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Dating every girl

The Sae interrogation framing device

Cybat posted...

The Sae interrogation framing device

You couldn't have come up with that on your own. Who is feeding you ideas?

Raka_Putra posted...

As for the Fate gacha it just celebrated its 10th anniversary actually. Then again, it never collaborated with P5 so maybe that's why.

Jesus Christ, I didn't realize gacha games were even a decade old in their current form.

- The Means By Which All Is Revealed
Social Links
Calling Cards
Elizabeth
Shoji Meguro
Rivers in the Desert
Persona 5

- Mine for the Slammin'!
Benjamin Franklin
P5 the Gacha-Killer
Kamoshida as a Villain
Goro Akechi
Persona 5 Strikers Box Art
Suguru Kamoshida
The Subway Slammer
The Journey (P3)
October 4th (P3)
Persona 3
Velvet Room
Hiimdaisy Persona Comic
Junpei x Chidori
Mara
Evokers
Persona 4
Masayoshi Shido (Boss Fight)
Menus
Nyx
The Reaper
Mitsuru Kirijo: Of every single party member in the series, Mitsuru might be the least believable as a high schooler. Zenikichi is about as believable as she is. She looks, sounds, and acts like she's 29. But that aside, she's easily the most important party member in P3 besides yourself. I said this before, but everyone except you, Mitsuru, Aigis, and Yukari is basically irrelevant to the actual story itself. Mitsuru also has by far the best and most compelling design of any character in the game; she's VERY distinctive and you immediately understand exactly who she is and how she operates. You IMMEDIATELY get that she's a reliable, intelligent girl who's the closest person here to knowing how to deal with this crazy situation. You IMMEDIATELY get that she's the smartest and most beautiful girl in the school. You IMMEDIATELY get that of the series' two redheaded girls with rapiers, she completely mogs Sumire. She's got the backstory you need to actually be intimately involved in the story, she's got the tragic father death (it's funny how Haru is also a rich senior girl whose father dies during the game, but it's played completely differently), she's not as annoying as Fuuka when she's the navigator, she's got it all. Surely the best P3 companion. You know, I just realized that she's the only temporary navigator who isn't the game's mascot character; Teddie and Morgana both handle the job until you get someone else. Oh, Fuuka. I refuse to believe you're anyone's favorite P3 waifu.
Sojiro Sakura: Since P3 has Ikutski, Sojiro and Dojima are definitely neck and neck for the title of "best adult who takes care of you after you move into town." I think Sojiro does win, though. Sojiro is smart enough to EVENTUALLY figure out what's going on, and just continues to help you. He also gets arrested on your behalf, and to my understanding, makes a pretty good curry. He also has a bright yellow car for some reason, don't ask me why.

- OMG! We Are SO Awesome!
Tarot Cards
Takuto Maruki
School Concert (P4G)
Shooting Yourself in the Head
Dating Every Girl: Hilarious. I like how it's not even an option not to in the original P3, every girl just automatically dates you because it's impossible for boys and girls to be friends. The scene where all of the girls confront Joker at the same time, and then it cuts to black and Sojiro is like "Well I convinced them that this was just a silly misunderstanding," and man, Sojiro, that's ultimate wingman status there. I have no idea how you pulled that off. It's a funny concept, but obviously I understand why more can't really be done with it, it must be a tiny minority of players who date more than one girl at a time.
Akinari Kamiki
P5 Tarot Art
Aria of the Soul
P3 Characters in P4AU
President Tanaka
Negotiation (P5): I'm a little torn. This replaces the shuffle time, and while it's true that it takes much longer on average than shuffles, I basically only ever use this to obtain new personas, and never for any other reason, which means it takes much less time overall. But conceptually, it is cool. The idea of having to empathize and understand what the persona is about and how it thinks in order to obtain it makes complete sense.
Rise Posters (P5)
Hot Spring Scene (P3): One of the more memorable moments in P3, and one of the few "everyone just hanging out being silly, unrelated to the existential threat" moments. Everyone likes Mitsuru's execution of the boys, even if she's being kind of unreasonable in not letting them explain. Honestly, P3's boys are the least perverted of all of the groups, there's no Yusuke blackmailing you into naked modeling or Yosoke being Yosoke. Real talk, I've never been into a hot spring in my life. I have been into the bathhouses in Hungary, though, those are not completely dissimilar.
Persona Kart (Hypothetical)
Battle for Everyone's Souls
Joker (Smash)
King's Game
Kanji Tatsumi
Never More (Song)
Adolf Hitler (P2)
Magician Arcana
Maya
Akihiko (P4AU)
P3 Persona Awakening Cutscene
Sadayo Kawakami
Yosuke Hanamura
FeMC (P3P)
Funky Student
Cosmic Tower Burger
P4G Bike Ending
Tae Takemi
The Fox (P4)
Shiki-Ouji
Akira Konoe

