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Persona 4 Golden. Absolutely fell in love with this franchise because of it. Loved the entire game. I can still remember the feeling I had when you first go into town and "Heartbeat, Heartbreak" is playing. It's just such a great atmosphere. Absolutely amazing game.
I'm currently playing PS5 Royal and will move to P3 after.
After years of my friend info-dumping about anything and everything SMT, I bought SMT V on launch day in 2021 and fell in love. Now I'm playing the original SMT and plan to go in order from there. As for Persona, I'm somewhat familiar with Persona 3 & 4 because they were impossible to avoid online during their heydays, and I've since watched my boyfriend play through Persona 5 and Persona 5 Royal.
P4G on Steam, and soon after SMTIV which I was already planning for a while. I didn't and don't have a Playstation so I only played P5 on an emulator a year later.
My first was Persona 3 Portable in 2018. I had known about it and 4 from my friends years before but I waited until then for some reason. Played 5 after that, didn't finish 4, then moved on to SMT4 which I recently beat the law ending of. I have a long way to go to play all the SMT I want.
I've been playing since 2020 when P4G got ported, and since then played P3,P4,P5, Nocturne, SH2, P4AU and... every 3DS game, of which there are 9. And I feel like I'm barely halfway through this series, since I plan to play all except maybe the odd ones like Majin Tensei or the Gameboy games.
P5, P4G, SMT4, P5R, SMT3, and SMT5 in that order. I still need to finish SMT5. Love this series, though.
P4G; I had been aware of Persona and SMT prior to that but assumed they were some sort of weird waifu dating game for some reason. Sucks, because they're amazing games and I could have been playing years earlier.
Technically, my first was P3. But I don't really count that as I think I only made it through the May. I count Devil Survivor Overclocked, which was just so much fun. I want to finish it but I'm stuck on a boss and now can't really justify pulling out the 3DS to play it. Since P5, I've been in love with the entire Megaten space and I've been slowly working my way through some of the games.
Persona 5 was my first, it was interesting enough that it motivated me to find and play Persona 1, P2, P3G, P4 in that order. I wanted to experience the progression as the series broke off from Megaten, it was pretty interesting.
I still need to finish SMT: Nocturne though... lost steam after 10 hours in, not sure why. And SMT V has been great, but wanted to finish Nocturne first xD