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Faelco on 03 April 2017
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Trunkin said:
JRPGfan said:

1. Story is fantastic. Theres depth to it often, highlighting issues within society.

2. Characters are well developed, good Dialogue & humor.

3.  Balanceing act, of developeing your social links /  status attributes / combat items (weapons,armor,accessories).

4. Soundtracks, usually these games last forever (100+hours) so you ll be listening to these songs alot, it sticks with you afterwards.

5. Good unlockables, farming is fun/rewarding, melding persona's can be fun too (theres days where you get extra traits/bonus's).

6. Love intrests, you can try and win over the girl you like most.

7. Gives a "fun" look into how things are in japan.

 

Theres a certain "feel" to the game, its own identity. The art style is great.

That's quite a list.  It's kind of weird to see a series that (to me)  looks somewhat unspectacular s consistently score so highly among players and reviewers. Just judging by how loved the games are,  they must absolutely excell at all those things. Happy to hear it has a good soundtrack too. The music can sometimes make all the difference,  especially in an RPG.

 I've been meaning to try the series for a while,  but I've never really had the chance. Are the games stories connected?  Can I just jump right into p5, or would i need to play p4 first? 

You can play any main game you want, they're not really connected. Same structure and officially in the same storyline (I think), a couple of support characters are the same in every game, and you could get a cameo from a past game (there is a small P3 cameo in P4, I don't know for P5). That's it, so you can jump right into P5 without knowing anything about P4.

It's not true for some spin-off games though (Persona Q and the fighting games Arena and Ultimax), because those games are P3/P4 crossovers.