While your latest entry is excellent, I feel that you did the game injustice by not at least bringing up its remakes.

Persona 3 FES brought us the Answer, which fleshed out a number of things about the stories and characters, as well as gave some chilling revelations about the plot and world.

And Persona 3 Portable brought us the Female Protagonist and her revamped Social Links, which took many of the poorer links and replaced them, most of them now being new links with members of SEES.



As for the story, I can see your point, but I don't quite agree with it. It is definitely not a standard presentation or plot development, that much is true. There are few twists, and only a few story events and cutscenes. But the story of Persona 3 is the story of a world, and it tells it beautifully. It's not the story of a handful of people, or of the Shadows, its a story of the world's balance between hope and despair, and how that plays out, and its this story that makes the game so powerful.

The atmosphere is the story. Watching the Lost increase in numbers, watching the town shift as people's perceptions of the events change and warp, watching the events and Social Links as your team adjusts to the horrible nature of the battle they're facing, listening to the music at school or around town shift as the months go by and the entire collective attitude of the town changes.

The story isn't a straightforward or literal one. It isn't about your battles against Strega or even your fight against the Shadows. It's a much deep, more fundamental one, a battle between two sides of the human soul, and it is exquisite.