@Xelbair:
I'm currently at the 5th world. Don't know how long this game is though. I think I'm at the 35 hours mark. Not knowing what you are fighting is indeed annoying, but what annoys me the most is Demon Fusion. Unlike Persona, where inherited skills are random, or Devil Survivor, where you select what to inherit, the skills inherited are fixed, so you'll end up losing awesome skills for crappy ones because the fusion doesn't take them.

@Dark Dragon:
I began the series with Persona 3. Its one of the most addictive of the SMT series. I wouldn't recommed begining with, lets say, Nocturne, because its too hard and sometimes plot takes ages to develop. If you find you like Persona you may try to play others in the series. I know I really like the rest of the series, but I also know I wouldn't have played them without Persona.

Start with P3, preferably the PS2 version P3 FES. It has all the good things from P3 plus expanded plot, missions and an extra 30 hour grinding session. If you like it then get P4. P3P is yet another version of P3, with a new female main character, but the 3D scenes are switched to a visual novel style. Persona PSP is old style first person dungeon crawler game that not many like.

The rest of the series (available in english...)

Nocturne - A damn hard apocaliptic game in 3rd person. Demon recruiting and a very dark plot with multiple endings.

Devil Summoner (1 and 2) - Old style Japan, a Detective who can summon demons and dark twists with Demonic problems.

Digital Devil Saga (1 and 2) - Alternate world in war gets cursed, granting all inhabitants the ability to turn into demons. But this power curses them with hunger... a hunger only stopped by canibalism. They fight to archie Nirvana.

Devil Survivor - Tokyo gets infested by Demons, so the goverment locks it down, leaving hundreds of civilians inside. You acquire the power of demons through a summoning program in your COMP (a DS). A great war of demons, angel intervention and the danger of a nuke.

Strange Journey - A phenomenon at one of the poles is investigated, and those onboard get trapped within a demonic area, where demons plan to invade earth


I guess its a bit 'too' simplified... but meh.


Beware, though. This series has LOTS of demonic references, not to mention catholic figures, buddhist figures... and lots of others. Some of the games even feature the Chupacabras.