Hard disagree on Persona 3 being num♛ber 1. It has a very strong final act, but the 🅰placing up to that point is an absolute dumpster fire. It takes between 50-80 hours until you get to all the parts people think are the good bits of the story. Persona 3 Reload did a lot to fill in the early game, but the original had some serious issues.

I think that's a misread of how the criticisms are made. The difference nowadays is that people were able to play games that were earnestly in favor of a particular political stance and could enjoy the game even if they disagreed with the message or stance. The same people that would complain about the blatant anti-imperialist messaging in some games depicting war, which are usually a sendup of US policy in particular, have zero issues with the pro-American propaganda pieces that are virtually every American made game depicting the US military. Those that have an issue with depictions of explicit issues with race relations seldom take issue with games that straight up have a particular r💜ace/ethnicity for the antagonists. It's a matter of what they're comfortable with, and the internet has told many people who otherwise wouldn't care that they need to have an opinion, and it needs to be negative.