- I Am Thou, Thou Art I...
Mr. Urshimaru
Persona (Carl Jung)
Hawaii Scene (P5): I love how the loading screens have the normal extras dressed in Hawaiian outfits, etc. But very little actually happens in this scene. The game even sort of draws attention to it, with the story being that the school planned things poorly, so the kids are all just left on their own to do whatever. I also like how the characters go out of their way to say "Hawaii is the most Japanese-y place in America, you won't even need to speak in English lol." It's true, I've been to Hawaii, and there were a lot of signs in both English and Japanese. I feel like this was a bit of missed potential, is all.
Reach Out to the Truth
Ambushing Enemies with Attacks in the Overworld
Pancakes
Adachi Cube
Munehisa Iwai
Sae Interrogation Framing Device: Conceptually, this is fun. In practice, this is fun. But holy shit, Sae is the absolute worst lawyer on Earth. She constantly asks questions that you already explained, and her logic for asking who helped you do X is always insane. "You couldn't have tied your shoes on your own, you must have had a professional shoe-tier helping you! Who was it?!" I like how Sae is held up by the game as one of the few adults who are helpful, but in actual practice, Sae does nothing useful the entire game, she just gets her chain yanked by every single villain. The only time Sae does ANYTHING helpful is when she realizes Akechi is lying to her and obeys your request to use her phone. That's it, that's Sae's entire contribution to the heroes: she presses one button on a phone. That's how useful she is, she can press one button, BARELY.
Nihil Hand
Dancing Spinoff Games
Futaba Romance
Labrys
Arsene Lupin
Persona Pokerap
Cheesing the Game with Overpowered Special Personas at Level 1
Morgana
Hifumi Togo: She wasn't a cut party member, everyone always says that, and it's not true. What happened is that the sprite for Hifumi was the original sprite for Makoto, and then for whatever reason, they drew a new Makoto sprite and just reused the old one as a confidant. So yeah, Hifumi does sort of have the vibe of a party member, because she looks like they're supposed to look. Anyway, as a character, whatever. Her personality is "I am obsessed with Chess and am embarrassed by my mom cheating to make me look even better at Chess." But she gives you probably the best confidant ability in the entire game, in-battle party member switching. The only other one with a potential claim to that title is Mishima's "inactive party members still get experience" ability. Could she have been a party member with her current personality? Maybe. But we already have "I am a smart and perceptive girl" in Makoto, and "I am psychotically obsessed with a useless talent that doesn't matter at all" in Yusuke, AND "I am a graceful girl" in Sumire. I don't know what Hifumi could possibly be adding other than slightly having the look of a Yamato Nadeshiko, but we already had Yukiko going 110% all-in for that one, so Hifumi just sort of has nothing to offer as far as being a party member goes. Although, I would approve of having just the Queen chess piece as your persona, that makes more sense than half of actual personas.
Shadow Labrys
Morgana saying Go to Sleep
Meat Dimension
Operation Babe Hunt
Ending Fights with All-Out Attacks
Silent Protagonists
I'm gonna renovate your ass!
Green Persona 6
Yu Narukumi
Junes Department Store
P4G Shuffle Time
Heritage Palladion Liberator
Nanako Dojima
Deleted Yosuke Gay Romance
Cut P5R Harem Ending
Benjamin Franklin (Musician)
P5's Translation
The Fog (Song)
Battle for Everyone's Slams
Orbit: You'll Never See It Coming
Tatsumi Port Island
Toaster Aigis
Shadow Okumura (Boss Fight)
Lotus Juice (Rapper)

- Gasp! The Enemy!
Urban Fantasy (Genre)
Heartful Cry
Other RPGs Mimicking Persona's Calendar System: I mean, whatever. It's an effective system that Persona can't patent or anything. The idea of having a limited number of days in the year to create some kind of urgency is completely reasonable.
Koromaru
BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle
Hiimdaisy Persona 4 Comic Dub
Magic Spell Names
Fictional High Schoolers Dating Adults in Anime
Haru Okumura
Renaming S-Links to Confidants
Shitty Adults
Principal Kobayakawa
Playing Coy with the Year P5 is Set
Erebus
Thieves' Den
People Saying Any Jazz Song Sounds Like Persona
Persona Q Weddings
Mr. Edogawa
Afterschool Clubs
Hatsune Miku
Mementos

- All You Do Is Eat Away At My Life
Kyosuke from Danganronpa 3 resembling Yu: Jesus Christ, D3 is probably the worst TV show I've watched all the way through. If not, it's close, it's incredibly bad. Both of these guys are pretty anime boys with short silver hair and katanas, and that's where their similarities end. I don't know if there's any reference being drawn here, I assume not. I'm marking this low just because of the Danganronpa 3 connection.
Marin Karin
Protagonist Death Game Overs
Ichiko Ohya
Fusion Accidents
Endless Rereleases Changing the Games
Kasumi and Sumire
Yosuke in the Camping Trip
Tartarus
Ken Romance
Nozomi Suemitsu
Remaking Persona 4
Burning Men's Soul
Yosuke Goes Through a Breakup (Video)
Metis

- Please Beat The Shit Out Of Me
Fuuka's Original Voice Actress
Persona 6 Development Time
Uncontrollable Party Members
Persona 5 Tactica
The Answer (P3)

Persona 5 Strikers (the game, not the box art)

Hell yeah Mitsuru appreciation. Well-deserved.

Thanatos

Loki

Gentle Madman (Maruki Palace Theme)

Void Quest

Fishing minigame

Okay, thanks for the clarification.

Forced romance in P3

Makoto stalking Joker at school

Navigators

Specifically the whole having someone shout something about the battle every 2 seconds that Persona is known for.

