Perhaps it’s premature to call Persona 3 “the perfect RPG”—I’m going to go ahead and do it anyway, as it’s the first experience I’ve had in years where the “necessary evils” feel like—and let me be blunt—TOTAL JOYGASM. I’m highly in support of the idea of a fully integrated experience, one that doesn’t segregate fighter from character, that doesn’t load you down with meaningless party members (largely, your friends can—and will—care for themselves). And despite being last-gen, it uses the hip, ultra-modern anime vibe to its advantage. It’s piercingly stylish with a genre-blending soundtrack to blow your brains out over. The fact that it’s hard to predict whether such a spot-on game will be successful tells us just how niche what was once one of our broadest genres has become; But you should be bummed the release is delayed, and you should consider it highly worth waiting for.