<Snipped quote by Dynamo Frokane>
Yes. 4 was many people's first Persona game. Persona 3 was still very niche in a very niche spin of franchise while Persona 4 was so widely regarded that it launched an anime, it held up the Vita for a few months, had a dancing game spin off, and its cast was the focal point of a fighting game spin off. Now of course the argument can be made that the fighting game is because of both Persona 4 and Persona 3 but the game was called Persona 4 Arena and it wasn't until the Super Turbo version that the rest of the P3 cast was thrown a bone and put in.
Persona 4 basically made Persona a more mainstream series (and no that isn't a bad thing) and even now it's not all that uncommon to hear someone be like "Yeah Persona 5 isn't Persona 4 so I didn't like it". The discussion on which cast is better happens all the time (spoiler alert: Persona 4 has the weakest cast) and that's always going to be a factor but for many, many people Persona 4 is the standard.
I'm not saying Persona 4 is bad, that's insane. But is it the weakest of the 3, 4, 5 'trilogy'? Yeah. Yeah it is.
Right but Persona 3 also got a rhythm dancing game, 4 animated films, a spin-off Anime series and its full cast along with 4's were both in the spotlight in Persona Q. There is no universe in which that game is overlooked, not now at least. Is there a general opinion that 4 is better 3? Sort of, its not exactly unanimous, sort of like the community bitching over FF7 vs FF6.
P5 is critically acclaimed by users and critics alike, its treated like the anime Witcher 3, I'd have to scour the internet long and hard to find people bitching about it not being good cause its not like 4, thats a niche right there.
Is 4 the weakest out 3,4,5? I think so, but by like a pube hair. I guess when talking about underrated and overrated games, it just seems like nitpicking titles from the same series which are like 9.7 9.4 and 9.9 out of 10 seems kinda redundant.
INB4 Gowi comes in with a needlessly condescending and indirect jab about my Persona summary.