Dialogue choices during S. Links having variable points

Memories of You (Persona 3 ending song)

Burn my dread

Using a golf club as a weapon to fight shadows

Persona 4 Dungeons

Harems compared to canon romances in jrpgs

- The Means By Which All Is Revealed
Social Links
Calling Cards
Elizabeth
Shoji Meguro
Rivers in the Desert
Persona 5

- Mine for the Slammin'!
Benjamin Franklin
P5 the Gacha-Killer
Kamoshida as a Villain
Goro Akechi
Persona 5 Strikers Box Art
Suguru Kamoshida
The Subway Slammer
The Journey (P3)
October 4th (P3)
Persona 3
Velvet Room
Hiimdaisy Persona Comic
Junpei x Chidori
Mara
Evokers
Persona 4
Masayoshi Shido (Boss Fight)
Menus
Nyx
The Reaper
Mitsuru Kirijo
Sojiro Sakura
Persona 5 Strikers: A shockingly good game. By far the best spinoff I've played of the series. It feels like an actual sequel and not just a random cheapo spinoff, it's crazy how high the quality is compared to the other spinoffs. Does it have problems? Sure. All of the 'area' spells are useless, because the single target spells are also area in this game. All of the party members except Joker, Morgana, Sophie, and Zenikichi are just along for the ride and do nothing the entire time. The game spends its entire runtime bending over backwards to explain why the rules of the Metaverse allow for these local palaces. But it really does feel like another epic magical adventure in modern Japan with your friends again, with music and high production. The menus alone feel clean and sleek in a way that the other spinoffs didn't bother with, and if you can't tell quality from menu sleekage, how else can you tell it? Best of all, it does not at all overstay its runtime. Sure, it lacks the confidants that give the numbered titles so much of their personality, but it otherwise feels like a real game in the series.
Makoto Stalking Joker: Pretty easily Makoto's cutest moment. She has a lot of moments where she acts scared of the dark or relies on you and then pretends she wasn't, but this is her cutest moment by far.

- OMG! We Are SO Awesome!
Tarot Cards
Takuto Maruki
School Concert (P4G)
Shooting Yourself in the Head
Dating Every Girl
Thanatos: One of the coolest personas in P3. Why does it have a cape made out of Christian knight sarcophagi? Doesn't matter. Imagine if all personas were just the 'normal' versions of things, like 'normal' Thor or the 'normal' Grim Reaper.
Akinari Kamiki
P5 Tarot Art
Aria of the Soul
P3 Characters in P4AU
President Tanaka
Negotiation (P5)
Rise Posters (P5)
Hot Spring Scene (P3)
Persona Kart (Hypothetical)
Battle for Everyone's Souls
Joker (Smash)
King's Game
Kanji Tatsumi
Never More (Song)
Memories of You: Incredibly strong opening notes, perfect work there. I don't even really care what the singer is saying, I'm sure it's about memories or whatever, who cares. It's good at setting the mood... But would I listen to it independent of Persona? Probably not.
Adolf Hitler (P2)
Magician Arcana
Maya
Akihiko (P4AU)
P3 Persona Awakening Cutscene
Sadayo Kawakami
Yosuke Hanamura
FeMC (P3P)
Funky Student
Cosmic Tower Burger
P4G Bike Ending
Tae Takemi
The Fox (P4)
Shiki-Ouji
Akira Konoe

- I Am Thou, Thou Art I...
Mr. Urshimaru
Burn my Dread: When I first heard this song, I thought I must be hearing it wrong. I thought "Burn my dead" was much more logical. Alas! It is certainly "Burn my dread." This song is fine. I don't really like most of the song, but I do like the way the singer yells "Burn my dreadddddddddddddddddddddd." I don't know, what else do you want me to say?
Persona (Carl Jung)
Hawaii Scene (P5)
Reach Out to the Truth
Ambushing Enemies with Attacks in the Overworld
Pancakes
Adachi Cube
Munehisa Iwai
Sae Interrogation Framing Device
Nihil Hand
Dancing Spinoff Games
Futaba Romance
Labrys
Arsene Lupin
Persona Pokerap
Weaponized Golf Clubs: I like it. The logic of Persona isn't that you actually use proper weapons, it's that you use the idea of weapons (which is why your model guns work like real guns in the Metaverse).
Cheesing the Game with Overpowered Special Personas at Level 1
Morgana
Hifumi Togo
Shadow Labrys
Morgana saying Go to Sleep
Meat Dimension
Loki: Perfectly good, unremarkable persona for Akechi to have. Nothing interesting is done with it. At one point, everyone is like "how can Akechi have two personas at once," and then that's just never explained.
Operation Babe Hunt
Ending Fights with All-Out Attacks
Silent Protagonists
I'm gonna renovate your ass!
Green Persona 6
Yu Narukumi
Void Quest: I'm just going to say it... I'm sort of tired of fiction referencing the first/second generation of games, NES and earlier. It was fine when P4 did it in 2008, but whenever someone wants to establish in fiction that something is 'video gamey,' they always go back to Pac-Man aesthetics or whatever. That shit was out of date when I was a kid in the 90s. And I'm tired of references to 80s JRPGs. Dragon Quest sucks, there, I said it.
Junes Department Store
P4G Shuffle Time
Heritage Palladion Liberator
Nanako Dojima
Gentle Madman: I mean... It's fine? This is not one of the more memorable tracks in the series, sorry. Maruki is great and everything, but not because of his music. He's not really bombastic enough for a game like P5? Even when he goes into persona mode, he's just sort of got a nice gold mask over his face.
Deleted Yosuke Gay Romance
Cut P5R Harem Ending
Benjamin Franklin (Musician)
P5's Translation
The Fog (Song)
Battle for Everyone's Slams
Orbit: You'll Never See It Coming
Tatsumi Port Island
Toaster Aigis
Shadow Okumura (Boss Fight)
Lotus Juice (Rapper)

