchback man with the long nose.
People do not turn into Personas in these games, however Digital Devil Saga (which is another SMT spinoff) the characters do actually turn into demons. Personas are like the manifestation of a part of their psyche, they are part of the characters but are also physically separate at the same time.
Persona 3 has four movies, which together cover the full plot of the game. These movies are actually quite good, but they are better experienced after playing the game since some context is slightly removed and some elements are changed/order of events are slightly jumbled. I'm pretty sure you can watch them without the game (can only properly confirm for the first one, 'Spring of Rebirth') its just that the game enriches the experience. I highly recommend them.
The suicide imagery of P3 is very intentional. Each of the modern era games have a theme, Persona 5's is Rebellion and fighting corruption. Persona 4's is the hard truth vs the easy/convenient lie. Persona 3's theme is Death, coming to terms with your own mortality and dealing with the aftermath of it. Each of the P3 characters are affected by death in some way, the protagonist (blue hair guy on the train) for example lost both of his parents in a fatal car crash 10 years prior to the game so he's become very emotionally stinted and disconnected as a result, not even caring about his own safety. He's basically dead on the inside and very apathetic of everything happening around him.
The story is EXTREMELY important. People play these games primarily for the story and the characters, the gameplay is fun but its not really the main selling point. Persona games often run 80-100+ hours for a single playthrough.
You joke about the girl in blue with the book (Elizabeth), but she is SIGNIFICANTLY stronger than everyone in that room, with the only possible exceptions being the P3 and P4 protagonists (though likely only P3 Protag since he's canonically the strongest Persona user out of P3-P5).
There's a big tone difference between each games. P3 is a very dark and serious game, whereas P4 is much more light hearted and chill. P5 is somewhere between the two. The 'suicide element' is from P3, whereas the upbeat stuff you're seeing is from P4.
The Skirt pattern design is part of their uniform. Yasogami High School's uniform is the plaid skirt with a white top. Again the P5 school uniform Shujin Academy has plaid pants.
The reason P5D is remniscent of P3D and is a (animation wise) better opening than P4D is because P4D was actually the first dancing game to come out. After it was successful they worked on and released P3D and P5D at the same time.
There was a switch up, but its earlier than you think. P1 and P2 duology were done by a different game director and were much closer to typical JRPGs. P3 was a reboot of the franchise which added many new elements that are considered standard for a Persona game nowadays, the most notable of which was the idea of the Calendar Year mechanic. P4 and P5 still use this mechanic and have built on what P3 established, whereas P1 and P2 are very different games (and are largely ignored by Atlus themselves).
P2 EP had a re release with added content like Tatsuyas scenario which was not in the PS1 version
It’s so cool now that I know that
Persona 4 is just diamond is unbreakable 😂😂😂
(and they’re also both part 4 In their respective series!)
I know right 😅, But i more like Persona 4 than diamond is unbreakble, i just don't know why
Each main game has a specific theme and even different ways they summon their Personas (which yeah, are more like Stands from Jojo, not transformations)
Persona 3 was the one with the shooting themselves lol. That is often considered the darkest of the series, the whole theme is centered around death with its motto "Memento Mori" roughly translating "Remember you are mortal". But about that...they arent shooting themselves lol. Those arent even guns. Those are called Evokers, and they are in the shape of a gun, and you point it as if to shoot yourself to kinda trigger your fight or flight response to summon your Persona in that game.
And yeah, there are 3 Rhythm games for the series, with music this good why not? Lol. The first was the P4 one, which was actually a sequel with it's own story. Then years later they made P3 and P5 dancing at the same time, these with little to no story, mostly just fun character interactions, but still fun rhythm gameplay!
The Q games were spinoffs that not only brought the cast's of P3, P4 and P5 together in one game, but crossed over with another series. It had the characters, music and themes of Persona, but it used the gameplay style of the Etrian Odyssey series, which focuses on 1st person dungeon crawling with the turn based battles.
