Best Games of the Decade
14: Persona 5 (2017)
News Editor Giuseppe Nelva: Persona 5 isn’t objectively the best Persona game. While it’s certainly a valid candidate for the title, you’ll hear plenty of different opinions among fans of the series.
Yet, we can certainly say that it’s the game that solidified the popularity of the franchise. Before Persona 5, it certainly had a cult following, but it was still fairly niche. Now it has entered the mainstream, and for better or worse, the name Persona has been recognized all over the world as one of the best among the RPG genre.
Persona 5 combines a great story with likable characters, a fantastic depiction of Tokyo that feels both familiar and slightly alien, deep gameplay, and an absolutely stellar art direction.
We actually had an internal discussion on whether Persona 4 Golden could be considered among this list, but we ended up deciding against it because the original Persona 4 was released in the previous decade. I have a feeling we’ll have the same discussion about Persona 5 Royal, 10 years from now.