- Gasp! The Enemy!
Urban Fantasy (Genre)
Heartful Cry
Other RPGs Mimicking Persona's Calendar System
Koromaru
BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle
Hiimdaisy Persona 4 Comic Dub
Magic Spell Names
Fictional High Schoolers Dating Adults in Anime
Haru Okumura
Harems Compared to Canon Romances in JRPGs: I mean... Are you asking about having a harem in a fan work or as a joke, or harems that actually occur in the story? Because the only I can think of in a JRPG is the Xenoblade 3 one. That one was hilarious, I can't believe it's actually canon. The way he's there with his three wives, and they're each holding a baby that's the exact same age as the others, it looks like he's some kind of weird cult leader and these are the women he's brainwashed. It's incredible that that's in a Nintendo game.
Renaming S-Links to Confidants
Shitty Adults
Principal Kobayakawa
Playing Coy with the Year P5 is Set
Erebus
Forced Romance (P3): It's just funny, isn't it? Like, the idea that boys and girls can only interact by means of romance. Zero girls in P3 are like "wow dude you're cool," they all inevitably just start saying "wow dude you're sexy." Such an odd decision to not make this optional. P3R fixes it, at least.
Thieves' Den
People Saying Any Jazz Song Sounds Like Persona
Persona Q Weddings
Mr. Edogawa
Afterschool Clubs
Hatsune Miku
Mementos

- All You Do Is Eat Away At My Life
Navigators: I do not know why this role exists. Everyone treats the navigators like they're the key to the entire mission, and it's true that when Fuuka, Rise, and Futaba locate things using their powers, then sure, they're useful... But 98% of the time, they're just commenting on the battle, and it's like, yes, I already know that enemy is weak to fire. I don't need you to tell Ryuji not to miss in the future. I know I can activate an all-out attack. Stop talking so much! I don't know why this role even exists, who thought it was a good idea? I do appreciate in P5S, though, when everyone is captured by Futaba and a powerless Zenikichi, and he's like "why don't you rescue them" and she's like "my persona is the non-fighty kind." If they ever make another fighting game, it's now canon that Rise can fight, I assume Futaba would learn to fight as well because she's popular, and Fuuka... Fuuka can just fuck herself, I guess. Even in that game, Rise is still the commentator even when she's fighting herself. You know what, I'll say it: I hope P6's navigator is a boy. It's always a girl, I want one boy. Was Chidori also a navigator? I THINK she was, but I'm not sure.
Kyosuke from Danganronpa 3 resembling Yu
Marin Karin
Protagonist Death Game Overs
Ichiko Ohya
Fusion Accidents
Endless Rereleases Changing the Games
Kasumi and Sumire
Yosuke in the Camping Trip
Tartarus
Variable S-Link Point Dialogue Choices: I dislike this, because it means I'm always just looking up the correct answers to maximize my points, which eats up a lot of time. Maybe I shouldn't be doing that, but sue me. It also means that some of the funnier options should never be chosen ("Beep boop") because they aren't the most efficient options available.
Ken Romance
Nozomi Suemitsu
Remaking Persona 4
Burning Men's Soul
Fishing Minigame: I'll let you in on a little secret. No video game has ever had a good fishing minigame ever. They suck in all Zelda games, they suck in Persona. Maybe there's a good game devoted to fishing, I don't know. But it's not Persona.
Yosuke Goes Through a Breakup (Video)
Metis

- Please Beat The Shit Out Of Me
Fuuka's Original Voice Actress
Persona 6 Development Time
Uncontrollable Party Members
Persona 5 Tactica
The Answer (P3)

Mass Destruction

Anagram posted...

Because the only I can think of in a JRPG is the Xenoblade 3 one. That one was hilarious, I can't believe it's actually canon. The way he's there with his three wives, and they're each holding a baby that's the exact same age as the others, it looks like he's some kind of weird cult leader and these are the women he's brainwashed. It's incredible that that's in a Nintendo game.

to defend the honor of my beloved xenoblade 3 - while that picture is in xenoblade 3 the characters involved are the xenoblade 2 cast

Fusing Personas

I mean if the game's devoted to fishing, then fishing's no longer a minigame.

Persona evolution (e.g. Io -> Isis, Arsene -> Satanael -> Raoul)

Navigators are actually one of the keys as to why Persona is popular in the first place. If you imagine battles without them they feel a lot more boring/traditional than they are.

For the romance I meant like the style of game that lets you date everyone vs having a romance that's canon in the plot

Japan

Personas (summons)

MacArrowny posted...

Dungeons

Did you skip this one?

