Persona started as a spinoff of Atlus’ popular RPG series Shin Megami Tensei, but it wasn’t long till it made its own identity in the gaming world. While other franchises let the player live their wildest fantasies of fighting fantastical monsters and saving the world, Persona games also deliver the same, but with a different style.
Strategic turn-based combat, in-depth romances, building bonds with other NPCs, and serious themes in the plot are the signature aspects of Persona games. In this list, we have ranked all the mainline games in the franchise, based on the titles that offer these aspects to the fullest.
NOTE: This article is subjective and solely reflects the writer's opinion.
Starting the list with the first game in the series, Persona 1 aka Revelations: Persona was released back in 1996 for the original PlayStation, and was unsurprisingly the most vanilla game in the series. While it introduced some of the identifying aspects of the franchise, it lacked in many other ways.
The clanky controls, janky visuals, and very lackluster plot of the original title are the reasons why it deserved to be the lowest entry in the list. Unless you are a fan of old-school RPGs or are trying to play all the games in the Persona franchise, Revelations may not be worth your time.
Persona 2: Innocent Sin is considered to have the best story among all the games, before the switch in themes in the modern entries. Other than the story, Innocent Sin also introduced many staple RPG elements to their formula.
While this was a very significant upgrade compared to P1, it still felt a little cumbersome. The unfair difficulty curve and bad localization resulted in an unsuccessful run in the Western market.
A direct sequel to Innocent Sin,
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