Yeah, if your objection is to the high-school thing, SMT shouldn't really give you much problems.

I enjoyed Nocturne the most. Mostly because I hate first person perspective for RPG combat. However, I felt it had an encounter rate that was a bit too high. It wasn't hard, just annoying. But I liked the negotiations and a lot of the world setup in Nocturne.

The games themselves are stellar. The characters are fantastic, and the writing is excellent. But I have some serious objections to a lot of the central tenants of the mythos and the philosophies. Not to mention that, while it represents a lot of its figures from other cultures well, it absolutely butchers those it draws from Christian lore. Philosophy and morality play a pretty significant role in the series, and I kind of drags the entire thing down for me with how much I dislike those aspects of the games.


Overall, I think Persona is a much better series.