"As for his fate..." "that's for you to decide.."

Be your true mind, Change your way, Burn your dread, Face your true self, Take your heart. Make your own story. Then, the contract will be sealed for the millennia to come...

to me, this is the song that emcompasses the whole series

A blind pianist, a deaf singer, together their talent brings together a piece to ease the souls of the restless, to calm the demons within us, to find enough peace for a time to be our true mind, even if temporarily. An Aria For Everyone's Souls.

One of the best incarnations of Aria of the Soul

And then, the begining of what will be the Velvet Room theme we all know and love is created

This theme deserves a full modern recreation. It’s one of the best pieces of music that Atlas has ever made

I love Persona 1 so much man

And thus a legendary video game series was born.

To me, this song is not only what encompasses the series as a whole, but life. This song feels like falling in love. Looking at your friends and everything that you love and realising that even through all the hardships you’ve gone through and will go through, it’s worth it. Every single moment of your life culminated in you and that’s a hopeful feeling. This song gives me hope, this song IS hope. It’s like Philemon is about to reach out and tell you about how everything you’ve faced has been to mould you into who you are now. This feels like winning a super close game that you were certain you’d lose, the light at the end of the tunnel. This song encompasses life. Be Your True Mind

ありとあらゆる「全ての人の魂の詩」の中で未だに最高傑作 原点にして究極であるこの上なく偉大な一曲、 パンドラを倒してセベク編終わった後の、このエピローグ初めて見た、小学生だった頃の自分、もうボロ泣きよ

This... This is where this legendary theme started...

Hoping to hear this in some capacity for the 25th Anniversary. Edit: :(

This could be great in a Credits Roll, or in a Wedding Dance!

Idk why the beginning part 0:00-0:58 is probably sum of the best things I’ve heard from Persona ost as a whole. Something about it makes me very emotional, eager and overall sends shivers down my spine. I can’t explain it 😭 but anyways yeah this is the best rendition of aria of the souls

The composers of the soundtrack really used the PS1s 24 channel MIDI sequencer to its full advantage for this game and the Persona 2 duology. Something as simple as the way the music flows from the moment you encounter enemies to the minute the XP screen closes just couldn’t even be achieved with CD-quality audio at the time. Another thing I appreciate about this soundtrack over other games that used the SPU is the samples used- namely compared to Final Fantasy VII’s choices. When you listen to Final Fantasy VII’s amazing soundtrack, you notice how-I don’t know-SNES-like the music sounds. With this game comes greater fidelity in the samples, even if some of them are more compressed than FFVII’s. tl;dr God bless the Sony SPU for allowing this music to be played completely interrupted through a mid-90s game console.

Just had my final day at school ever and graduation is next week and this is the song I immediately played afterwards.

The original Velvet Room theme!!! This version is far more nostalgic than the current in recent Person games.

i’m gonna say it, this game is an under appreciated masterpiece. i played revelations btw

Cmon Atlus, remake the game... Im begging you

Today is the Day this Beautiful game came out personally it’s my second favourite because I loved the Ost(PS1/PSX),Characters and the Great Story happy birthday to this Game.Today is the Day Mark danced Crazy!

Beautiful

The best version of the Velvet Room theme. Easily.

First minute of the song reminds me of "The Path is Open" from Persona 4. Wouldn't be a surprise if Shoji Meguro decided to rearrange this melody for his work

without a doubt the best variation of the velvet room theme, simply wonderful!

I've made peace with the fact that Atlus will never make a ground up remake of Persona 1 and 2.

This truly is one of the best credits themes I’ve ever heard in a video game

The song that's gonna play on new years when 2020 is over

「彼がどうなったか。それはあなたが決めること。」 私はこう解釈しました。 この物語の主人公はプレイヤー自身です。 だから、その後の人生はあなた自身が切り開いていくのです、と。 フィレモンはこうとも言いました。 「エンディングまでたどり着いたあなたは、今後の人生で、どんな嵐に遭遇しようとも耐え抜くだろうと」 「全ての人の魂の歌」それは私の人生のなかでの中心ともなりえる物です。

Something, something, welcome to the persona compendium

This makes feel comfort

I really want to go through and play the whole series

This is, without a doubt, the best rendition of the Velvet Room Theme. A debatable candidate for the "Theme of the entire series." Remixing the original Aria of the Soul, It channels Meguro's early classical influences with gorgeous soprano vocals and intricate piano harmonies. It is very similar to the versions heard in Persona 3 and Persona 4, except there is rich supporting orchestration and less clear sound quality. I will admit, hearing the same rendition for the past 18 years has sorta soured my opinion of said song since the motif is so overused but this was the perfect thing to use for this game's credits. Knowing that it's from the first game, it has aged so well, even after almost 30 years.

Play this at my funeral

I was looking for this track for so long and I have finally found it, fitting track ngl

This track in particular gives me goosebumps

I love Syntethic Orchestra SO MUCH!

Just beat the game on PS1 with the disaster localization, still fantastic. Excited to play snow queen route on PSP. I didn't follow any guides the first time through (Jesus christ fuck yaga castle, fucking levers), but I'm gonna use one this time. What a wonderful game, the music is GOAT

I appreciate this game series so much, I never played this persona but, I’ve watched game play. Everything about this game was perfect I loved the story and but also the music! I wish they would remake the older games so we can experience it again.

This song is so fucking beautiful, legitimately.

5:40 Makes me think of The Path was Closed from Persona 3 (this is probably what it was referencing)

All of megaten and persona is one long masterpiece

The beginning of what's to come

I'll bet in other timelines, the gangs of P1 and 2 are somewhere in P5. Hell, in another timeline, Naoya would take over for Maruki. Maybe.

Holy shit I feel like I was robbed playing the psp version

Persona 1 has a beautiful ending. One of the best in the SMT series but no way it will make me as emotional as Sonic Adventure 2's ending. Still a wonderful ending theme.

this shit hit different tho

Makes me want to cry. Good tears. Very good tears.

Are you ever going to make a video displaying the actual good ending to the SEBEC Chapter and not just the song that plays over it?

baller

0:58

Lol they put the ending at the beginning for the modern version

ほんと葬式で流してくれ

PEAK GOAT RAW FIRE

While I really hated this game I still felt a sense of happiness from hearing this song, I just had such a dumb smile on my face the whole time, the soundtrack for this game is amazing if only the game was as good

And to think, it all started with a trashy pulp novel about summoning demons with computers, featuring an edgy teen reincarnation of Japan's Creator God getting together with the reincarnation of said God's wife, for the purposes of saving the world from the Norse God Loki. There's truly no megafranchise like Megaten.

Incredible