Please tell me you have a chipped PS2, then you can play SMT: Nocturne, sadly it never came to europe, so US only
But it's such an awesome game that it's worth chipping for that alone
So glad another SMT fan has now appeared on this forum xD
....Please tell me that you are also into Dragon Quest
SMT series is just like the pokemon series too me, you collect all the monsters, but unlike pokemon, you the main character gets monsters from mostly all from mythology, so already Atlus have put in a lot of effort in making it stay true while different with the mythology, oh and most SMT are set in a post Apocalypse time xD
SMT:SJ = SMT4, It's true to the core of the old school SMT, first person, dungeon crawling, different endings on decision, 100 hours + in trying to get 100% of all the monsters you have obtained etc etc...I am bloody pumped xD
For me Persona charm is a bit different to the SMT mainline, there are sometimes a dark theme aspect to it (Only need to play Persona 2 to truly understand the dark theme, but I guess all that J-pop music made me enjoy the Persona games in it's own way now which makes me like as a series and not a SMT series ^_^
Yet we have no idea when Vesperia will be out in the US for the PS3, let alone knowing if they are EVER going to release it. I guess taking your time you can see in the end of the line of this gen which one system has the most of your interest