Twenty-eight heroes, a haunted cinema, and a 3DS that never looked less like a quiet spin-off.

The community profile is starkly split. On gut choice, Persona Q2 only edges out 15% of games, right down at the bottom. And yet the desert island criterion puts it ahead of 84% of titles, as if its length and density made it an ideal exile companion. The soundtrack follows, ahead of more than 80%, though on few votes, so treat it as unconfirmed. The rest is rough: fun sits at the very bottom of the ranking, rediscovery almost as low, controller feel down there too, attachment likewise. That is the contradiction: a game you would keep to survive months, but clearly not the one you reach for when you stop thinking.

Against other dungeon crawlers, it adds up. The genre rewards patience, management, slow building, and it pays badly on criteria built around love at first sight and instant pleasure.

So, who is it for? For you if you like mapping labyrinths, optimizing huge parties, and the Persona universe down to its corners. Much less so if you want a game that hooks you in ten minutes, or an adventure you walk away from shaken.