Hm...
Yeah. You're right. Persona is what I'm thinking of.
It is everything that Final Fantasy is not, and all it's going to take is for Persona to have its "Final Fantasy VII" moment.
Unfortunately, I think the nature of the game's premise is inherently inaccessible to people raised in the
political bitunbelievably passive aggressive in its repression of minorities United States.
So until things around here change a bit, it may not happen. Perhaps my teenage son will one day come to me and ask if I've ever played Persona. :/