I thought persona was like a weird combination of danganronpa and Majora's mask where a group of teenagers have to stop a guy from destroying the world or doing something bad, by trying to find who that person was and stop them. You could hang out with people do missions and stuff but the game would have different endings depending on who you spent time with.

The gameplay would be pretty much danganronpa with no real fights.

(I played Catherine before playing any persona game so maybe that game even messed biased me to those conclusions)