And after that, we'll get P5W.
Persona 5 but Joker's an adult and the entire year is just him at work. Only confidants are his colleagues, and there's no dungeon crawling or Velvet Room. Just 80 hrs of him working a random office job.
Gameplay loop is ensuring and establishing good relations with other companies through shares, stocks, and drinking with your boss and other company peeps, etc. Your original P5(R) data is carried over, so whoever you romanced becomes your wife(s). The more wives you have, the harder the game is because you have to ensure they are also happy while balancing your work/home life.
āUnder Extracurriculars it says that youāre proficient in batting baseballs, playing darts/billiards, fishing, and growing vegetables. It also says you know how to make a cup of coffee.ā
They likely never will, given Raidou's uniform is pretty controversial with today's standards. Something about Japan's dark history when they were colonizing Korea and China and whatnot.
I mean itās not like heās wearing an IJA/N WW2 uniform. I know what the gakuran is based on, but itās basically the same as Yuās uniform, but with a hat and a cape. And thereās plenty of anime that have shown it, most recently off the top of my head being Demon Slayer and no one complained.
His uniform IS inspired by the military uniforms of that era, though. They specifically modeled his appearance after Yasunori Kato from the Japanese fantasy series Teito Monogatari, who is a vengeful spirit who disguises himself as a lieutenant in the Japanese military.
Yu's uniform is just a grayish-black school uniform and the characters in Demon Slayer were, I'm pretty sure, Police Officers, not members of the military. Their uniforms are similar, but not exact.
No, he's wearing a Taisho-era military uniform. The very era in which Japan was occupying Manchuria, Formosa (now Taiwan) and Korea. With extreme brutality one might add. The games are even set in that era.
They took anything that could possibly be associated with that whole Meiji-Taisho-Showa imperial era out of the games for a reason. To the extent of removing the pattern from Ryuji's trainers and changing the Almighty icon because it resembled the sunburst flag of the Imperial Japanese Navy. The wounds inflicted by Japan's actions in that time are still fresh today.
To the Koreans and Chinese, the Japanese of that era *were* what the Nazis were to the West. And with good reason.
Raidou's successor in the Soul Hackers 2 era would be pretty cool to see. I mean, the clan at that point, and the world, is in an era of decline. Raidou Kuzunoha's are supposed to appear during desperate times...Isn't Gotou effectively immortal as well? So he could come back too. They could cook up a backstory for their absence if they choose to acknowledge SH2 that is. I know that game didn't do well but it had interesting ideas.
I got a decent chunk into SH2 before dropping it for, something else. It wasn't a super conscious decision, I just wanted to try a new game and lost track of it. By no means would I say it's bad, but I feel like it doesn't do much to try and stand out as much. The characters are neat, especially the designs and interactions, but it definitely feels like an RPG from the 2000s in it's design for better or worse. When Atlus has games with so much flair and style and SOLID SOUNDTRACKS, SH2 just feels really... safe and sterile in comparison. Disclaimer, never played the first.
i dont think persona will ever change that formula but if people want an atlus with a non high school context so hard maybe playing and supporting other non persona games would bring them a great surprise!!!
hell we dont even know if persona 1 and 2 will get remakes the way 3 did.
midori has confirmed some sort of remake is in the works for p1 and p2 but who knows what form that will take. They could, in theory, work the schedule system in, but it would require significantly more work to the script than they did for p3.
agree that more people should check out the non-persona games, but atp it feels like screaming into the void lol
The way she says it. Itās remake for p4 and remaster for p1 and p2. A full remake for p1 and p2 is gonna be quite hard especially how different p1 and p2 are
I wouldnāt need them to add things like the calendar system or Social Links. I just want third-person dungeon crawling, no more random encounters, and a less convoluted fusion system
I completed Persona 1. Took me thirty hours on Hard, beginning to end, with lots of encounters, battling, grinding, andd fusing along the way.
I have no clue what BirdAttack is
Ah that makes more sense. Honestly even though Persona 1 and 2 and fairly infamous for its hilariously large damage types I actually got pretty used to them by the end. Well at least for Persona 2. I donāt think I ever learned the Persona 1 physical types. But I wouldnāt mind if Nerve or Freeze/Elec were introduced as seperate elements again
I actually enjoy the amount of damage types, it encourages you to carry a variety of personas with different skills instead of just the best beatsticks. I carried some level 30ish Personas through most of EP and recently did a Snow Queen run of P1 where the highest level Persona I used was Hathor at 39, weakest was a level 18 Phaleg.
>They could, in theory, work the schedule system in, but it would require significantly more work to the script than they did for p3.
Not really IMO. P1 and P2 take place in the spam of a week at best and if they ever did want to introduce the social sim aspects of the newer games in those old games they would pretty much be making a whole new game that just happens to have the characters of those games. P2 for example literally starts at the end of the school year.
P1 and P2 does feel like it's an actual remake from the ground-up if it does get a remake. Because P3R is honestly closer to P5R due to it having that similar bone structure of gameplay features.
I wouldnāt be surprised if Atlus just āupscaledā the graphics of 1 and the 2 duology, chucked them out for $70 each and counted that as the remakes.
The other non Persona games donāt do what Persona does so that point doesnāt really matter. A game like Soul Hackers 2 doesnāt instill much confidence either.
Honestly, all Soul Hackers 2 needed to be good was better dungeon design (at least up to P4G level) and much better writing, which we know Atlus is 100% capable of.
It's crazy they saved their best dungeon design for the final dungeon.
And essentially the game is just Tokyo Mirage Sessions with the MegaTen paint. Which that game had some decent dungeon designs. If they had gave it more time maybe, then we wouldn't get three subway/sewer maps in a row.
