I've been playing Persona 5, 3 and half of Persona 4 (I swear I will get to 1 and 2 soon as well) But there is something about Persona 3 that makes me love it and feel sad everytime I remember how it ends.

Persona 3 is the game that made me reflect on myself the most. The game talks about the meaning of life, and each character in the game slowly find out their own answer in the progress, even the player. It was vague for me at first, because you play as a inserted-male protagonist, sometimes you don't really feel it. But then the part where everyone in the game begins to change, I slowly realized it, and figured what is the personality of the main character.
And then, I watch 4 movies of Persona 3. The context of the game became even more clear for me. The protagonist - Makoto Yuki,  at first, I have the feeling that he knows he is going to die either way, so he doesn't care about anything in life, even the friends surrounding him, and even fight without a reason. As time goes on, he slowly comes out of his shell and becomes attach to everyone, and doesn't want to make the Dark Hour disappear, afraid of losing all the precious moments with his friends, even hesitate and intend not to fight. But when he suffers from so many losses, having to watch his dear friends vanish and even dies right in front of his face, he wraps himself inside the shell again, he doesn't want to get hurt anymore, but he just can't do that. At this point his friends are the thing he treasure the most. So he opens his heart once more, to fight for his friends and protect them...

So that leads to his decision... to sacrifice himself to be the seal to save everyone, and he doesn't have any regrets of doing so... In the end, he found his answer to life...

What cracks me up the most... is his development, Makoto Yuki, from a guy just waiting for his day to die to a person who is willing to die just to save his friends.

And the ending of Persona 3 makes me hurt and also happy a bit...

When Makoto becomes the seal, he should have already be dead, but he keep his conciousness for 2 more months. Just for the promised day to meet his friends. But after Tartarus is erased, everyone forgot about the time period they fight in Tartarus and only remembers it on the promised day. That means Makoto keeps himself alive but no one remembers anything, everyone just acting like they are strangers in front of eachother... I imagine it must hurt him a lot...

And on the promised day, when his friends finally remember and calling out for his name and run to him. He turns to them and smile, for one last time...

I'm on the 3rd NG+ in Persona 5 and only played Persona 3 once. But the story, the context, the development, they carved deep into my heart, making it so memorable...