The award winning, critically acclaimed JRPG that pushed the Persona series into the mainstream is sadly just not as good as the other ones I've played, not to say it's bad it's just overrated as hell to me. The games cast is much more forgettable compared to P3 and P4 and the story just isn't as good as theirs and is honestly boring for a good portion of the runtime and LOTS of unnecessary dialogue that explains things that literally just happened which is extremely annoying but when this game shines it's SO good, easily the best gameplay in the series (Reload most likely takes this in just a few weeks, but it's not out at the time of writing this :P), Akechi, Kasumi, Maruki, Ryuji and Makoto are all phenomenal characters and the final arc/dungeon of the game is the series peak to me And I'm not sure if it can be topped, very good game and it will always hold a special place in my heart for being my first persona/SMT game but it's just not as good as the others in comparison.