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.
Persona 2 is actually a duology - two games that are interconnected to one another, with the second game featuring a different main character from the first (although the first game's protag also is still a major focus.) Persona 2: Innocent Sin is the first title - it stars Tatsuya (the male character featured most prominently in the first two P2 openings). Persona 2: Eternal Punishment is the second title and it stars Maya (the girl with the heart symbols on the chest of her outfit.) Persona 2 also has a weird localization/release issue in the US. Originally only Persona 2: Eternal Punishment was released in the US for PS1 (despite it being the second game in the Duology). However, when the PSP remakes came out, Atlus did localize and release Persona 2: Innocent Sin in the US. That said, the PSP re-release for Eternal Punishment *was not* localized for release. Meaning if you want to play both games legally in the US, you have to play the Innocent Sin PSP release and then find and play the PS1 version of Eternal Punishment. That said - Persona 1 and the Persona 2 duology are a highly *highly* underrated part of the Persona series by fans who got into the series with Persona 3 onward. I wish Atlus would do remakes of them so new fans could experience them. They definitely are different from the aesthetics of P3, P4, and P5 - but they really do deserve more love.
both P2 games have be re done, they were remade for the psp, Innocent Sin was redone in 2011 and Eternal Punishment was redone in 2012 and the OG Revelations Persona was re done in 2009
Each Persona game has a different way of summoning your persona. As I have not played them I'm not completely sure, but I think in Persona 1 and 2s one can summon their persona by just thinking about it, without the help of any kinds of tools. In Persona 3, it is done by using an Evoker. There are technically many types of Evokers, but the one used the most recembles a gun and you have to pretty much mimic commiting a suicide with it to summon ones persona. In Persona 4, which is coincidentally known as the most lighthearted of the series, you just have to crush a tarot card that you can manifest before you. While the summoning is all fun, easy and not traumatizing, obtaining a persona in the first place is a different, not so fun and easy story. In Persona 5 a persona is summoned by ripping off a mask, rather violently might I say, at least when first obtaining it. The way of persona summoning is actually usually related to the overall theme of the game. Persona 3 is about accepting ones mortality and death, so suicide imagery is disturbingly fitting. Persona 4 is about chasing and accepting a hard truth over an easy lie, also about accepting the truth about ones true self. How tarot cards relate to this is a bit questionable, but they are one of the main motifs of the series, so here they are probably used more because of that rather than them fitting the theme. Persona 5 is about ones personal freedom and about the masks people show to the world, hiding who they really are and suppressing their true selves, both in good and bad.
I just can’t believe they didn’t know the gun part about 3 it was literally the only thing anyone talked about since the release lol…. Maybe they are too young
The story actually matters! I can only speak for the recent persona games, but I imagine the same for the earlier ones. It's a running joke in the community that Persona 3, 4, 5 are the only ones Atlus (the video game developer) care about. The story matters. For 3, 4, 5, there's a general theme that ties the entire narrative. I also think that 3, 4, 5 are the ones that have the modern game loop. Basically, the game loop is divided in two parts: dungeon raid game and social interaction game. In the limited time of usually a year in game, you have to divide your limited days into either going into dungeons or hanging around with your friends. Making social bonds and hanging out with friends level up your "stats" so you can do better in dungeons. It's an rpg. So imagine Pokemon, but with story that matters, with different meanigful themes per generation of games, and instead of stagnating, it grew with the times and evolved the jrpg formula. With the added plus of quality music and visuals all throughout the game.
Well Persona 1 and 2 were effectively completely different games, the only connection is the name on the box... Well besides them all being jrpg. Since Persona also only got big from 3 on, it makes sense to ignore the first two. It honestly makes sense to just see them as their own franchise, even if they are technically the first Persona games. Also, Persona 3, 4 and 5 are all in the same universe. Different time, different place, different characters, but still same world. Persona 1 and 2 are completely disconnect in that regard as well.
@@Kirgoss P1 characters appear in p2 and The universe you play from p3 onwards is originated from the universe made from p2 eternal punishment, how? i recommend playing the duology games to the end to find out.
@@derekmartin5340 thanks to P2EP its not technically the same universe but it does continue into P3. But for Japanese sense of respect to the creator they won't touch p1-2.
@@EverydayYounglife thats true, i guess jts more accurate to say they share the same timeline, but the universes are still distinctly related. I'm not sure if thats really the reason for skipping them tbh. They still rereleased P1 in 2009/2018, and remade P2 on PSP, bringing Tadashi back to write the new scenario in EP. Really hoping they do another remake though, they're amazing games but get the short end of the stick for being the old ones.
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.
16:54 I can say the movie didn't cover everything of Persona 3 (sideevents etc.) but Persona 3 The Movie is a very good movie adaptation. I really recommend you to watch it!
Honestly, the Persona 3 movies have moments that I prefer to the originals. They handle the entirety of Ken's arc and Junpei's arc better imo. And the animation is some of the most beautiful I've seen in my entire time watching anime.
