10 Best Video Game Openings NO ONE Talks About
4. Persona 3
At the end of Persona 3, you die. And at the beginning of Persona 3, you are told you will die.
Course, that isn't precisely how the game puts it. Instead, Persona 3's legendary opening cinematic, which players will be confronted with every time they boot up the game, floods the player's perception with symbolism and philosophical writing galore.
The most obvious symbolism is of course the constant appearance of Memento Mori and its various translations, including the many ways one can translate it into English. it's only by getting knee deep into this game that you realize just how literal the game is being with the phrase "remember, YOU will die".
Other philosophical writings littered throughout include Cogito Ergo Sum, je pense donc je suis, and an entire page out of Descarte's Discourse On The Method. If you're a philosophy nut, then I'd say you should play this game, but you probably already have (with all your friends now sick to death of you making excuses for the janky battle system).