This game is, without a doubt, THE best turn-based RPG in gaming history, dare I say, one of the best video games of all time. I cannot fathom enough how perfect this game is to me personally, and how much it changed my outlook on life for the better in terms of myself. With the re-release on all modern platforms, more and more people can finally have accessibility to experience this astonishing masterpiece of fiction. My first time playing this game was back on the PlayStation 4 version, and picking it up back then at the foot-end of 2020 was an amazing choice that I do not regret.

I was immediately drawn in by the vibrant palette style of the game, how connected I became with the characters (no matter how small or large of a role they played), and how the beginning of the story throws you into a loop with making you play a section of the late-game with no context; it gives you a teasing taste for what to expect! Whilst the game does start out slow with the Kamoshida arc of the game, it definitely picks up slowly after that. The amount of possibilities with what Persona's you can fuse together, the strategies you can form with each party member in a group of four, having to analyze weaknesses and resistances on your enemies, and how attached you just get to the world this game has created.

A select few portions of this game, even by the end when the credits rolled for the first time, I was in absolute tears. I was sad it was over when I finished for the first time. 150 hours dedicated to a game that, whilst playing, made me re-evaluate my own identity and how I perceive reality, how I want my freedom too, and how I view society. Post-persona depression is real; and you will be hanging to do a New Game+ playthrough immediately. I say hold off until you've processed what you've just played... or do what I did and replay the game a week after completing it a first time!

I have played countless times through this game since, spanning about seven or eight times in the last 3 years. Currently doing a second playthrough on PC. I've completed all the achievements, Thieves Den awards, completed the Persona compendium, you name it. You bet I've almost finished doing it all again, too! Don't skip out on this game. It's worth every minute. Thank you, ATLUS, for creating something so timeless that it has taken my heart, just like the motto of the Phantom Thieves themselves.