I agree, the Persona 3 movies are really damn good. The main issue, compared to the games, is that it skips most of the social links, as opposed to the Persona 4 anime, but I think it's still a great way to experience the story.
"Time never waits. It delivers all equally to the same end. You, who wish to safeguard the future, however limited it may be... You will be given one year; go forth without falter, with your heart as your guide..." #P3
🤔 well in my opinion its like this Persona 3- best ost, story, characters, fun, style, gameplay, and message Persona 4- best ost, story, characters, fun, style, gameplay, and message Persona 5- best ost, story, characters, fun, style, gameplay, and message Persona 5r- GOTY
In terms of Persona anime's, the P3 movies were really good, captured events well, P4 The Animation was good, was really lighthearted and was a fun watch, Not gonna mention P4G anime...and the P5 anime was just bad in terms of animation and story
P4GA had pacing problems but it wasn't as bad as people say, its new game+ so they cut out a lot of content that most people should already know and focused more on Marie and other more light hearted interactions. Dismissing P4GA is dismissing Adachi vs Yu and the hollow forest, and those fights were raw as hell.
@@douiieeRAW a bit late, but you can get extra content from maxxing adachi’s and marie’s social links, more on marie, since she gets her own dungeon and fight. for adachi, you can get a completely different ending iirc? but yeah
Revelations: Persona originally released as a spinoff of Shin Megami Tensei: IF on the ps1, Persona 2 is a duology, and all three of the games have psp versions, though, the ps1 version of Innocent Sin and psp version of Eternal Punishment were never released in the west, as for Persona 3, you have three different versions of it, base p3, FES, and Portable, which, released on the ps2 for base and FES, and the psp for portable, p4, you have base and Golden, releasing on the ps2 for base p4, and the vita (and steam) for p4G, as for p5, again, two different versions, base released on the ps3 and ps4, however, Royal released on the ps4 exclusively, then Scramble, well, we don't have that in the west until next year
P4G storyline is good 😳 but most of the games have a good storyline and the P4 dancing game is probably the best of the dancing games for story too but I would say P3 is the best storywise and I love the mc lol
Since you guys are so confused, I’m gonna explain some of the summarized version of the plot *Revelations: Persona* Set in the town of Mikage-cho, it follows a group of high-school students from St. Hermelin High, who are forced to confront an outbreak of demons in their hometown. *Persona 2: Innocent Sin* Set in the coastal city of Sumaru, the story follows Tatsuya Suou, a student of Seven Sisters High, as he confronts phenomena generated by reality-altering rumors. *Persona 2: Eternal Punishment* Set shortly after the ending of Innocent Sin, the story follows Maya Amano, a supporting character from the previous game, as she confronts a similar rumor-created threat along with Tatsuya. *Persona 3* The story takes place in the town of Iwatodai, following a group of students known as S.E.E.S., who fight monsters that appear during a time known as the Dark Hour. *Persona 4* The story takes place in the rural town of Inaba, where a group of students investigate a series of killings related to a realm known as the Midnight Channel. *Persona 5* The story is set in Tokyo and follows a group of students as they adopt disguises of thieves to tackle the city’s corruption and attain freedom from imposed societal pressures. I tried to summarize it as much as possible, because the stories of each Persona game are so confusing, so deep, so difficult to understand that it would take me HOURS to explain the simplest game of the series to you. So yeah, answering your question, the story does matter in these games. It matters A LOT. Also one more thing I’m gonna say: the thing about the guns is that in Persona 3, the characters are able to draw out their hidden power by facing their own deaths. The guns they use (called Evokers) are a way to force that. It doesn’t cause physical damage to the human body, but it causes enough emotional stress to allow them to summon their Personas.
Persona 3 (best game) revolved heavily on the quote "Memento Mori" which is a Latin phrase that means “remember that you will die”. or just "Death" in general and was very controversial when it was release with some claiming it was promoting suicide becuz idiots saw the characters shooting themselves in the head with "guns" which was actually the complete opposite of what the game actually portrays, it teaches to live life and treasure the ppl around you cuz u never know when somebody might die. Persona 3 Fes was a special edition of the game with more added feature including an extra 30+ hr post game storyline. Persona 3 Portable was wat some ppl claim to be an "inferior" version of the main game, but was the only Persona game to feature an alternate playable Female main character storyline. Persona 4 felt more like an "apology" for wat Persona 3 did, as it was set in a more happier vibrant tone despite the game revolving around trying to catch an unknown serial killer. Persona 4 Arena games were fighting games witha heavy storyline connecting both 3 & 4 canonically. Persona Q 1 & 2 Despite being a crossover between the 3,4, and 5 game's casts using time travel, the story of Persona Q is considered canon to the Persona timeline as confirmed by a Atlus USA representative, but when asked how the games are canon, all they said was "Thats a spoiler". Article here: www.siliconera.com/persona-q-shadow-labyrinths-story-canon/ Persona 5 is a "rise against the machine," "fight the power" ,"viva la revoluticion" type of story that portrays and tackles actual real life issues/events. all of the game are great.
