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I have heard about Nya being the villains of the later Persona games but I don't think that's the case if only because of real world reasons. The early Persona stuff is old and most fans don't know and don't care about it. To really involve the characters of the older games in the new ones would alienate a lot of people, especially fans in the West who, from what I know, are actually the majority of the people buying Persona games.
Well the director of P3-5 has come out and said that Philemon exists in those games as well. The Butterfly seen in all of the games are representations of him, so it stands to reason that Nyalarthotep would still exist as well. Considering most of the super natural enemies have the same origin as him, the theory stands to reason.

Also Nyx was an alien who predates mankind.
Alien is the wrong word here, maybe primordial concept of death would be better. Course this is the second attempt by her to end the world in the Persona series.

Also I played the first 20 minutes or so of Eternal Punishment just to see what was up.

So everything seems nice and familiar so far. Except..Professor Saeko is now Ms. Smith? Eh?
Blame this on the embarrassingly bad localization for Persona 1. Atlus tried to backtrack on it for P2 and retained all of the original names except for returning characters from P1 who still retain part of their bad English names given in that title. Nanjo is Nate, Eriko is Ellen, and Kandori still has that embarrassing Italian surname. Yukino survived because even in the original, they kept her as the token Asian for the game and let her keep her name surprisingly enough. The rest of the game largely holds true to the original though, so don't worry too much about things being lost in translation.

Also Maya has been promoted to main character which apparently entails having most of her dialogue removed. This will be kind of interesting and different seeing as I had a whole game of a very fleshed out character. I feel like I should try and replicate that. Then again, that is a Maya-Who-Never-Was now.... Hm.
Yeah, and Tatsuya actually talks. Most fans feel it was better for both of them in Innocent Sin when Tatsuya didn't talk and Maya could.

Also on the topic of Yukino being happier, I think most people are better off in this new world 'cuz less death and destruction, at least at present.
It's nicer is some ways, darker in others. Fujii and Jun's father are both still alive in this reality but it won;t take long before you see what I mean about this entry being a bit darker.

As for the decision with her, the scene is very sad. Yukino is heartbroken, the music is depressing and even Tatsuya's face when you make the decision shows how weary and sad he is himself. I just couldn't look at that fact and take everything else happening into account and tell her "SUCK IT UP!" That's how I read that line.
Fair enough, for me it was easy to tell her to move on but that's largely because mourning never made sense to me and I would like to think the dead would want us to stay more positive and not let their deaths drag the living down. Besides ANNA was running loose and Yukino was the only one who can get through to her.

The Persona games have a lot of moral judgments and they will happily choke you on all of them. SMT isn't too different from what I know. At least Nocturne was pretty even-handed and didn't really try to push anything on you. While TDE was preferred, it's also easily ignored.
Part of me likes to think that the "Cruel to be Kind" attitude in P2, besides simply being a different attitude from a different time frame, might be the team swinging the other way around after P1 made it obvious that doing the more emotional answer despite logic saying it's the wrong choice, is always the right choice in that game in order to get the Best Ending. Seriously, the best advise I can give people for P1 and the SEBEC arc is to always do the opposite of what Nanjo/Nate tells you to do. That will answer 90% of the moral choices needed to get on the Best Ending track.