Ranking the Persona Battle Themes from Worst to Best 

A small fun fact about Mass Destruction: The choir isn't really just going "dadadada" but actually "down" pretty fast, being a reference of how you knock down every enemy in front of you

3:43 Chie's idle animation is easily the best part of Persona 4's combat, followed by Chie's galactic punt and Chie's one liners

Even though Meguro “quit” Atlus, he will most likely be back for persona 6

I actually enjoy Takeover way more than Last Surprise. It could be the over saturation of the meme or that I clocked over 500 hours in vanilla P5, but last surprise gives me a headache whenever I hear it. (wish I was a joking...)

The thing I’ve always loved about the battle themes from P3 onwards, is how well the chorus matches with an all out attack. As far as the P5 battle themes, I think Last Surprise works better as a stand-alone track but Take Over is a better battle theme.

I actually completely disagree with Take Over being so low. In my opinion it's one of the best in the series. Last Surprise is amazing, But in the context of an ambush where Take Over plays, It fits MUCH better. The entire song Is shamelessly victorious and triumphant, where Last Surprise, outside of the obvious lyrics, felt more on equal footing. And when combined with the audio and context of the game itself, NOTHING is more satisfying then hearing "Show me your true form!" as the battle initiation sound effect leads PERFECTLY into that brass.

I love Last Surprise, but I think Take Over works better as a battle theme because it's high-energy the whole time, whereas Last Surprise takes a bit of time to get loud, and the fight is over before the chorus can even start

>Persona 1 original theme is in complete dead last and complains about it sounding too dread inducing when that is literally the point -Puts Lone Prayer in 4th place even though it doesn't fit with the darker tones of the game Yeah, okay. lol

Honestly I would put Persona 1's theme at the very top because it fulfills its role as a battle theme the best of any of them. The others don't sound like they really considered you'd be hearing the 1st couple seconds, end the battle and fight again, but Persona 1 strikes that perfect balance of Catchy, simple, and BANGING. Even after playing Persona 1 with its horrible encounter rate, I at least never got sick of the music.

Am I really the only person who doesn't think last surprise is the best persona battle theme???

My rank: 11. Revelations Persona 10. P2 innocent sin 9. P2 eternal 8. Wiping it all out 7. Time to make history 6. Take Over 5. Face out to the truth 4. Mass Destruction 3. Mass Destruction FES 2. Last Surprise 1. Lone Prayer

last surprise is my favorite battle theme but tbh I prefer an instrumental version of the song instead. I think without any lyrics it would get less repetitive and gives the few battle themes with lyrics in persona 5 more weight.

Hearing you analyze each of these tracks makes me realize just how knowledgeable you clearly are about music as a whole. It's really refreshing to hear someone be able to dissect these with clear understanding and passion. While I was shocked about Take Over's abysmal placement, I still understanding your reasoning for it, and the entire list got me excited to listen to the older games' soundtracks that I'm (unfortunately) unfamiliar with! Thanks, as always, for a great video 👌

You can't beat Persona 2: Innocent Sin's base Battle theme [PSX version].

Meguro just left his position, they’ll have him back to work on P6 in some capacity, guarenteed.

I can't believe you did mah boi P2IS like that. That is a top tier battle theme. The other two classic themes I agree aren't great though.

I like how in P4G, Reach Out plays less times, which makes it my fav battle theme in games

Take Over being that low feels like an injustice, unless it's because I'm just sick of always hearing Last Surprise. I find myself singing to the song before making any action when I encounter an enemy.

REACH OUT TO THE TRUTH WILL ALWAYS BE MY FAVORITE THAT SHIT IS PEAK. also justice for og persona 1 battle theme

Man, when I heard Last Surprise for the first time, I got shivers. And I just about fainted when I heard the remix in Strikers. Def landed on my motivation play list

I'm surprised by what you said about Lone Prayer's lyrics pertaining to the Snow Queen Quest. I interpreted Lone Prayer as being about the SEBEC Quest and Bloody Destiny being about the Snow Queen Quest. I guess it's inevitable with such cryptic lyrics different player would come to different conclusions.

10. P1 battle theme 9. A Lone Prayer (I like it but after the eleventy zillionth time I wanted to DIE) 8. Wiping All Out 7. Reach Out to the Truth 6. Eternal Punishment battle theme 5. Last Surprise 4. Time to Make History 3. Take Over 2. Persona 2: IS battle theme 1. Mass Destruction

I am still so grateful you introduced me to Lone Prayer

the p2:is battle theme is literally my favorite battle theme ever among any rpg period.