P3 was a swap for the series and started "Modern" Persona. P1 and both P2 games were more normal JRPGs, while P3 onward mixed the RPG with social simulator, which increasing your bonds with people would give you advantages in battle later.
And when you turn into the persona/demon.yoy become a regular battle for a previous protag... not even kidding
Watch the Persona awakenings
All though these people don’t care too much and its been 2 years. “Persona” is actually first when it comes to “stands” because the first smt game came a month before the first part of jojo, not to mention the third part of jojo that came out 3-4 years after the first smt game.
The opening you guys watched after the first one was for a remake of the first game. Basically, every game in the franchise had a remake that either improved/added on to the experience of the original game. Idk about the ones for Persona 2 (Innocent Sin and Eternal Punishment), but the remakes for Persona 3 onwards were more like expansions to the original games, on top of some fixes probably :3
P2 Innocent Sin has a sequel in P2 Eternal Punishment
P3 is the original game, P3 FES is updated gameplay with a sequel segment, P3P is P3 with even further updated gameplay, but with an optional female protagonist route which has different friendship options.
P4 is P4, P4G is updated version with additional characters and an additional story segment added in. The same applies to P5R with P5.
i love Drake and Megan's react channel!
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Persona 3 Movie - Emotional
Persona 4 Animation - Comedy
Persona 1,Persona 2 Innocnet Sin,and Eternal Punishment are all connected stories
How did we start from questioning our own existence to end up bustin moves to a jazz track?
I love how they're watching them numerically and not by release date alone, it makes it easier to watch for newbies :)
REACT TO DANGANRONPA GAME SERIES PLEASE I LOVE YOUR REACTION 🙏🙏
pursuing my rivers of mass dread
The psp games for 1 and 2 are remakes I believe and persona 2 was released in two parts eternal punishment and inocent sin inocent sin being released first and eternal punishment the second one
They’re not remakes. You can either say it’s a port or a remaster. If it was a remake they would have built everything from the ground up. They prob took assets from the ps1 games and put it on the psp and changed some things
@@ARZ_201 that's true and the port of eternal punishment is Japanese exclusive like the original ps1 game of inocent sin is Japanese exclusive
Persona is a spin off of Shin Megami Tensei which is a successor to the digital devil story: Megami Tensei novels
"I'm not a cat! I dont know why I took this form in the real world, but I'm not!"
Basically persona 2 is a duology having 2 games named persona 2 (with innocent sin being the first game then eternal punishment being the sequel)
it always hurt my chest everytime i thinking about Persona 3 ending..
Trinity soul was meant to be a sequel to Persona 3 but is no longer canon.
44:16 probably cuz they were made close to each other. The p4 one was the first dancing game made.
"Lets move on the persona 4 golden"
*Proceeds to react to Persona Q opening*
I like how they never realized that the persona q games are crossovers
Persona 3 Dancing in Moonlight is a rythm game. Currently playing it and it's very fun.
There are a total of 3 Persona rythm games, based on P3, 4 and 5. You can get them bundled as Persona Endless Night Collection.
Never got the chance to play P1 and P2 but on P3, P4 and P5. The themes of this games are:
P3 - Accepting Death (it has something to do with unlocking their "power" by shooting themselves with a gun but its not actually a real gun, accepting death because the story is about death itself, like how people deal with their loss, people facing it in a short time, do you have regrets if you die, and more.)
P4 - Accepting the truth (playing it has an ingenious way of encouraging players to visualize relating to themselves within a video game. thus its about the characters in the game accepting their "true self")
P5 - Freedom (breaking free from slavery to corrupted adults in the society)
Persona 1 & 2 were creepy because they are spin offs of the Shin Megami Tensei gaming franchise. SMT is the king of dark
The music is just for the intros
dude persona 3 movie are fricking awesome
the play order is Persona, Persona 2: Innocent Sin, Persona 2: Eternal Punishment, Persona 3 FES, Persona 4 Golden, Persona 4 Dancing all nigth, Persona 5 royal, Persona 3 dancing moon ligth, Persona 5 Dancing Starligth, Persona Q, Persona Q2
Yes the persona 3 dog is named koromaru and he has the persona Cerberus. I love him he is baby.