EMMA

(caps)

Thorn posted...

to defend the honor of my beloved xenoblade 3 - while that picture is in xenoblade 3 the characters involved are the xenoblade 2 cast

That just means XB3 canonized it!

Raka_Putra posted...

I mean if the game's devoted to fishing, then fishing's no longer a minigame.

Possibly, but I've never played a fishing game either.

_stingers_ posted...

For the romance I meant like the style of game that lets you date everyone vs having a romance that's canon in the plot

I'll redo this one.

colliding posted...

Navigators are actually one of the keys as to why Persona is popular in the first place. If you imagine battles without them they feel a lot more boring/traditional than they are.

Thinking on it actually makes me think you're right. I'm going to raise its position in the list.

MacArrowny posted...

Did you skip this one?

I did, and will add it next time.

The fact they never made Persona 5 Arena (everyone wanted it)

The character titles used in Persona 4 Arena

Persona 5 using Igor's new voice actor as a plot point.

Jack Frost

- The Means By Which All Is Revealed
Social Links
Japan: Here's every country I've spent a day or more in besides the USA: Canada, Mexico, Panama, Britain, France, Germany, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Israel, Japan. Of them, Japan is the best to visit. Like, it's got its problems (places not accepting credit cards, hard to get around without a translation app, it's hotter than the flames of Hell during summer), but it's super nice, super safe, exotic, cultured, advanced, and has good food. Every so often, I see people say "P6 should be set in the US or something," and it's like, NO. The actual mechanical concept of personas is only half of the appeal of the series. The other half is how overly Japanese everything is. The fact that all of this is filtered through the perspective of Japan is part of the appeal. For reference, a good comparison is Harry Potter. The whole wizard shtick is only half of the appeal, the other half is seeing the world through the perspective of a middle-class British woman who doesn't know anything about anything and doesn't know anywhere except two-thirds of London and one Scottish town, and nothing in the world actually matters except England. So when foreign characters show up and they're all named the most stereotypical thing possible for their ethnicity (Fleur Delacour, Cho Chang, Anthony Goldstein, Seamus Finnegan), it's because the author genuinely doesn't know anything. When a Bulgarian man shows up and Dumbledore introduces him as "our friend from the north" despite Bulgaria being hundreds of miles south of England, it's because the author genuinely doesn't know anything. Persona is the same thing to me. It's okay to have a foreign person show up now and again, maybe even a party member isn't out of the question, but I don't want it to be set anywhere but modern Japan. Absolute farthest out I'm willing to hear is Okinawa. Try anything else, and you'll get the same result as when Rowling tried to expand her worldbuilding by having the plot set in the 1920s where the characters go international, and suddenly the plot involves the Titanic, World War I, the Great Depression, and speakeasies, because that's all she knows about the world outside of her immediate area.Calling Cards
Elizabeth
Shoji Meguro
Personas (Summons): Such a cool idea. It combines mythology and catching Pokmon, what's not to like? The idea that you can call upon these figures of humanity's collective subconscious to use their powers on your behalf makes complete intuitive sense, too.
Rivers in the Desert
Persona 5

- Mine for the Slammin'!
Benjamin Franklin
P5 the Gacha-Killer
Kamoshida as a Villain
Goro Akechi
Persona 5 Strikers Box Art
Suguru Kamoshida
The Subway Slammer
The Journey (P3)
October 4th (P3)
Persona 3
Velvet Room
Hiimdaisy Persona Comic
Junpei x Chidori
Mara
Evokers
Persona 4
Tarot Cards
Masayoshi Shido (Boss Fight)
Menus
Nyx
The Reaper
Mitsuru Kirijo
Sojiro Sakura
Persona 5 Strikers
Makoto Stalking Joker

