I may as well do this, seeing as GabriellioSP is nowhere to be found here, and he was doing a picture-based Let's Play. Anyway... from the beginning.
What is Shin Megami Tensei: Persona? Shin Megami Tensei: Persona is the name of a video game, the first in the Persona series, and is the father of the franchise. The
grandfather, on the other hand, is Shin Megami Tensei: if... (or so KAIZA and I have discussed about the timeline of Persona). Shin Megami Tensei: if... is speculated to have been succeeded in the timeline by the first two Devil Summoner games (the ones not released outside of Japan).
As far as continuity story goes, SMT: if... was about a school being dragged down to Hell (which, in SMT world, actually exists), and the protagonists having to fight their way out and defeat the mastermind behind it (who happens to be a fellow student). It averts things in the first two mainline SMT games, and manages to keep things from going into crapsack territory real fast, until the events of the Persona series at least.
Will we have to listen to your crappy voice for this Let's Play? Is my voice really that bad? If so, I'll refrain from speaking during my playtime of this game after the first video, honestly.
Where's the first video? Ah, right here, hang on.
Well... enjoy?
EDIT: First video got replaced for something that would actually stay on YouTube (for the most part). Thoughts on the video?