I has played so far P3P and Persona4... and the gun on their heads is for summon their personas... it is not a gun it only looks like one
7:13 Funny you should say that, that opening in particular always reminded me of the opening for Steins;Gate - Linear Bounded Phenogram. Especially the latter half, with the moving picture frames.
The series is riddled with heavy, heavy in symbolism, like dripping with it. The gun? Yea, to use you're power you have to face youre own mortality. The constant mas ripping in P5? Well, just show your true self. Persona? Well, kinda a term for the facettes of ones personality which change based on with whom you interact. Also these are often re-releases, because mother atlus wants to milk em.
In my opinion, if you only plan to play 1 game, play Persona 5 Royal, as Persona 3 and 4 have great anime adaptations. However, as someone that has played every Persona game starting from 3, it's definitely better to experience 3, 4, and 5 in game format. With Persona 3, you should play either Persona 3 FES or Persona 3 Portable, the first one was on PS2 and has anime cutscenes throughout plus a sort of sequel included in the game, whereas Portable doesn't have those things but instead has some QoL improvements made in P4 plus an option to have a female protagonist instead. Maybe not feasible due to time constraints, but probably the ideal to do would be play P3FES and afterwards replay it with P3P as the female protagonist if you ever feel like playing it again, as the social links (all the character stories and bonds) are different for the female protagonist. With Persona 4, straight up play Golden, it's the definitive version plus it's very accessible being on Steam. With Persona 5, play Royal, it's also the definitive version and that's on PS4. Persona Q and Q2 are spin-offs where characters meet, in Q the P3 and P4 cast meet, and in Q2 it's the P3, P4, and P5 casts, and even the 2 different P3 protagonists appear together. The arena games are fighting games where the story is a sequel to both P3 and P4, also worth checking out. And yeah, the dancing games are all great, only the P4D game has a significant and actually good story, P3D and P5D are literally the characters being summoned because the P4 cast danced in P4D to compete and see which cast has better dance moves.
That said, Persona 4 Golden is my favorite videogame ever :) and by the way, each story is completely different, P3 is about an extra hour that happens at midnight when some weird stuff happens and only a limited amount of people, that being the main cast, can experience it and summon their personas there. In P4, it's about trying to find a murderer, as bodies start to appear soon after the game begins. In P5, the story is about the protagonist having access to an alternative reality, where they can change evil people's hearts, doing this as "phantom thieves" and trying to avoid being caught.
Fun fact: the q2 opening song was sung by the artist who did the P3, 4, and 5 openings…
Persona 2 was split into 2 different games with eternal punishment being a sequel to innocent sin.
Persona 1 and 2 got PSP remakes and persona 3 also got a PSP rerelease called persona 3 portable that added a optional female protagonist.
Ever since persona 3 the series has had a social Sim element to it.
Persona 3 is my Favorite but If your getting into the series you should start off with Persona 4 and 5 because those are nicer too new players but Persona 3 and before will kick you ass
Hey idk if you guys will read this comment but this is my recommendation on the game order, I would watch you guys play btw!
Persona 5 Royal (ps5)
Persona 4 Golden (PS Vita & PC)
Persona 3 FES (PS3)
Persona 2 (PS1 & PSP)
Persona 1 is extremely outdated but its on PSP if you wanna try it eventually.
You dont have too worry much about the spin-offs! Also, you can play them in any order, but I really recommend going backwards. The older games are harder to get into, Persona 5 is just really good for newcomers to the series. Like some people maybe already said, they’re all their own stories. You can legit play in any order (the only connection is a few missable easter eggs). But I recommend this order heavily. It will just make for a more fun experience
The original persona 4 anime and the persona 3 movies are great.
