History Videogame / Persona

* TakenForGranite: The Harem Queen casts a spell that causes every party member expect for yourself and Maki to turn into this. You are given the option to turn them back but it's not prefered AND the queen will actually be weaker for the boss fight if you refuse.

* TakenForGrante: The Harem Queen casts a spell that causes every party member expect for yourself and Maki to turn into this. You are given the option to turn them back but it's not prefered AND the queen will actually be weaker for the boss fight if you refuse.

* IKnewIt: Mark's reaction to the Harem Queen being [[spoiler: Chisato]] "...knew it."

* TheMall: Location of all the shops, expect for those that are generously there in the dungeons.

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* FridgeHorror: Avidya World. [[spoiler:It looks like your typical final boss dungeon, with creepy music and dark, distorted halls. But if you look at the doors closely enough, you'll notice that Avidya World is basically a twisted version of ''your school''. And nearly all the doors of the "normal" school refuse to budge now...]]

* GoldenSaucer: The Casino.

** And the silly password Elly recites to get back inside the school ("Roses are red, zombies are blue, but my face is white, so you know I'm true"), which has been improved greatly by changing the third line to "...but I don't want brains...", since Mark's face wasn't white in ''Revelations''.

** And the silly password Elly recites to get back inside the school ("Roses are red, zombies are blue, but my face is white, so you know I'm true"), which has been improved greatly by changing the third line ("[...] but I don't want brains [...]")

->''Once, I dreamt I was a butterfly. I forgot myself and knew only my happiness as a butterfly. Soon, I awoke, and I was myself again. Did I dream that I was a butterfly? Or do I now dream that I am a man? Yet there is a distinction between myself and the butterfly. This is a transformation of the physical.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: For one, SP usage only varied between Personas and not skills, meaning Agi and Megidolaon could use the exact same amount of SP. And speaking of which, the Megido line of spells aren't NonElemental in this game: they're classified under the "Nuclear" line of spells. (Which explains its symbol in {{Persona 3}})

* EverythingsDeaderWithZombies
* EvilMask: The Snow Queen mask says hi!

->''Stupid people can be happy when ruled by smart people!''
-->'''[[CulturalTranslation Nate Trinity]]'''

->''[[UpdatedRerelease The masses are only truly happy when being shepherded by the elite!]]''
-->'''[[BadassBookworm Kei Nanjo]]'''

* NamesTheSame: There's Yosuke here, but his last name is not [[{{Persona 4}} Hanamura]]. For those who don't know, he's [[{{Americanitis}} Bruce]]. His girlfriend is [[{{Batman}} Selina]].

-->'''[[{{Americanitis}} Nate Trinity]]'''

* {{Americanitis}}: nearly all references to Japan are gone in the PS1 localization, though the music in the Satomi Tadashi stores and what is obviously a Japanese Shinto shrine somehow made it through localization.

* ButThouMust: At one point, you're given the option to cut a [[WireDilemma red wire or a blue wire]], but either way the Deva System malfunctions and sends you back to your school anyway - [[OrIsIt or does it?]].

* ContinuityNod: The Snow Queen Quest is rather similar to the plot of ShinMegamiTenseiIf. Similarly, it looks like {{Persona 3}} took a few cues from this game. (Giant tower, Hypnos, Thanatos, Nemesis and [[spoiler:a "Night Queen"]] as plot-important beings)

** There's also the fact that both 'ShinMegamiTenseiIf'' and ''Persona'' have two secret characters: one of whom in each requires jumping through some extra hoops and going for a portion of the game without a full party [[spoiler: and turn out to have ties to the BigBad]] (the two even have similar names in kana and romaji, though not kanji: Reiko and Reiji), and another who's tied to an alternate storyline. (Yukino -- who does briefly join the party in the normal game -- and Akira)

* CoversAlwaysLie: The blurb on the back of the PSP remake states: "''In the near future, mankind has conqured dimensional travel, but the opened door swings both ways. Demons have invaded...''" This is quite different to the actual plot.

** Not really. In persona 1, these spells waste turns when it really is faster to just kill them. Buffs and Debuffs aren't useful in Persona 1, unlike other games.

** Getting on the Snow Queen Quest also requires a guide.

** [[spoiler: The ending of the Snow Queen Quest puts it right before the first boss of the SEBEC quest, ending with the gang going to SEBEC to save Maki (who was left there when Mark panicked after being overwhelmed by the demons) Presumably, after reuniting with Maki, things went as they did in the main game, only with Yukino there.]]

* [=~Everything's Deader With Zombies~=]