Still haven't played the Survivor games. I might someday but ehhhh. I wanted to play the Raidou games but my PS3 died so oh well.

Also there are apocalypses at the end of the Persona games. P3 is pretty explicit with Nyx coming to end all life on Earth and I got the feeling the Fog in P4 was going to spread to the rest of the Earth. I can't remember for certain but I feel like that's stated somewhere.

But I see your overall point. The world is in a state of change and flux in SMT and you decide where the coin will land. That isn't really the case for Persona. You're mostly just making things right after someone screwed them up for a bit.

Interesting point about IVA, though. I really wish I could play those games but...bleh. Maybe Atlus will join Square and Namco and every other JRPG company and finally start porting trout to Steam.

Or maybe I'll just have to wait for SMT Switch and hope it's a big, important title.