The E3 2016 games we're excited to see

My fellow Personaphiles know what’s up, but in case you’re new to this gleefully bizarre JRPG series, here’s the sitch: Personas are demons that you can call to your aid to do battle for you, like really angry Pokemon. You can collect them, upgrade them, or fuse them together to form new, more powerful personas that will help you fight your way through strange and deadly dungeons. It’s a whole thing. The dungeon crawling is challenging and exciting, but what sets the Persona games apart is how they explore themes that are actually relevant to your real life, like the importance of friendship, the pressure to please your family, loneliness, and even grief. The characters aren’t just shallow tropes used to shuttle the personas around, they’re fully-realized personalities with oh-so-relatable hangups. There’s also a shapeshifting cat, which, let’s be honest, should be more than enough to get you in the door.