If you really liked 5, then 3 and 4 would be good for you. 1 and 2 are.... problematic and lack a lot of the social elements of the later games and are more akin to their master series SMT. For what it is worth, I REALLY enjoyed 4 Golden. I know there are detractors for certain characters that got added but not having played the first version I don't know. Likely the biggest switch from 5 to either 3 or 4 is the dungeons are built up differently. In 3 and 4 they are randomly created when you enter them so there is more of an endurance factor to them since it incentives pushing on. on a random side note, I also enjoyed the rhythm game spin offs but that's neither here nor there.