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)
The video is in release order, however it repeats the openings for remasters/remakes. The ps1 and psp versions of persona 1 and persona 2 had different openings because of different staff. If you guys are curious about persona I'd recommend watching snicketyslice's youtube videos about persona 1 and 2 ( since I don't recommend playing them as they are pretty outdated when it comes to gameplay but their stories are worth it specially persona 2) I'd recommend starting with persona 5 or Persona 4 (personally I prefer 5 because of gameplay as it incorporates interesting aspects of the franchise as a whole)
small note, the reason the older ones actually have such grim tones is that, at the time, they were still shin megami tensei, and it started becoming it's one thing around persona 4.
each persona also had their own "psychological theme". Persona 3 is about your readiness and acceptance to death. The character need to show readiness to face death, thus the "head shot" is the trigger to summon the persona. Persona 4 is about accepting yourself, especially the part of you that you didn't want or didn't like. Thus the sequence of taking in the persona into one self before summoning them from within yourself. Persona 5 is about how you express your true self toward other people without putting on a mask. Thus the mask ripping (literally) to summon persona. ... and Persona 3 is the most famous/highly rated among the series, that's why it got the most animation series and spin-offs.
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
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.
The Persona 3 movies were surprisingly great. They don't take too long to explain everything, since you should have played the game first anyway, but the quality is just excellent. I think these movies and animations are ok if haven't played the games, but they really shine if you have. Great way to introduce someone to the story without making them play a 130 hour game tho, lol
You really should try playing persona. I just recently got into it with 4 golden, then went to 3 and now I’m playing 5R. It’s a hell of a series and the music is great in all of them.
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).
The reason you're seeing multiple years is because the games were either remade or rereleased in future dates on different systems. They were given newer openings for the rereleases to either reflect changes made in the games or to better present the tone and story to a newer audience, especially since it was now sometimes a different decade it was released in. Also persona were never transformations, they always have been a separate entity that the characters summon.
Persona 3 is the best game for me and the fandom have their own most favorites, The P3 animation was amazing but of course the experience is better if you experienced the story through the game.
Adding on to the other guy, persona 1: Dreams and facing your multiple parts Persona 2 IS: sins of your past with the danger of rumors being present Persona 2 EP: punishment for your past mistakes and learning to let go
Persona Q2 is a story with all 3 group of characters from Persona 3, 4 and 5 returning so Atlus also got all 4 artists that sang on each game (2 from Persona 3) to return if you listen to that intro again you can hear the singers are all the singers (and rapper for Persona 3) from each of the titles: Lyn Inaizumi (P5) Yumi Kawamura (P3) Shihoko Hirata (P4) and Lotus Juice (rapper from P3)
the Butterfly is repersent the master of Velvet Room, Philemon Also the Gun stuff in Persona 3 is how they summon their Persona3. The gun and shooting yourself, that only Persona 3, each Persona group have a different way to summon their persona, P3 is shooting themself, P4 is crushing tarot card, P5 is ripping of mask
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
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.
You were right about the no DLC thing. What makes Persona 3 Portable different is that they added the option of playing as a female protagonist. You can see a glimpse of her in the PersonaQ2 OP.
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 butterfly is based off of the thing which is something like "I had a dream that I was a butterfly, then I woke up. Am I a butterfly dreaming, or a human waking up?"
Probably been stated, the ability of Persona is a summon type ability. And in the P3 games, to summon a persona those with the ability need to accept that they are mortal which is symbolized via the Evoker which is shaped like a pistol.
Also, Persona 3 FES was an enhanced re-release of the game with extra content, while Persona 3 Portable was a PSP... sort-of remake that along with other stuff added a female protagonist you can play as. If you noticed the duality of the P3P opening, it was made that way so you can flip the PSP over to see it from the other protagonist's side.
Persona invocation is different in each game, P3 is shooting yourself in the head (Well not really shooting because the guns are not real), P4 is breaking your tarot card and P5 ripping off your mask, all of this have meaning in each game
Basically games like persona 4 was the original and persona 4 Golden was the re-release with extra content Atlas has done this multiple times with the persona series and had multiple spin-offs of three four and five now
The story is the most important part of the games. I feel although P3 seems edgy with the evokers (guns) it ties into the message of the game that you are mortal and only have so much time
Every persona game has diifferent themes, style, plot, setting, characters and message. None are connected as they all take place usually like 3 years apart from each other. P3 is the only one with the guns, its how they summon and it is themed around death and memento mori and is probably the darkest one. P4 is the most light hearted one as if they were trying to balance it or something. And it is themed around being true to yourself. They break cards to summon them. P5 is all about freedom and rebellion. They use their masks to summon them. It is the most mainstream one and is how most people get into the series. (Although I enjoyed P4 Golden just a tad more as its the one that I recommend playing, but P5 Royal is the easiest to get into) Persona are pretty much just stands. They don't transform they all just have different methods of summoning them with each game.
