>p3 and p3fesMildly difficult at the start, piss easy by the time you get a fourth party member, easiest game to trivialize due to fusion spells.
>p3pAbout the same as p3 and fes but slightly more demanding due to clock costing money and fusion spells being consumables.
>p4 and p4 goldenTrivially easy because it lets you farm sp restoring items from the moment you unlock Yosuke. Every boss is a damage sponge you really only use specific strats for yosuke, yukiko and chie shadows. Hopefully remake will fix this game because it has by far the easiest endgame bosses, even margaret.
>p5 and p5rOverall hardest games and the ones that make the most use of its mechanics like technicals.
>p3rOn hard it feels like you’re playing on normal. On merciless it feels like you’re playing on hard. The game is harder than p3 fes for sure but by the time you unlock siegfried it really starts to become brain dead. If we’re being fair you can’t do this until the penultimate tartarus block so at least 75% of the game feels consistently hard but theurgy is definitely unbalanced just like fusion spells were
>>715066665This happened in smt4, p3fes and technically p3r, the problem is you need min maxed magic mastery persona for magic to outdo physical in that game. However, for elizabeth and joker specifically: Magic > phys. You even use junpeis magic theurgy on joker and its your best damage.