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Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

Don't worry. A lot of people never really knew about SMT since it didn't really gain traction in the US like it did in Japan.

P4 as a game is pretty fun, though I would recommend playing the PS2 version, rather than Golden, which alters the story by introducing mary sue, I mean...Marie Sue.

I frequented forums like RPGFan and RPGamer when I was younger, so I was aware of SMT as a mostly-Japan-only series before I ever played one. My first proper SMT game was Nocturne, which I played in the mid-2000s.

Weirdly, I hated Persona for several years before loving it. I tried playing Revelations: Persona on the PS1 around 2000 or 2001 and that thing is a piece of garbage. I didn't even try P3 until P4 was already out, but when I finally played them I became obsessed (I've beaten P3 twice and P4 four times). I went back and played P2: Innocent Sin and P2: Eternal Punishment relatively recently - both are weird, but pretty good PS1 RPGs. I also tried Persona 1 again, but it's still a burning tire fire.

And... I guess I don't hate Marie as much as MatrixBeast does. She checks every box in a list of tsundere character traits, but I thought her storyline in Persona 4 Golden wasn't that bad. P4G adds a LOT of interesting content to the main game (including playable sections in January and February, when the normal story in Persona 4 ends on Christmas Eve and then goes to an epilogue). Marie is only one part of Golden, but I don't think she's *that* bad.