My drive to finish all the persona games has waned somewhat after finishing persona 1 and its manga.
Persona 2 IS i managed to finish as its my commute game and Persona 3 and 5 i haven't touched for a few months.
Overall the story is definitely one of the more wacky ones in the series but easy to enjoy. Gameplay is the PSP version of the game is so easy it practically plays itself, didnt have to make a new persona once just relied on story given personas and made it through. There's a lot of side content i missed but it didnt really seem that worth doing other than for completions sake the game does drag on a bit after a while. Also that side content is so hidden away discovering it organically would require talking to basically everyone after each story dungeon which is incredibly boring.
Still so far Persona 1 is my favourite out of all of the games along with its manga
Which version of 1 did you play?
PSP version of all of 1 and 2. Been avoiding the ps1 versions
Atlus changing a dude's race in localisation
Persona 1 ps1 is so bad it almost worth playing just to experience it
Localization of Japanese media in the 90s and (to a lesser extent) the early 00s was wild
Western arms of Japanese publishers (or even just random licensing companies) shipping the source code for a JRPG over to A Single Guy and saying "now fit your script in a 16 megabit cartridge, you have three months"
Translating stuff from out of context boxes on a spreadsheet is the ideal way to do it, of course.