- OMG! We Are SO Awesome!
Character Titles (P4AU): Some of these are much better than others. "The Sister Complex Kingpin of Steel," dude, Nanko is 5. But these give a lot of personality to the characters and help set the 'not particularly serious' tone that the game goes for. Who's even assigning these titles? Doesn't matter.
Takuto Maruki
School Concert (P4G)
Shooting Yourself in the Head
Mass Destruction: In my view, the first three seconds of this song are the definitive Persona song, moreso than even Rivers in the Desert. BABY BABY BABY. But then the guy starts rapping, and the song goes downhill fast. It gets better at 0:52 when the woman takes over again, but like, who cares, I just spent all of this time with the rapper guy. You compare this to like FF8 normal battle music and it is just night and fucking day.
Dating Every Girl
Thanatos
Akinari Kamiki
P5 Tarot Art
Aria of the Soul
P3 Characters in P4AU
President Tanaka
Negotiation (P5)
Rise Posters (P5)
Hot Spring Scene (P3)
EMMA: The millisecond this thing showed up, I knew it was going to turn into a cell phone god and try to take over the world. There wasn't a doubt in my mind. Even though it's basically the exact same thing as Yaldabaoth, who I make fun of constantly, I like EMMA quite a bit more, both because its final boss design is funnier (I like the image of being a multiarmed Buddha who holds a gigantic cell phone above its head), and because it's something humanity actually created. The other final bosses are either gods or created from humanity's mind or whatever, but EMMA is just a cell phone with an Alexa app that people use too much. It actually plays into Persona's themes better than most Izanami and Yaldabaoth, so it wins some points for that. But like, I wouldn't really say that any of the games have AMAZING final bosses. Real missed opportunity to have her helpfully comment during the final battle as a rival navigator, giving you actually useful tips and advice on how to fight her, frustrating and confusing Futaba.
Persona Kart (Hypothetical)
Battle for Everyone's Souls
Joker (Smash)
King's Game
Persona Fusion: Again, conceptually this is fun, it lets you repurpose old and shitty personas to create something new and useful, and you can spend quite a long time just creating new silly personas out of what you accidentally pick up in a dungeon just for fun. But again, it is just impossible to guess what will fuse into what. Other than a vague guess at their levels, you will never know that Nekomata + Archangel = Eligor, or whatever, because none of it makes any sense. If there is any pattern besides being completely random aside from level, then I have not been able to divine it in all my years of playing Persona. Whenever I need anything specific, I've always just had to look up a fusion calculator online, which aren't even always 100% accurate. So yeah, it's fun, and it's fun to collect all 151 pokemon, this gives Persona that same "collect 'em all" appeal as Pokmon, but I have no concept of what specifically produces what, and I never will.
Kanji Tatsumi
Never More (Song)
Memories of You
Adolf Hitler (P2)
Magician Arcana
Maya
Akihiko (P4AU)
Optional Romance Choices vs Canon Romance: On the one hand, optional romance choices give the player control over what waifu he wants. On the other hand, having a canon choice lets the writer actually flesh things out more. Given that Persona is at least partly a waifu simulator, I can't fault the writers for going for the former. You compare this to Final Fantasy, where 7 and 10 pretend you have a choice, but then it becomes clear that Yuna/Tifa is the real girl. Too bad for Quistis, too, because she is superior to Rinoa in pretty every respect. Obviously, Persona is never going to give up the optional romance choice angle, and that's fine.
P3 Persona Awakening Cutscene
Sadayo Kawakami
Yosuke Hanamura
FeMC (P3P)
Funky Student
Cosmic Tower Burger
P4G Bike Ending
Tae Takemi
The Fox (P4)
Shiki-Ouji
P5 Using Igor's New VA as a Plot Point: This was clever for longtime fans, although people who were brand new to Persona, like myself, could have never put two and two together. I actually like fake!Igor's voice more than the real deal's. Call me insane, but the deep and booming voice just sounds better to me.
Akira Konoe

- I Am Thou, Thou Art I...
Mr. Urshimaru
Burn my Dread
Persona (Carl Jung)
Hawaii Scene (P5)
Reach Out to the Truth
Ambushing Enemies with Attacks in the Overworld
Pancakes
Dungeons (P4): Again, I've said this before, but P4 is in almost every way the one between P3 and P5. And obviously that is literally true, but it's like... Almost every element is done better than P3, and worse than P5. P4's only actual strengths over the other games are the best cast cohesion and probably the best setting. Maybe it has something else, I don't know, but it would probably be very minor. So, it's no surprise when I say that its dungeons are better than P3's, but worse than P5's. Honestly, they're not even THAT much better than Mementos. What P4 brings to the table is the idea of dungeons personalized to specific characters, which is a huge step forward over P3, and having the shadow of the dungeon owner show up and taunt you/themself, which is a huge step forward over P3. But like... That's it. It's still doing the annoying randomized dungeon setup, it still lacks in puzzles... I would say the only thing P4 has over P5 in this regard is when each shadow shows up for the first time, a TV-style title card appears without any explanation. I fucking LOVE silly shit like that, but it's only really hysterical the first time when it's unexpected. Like, P4 doesn't even 100% stick to the TV theming with its dungeons. Every dungeon should have been themed around some kind of genre of TV show or something, but then there's just a 1980s RPG dungeon laying around.
Adachi Cube
Munehisa Iwai
Sae Interrogation Framing Device
Nihil Hand
Dancing Spinoff Games
Futaba Romance
Labrys
Arsene Lupin
Persona Pokerap
Weaponized Golf Clubs
Cheesing the Game with Overpowered Special Personas at Level 1
Morgana
Hifumi Togo
Shadow Labrys
Morgana saying Go to Sleep
Meat Dimension
Loki
Jack Frost: As far as mascots go, he's fine. I don't really love him, and he has zero presence in the actual games, he's just another random persona out of a thousand random personas. I actually like Black Frost more, he's a little more striking.
Operation Babe Hunt
Navigators
Ending Fights with All-Out Attacks
Silent Protagonists
I'm gonna renovate your ass!
Green Persona 6
Yu Narukumi
Void Quest
Persona Evolution: Conceptually, I'm fine with this. The problem is that there is just zero pattern in what the personas actually evolve into. Why does Cinderella turn into Freya? Because they're both wives? Dunno how to tell you this, Persona, but most women are wives. I guess it's a cool way to show your party members progressing in power, but again, there's never any logic in which personas are stronger than others. Why is Penthesilea, an Amazon queen, weaker than Artemisia, the advisor of Xerxes? I dunno, don't ask.
Junes Department Store
P4G Shuffle Time
Heritage Palladion Liberator
Nanako Dojima
Gentle Madman
Deleted Yosuke Gay Romance
Cut P5R Harem Ending
Benjamin Franklin (Musician)
P5's Translation
The Fog (Song)
Battle for Everyone's Slams
Orbit: You'll Never See It Coming