The dancing games are rhythm games apparently they're really good though. The game with best story I think is Persona 3 although the best characters are from 4 which is on steam btw the golden version . They're all pretty enjoyable.
28:00 Don't know about everyone else but I play P3 for the story, P4 for the characters and P5 for the tone ( yes, I haven't got around to fully completing the prior games yet, despite being an avid fan of SMT). Gameplay doesn't differ too much from your standard turn based RPG fare, with different cool gimmicks each game. The element that carries through these games is Personas - extensions of your will tied in with Jungian psychology that you can use to fight. The MC can use many different ones , meaning your move pool is only as limited as your effort to collect and fuse Personas. I find that's pretty cool, considering in other games you're limited to a class movepool. There's other important features like Social Links but they're best discovered blind. The games are very much half visual novel, half RPG. Started with P5 and ended with P3, have to say I like P4 the best because of the characters (especially Kanji and Naoto)
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"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.
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
@@ShinyKyu N O
@@niko-dg8cg it totally is.
Persona 2 is darker, 3 is WAY darker and 1/5 aimed to be darker too (with questionable results).
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
"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.
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.
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
Persona 2 is actually a duology - two games that are interconnected to one another, with the second game featuring a different main character from the first (although the first game's protag also is still a major focus.)
Persona 2: Innocent Sin is the first title - it stars Tatsuya (the male character featured most prominently in the first two P2 openings).
Persona 2: Eternal Punishment is the second title and it stars Maya (the girl with the heart symbols on the chest of her outfit.)
Persona 2 also has a weird localization/release issue in the US. Originally only Persona 2: Eternal Punishment was released in the US for PS1 (despite it being the second game in the Duology). However, when the PSP remakes came out, Atlus did localize and release Persona 2: Innocent Sin in the US. That said, the PSP re-release for Eternal Punishment *was not* localized for release. Meaning if you want to play both games legally in the US, you have to play the Innocent Sin PSP release and then find and play the PS1 version of Eternal Punishment.
That said - Persona 1 and the Persona 2 duology are a highly *highly* underrated part of the Persona series by fans who got into the series with Persona 3 onward. I wish Atlus would do remakes of them so new fans could experience them. They definitely are different from the aesthetics of P3, P4, and P5 - but they really do deserve more love.
They'd have to really update the gameplay because, while they have the best stories in the series, the first couple of games are very boring to play.
both P2 games have be re done, they were remade for the psp, Innocent Sin was redone in 2011 and Eternal Punishment was redone in 2012 and the OG Revelations Persona was re done in 2009
@@krazzboltz5788 except p2 eternal punishment psp wasn't localized, although there is a fan translation
"Persona 4Golden"
*Persona Q starts playing*
Each Persona game has a different way of summoning your persona. As I have not played them I'm not completely sure, but I think in Persona 1 and 2s one can summon their persona by just thinking about it, without the help of any kinds of tools.
In Persona 3, it is done by using an Evoker. There are technically many types of Evokers, but the one used the most recembles a gun and you have to pretty much mimic commiting a suicide with it to summon ones persona.
In Persona 4, which is coincidentally known as the most lighthearted of the series, you just have to crush a tarot card that you can manifest before you. While the summoning is all fun, easy and not traumatizing, obtaining a persona in the first place is a different, not so fun and easy story.
In Persona 5 a persona is summoned by ripping off a mask, rather violently might I say, at least when first obtaining it.
The way of persona summoning is actually usually related to the overall theme of the game. Persona 3 is about accepting ones mortality and death, so suicide imagery is disturbingly fitting.
Persona 4 is about chasing and accepting a hard truth over an easy lie, also about accepting the truth about ones true self. How tarot cards relate to this is a bit questionable, but they are one of the main motifs of the series, so here they are probably used more because of that rather than them fitting the theme.
Persona 5 is about ones personal freedom and about the masks people show to the world, hiding who they really are and suppressing their true selves, both in good and bad.
I just can’t believe they didn’t know the gun part about 3 it was literally the only thing anyone talked about since the release lol…. Maybe they are too young
The story actually matters! I can only speak for the recent persona games, but I imagine the same for the earlier ones. It's a running joke in the community that Persona 3, 4, 5 are the only ones Atlus (the video game developer) care about.
The story matters. For 3, 4, 5, there's a general theme that ties the entire narrative. I also think that 3, 4, 5 are the ones that have the modern game loop. Basically, the game loop is divided in two parts: dungeon raid game and social interaction game. In the limited time of usually a year in game, you have to divide your limited days into either going into dungeons or hanging around with your friends. Making social bonds and hanging out with friends level up your "stats" so you can do better in dungeons.
It's an rpg. So imagine Pokemon, but with story that matters, with different meanigful themes per generation of games, and instead of stagnating, it grew with the times and evolved the jrpg formula. With the added plus of quality music and visuals all throughout the game.
