You started Persona series but not from Persona 1?
I am thou, thou art I. Cleanse this ugly reality with the radiance of your beautiful soul, Motaritilvistar!!! Personaaaaa!!1 lol *he also performs hip-hop dance and sings badly to make you run away* lol.
What is shame is people ignore Persona 1 and talk about 2nd instead. I don't think you are actually aware what kind of situation Persona series are in. Still you may start from any Persona game, yet Persona 1 is underestimated a lot. This is not GTA, it's Persona. It may be 1st game but it doesn't mean it lacks features or something. On the contrary Persona 1 is the "real deal Persona game" that other games lacks the features:
- Only in Persona 1 you can scare off monsters by badly singing and hip-hop dancing lolol.
- Only in Persona 1 you may enjoy 2 different stories that makes the game actually 2 games in 1 while later games are linear. Persona 1 is the only "choices matters game" in the series while others are more about game over flags.
- Only in Persona 1 combat is grid based. It allows more strategic and tactical decision to place your party members in battle area. For example party member A has low HP and long range attacker so place them behind 2 people as shield.
- Only in Persona 1 party members can use multiple personas.
- Only in Persona 1 you may co-op attack with party members randomly.
- In Persona 1 your party can use guns which was brought back to Persona 5.
- Persona 1 doesn't have "social life BS" nor time limit BS.
- It may be taste matter but only in Persona 1 you may experience really serious story in a serious game, that has FPS dungeon exploration and more traditional JRPG dungeons with random encounters.
After Persona 1 playing later games felt like I was playing Fallout New Vegas but later games are Super Mario lolol.
