Best persona game?

[Ruby.exe]

So I am genuinely curious what all of you think the best persona game is, I personally have played about 10-15 hours of both 4 and 5 and yet maybe it's recency bias but even with only a few hours into 3 I have been enjoying it more than my time in 4/5

[BeefoTheBold]

P3-P5 all have their charms.

It kind of depends on what flavor that you like because they have vastly different tones.

P3 is kinda super dark. Not a lot of uplifting stuff to be found here.

P4 leans in heavy on the jokes, despite being a big murder mystery thingie.

P5 starts really dark, IMO the darkest in the entire series with how big of an a-hole the first baddie is, but gets very uplifting as you go along.

I was originally kind of a P4G > all guy, but after a second play-through of P5, I do think it is the best one yet

[fuggles2k]

P4g, p5 is just a retread.

[brisket]

Originally posted by RubyWolf:

So I am genuinely curious what all of you think the best persona game is, I personally have played about 10-15 hours of both 4 and 5 and yet maybe it's recency bias but even with only a few hours into 3 I have been enjoying it more than my time in 4/5

P3P bc femc.

not even joking.

[Evangelion]

Originally posted by Awt:

P3 best in story
P4 best in characters
P5 best in gameplay

"I'm nothing like yall😎😭😭"

[StarlessAeon]

I like Persona 4 the best. Started with 3, liked 4 the best, still have never really gotten into 5.

[Underdrill]

4 and 5 are probably on the same level for me. Both truly incredible for their respective generations and fully earn their lengthy runtimes.

3 is a bit below the other two due to its much slower start in terms of intrigue and some very average social links, but it definitely reaches the quality of 4 and 5 later on as the social links and story improves.

As for Persona 1 and 2, I'll play them when they get easy to access modernized ports. Though it's pretty disappointing that the only mentions of 2 in this thread are from people immaturely looking down on others for not thinking it's the best. Surely they would recognize having a pretentious opinion like that isn't going to encourage people to seek out those games, but eh, evidently not.