Well Persona 1 and 2 were effectively completely different games, the only connection is the name on the box... Well besides them all being jrpg.
Since Persona also only got big from 3 on, it makes sense to ignore the first two. It honestly makes sense to just see them as their own franchise, even if they are technically the first Persona games.
Also, Persona 3, 4 and 5 are all in the same universe. Different time, different place, different characters, but still same world. Persona 1 and 2 are completely disconnect in that regard as well.
@@Kirgoss you haven't played them, have you?
They are in the same universe, and they are much more similar than "they're just rpgs".
@@Kirgoss P1 characters appear in p2 and The universe you play from p3 onwards is originated from the universe made from p2 eternal punishment, how? i recommend playing the duology games to the end to find out.
@@derekmartin5340 thanks to P2EP its not technically the same universe but it does continue into P3.
But for Japanese sense of respect to the creator they won't touch p1-2.
@@EverydayYounglife thats true, i guess jts more accurate to say they share the same timeline, but the universes are still distinctly related.
I'm not sure if thats really the reason for skipping them tbh. They still rereleased P1 in 2009/2018, and remade P2 on PSP, bringing Tadashi back to write the new scenario in EP.
Really hoping they do another remake though, they're amazing games but get the short end of the stick for being the old ones.
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.
@@AmberAmour
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.
13:50 i like this part where they start bopping to hitler theme
omg hahahaha
“I wonder if the story actually matters” well let’s just say persona 4 is the happiest game about serial murder.
And yet is still not a happy game I got whiplash from THAT scene
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*
16:54 I can say the movie didn't cover everything of Persona 3 (sideevents etc.)
but Persona 3 The Movie is a very good movie adaptation.
I really recommend you to watch it!
Fax
Honestly, the Persona 3 movies have moments that I prefer to the originals. They handle the entirety of Ken's arc and Junpei's arc better imo. And the animation is some of the most beautiful I've seen in my entire time watching anime.
The persona 3 Movie series are the best series adaption
I agree, the Persona 3 movies are really damn good. The main issue, compared to the games, is that it skips most of the social links, as opposed to the Persona 4 anime, but I think it's still a great way to experience the story.
@@omarninopequeno i think bcs it's want to focus more to the story than the social link
im crying at the ending of the anime and the p3fes too.
The persona 4 dub takes the number one spot by landslide
Thx for the suggestion.
I have been thinking about watch anime and movies. After I have already played the games
"Time never waits. It delivers all equally to the same end. You, who wish to safeguard the future, however limited it may be... You will be given one year; go forth without falter, with your heart as your guide..."
#P3
P3 Greatness
That's great and all but did you know that the arcana is the means by wich all is revealed?
@@franconunez925 Yeah, but did you know this?
The arcana is the burned bread and i've been waiting for this.
@@noshitsherlock5195 wow, such a cool fact, did ya see that shinji.
@@franconunez925 But did ya see my Marin karin?
You missed the Persona 5 Scramble opening, that one kicks ass!
Technically not out for us until February 23
The opening is out its just the game is not yet out yet
It says Scramble, not Strikers. The Scramble opening and game are out for some time. Strikers is the version that the rest of the world will get.
Best Persona 5 opening, next the the original and the animation’s first one
@@ved9119 The game in japan yes, so stil counts
Dream of a Butterfly underrated op
One of my favorites
yup
33:41
"Aw, I like that dog" "It's a good dog"
It only takes the openings to realize that Koromaru is a good boi
The Persona 3 and 4 anime adaptions are actually good, especially the Persona 3 movies
The p3 movies are weird, they do some things even better than the game and some things way worse.
persona 4 anime was quite a fun ride tho,especially after finishing the game
@@butcherofblaviken4000 and you know chad narukami always picks option three
@@AlexanderMartinez-kd7cz The movies are played in new game+
@@Darkrei2 I am confusion
Story is top-of-the-shelf. There's nothing else like it. But there are serveral other great things about them.
Persona 3- Best Ost, Story and Message
Persona 4- Best Characters and Fun
Persona 5- Best Style and Gameplay
Play persona 2 innocent sin and eternal punishment and maybe You could change your mind about "the best story"
@@hawaianmobster1579 indeed
🤔 well in my opinion its like this
Persona 3- best ost, story, characters, fun, style, gameplay, and message
Persona 4- best ost, story, characters, fun, style, gameplay, and message
Persona 5- best ost, story, characters, fun, style, gameplay, and message
Persona 5r- GOTY
@@OriginalAngst yes
@@OriginalAngst except the fact I had to hear Takeover instead of Last Surprise
“Persona 4 Golden” skips to Persona Q’s opening
Yeah
Leaves out persona 4 anime
they went back to watch Persona 4 Golden & they skipped the anime ones cuz they watched the anime in another video before this
Just like atlus
In terms of Persona anime's, the P3 movies were really good, captured events well, P4 The Animation was good, was really lighthearted and was a fun watch, Not gonna mention P4G anime...and the P5 anime was just bad in terms of animation and story
I think P4G anime is kinda New Game+ and more focused on Marie
P4GA had pacing problems but it wasn't as bad as people say, its new game+ so they cut out a lot of content that most people should already know and focused more on Marie and other more light hearted interactions. Dismissing P4GA is dismissing Adachi vs Yu and the hollow forest, and those fights were raw as hell.
