It’s July 13, 2026, and that means it’s Persona 3‘s 20th anniversary. Somehow time marches onward and we are now two decades removed from when we first entered Tartarus during the Dark Hour to face shadows while the rest of the world slept.
Persona 3’s cast, much like the game itself, is the best one in the series’ history. This is only solidified by Persona 3 Reload’s new side stories that flesh out some characters into the best versions of themselves. The third entry in the Megami Tensei subseries pivots into a supernatural, social sim-driven dungeon crawler. Part of the game’s social elements is getting to know your teammates, and 20 years later, all of these characters are still standouts in the franchise.
They say you shouldn’t have “favorite” friends, but everyone who had a MySpace also had a Top 8, so there’s precedence for us to rank the members of the shadow-fighting group known as the Specialized Extracurricular Execution Squad (SEES). After playing through Reload’s retelling of Persona 3’s still-excellent story, I’m feeling pretty confident in the hierarchy of its party. So let’s grab our evokers and head into the depths of Tartarus.