- Gasp! The Enemy!
Tatsumi Port Island
Toaster Aigis
Shadow Okumura (Boss Fight)
Lotus Juice (Rapper)
Urban Fantasy (Genre)
Heartful Cry
Other RPGs Mimicking Persona's Calendar System
Koromaru
BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle
Hiimdaisy Persona 4 Comic Dub
Magic Spell Names
Fictional High Schoolers Dating Adults in Anime
Haru Okumura
Harems Compared to Canon Romances in JRPGs
Renaming S-Links to Confidants
Shitty Adults
Principal Kobayakawa
Playing Coy with the Year P5 is Set
Erebus
Forced Romance (P3)
Thieves' Den
Failure to Make Persona 5 Arena: Although I'm sure it would have been successful, I can imagine the reason for this is that P5T cost nothing to make, and P5S was basically a new real game. Like, would P5A be sprite-based? In 2020 or so? Unlikely. But if it was, would you just be reusing the sprites for the old characters from 2012? You can't really do that, either, because they're dated to 2012, everyone would be older. And then like, what, are you going to canonize what happened to everyone from P3 when they got into their mid-thirties? Alternatively, if you use time travel to make everyone be high schoolers again, then you still have to remake all of the P3 sprites anyway. How expensive is it to make sprites this complex? Probably pretty. And that's assuming you use sprites! Maybe in the late 2010s, they thought fighting games had to use 3D models, even Street Fighter was doing so by that point. You're talking about a very expensive venture either way that would require dealing with aging implications for the older characters that they surely did not want to deal with. It's no accident that P4AU is the only one that ages up the characters, and even then, only to their early 20s, every other one is just high school again. And for what? Ultimately, for what? Persona has a following, but a fighting game starring its characters is not going to make a splash in the competitive scene the way Street Fighter, Smash, Tekken, or even Soul Calibur and Mortal Kombat would. I can imagine why they thought it was safer to just keep cranking out P5 spinoffs the way they did.
People Saying Any Jazz Song Sounds Like Persona
Persona Q Weddings
Mr. Edogawa
Afterschool Clubs
Hatsune Miku
Mementos

- All You Do Is Eat Away At My Life
Kyosuke from Danganronpa 3 resembling Yu
Marin Karin
Protagonist Death Game Overs
Ichiko Ohya
Fusion Accidents
Endless Rereleases Changing the Games
Kasumi and Sumire
Yosuke in the Camping Trip
Tartarus
Variable S-Link Point Dialogue Choices
Ken Romance
Nozomi Suemitsu
Remaking Persona 4
Burning Men's Soul
Fishing Minigame
Yosuke Goes Through a Breakup (Video)
Metis

- Please Beat The Shit Out Of Me
Fuuka's Original Voice Actress
Persona 6 Development Time
Uncontrollable Party Members
Persona 5 Tactica
The Answer (P3)

P4G being Vita exclusive for close to a decade

Persona Q

Vanilla P3 MC being able to equip any weapon type

Mementos (Smash stage)

I am thou, thou art I

How the enemies in battles changed over time.

Example: In Persona 3 and 4, the normal enemies were there own thing, however, in Persona 5, the enemies fought are now the Personas themselves.

Lovers Arcana

Nominative vs Accusative cases

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsdiiZjU8Ow

- The Means By Which All Is Revealed
Social Links
Calling Cards
Japan
Elizabeth
Shoji Meguro
Personas (Summons)
Rivers in the Desert
Persona 5

- Mine for the Slammin'!
Benjamin Franklin
P5 the Gacha-Killer
Kamoshida as a Villain
Goro Akechi
Persona 5 Strikers Box Art
Suguru Kamoshida
The Subway Slammer
The Journey (P3)
October 4th (P3)
Persona 3
Velvet Room
Hiimdaisy Persona Comic
Junpei x Chidori
Mara
Evokers
Persona 4
Tarot Cards
Masayoshi Shido (Boss Fight)
Menus
Nyx
The Reaper
Mitsuru Kirijo
Sojiro Sakura
Persona 5 Strikers
Makoto Stalking Joker
P3/4 having dedicated Enemies, P5 having Personas as Enemies: I think this was a good decision overall by P5. It sort of limits the total number of enemy types you can encounter, but who cares? It's sort of fun and exciting to see a strong enemy and know that you can get that for yourself, again, Pokemon-style.