@@infinitezion2029 I heard that u need to focus on building links with Marie and that detective, why?
@@douiieeRAW a bit late, but you can get extra content from maxxing adachi’s and marie’s social links, more on marie, since she gets her own dungeon and fight. for adachi, you can get a completely different ending iirc? but yeah
Revelations: Persona originally released as a spinoff of Shin Megami Tensei: IF on the ps1, Persona 2 is a duology, and all three of the games have psp versions, though, the ps1 version of Innocent Sin and psp version of Eternal Punishment were never released in the west, as for Persona 3, you have three different versions of it, base p3, FES, and Portable, which, released on the ps2 for base and FES, and the psp for portable, p4, you have base and Golden, releasing on the ps2 for base p4, and the vita (and steam) for p4G, as for p5, again, two different versions, base released on the ps3 and ps4, however, Royal released on the ps4 exclusively, then Scramble, well, we don't have that in the west until next year
P4G storyline is good 😳 but most of the games have a good storyline and the P4 dancing game is probably the best of the dancing games for story too but I would say P3 is the best storywise and I love the mc lol
great vegetables
@@zetaabsbs2329 adachi *vineboom* adachi *vineboom* ADACHIIII *vineboom*
Persona 2 is actually 2 parts, innocent sin and eternal punishment
And both got a psp remake
Also they were always stands
Since you guys are so confused, I’m gonna explain some of the summarized version of the plot
*Revelations: Persona* Set in the town of Mikage-cho, it follows a group of high-school students from St. Hermelin High, who are forced to confront an outbreak of demons in their hometown.
*Persona 2: Innocent Sin* Set in the coastal city of Sumaru, the story follows Tatsuya Suou, a student of Seven Sisters High, as he confronts phenomena generated by reality-altering rumors.
*Persona 2: Eternal Punishment* Set shortly after the ending of Innocent Sin, the story follows Maya Amano, a supporting character from the previous game, as she confronts a similar rumor-created threat along with Tatsuya.
*Persona 3* The story takes place in the town of Iwatodai, following a group of students known as S.E.E.S., who fight monsters that appear during a time known as the Dark Hour.
*Persona 4* The story takes place in the rural town of Inaba, where a group of students investigate a series of killings related to a realm known as the Midnight Channel.
*Persona 5* The story is set in Tokyo and follows a group of students as they adopt disguises of thieves to tackle the city’s corruption and attain freedom from imposed societal pressures.
I tried to summarize it as much as possible, because the stories of each Persona game are so confusing, so deep, so difficult to understand that it would take me HOURS to explain the simplest game of the series to you. So yeah, answering your question, the story does matter in these games. It matters A LOT.
Also one more thing I’m gonna say: the thing about the guns is that in Persona 3, the characters are able to draw out their hidden power by facing their own deaths. The guns they use (called Evokers) are a way to force that. It doesn’t cause physical damage to the human body, but it causes enough emotional stress to allow them to summon their Personas.
Persona 3 (best game) revolved heavily on the quote "Memento Mori" which is a Latin phrase that means “remember that you will die”. or just "Death" in general and was very controversial when it was release with some claiming it was promoting suicide becuz idiots saw the characters shooting themselves in the head with "guns" which was actually the complete opposite of what the game actually portrays, it teaches to live life and treasure the ppl around you cuz u never know when somebody might die.
Persona 3 Fes was a special edition of the game with more added feature including an extra 30+ hr post game storyline.
Persona 3 Portable was wat some ppl claim to be an "inferior" version of the main game, but was the only Persona game to feature an alternate playable Female main character storyline.
Persona 4 felt more like an "apology" for wat Persona 3 did, as it was set in a more happier vibrant tone despite the game revolving around trying to catch an unknown serial killer.
Persona 4 Arena games were fighting games witha heavy storyline connecting both 3 & 4 canonically.
Persona Q 1 & 2 Despite being a crossover between the 3,4, and 5 game's casts using time travel, the story of Persona Q is considered canon to the Persona timeline as confirmed by a Atlus USA representative, but when asked how the games are canon, all they said was "Thats a spoiler". Article here: www.siliconera.com/persona-q-shadow-labyrinths-story-canon/
Persona 5 is a "rise against the machine," "fight the power" ,"viva la revoluticion" type of story that portrays and tackles actual real life issues/events.
all of the game are great.
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.
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
In persona 3 the gun isn’t real, when they “shoot” themselves they summon their persona.
