PERSONA
You must have seen this one coming. The Persona series makes its titular personas vessels for magical abilities, and the breadth and variety it displays across those rosters in terms of visual design and utility cannot be praised enough. Their application is different than most other games on this list, of course, owing to the fact that combat in Persona is turn-based, but that doesn’t mean that using those powers is any less satisfying. What deserves special praise, however, is how Persona’s urban fantasy aesthetic with its with paranormal hooks always manifests in each game through unique and distinct powers in their protagonists. Now only does these powers constantly reinforce the series’ central themes of individual and collective subconscious, they also add a lotto the themes of each individual game.