Wiping all out is so damn great honestly probably the best up there with last surprise imo

Its a shame that strikers isnt on here because counterstrike is damn good and speaks volumes when used as sophies and in some ways jokers music

I only realized now after your video why its easy to confuse reach out to the truth with face myself. The main chorus of reach out to the truth is like an inverse of the main theme of face myself. Pretty awesome

reach out to the truth deserve higher spot

I felt the same about P2 IS (psp). The theme is great but if you listen to it for too long then it starts to hurt. Atlus must’ve felt the same way since it’s dulled down in the p2 dlc for persona 5.

I personally think Last Surprise is a little overrated cause it's like the only song that's known this well from Persona, probably cause 5 is the most popular entry and it appeared in Smash (yeah I know other songs appeared there).

When 11 is a banger you know it's all amazing

My man dunks on Innocent Sin PSP's easy target battle theme and just doesn't rank the original Innocent Sin battle theme which is an ez top 5 or top 3 contender? Shame.

P4 is kinda my favorite. Yellow is my favorite color and the poppy song was a slapper, it was so goofy compared to the morbid story and that stuff 😀

Wiping all out is really cool i freaking love it

persona 2 soundtracks are the only ones that make me shiver every time.

Very nice video I cant believe it only has 8k views!

Oh my god this dude really put revelations persona's battle theme at bottom 😂

yknow as predictable as it is, i completely agree with your top pick - even though its been blown up to, at times abnoxious amounts just because of memes and such, you cant deny its such a bop and fitting for p5's vibe

I love your commentary. New sub for youuu :D

Hi Voyan here’s a video idea “RANKING EVERY GYROID (either only the new ones or all of them from past games) ok love your vids bye

I may sound insane, but I really like the revelations battle theme. It's a bop.

To be honest, Lone Prayer is amazing, but starts feeling repetitive very fast.

HOLY SHIT 2 UPLOADS IN ONE WEEK LETS GOO

trippin, every time i heard step up to the plate i’d get an adrenaline boost and finish the battle that turn

Bruh why doe’s nearly everyone hate Last Surprise? IT HITS HARD. 🔥

oh my god from 11 to 1 you were OFFFFFFF

I get the feeling that the PSX trilogy battle themes were the bottom three just to quickly get them out of the way. It also wasn't consistent on what renditions were review. Maybe it would've been best if the original and updated renditions were considered for them. Persona 1 has the refine version on P5S, which is likely now out in Japan at this point. A version of the P2: IS battle theme is included as P5 DLC with lesser guitars as you wanted. I understand that the P2: EP PSP translation wasn't out at this point, but the theme is already uploaded on RU-vid, so you could have taken that into consideration.

The way that my list is basically the exact opposite of yours 💀💀 (except for A Lone Prayer would be in the bin where it belongs)

Damn I really wanted the know your placing for Light the fire up in the night

I almost didn’t want to finish battles in p5 because of how good the song was

I love persona 4's music both of the songs. Sure there happy and mostly positive I grinded to level 99 and I never got sick of it in either of the games. And every single battle I still bobbed my head to the beat drops.

There are some placements on this list I completely dissagre with, P3P Wiping All Out should be much higher, as well as P5R Take Over

Make History is my favorite so far. I just love that bass line at the end of the chorus.

the only thing about last surprise is after playing new game+ 7 times over it drives me insane but its an absolute banger

I know musical taste is subjective, but hurts me to see P1 psx battle theme in the last place and Lone Prayer in a higher spot. P1 was intended to have a Dark, Night fever, 90's gritty vibe and the tension the music gives fits perfectly and IMO, you don't get bored. Lone Prayer by the other hand is short, has bad looping at the point you want to rip your ears off after a while since combats can be really long.

I woulda put Take Over a little higher personally, but the real hot take is that Reach out to the Truth(First Battle) is just a straight upgrade on the base song.

>p2is at second to last >last surprise as top literally the most "new persona player" opinion of all time

In the end, they're all bangers.

I love the innocent sin battle theme, good list tho!

