Played with the PSX ost patch, worth it.

I get that some people will just always be turned off by how old school it is, but man this is just a perfect distillation of everything that makes Persona special. Every game has it's strong suits and and weaker parts that others do better, but P1 (at least to me) is the most well rounded in the series. It's not the best gameplay-, music- and story-wise, it's themes aren't as interesting as P3 imo. I wouldn't say it does anything better than other games in the series, but it does everything really well.

It really does feel like the first one in the series. And I mean that in a good way.