Every Persona game also has a manga adaptation that are really good
If you qa t to get into the games then I would suggest starting with 3, 4, and 5. You can do any order that you want as they are great standalone games with only mentions of a few characters in them for long time fans. The spinoffs are the ones where they lean heavily on the needing past games knowledge to be able to fully appreciate it. For versions, 3 you can go for FES or portable, Golden for 4, and Royal for 5. They are basically the definitive editions of the game with improved gameplay tweaks as well as additional story to go with the original ones.
Looking at all these once again is proof that Shoji Meguro DOES.NOT.MISS!
Persona 3 Portable features a whole new protagonist, which is female.
Ooofff ..if only they knew what the guns in p3 meant
Shooting by gun is how you summon a perrsona in p3 but I guess you already figured that out also if you want to understand the series play the games or watch the animes
Innocent sin and Eternal punishment are a duology
Yeah the dancing openings are from Persona rhythm games.
Personally, Persona 3 is my favourite Persona game. I just really liked the story :D
The music & style are some of the things Persona fans love about it.
To summarize this video: "I don't understand gun"
Highly recommend playing the games, they're all pretty great. Maybe you guys could livestream a playthrough someday! You could start with 3, 4, or 5 honestly. The older ones are okay, but feel vastly different, almost inferior, to the ones I listed. They can be super frustrating if you aren't already familiar with the SMT series...
If you have a PS4, Persona 5 Royal is the more recent and most beginner-friendly game I'd say. If you have Steam, you could also grab Persona 4 Golden which was recently ported. Really good port and cheap too! Some highlights:
- Cool visual aesthetic, these games always have STYLE! Also, the OSTs are fantastic.
- Lovable/memorable characters
- Lengthy, Interesting stories full of twists and turns (The Persona games all have really fun stories, there are a lot of choices you have to make in these games which can impact your playthrough as well as the ending). JoJo was a direct inspiration, so expect a lot of goofy humor mixed with surprisingly dark/emotional moments. This ain't for kids.
- PERSONAS! If you're a fan of JoJo and/or monster taming games like Pokemon, you'll really enjoy this game! You negotiate with demons in order to convince them to fight by your side, like Stands. Each demon has unique skills, strengths/weaknesses, personalities, and... you can FUSE them together to make different personas, choosing which skills or traits you want to carry over. Lots of unlocks and customization options there.
There's a lot more that I'm missing, but yeah... Check it out sometime. You won't regret it.
I played the one at 22:41 on your list on ps3 it was a great game I go back to all the time. Yes you use a gun which is Special
Yes, persona dancing moon/star night and persona 4 dancing are rhythm based games if I'm right
I really like the openings for the first p4 and p5 not their enhanced editions.
I don't know why exactly but I feel like the first ones are more true to the experience of the game and the enhanced ones are more based off of the fan base since release or something, idk.
If you guys never played persona you need to, it’s so good
This must be a prequel because it was released on the PSP it’s not a prequel at all
The only way how i remember all persona games is on short story or meme
P1: idk i haven't played it yet
P2 Innocent Sin: funny looking guy with mustache and dope sunglasses
P2 Eternal Punishment: im not crying you are
P3: wait you saying i must use this gun to summon my persona and i must accept death ......... okay
P4: scooby doo gang but in a Japanese anime way
P5: hey you tried you should go to bed you naughty boy
The Best one for start playing the Séries, is Persona 4 The Golden
even If P3 FES is my favorite, (yes, I like pain....) P4 Golden is the Best to start the séries with.......
I’m telling you now. The story does matter. I’ve only played persona 5 and haven’t even beaten it yet, but the game is very story heavy. And that leads me to believe the others are. Especially after persona 3’s opening. But yeah. The story matters a lot
There's also Persona 5 strikers intro!
they didnt do persona 5 scramble
everyone is crazy about Persona 5 now, sure... but let the sheer amount of time dedicated to Persona 4 characters in this compilation be a testament to just how iconic and important 4 is to the series as a whole, even to future installments, the only reason Persona 3 and 5 had dancing games was because Atlus expected them to do as well as 4 Dancing did
Persona 4 just refuses to die and it's not going to just disappear soon
All they had to do was release P4G on Steam where it was more accessible than the Playstation Vita for it to get a new wave of attention
I love how these guys never actually read comments to understand lol
I miss P3 it's so good, they better make a remake and put it on PC or make a new persona game with all 3 Protagonists
Maybe "Tales of" Openings?