Personaly I preferred take over from last surprise but I do think they are so unique and good them both that any could be concidered the best

Take Over is such a bop tho

….. am I one of the few that prefers Last Surprise over Take Over?

i like take over, but i like last surprise much better, that beginning instrumental hits so damn hard i liked it to the point that when playing royal i make sure that the enemies detect me instead of ambushing them so I can hear it in the fight XD

I agree with a lot of your points on this fr. Mass destruction is solid. Lone prayer sounds pretty sick. Persona 3 portable’s is cool. Even though I’ve heard it way too much I enjoy last surprise it’s so groovy and recognizable.

regular posts? are you feeling okay voyan?

I'm still not over how they replaced Last Surprise in P5R... Yes, I know it's still there, but I almost always surprise my enemies so I almost never hear it anymore.

Hard disagree with you on almost all placements but huge like for battle OST ranking vid, really love and wish for more of those.

I was not disappointed by the #1 ranking 🙏

what do you think about the snippet of persona 3 reload's battle music

Imma be honest I prefer the PS1 Persona 1 battle theme more than Lone Prayer, I just like the vibe more. I fucking LOVE both of P2’s battle themes, but I will admit compared to the rest they are lacking.

last surprise as number 1 lol

Mass destruction is my favorite, but I can’t justify you placing Take Over so low, I personally like it so much better than Last Surprise

no no no wrong wrong you are WRONG as a persona 4 fanboy I will NOT stand for this

Voyan… this is TOO much!! I’m not used to this.

If Royal gave us the option to change the music for battles, I'd almost always be blasting Willpower. Take Over is cool and all but I believe it just doesnt go places fast enough during a fight unless I'm seriously dragging my feet, same applies to Last Surprise.

no mention of Persona Q or Q 2's battle music?

All this music is bussin, respectfully of course

Could you could do a credits music video

No fucking way bro put all of the classic Persona themes at the bottom, with Normal Battle below Lone Prayer lmao

Makes me want to play the other Persona Games just so I can listen to the songs in it

Sad you left spin offs out. Q2 battle themes are INSANELY GOOD. I think they are my favourites

Why aren't you guys talking about Rivers in the Desert?

Now to rank the persona spinoff songs

Its Going Down Now has taken my #1 spot

Lone Prayer is a crime against humanity

Yeah I’m gonna be honest p2is is absolutely my favorite one but geez idk if I remember a single track except the intro and knights of the holy lance Also the song that plays when eikichi is being an idiot but idk if anyone else remembers that one lol

DISTURBING THE PEACE

persona2 eternal punishment is my top theme, maybe its because the first persona i played back in 2001 or 2002 cant remember on psx, after playing that game i became a die hard fan but couldn`t find persona 1 in any shop , i had to play it in windows.

Take over disrespect is honestly shocking

Can't put the Persona 2 themes anywhere but right at the top myself

My favorite battle theme is “it’s going down now” from the new Persona 3 remake, and my second has got to be mass destruction, then my third is last surprise. Edit: my opinion has changed, 1st is now mass destruction, I know almost every lyric to the beginning

P1 school theme is busin

i was trying to think of my own ranking then i realised i hate all of these songs because ive heard them way too much in their annoying, repetitive battles

Last Suprise is nowhere close to #1 in my opinion Take Over is far better as P5 track but Still Mass Destruction, Whiping all out and original P1 battle music still are the best

My personal favorite is "Pull the Trigger" I LIED!!! IT'S NOW ASS DESTRUCTION AHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA

Imo I like Take Over way more than Last Surprise, since Last Surprise is like calm most of times and then BOOM "You'll never see it comiiiing~". Yeah, it's nice, it's funny because you wouldn't see that "boom" coming, but after you hear it the first time it just gets repetitive really easily, plus, the music isn't synchronized with the battle so you might just hear the "You'll never see it comiiiiiiing~" while choosing a skill and it isn't very epic. On the other hand, Take Over is way more intense, it doesn't has a "boom" because the entire song is upbeat, the lyrics are a bit too direct and literal for my taste, but still the instrumental alone does better than any Last Surprise (except Scramble's version because hard rock rules)

Will power is my favorite battle theme tbh. Just wish it didnt only play during persona awakenings

Chad mass destruction

Big Bad: (punches me) Me: (falls) Big Bad: Had enough yet Me: ... Tried to run me through........ Big Bad: No. NO NOOOO!!!! (LAST SURPRISE STARTS PLAYING) Me: (Persona above me) BY THE TIME IT'S HIT YOU YOUR LAST SURPRISE!!!!!😎😎😎

While I don't really disagree with anything you say, take over is my favorite battle theme