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
The video is in release order, however it repeats the openings for remasters/remakes. The ps1 and psp versions of persona 1 and persona 2 had different openings because of different staff. If you guys are curious about persona I'd recommend watching snicketyslice's youtube videos about persona 1 and 2 ( since I don't recommend playing them as they are pretty outdated when it comes to gameplay but their stories are worth it specially persona 2) I'd recommend starting with persona 5 or Persona 4 (personally I prefer 5 because of gameplay as it incorporates interesting aspects of the franchise as a whole)
small note, the reason the older ones actually have such grim tones is that, at the time, they were still shin megami tensei, and it started becoming it's one thing around persona 4.
38:36 - "I like that CAT"
Morgana : "I'm NOT a CAT! I'm Morgana!"
Neko ja nai, Catsura da!
For the color themes
Persona 1 Is Purple
Persona 2 Is Dark Red
Persona 3 Is Blue
Persona 4 Is Yellow
Persona 5 Is Red
each persona also had their own "psychological theme".
Persona 3 is about your readiness and acceptance to death. The character need to show readiness to face death, thus the "head shot" is the trigger to summon the persona.
Persona 4 is about accepting yourself, especially the part of you that you didn't want or didn't like. Thus the sequence of taking in the persona into one self before summoning them from within yourself.
Persona 5 is about how you express your true self toward other people without putting on a mask. Thus the mask ripping (literally) to summon persona.
...
and Persona 3 is the most famous/highly rated among the series, that's why it got the most animation series and spin-offs.
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
8:45 "Is very ominus"
*Shadow world plays in my head*
"I wonder if the story matters"
HOO BOY
40:43 "Go off, queen!" little does he know, just like the among us memes, "she wasn't Queen?" Persona fans be like- "She never was!"
The P3 movies are perfection. Great animation, great development of Yuki and excellent fights.
They would be if the 2nd awakenings were timed right e.e
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
The deal with the butterfly is that the butterfly is symbolic of the human psyche, so it's a very big motif with these games.
It's also Philemon's low energy form
Psyche is also the name of a Greek deity
The Persona 3 movies were surprisingly great. They don't take too long to explain everything, since you should have played the game first anyway, but the quality is just excellent. I think these movies and animations are ok if haven't played the games, but they really shine if you have. Great way to introduce someone to the story without making them play a 130 hour game tho, lol
it's always nice seeing someone's blind reaction to persona 3 lol
"persona 5 since we just got our switch"
but it ain't on switch though
SMT is the nintendo IP which is unfortunate cause i dont have a switch for SMT V
@@nickwatic What? No it's not
@@_hollowsky yeah it is. The only crossover is Nocturne
You really should try playing persona. I just recently got into it with 4 golden, then went to 3 and now I’m playing 5R. It’s a hell of a series and the music is great in all of them.
I prefer the he atmosphere, style, story & cast in Persona 2
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
"The songs are good"
Welcome to persona
Didnt fate song are good considering emiya theme dethrone all persona theme
Just ask all of your friend they probably recognizes the emiya theme than persona theme, heck emiya theme 20 million view
what's an emiya
@@crazyman-tg4qj you watch ubw or not?
@@MrDontKnow4sure But do you at least agree that the persona songs are really fricken amazing?
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
Just letting you know, the "suicide" was only part of Persona 3's cast. Other installations have different ways of summoning.
I love how they're watching them numerically and not by release date alone, it makes it easier to watch for newbies :)
Yo... no lie... playing Persona 3 then watching the persona 3 dancing song and hearing the lyrics hits me right in da feels...
PSP persona intro is actually persona 1. they just made a new intro for it. Atlus makes a new intro for remakes, ports or additions .
26:26 yup it's a rhythm game were the main characters dance to songs from the games. It's very fun :)
The reason you're seeing multiple years is because the games were either remade or rereleased in future dates on different systems. They were given newer openings for the rereleases to either reflect changes made in the games or to better present the tone and story to a newer audience, especially since it was now sometimes a different decade it was released in. Also persona were never transformations, they always have been a separate entity that the characters summon.
Persona 4 has the best music imo
Kinda subjective. It's more about preference. I like all of them.
Persona 4 and 3 did fine with their anime/movie adaptations, it was just 5 that flopped
every persona game is at least a bit edgy
Y’all should get into the entire smt franchise. It’s everything and more 😌✨
I love how they're counting all the times they use the evoker.
Persona 3 is the best game for me and the fandom have their own most favorites, The P3 animation was amazing but of course the experience is better if you experienced the story through the game.
Persona 3= Accepting Death
Persona 4= Accepting your true self
Persona 5= Freedom
I don't know what's the theme for P1 and P2
P1: accept your true self and fight (same as p4)
P2: face your sins and redeem yourself
Adding on to the other guy,
persona 1: Dreams and facing your multiple parts
Persona 2 IS: sins of your past with the danger of rumors being present
Persona 2 EP: punishment for your past mistakes and learning to let go
Persona Q2 is a story with all 3 group of characters from Persona 3, 4 and 5 returning so Atlus also got all 4 artists that sang on each game (2 from Persona 3) to return if you listen to that intro again you can hear the singers are all the singers (and rapper for Persona 3) from each of the titles: Lyn Inaizumi (P5) Yumi Kawamura (P3) Shihoko Hirata (P4) and Lotus Juice (rapper from P3)
i love Drake and Megan's react channel!
