The idea that the Persona games are for a younger audience is... terrifying, given the content of some of them. That isn't to say that teens and young adults can't handle the things that are in P3 or P4, for instance, and the pure SMT games definitely have a darker feel to them than the Persona games, but it's weird to think that they're meant for a younger audience.
Then again, I've always done things a bit backwards, since my first SMT game (at least, the first one I knew was in that series) was Nocturne, and I adored the crap out of it, looked up stuff about the rest of the series, discovered the Persona stuff, and it all just went downhill from there.
I'd love to dispute that the SMT games are playing catch-up, though. Nocturne may have been the first official English translations where we'd already had 2 Persona games, but those 2 Persona games were pretty obscure. Well-received by those who played them, but they didn't hit the mainstream or get the coverage that P3 seemed to. So for many people (such as myself), Nocturne and P3 may by the games that got them into the series from the get-go, without the context of the previous 2 Persona games. Much like how Final Fantasy VII was the first Final Fantasy game for a lot of people at the time.
I feel sometimes like the SMT and Persona series are trying to catch up to themselves, if that makes sense. Most people got their intro to the series partway through. Sometimes it was due to other games not selling well in North America, sometimes because the games never got an English release at all. So they feel like they have to rerelease a whole load of older games to give fans context and access to the stuff that made the series so popular to begin with. Only a lot of the rerelease games don't quite have the feel that most of the more recent fans are looking for, so they fall a bit flat.
And that's my long comment for the day. Fandrogyne out!
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Then again, I've always done things a bit backwards, since my first SMT game (at least, the first one I knew was in that series) was Nocturne, and I adored the crap out of it, looked up stuff about the rest of the series, discovered the Persona stuff, and it all just went downhill from there.
I'd love to dispute that the SMT games are playing catch-up, though. Nocturne may have been the first official English translations where we'd already had 2 Persona games, but those 2 Persona games were pretty obscure. Well-received by those who played them, but they didn't hit the mainstream or get the coverage that P3 seemed to. So for many people (such as myself), Nocturne and P3 may by the games that got them into the series from the get-go, without the context of the previous 2 Persona games. Much like how Final Fantasy VII was the first Final Fantasy game for a lot of people at the time.
I feel sometimes like the SMT and Persona series are trying to catch up to themselves, if that makes sense. Most people got their intro to the series partway through. Sometimes it was due to other games not selling well in North America, sometimes because the games never got an English release at all. So they feel like they have to rerelease a whole load of older games to give fans context and access to the stuff that made the series so popular to begin with. Only a lot of the rerelease games don't quite have the feel that most of the more recent fans are looking for, so they fall a bit flat.
And that's my long comment for the day. Fandrogyne out!