Best Persona

Because it's good.
EP > IS > Persona > 4 > 3 > shit > 5

5>1>3>IS>4>ES

I'm trying to play P3 after coming from P4 and P5.

It sucks so far

>Not playing them in order

There's your problem.

>Characters:
4 > 3 > 5
>Setting:
5 > 4 > 3
>Music:
4 > 5 > 3
>Game play:
3 > 5 > 4
Story:
4 > 3 > 5

Overall
3 > 5 > 4

There is nothing to settle. 5 is factually the best. 5R to be exact.
Anyone else is just a contrarian. The persona series is not like other series where the games are just lateral iterations of the franchise. Persona games are all vertically positioned. P4 is objectively better than P3, because the devs expand on EVERY mechanic present in P3 and introduce more. P5 is better than P4 because the devs do the same. There's no experimentation or removal, there's only improvement.

Consequently, because of this, it's almost impossible to go back to the old games.

nothing about it sucks though. its just a slower paced game and doesn't have the QoL improvements. the characters in 4 and 5 are shallow by comparison

Accurate. I think P5 has better music though.

There's so much wrong about this that I honestly don't know where to start, so instead I'm going to take my anger out on this user and call him a nigger.

Shut up, nigger.

IS and EP have the best writing by far, but gameplay-wise I'd give it to 5.
I'm still voting for 2 though, fuck 5.

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Are we ever going to get a rerelease of 1 and 2?

It's the one I started with. It will always have a very special place in my heart, despite the fact that every single other game does at least ONE thing better than Persona 1 (P2 has a much better story, P3 has significantly better characters, P4 has... I dunno the best side characters I guess, P5 has arguably better gameplay).

For me, it's SMT if

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Great story and haunting atmosphere

>3 not having the best characters, music and story

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>not SMT then

Yeah, 5 got the worst characters and story.
Haru and Morgana parts are awful.

You know it's true.
Since P3, the franchise has been an actual experiment for Atlus. It's an ever-expanding experiment.

4 has a good story but the base game was an absolute repetitive slog to get through. 5 has great style and improved upon the game play from 4, but failed to reach greatness due to a lackluster story. 3 is by far the best Persona game despite it's flaws, I like the soundtrack of 3, but it doesn't have as many great songs as 5 or 4.

>best gameplay
>still can't change party members' Persona

I think the lack if party control and party member social links (aside from the females) is really lame. I'm playing FES and I know a lot of this is fixed in P3P, but I dont have a good way of emulating that and I dont wanna feel like I'm downgrading. Also, I think the story is directionless for the first few months of the game and the midbosses in Tartarus suck ass.

Mechanically, maybe. But these are story/character driven JRPGs, so your claim that each new title is an objective improvement is still wrong.

This. I loved every second of P3.

I've picked up and dropped P4 countless times now because it's just so damn boring in comparison.

P5 was an improvement over 4 in terms of gameplay and story pacing. I ended up caring for P5's characters more too, especially after Royal.

>I know a lot of this is fixed in P3P, but I dont have a good way of emulating that
user, literal phones can run PPSSPP. P3P is easier to get going than FES.

>P5 getting dabbed on
based

3 straight up has forgettable characters. Ken and Shinjiro suck. That said I really like the idea of having a rival persona group, they were all great characters.
I straight up do not remember most of the story of 5. Both 3 and 4 have mysteries that motivate you through the story (midnight channel and tartarus), 5 has nothing. It's basically a set of events that happen after one another.

3's soundtrack blows 4 and 5 out of the water with Nyx and Kimi no Kioku alone