😆
the Butterfly is repersent the master of Velvet Room, Philemon
Also the Gun stuff in Persona 3 is how they summon their Persona3. The gun and shooting yourself, that only Persona 3, each Persona group have a different way to summon their persona, P3 is shooting themself, P4 is crushing tarot card, P5 is ripping of mask
Persona 3 FES is my favorite in the series. It just had the best story. I haven't played persona 2 though, it's the only one I haven't played yet.
I highly recommend it, the gameplay takes a while to get used to, but the story is worth it
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
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.
Watch the Persona awakenings
The Persona 3 movies are amazing. People generally love them a lot.
You were right about the no DLC thing. What makes Persona 3 Portable different is that they added the option of playing as a female protagonist. You can see a glimpse of her in the PersonaQ2 OP.
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.
Persona 2 > All
the butterfly is based off of the thing which is something like "I had a dream that I was a butterfly, then I woke up. Am I a butterfly dreaming, or a human waking up?"
Probably been stated, the ability of Persona is a summon type ability. And in the P3 games, to summon a persona those with the ability need to accept that they are mortal which is symbolized via the Evoker which is shaped like a pistol.
P3, P4, and P5 all have dancing games to them. they are fun
Her: This is a really chill song
The song 2 seconds later: *I will BUUUUURN MYYYYYYYYY DREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAD*
Host: This is the last one-
Persona 5 Strikers: WASSUP MFs!
Specifically in Persona 3 the characters shoot themselves with a special gun-shaped Evoker to summon their persona.
It's not an actual gun.
Also, Persona 3 FES was an enhanced re-release of the game with extra content, while Persona 3 Portable was a PSP... sort-of remake that along with other stuff added a female protagonist you can play as.
If you noticed the duality of the P3P opening, it was made that way so you can flip the PSP over to see it from the other protagonist's side.
It’d be cool if you guys reacted to Persona protagonists awakenings.
I like how they never realized that the persona q games are crossovers
FYI: persona 1 is released on pc but only in japan
Persona invocation is different in each game, P3 is shooting yourself in the head (Well not really shooting because the guns are not real), P4 is breaking your tarot card and P5 ripping off your mask, all of this have meaning in each game
Basically games like persona 4 was the original and persona 4 Golden was the re-release with extra content Atlas has done this multiple times with the persona series and had multiple spin-offs of three four and five now
Persona 3 Movie - Emotional
Persona 4 Animation - Comedy
The story is the most important part of the games. I feel although P3 seems edgy with the evokers (guns) it ties into the message of the game that you are mortal and only have so much time
Every persona game has diifferent themes, style, plot, setting, characters and message. None are connected as they all take place usually like 3 years apart from each other.
P3 is the only one with the guns, its how they summon and it is themed around death and memento mori and is probably the darkest one.
P4 is the most light hearted one as if they were trying to balance it or something. And it is themed around being true to yourself. They break cards to summon them.
P5 is all about freedom and rebellion. They use their masks to summon them. It is the most mainstream one and is how most people get into the series. (Although
I enjoyed P4 Golden just a tad more as its the one that I recommend playing, but P5 Royal is the easiest to get into)
Persona are pretty much just stands. They don't transform they all just have different methods of summoning them with each game.
I think you mean P3 is the only one they use guns to summon, there are definitely guns in P1 and P2
@@KaiMCGRPS P4 spoilers
And Naoto uses a gun to summon her persona too, albeit by shooting the tarot card instead of herself
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How did we start from questioning our own existence to end up bustin moves to a jazz track?
Persona 2 eternal punishment is the continuing of innocent sin also the butterfly is a character of the first 2 games
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The dancing games are rhythm games apparently they're really good though. The game with best story I think is Persona 3 although the best characters are from 4 which is on steam btw the golden version . They're all pretty enjoyable.
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Don't know about everyone else but I play P3 for the story, P4 for the characters and P5 for the tone ( yes, I haven't got around to fully completing the prior games yet, despite being an avid fan of SMT).
Gameplay doesn't differ too much from your standard turn based RPG fare, with different cool gimmicks each game. The element that carries through these games is Personas - extensions of your will tied in with Jungian psychology that you can use to fight. The MC can use many different ones , meaning your move pool is only as limited as your effort to collect and fuse Personas. I find that's pretty cool, considering in other games you're limited to a class movepool.
There's other important features like Social Links but they're best discovered blind. The games are very much half visual novel, half RPG.
Started with P5 and ended with P3, have to say I like P4 the best because of the characters (especially Kanji and Naoto)
Kanji and Naoto are literally so precious 😭