User:GreenGiorno
Yo what's up my name is Green Giorno and I'm a decently large fan of Megami Tensei. I got into MegaTen in 2022 by playing the Persona games in chronological order, I have now played every mainline Persona and am working towards beating all mainline SMT games and supplementary Persona titles.
I work as the art director of graphic design at a print shop so I'm always typing things for this or that. I'd like to continue helping out more on the wiki, perhaps with graphics and logo design!? I do the same for the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure independent wiki (JoJoWiki.com) so I'd like to help out best I can.
The MegaTen game that came out closest to the day I was born was Shin Megami Tensei: NINE, which released in Japan 5 days before the day I was born.
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My Contributions to the Wiki
Articles
- Created the page Maria (Megami Ibunroku Persona: Ikū no Tō Hen)
My Life in Megami Tensei
Intro
My experience with the MegaTen series goes back to a few years before I played any of these games for the first time. I first heard about the franchise through watching Nintendo Directs in 2013 and seeing SMT IV for the first time, thinking that it looked totally stupid, not knowing or caring what it was at all for years.
Six years later in 2019, my best friend had gotten into playing Persona 5 and infodumped to me the plot of pretty much the entire game, trying to get me to play it for myself. At the time I wasn't into JRPGs at all, so his words went in one ear and out the other, and besides that, I had no PlayStation systems at the time, so I didn't care at all.
The Persona Journey
Three years later, I bought a PS4 off of another one of my friends and remembering how interesting Persona sounded from my best friend, decided that Persona 5 would be one of the first games I played on this new console, and bought the base game at a GameStop for like 20$.
Interested in the game and curious as to why I should start a game series on (what I presumed to be) the fifth entry, I checked out the Megami Tensei Wiki and did some browsing on the Persona series, which sparked an interest in playing the games in chronological order. I prompted me to join a SMT Discord server and ask around for things I'd need to get started, and I eventually started playing Shin Megami Tensei: Persona in April 2022.
From there I played through all the mainline Persona games. I adore them all. While in the middle of my first playthrough of Persona 3 FES, I grew immensely bored and missed the gameplay of the classic games, so I stopped playing and went back to beat the Snow Queen Quest in Persona 1. Eventually, in August 2022, I beat Persona 5 Royal, elated to have finished the series, and a love for the Megami Tensei series as a whole sparked in me.
At the end of the day, Persona 2: Innocent Sin is my favorite game in the main series, but I have a special love in my heart for Megami Ibunroku Persona.
Following this, I had an interest in playing the mainline Shin Megami Tensei games in order and started the GBA version of Shin Megami Tensei I, but quickly dropped it because I got totally lost and my interest waned.
The SMT Journey
I ended up taking about a year, off, playing random other games for the rest of the year, before in April 2023 my interest in SMT was struck up again and I started and finished the first game on the PSX. This led me to beating II, If..., III and Strange Journey sequentially from each other through late May, and started IV, but was unable to finish before The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom released, which caused me to drop everything else for the next two months. I didn't pick IV back up until December, realizing that I didn't want that game to be left unfinished when Persona 3 Reload came out, so I knocked it out throughout the next two months and beat it the week before Reload released. I also do intend to play SMT NINE, however no English translation is available so I unfortunately had to skip it for now.
So far, my favorite SMT game is Strange Journey. Eventually I would like to replay If... and Strange Journey because those are the only two games where I didn't get the ending that I wanted.
I had decided a year prior that I also wanted to tackle the Persona game sequels and canon supplementary games, being Persona 2: Eternal Punishment's Tatsuya's Scenario, The Answer, the Persona 4 Arena games, and Persona 5 Strikers, and resolved to start those after beating Reload. However, that would mean my SMT journey had to be put on hold one more time.
Persona Supplementary Games & Beyond
I ended up beating Shin Megami Tensei IV in late January 2024, pausing my SMT journey to beat Reload and then play the supplementary games afterwards. In my time between IV and Reload, I played Tatsuya's Scenario because of how short it was, which would allow me to jump right into The Answer right after beating Reload, so I could have the main plot of Persona 3 in my mind while playing.
Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance was announced during my playthrough of Reload, and I had decided at the time that I would be able to beat all the Persona supplementary games and Shin Megami Tensei IV Apocalypse by the time that game came out, but alas that didn't end up happening. I ended up playing Reload for far too long and starting Megami Ibunroku Persona: Ikū no Tō Hen while on vacation away from my PS4, and as of June 2024, I still have yet to play Apocalypse.
Regardless, I ended up almost sticking to the plan, beating Reload, The Answer, the Arena games, and then starting Strikers, however I decided that I would beat MIP: Iku no To Hen before beating Strikers so that Strikers could act more as a palette cleanser instead of the P1 mobile game being beaten begrudgingly after Strikers.
Currently I am still playing Persona 5 Strikers.
Future
After I beat Strikers, I will finally have played all the canon Persona game sequels that matter. I will probably also play Aigis: First Mission if it gets a fan translation, but besides those two games, I will effectively be done with the Persona series probably until Persona 6 comes out.
After that, though, I will finally complete my SMT journey and play Apocalypse and Vengeance. Once that's over, who knows...
As for the other games in the Megami Tensei series, I have an interest in playing the Devil Summoner games and the Avatar Tuner series, however it might be a while before I get into those. My resolve right now is to wait until Devil Summoner 1 gets a translation before I play those games (because I obviously want to start them in order), and I don't care how long I have to wait before that happens, if ever.
Games I have little to no interest in playing are the Devil Children games, Last Bible, Majin Tensei, and Devil Survivor. I could be convinced, however -- maybe!
Favorite Games
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