Editing Shin Megami Tensei (section)

===Persona 1===
Launching on the Playstation, Persona 1 - known as "Megami Ibunroku: Persona: Be Your True Mind" in Japan, "Revelations: Persona" in America, and "Shin Megami Tensei: Persona" in its improved PSP re-release - was an attempt to create a simpler, more mass-appealing spin on the SMT franchise. Ironically, it's a very different beast to the style of the later games, and still quite close mechanically to SMT.

Plot? You're an ordinary high school student who is dared by your friends at a party to play a ritual-like playground game called "persona". Suddenly, you all get struck by lightning and black out, only to have a strange collective dream about a golden butterfly.

Although you do not appear to have any serious injuries, you are sent to the hospital for a check-up. While there, you decide to visit Maki Sonomura, a bedridden classmate who has been in intensive care for a year. Yet your visit is cut short when Maki is suddenly rushed into the emergency room and the hospital undergoes a weird transformation into a demon-filled labyrinth. Fortunately, you and your friends have gained a supernatural power to help defend against the demonic hordes, rescue Maki and find a way out of this maze: the mysterious inner-power of "Persona". It ultimately turns out that this whole mess is connected to a shadowy corporationg researching a means to merge consciousness with reality.

It did introduce the phrase "I am thou... thou art I", which became the catchphrase of the whole series.