- OMG! We Are SO Awesome!
Character Titles (P4AU)
Takuto Maruki
School Concert (P4G)
Shooting Yourself in the Head
Mass Destruction
Dating Every Girl
Thanatos
Zenikichi Awakens His Persona: Well, it finally happened. We had Dog with persona. We had Kid with persona. We had Robot with persona. We had Velvet Room Attendant with persona. We had Shadow with persona. We had Whatever Morgana Is with persona. We had Computer Program with persona. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that all that was left was Plant with persona, Alien with persona, Ghost with persona, Gaijin with persona, and Adult with persona. It took until 2021, but finally, FINALLY, we got Adult with persona. Well, I guess we already had Maruki and the P3 cast in P4AU, but they don't count. It's interesting, too. I get why persona awakening happens to teenagers; it's all about accepting who and what you are and gaining power from that. Obviously, that has a lot of thematic play with kids doing it, since they're in a constant process of growing up and learning what they are, whereas a man in his 40s is supposed to already have accepted all of that. But on the other hand, it was fun for Zenikichi to do it, especially after you see his daughter, who's only a little younger than you, and just LOOKS like she'd be a Persona-user, and then NOPE, it's the grown-ass man, and she's completely useless. Too bad about his costume, though. He's an adult cop, his idea of a rebel should be, like, something completely different from wacky cultural concepts that kids half his age have. But that's fine. I like how Zenikichi's persona basically tells him that he has to stop ignoring injustices, and then Ryuji is surprised. "For real?!" Ryuji, you were the first person here to gain a persona after Morgana and Joker, you have seen this process like six times now, the only unique aspect is that the person getting their persona is an adult. I also appreciate how Zenikichi is actually in his 40s, you compare this to FF7 and FF10, where the old man characters are in their early and mid 30s. Good choice of a persona, too, Jean Valjean makes complete sense for him. Barely counts as a rebel, but I'll allow it.
Akinari Kamiki
P5 Tarot Art
Aria of the Soul
P3 Characters in P4AU
President Tanaka
Negotiation (P5)
Rise Posters (P5)
Hot Spring Scene (P3)
EMMA
Persona Kart (Hypothetical)
Battle for Everyone's Souls
Mementos (Smash): I stopped playing Smash before this stage came out, but it does look good. Captures P5's sleek aesthetic well, looks absolutely nothing like Mementos, but maybe that's for the best. I appreciate that it just straight-up uses a P5 song unaltered. The stage barely has any gimmicks, just a moving train at the bottom of the stage occasionally, which is surely to its benefit. I also like that the other Phantom Thieves sometimes show up in the background and cheer you on. But like, do you prefer guest stages to have a lot of fancy, complicated gimmicks and be interesting, or boring and functional and fair?
Joker (Smash)
King's Game
I am Thou, Thou art I: What a great line. I don't have much else to say about it beyond that, but it is a great line. By the way, I am aware of the irony of putting this above the tier named after it, sue me.
Persona Fusion
Kanji Tatsumi
Never More (Song)
Memories of You
Adolf Hitler (P2)
Lovers Arcana: Let's see, Yukari, Rise, and Ann... Is the only arcana where it's always a party member? Briefly looking it up, Magician is a quasi-case because Junpei has it in P3P, but not any other version. Priestess! Okay, that's also always a party member. And on a super technicality, World/Universe for the protagonists at the ends of their games. Anyway, look. Yukari is fine as this kind of irrational girl, but at least she is involved in the plot in some capacity, even if she'd be cuttable without too much hassle. Rise REALLY pushes herself as the canon girl, but that's okay. Ann is great, but she's nowhere near my P5 waifu. Overall, this is a pretty solid field of waifus. I imagine there will never be a male Lovers, even though the logic of Lovers should be half male, right? It's not like this is Empress or anything.
Magician Arcana
Maya
Akihiko (P4AU)
Optional Romance Choices vs Canon Romance
P3 Persona Awakening Cutscene
Sadayo Kawakami
Yosuke Hanamura
FeMC (P3P)
Funky Student
Cosmic Tower Burger
P4G Bike Ending
Tae Takemi
The Fox (P4)
Shiki-Ouji
P5 Using Igor's New VA as a Plot Point
Akira Konoe

- I Am Thou, Thou Art I...
Mr. Urshimaru
Burn my Dread
Persona (Carl Jung)
Hawaii Scene (P5)
Reach Out to the Truth
Ambushing Enemies with Attacks in the Overworld
Pancakes
Dungeons (P4)
Adachi Cube
Munehisa Iwai
Sae Interrogation Framing Device
Nihil Hand
Dancing Spinoff Games
Futaba Romance
Labrys
Arsene Lupin
Persona Pokerap
Weaponized Golf Clubs
Cheesing the Game with Overpowered Special Personas at Level 1
Morgana
Hifumi Togo
Shadow Labrys
Morgana saying Go to Sleep
Meat Dimension
Loki
Jack Frost
Operation Babe Hunt
Navigators
Ending Fights with All-Out Attacks
Silent Protagonists
I'm gonna renovate your ass!
Green Persona 6
Yu Narukumi
Void Quest
Persona Evolution
Nominative vs Accusative Cases: Is this some kind of subtle jab at "I am thou, you art I?" That's all I can think of. If so, that's a clever bit of japery. But literally no kid likes memorizing this kind of stuff.
Junes Department Store
P4G Shuffle Time
Heritage Palladion Liberator
Nanako Dojima
Gentle Madman
Deleted Yosuke Gay Romance
Cut P5R Harem Ending
Benjamin Franklin (Musician)
Vanilla P3 Protagonist's Ability to Equip All Weapons: I know a ton of people love this about P3, but I didn't really care about it at all. Sure, it means that you have more sources of a specific damage type, but like, who cares? How often does that actually come up? I'm fine with him having a dedicated sword type the way Yu and Joker do.
P5's Translation
The Fog (Song)
Battle for Everyone's Slams
Orbit: You'll Never See It Coming
Tatsumi Port Island