I never played a Persona game before... is this a good start?

[The Cooper's Corner]

What do you guys think?

[joom]

i'd say so. this game'll have tons of QOL changes that'll benefit your experience. just know that in P4G (if you decide to get that after playing p3re), eiha/kouha won't be available, just hama and mudo

[Toasty]

Hard to say because this remake isn't out yet. Persona 3 was a good game held back by the frustrating mechanics and grinding which were common at the time.

If you're even considering playing this for the first time, then please, leave the forums and don't come back until you have, lest you get spoiled.

[Sixtyfivekills]

Start with Revelations: Persona, then jump to Persona 5 Tactics and then giga chad game Soul Hacker 2.


each mainline Persona is its own story, you're missing out only on a reference at best, its a safe starter.

[KuraiRex]

Originally posted by The Cooper's Corner:

What do you guys think?

If you like dark themes and JRPGs/turn pace games then yes this would be a good start. Persona 3 does have a really good story if you pay attention to it and great characters in it that match the theme of the game. This new version has been updated to help people that play P5 into playing P3R by putting mechanics that were not there originally.

[B U $ Y]

I started with persona 3 portable, finished 5 royal then finished 4 golden. With the remake & the changes I think it's the best to start with the persona series. Seems a lot more friendly in terms of game mechanics

[Super Tramp]

Persona, at least from 3-5, are stand alone games kinda like most Final Fantasy games. As far as I can remember 3 doesn't have any characters from 1/2 besides like Igor? So jumping on here would be a good a starting point as any.

4 and 5 have small cameos that mean nothing to the main story though. So Jump in where you want, honestly.

[Faiyez]

No you need to start with P3 Dancing Moonlight.

[King Kilo]

best place to start is shin megami tensei if. you can find english patched snes roms for it online easily.

[Niras]

Any persona game is a good start starting from Persona 3.
Persona games (from 3) in general are easier to get into than other turn based jRPG Imo.
Social sim elements prevent combat from going boring. Combat itself it's quite fast too.

OG Persona 3 might be a little rough(+ FES and unmodded PSP version) due to lacking very helpful features like manual skill inheritance and having some unique mechanics such as fatigue or reverse social links ( Ik there is/are some in P4 but in P3 they're more of a feature).
Older entries lack certrain mechanics (liked?) introduced in newer entries like Baton pass.

If you are into or can handle more oldschool jRPGs then older personas are quite good (P2 especially).
P2 and P1 are quite old and are closer to SMT games in terms of difficulty.

[Ray_MR]

I would say so, though its more expensive than the others. P3 is my personal favorite :D

[Stoibs]

Originally posted by Faiyez:

No you need to start with P3 Dancing Moonlight.

Sarcasm aside I actually bought that triple pack a few years ago when I only started getting into the Persona fandom (Started with 5, worked my way backwards..)

I actually refused to play the Dancing games of P3 and 4 from that pack until I had played the respective mainline games for fear of any spoilers, no matter how slight

[Benjo]

If you’re ever going to try this out, I highly recommend P4G and P5R

[Cosgar]

P4 is more iconic tbh