

He almost has to be considering he’s the only playable character that can never be removed from the party. Perhaps it’s a bit obvious, but Yu Narukami is far and away the best party member in the game. The party members with the highest stats may not necessarily be the strongest at the end of the day – but that obviously isn't the case for everybody. While some characters have surprisingly high stats when leveled up, Persona 4 places emphasis on skills and smart strategies above all else.
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Every member of the Investigation Team has their own unique growths, realizing their full potential at max level. Updated on Apby Renan Fontes: Stats plays a key role in any RPG, but players have no control over how their party members grow in Persona 4. Persona 4 has an incredibly tight knit party where every character shines, but some party members are better than others. Party members are on the whole more versatile, and in-turn more useful. Persona 4 ’s party is also much smaller than Persona 3 ’s, which naturally has gameplay consequences. They don’t have the same drama as SEES and they’re a stronger group for it.

Persona 4, on the other hand, features a tight knit cast of genuinely close friends. P3 ’s cast were written as if they were real, nuanced teenagers – not everyone in the cast liked each other & relationships had to naturally build. One such way Persona 4 softens its appeal is through its party members.
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RELATED: Persona 4 Golden PC Mods We Want to See Persona 4 bolsters the core of Persona 3 while repackaging the experience into a more approachable RPG all around. On a mechanical level, the game really is more of the same – the fundamental gameplay changes being the addition of party control and more traditional level design. Which is arguably why Persona 4 ended up such a success in the first place. Between Shin Megami Tensei If… and DemiKids, this wasn’t exactly novel, but Persona 4 saw success and tonally pivoted. Where Persona 3 was a dark, moody story about not only the nature of life & death but what it means to be alive and have lived, Persona 4 chose to take a step back and embrace a lighter tone atypical for both the Persona sub-series and the Shin Megami Tensei franchise from which it originally spun off of.
