The one I know would get me flak on Tumbr is “actually, outside of the music, I really don’t care for the Persona games”
Never really been one for turn-based rock-paper-scissors combat (hey guess who Bounced Off Of Pokemon Too) and I find the premise of “this is otherwise a social sim as a teenager” really… uninteresting and usually pretty poorly written. To say nothing of the Really Uncomfortable Views On Homosexuality in more than a few entries, it just… is not a series I’ve ever clicked on. I find myself scavenging for parts of the aesthetic and presentation I enjoy but I find the rest can mostly be discarded, and its outsized reputation as a game series I feel comes down more to that presentation and the audience’s lack of engagement with “difficult” media leaving them open to treating any uncomfortable interpersonal twist in the narrative as “profound storytelling” in games that rarely actually have anything of substance to say at all.
