Between Persona 3, 4 and 5, Persona 3 has always been the most consistent thematically. It may be too on-the-nose, but I prefer that over vagueness or abstraction. It is that consistency that propels the ending with so much power; an ending that has remained with me since playing Persona 3 Portable a decade ago.

Reload is not a perfect game. Despite numerous improvements, there's still plenty of issues that I'm not gonna get into here. I was able to look past all of these mostly because I connected with the themes more this time around by virtue of being older. And again, that ending.