Shoji knows his stuff.
They do indeed have to shoot themselves in the head to summon their Personas in P3.
Wrong! Openings dont play when youre fighting AT ALL they are just that the opening song and nothing more
Don’t diss P1/2 bois
I just want the first 3 Persona games on steam godamnit
No, the only not good anime is 5 the animation. And even then the dub almost saves it. The rest are super awesome
The Persona Dancing games are fun rhythm games P4D is my favorite and P3D and P5D came out on PS4 and PS Vita but P4D was released on the PS Vita and PS4 but a lot of people don't know that you have to buy the P3D and P5D bundle to get P4D on PS4 because it is hidden inside the description of the games on the PS store and PS Vita's are a Rare handheld which I got the Persona 4 PS vita which is a rare one
wait is it me or did they miss p5s op?
guys you should react to Persona 3 Reload opening and the OST, they´re fucking bangers!!!!
Revalations persona is 1 also has psp remake
Persona 2 eternal punishment and innocent sin I forget which is first but ones a sequel to the other woth same characters both had psp remakes
Persona 3 is original
Peraona 3 fes is an extended rerelease with slight changed/extra content.
Persona 3 portable is a psp port of 3 fes with some things removed but the option of changing the story up by picking a female main character.
Persona 4 again the original release
Persona 4 golden the extended revised definitive edition.
Persona 5 royal is the extended revised version of persona 5.
30:11 your reactions are so funny😂
Ayyyy a fellow jet set radio fan!?!!
Do a monogatari series op reaction!
✋Hi. Persona 5 is not on the Switch so that might be a bit difficult. PS3, PS4 and PS5 only
my favorite opening is Persona 4 Arena Ultimax
Persona 5 is my favorite... While the vanilla version has more coherent story I advice you to play Royal version just for the gameplay and the new final boss which is probably my favorite antagonist of all time. (The problem with Royal story is that it adds story bits just for the sake of adding them.)
Persona 4 is really good, it's a mystery story where you have to find the killer, while saving the next victims from being killed. I never expected any of the twists... Characters are the best written in Persona series but the game as whole pales in comparison to P5.
Persona 3 has the most thought provoking themes (the game's main theme is "Death") and most outlandish premise, but otherwise pales in execution and gameplay compared to P4 and P5.
Persona 1-PS1,PC(JP only),PSP
Persona 2 innocent sin-PS1 (JP only) PSP
Persona 2 Eternal punishment PS1, PSP (JP only)
Persona 3 PS2, PSP
Persona 4 PS2, psvita, steam
Persona 5 PS3, PS4
P1 and P2 are great games, but you'll find the best enjoyment from P3Fes, P4 Golden, and P5 or P5R.
And no you don't have to play them in order, it only helps you get injokes or references to other games. So please give these games an honest shake.
persona123 gun summon persona of self persona 4 arcana's tarot cards and persona 5 pull off your mask to show your true self
Persona 4 golden is now persona q
SMT OST goes crazy too
"I wonder if the story matters"
Trust me, it does.
Yes
If they just either played Persona 3 heck watch the movies then they would understand why they need gun
Of course it does. If there wasn’t a story, Satan wouldn’t point a gun at a false god saving Christmas
it matters a lot. Like, A LOT
@@anabenskywalker122 yh, and if there wasn't a story, then you wouldn't die, then not die.
Persona is all about the story and the characters, music and STYLE!
SPECIALLY style
And deep lore
and friendship oh and demons
And analytical psychology.
Fate will be awesome
40:43 "Go off, queen." No, that's Violet.
Really good joke with the Code names XD
If only her hair was also violet to fit the name XD
This gave me a reminder of the ice queen quest
Yeah Makoto is queen, c’mon guys.
I think the expression they were saying is similar to "You go girl". They just didn't have knowledge of the code names.