Persona 4 vanilla was my very first introduction to SMT/Persona. I was in love immediately the moment the opening video played. I spent 100+ hours just falling into the story, world and characters and loved every single second of it. Then 2012 rolls around and Persona 4 Golden is released. I genuinely didn't think it'd be possible to improve upon Persona 4 and not only make me want to jump right back into the world and same story I've experienced already but actually make it MORE engaging. MORE fun. Persona 4 Golden was my first exposure to the Atlus classic of an upgraded version of an already existing Persona game, and for my money they've never done it better.