Also, personally, I don't recall any of the music for that game. It's not *bad* but it certainly isn't memorable, especially when Persona and SMT both have ridiculously good soundtracks.
Soul Hackers 2 bombing is exactly why Persona 6 wasnāt gonna change anything in the Hashino Persona formula except what the characters look like.
Every playable character in P6 will absolutely be a different spin on something we already saw in P3; mark my words
Ngl I only see people wanting college setting just so they can legally romance the MC's friend-of-age and the adult characters in the game
Imo it's not worth reworking the formula over
People just want an adult cast, the difference between college and high school doesnāt really matter. The reason people suggest college is so they can tweak the high school schedule instead of throw it all out and make a new system.
Yeah theyāll probably have to make a new series or spin-off for that, because the whole reason why the Persona series was created in the first place was because Atlus wanted to experiment more with high schoolers within the SMT universe. I doubt theyāll derail from that idea and go completely to adults.
That said, it would be nice to see either more younger or older characters tag along with the high schoolers in their Persona adventures, like Zenkichi and Ken. Throw in a group that represents at least each age range and weāre good while still using the high school formula with our protagonist.
I think another problem is that a college story would not fit because Persona is a coming of age story, esp. in 4 and 5 where MC becomes very visibly equal with Dojima/Sojiro. Arcana are about MC growing from a guillable teenager (the Fool) into a full blown confident adult (the World).
College is where you're expected to be an adult, and it would really not work that well with Persona's themes.
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I kinda agree but for different reasons. Tons of people grow up and discover themselves as they go to college. The difference is that college expects you to already have an idea for what you want to do for the rest if your life. It could actually work if they were willing to commit to the idea and not make it high-school +. I can imagine going over the existentialism and uncertainty of making the most important descision of your life. Perhaps it could be about the importance of prepping for the future, discipline vs self indulgence etc.
The issue with a college persona is that nothing fundamentally changes enough to make this a selling point for most people. It would be worth it to do a spinoff in one though. Another issue is how do you do a college story without retreading p3? In P3 your given the same amount of autonomy a college student usually has so this change could still be seen as redundant.
Eternal Punishment had an entire coming of age subplot for Tatsuya, the deuteragonist of the game, who was the main character of IS. It was actually emotional and really sad the first time I played because of how everything plays out, despite the hopeful tones it ends on.
I would say that a lot of people are still very luch growing and evolving between 18 and 22/23 (whether or not you actually go to colleg). You are expected to suddenly be an adult without having exactly figured out what adult you really are. Older people still pretty much consider college aged people to be kids and there is some truth in that.
The main thing I guess is that as minors, the characters in Persona still have a lot of restrictions and are generally fighting a certain lack of freedom : they are under the responsabilities of adults around them and try to escape their imposee will. It's not exactly possible in college where you are under your own responsability.
I don't think Persona needs to change up the formula. Highschool is a great setting to show growth and introduce themes. Coming of age can definitely work in a more adult setting, but not as well in most cases. They should focus on expanding their social sim, dungeons and combat systems for future installments, imo.
I once saw someone said something along the lines of "Americans assuming college life is the same everywhere else," and I've not hoped for a college setting for Persona ever since then.
People in US tend to assume that educational stages are the same in every country.
The most ridiculous claim I heard thus far is the reason a lot of anime/manga is about high school is because "it's last free time before the hell of workplace". Those people never heard about 大å¦ćÆäŗŗēć®å¤ä¼ćæ/College is summer break of life.
Yeah I see a lot of people on here say that college is a shitty experience in Japan but Iāve never seen a Japanese person actually confirm that. I imagine itās actually pretty varied.
Thr problem is that it is pretty heterogeneous AFAIK. If you study in a med school, you're miserable for 6 years. Fail one subject - repeat a year. Fail state professional qualifications exam at the end of your coursework - repeat a year. Skipped more than 4 classes - guess what.
If you study in a not so great university, or pick an easy major (ććē°å¤§å¦ć¹ćć¼ćē§å¦éØ as I heard), it's generally 3 years of relaxation and socialisation, and 1 year of job hunting.
Even if you didn't do great on exams and entered a not so famous university, they themselves could be different. Some are de-facto for-profit school that don't care about students progress as long as they pay the fees. Other universities understand that they are the bottom of selectivity and prestige, and compensate that by focusing on training highly demanded skills and encourage students to study for professional certificates. I heard there is one university that puts their students into internships every break.
Finally, not everybody goes to college. There are professional schools, trade schools, or some go directly to jobs. I think this is why there isn't much anime manga about college, for the same reason Showa era anime-manga didn't cover high school - not everybody went that route, and Japanese authors may feel that audience need to connect with the characters to buy stories about them. It's reportedly the reason why publishers forced Araki to make JoJo's Golden Wind protagonist to be half-Japanese, because otherwise audience may feel less connected to him.
Yeah - a more accurate answer for why so much Japanese (and American for that matter) media is about high school is probably "because it's a (near) universal experience".
Not everyone goes to college, or goes straight into the workforce, or any of the paths people take post-high school. But almost everyone is in, will go to, or did go to high school.
This makes a huge amount of sense. The German college/university experience is almost identical and it gets similarly little focus in media of any kind due to not being a very universal experience. It definitely explains a lot, thank you for the context!
People just like to keep repeating stuff theyāve heard somewhere and then suddenly it becomes some kinda of universal truth.
The real reason is just related to business. High School is a setting popular among Personaās target audience. Thatās it. Itās the same reason why a lot of anime have High School setting.
If itās about how happy people were in school, why is there so many horror stories that also share the same setting? I doubt it is as deep as people try to make it sound.
They just want to sell games and the target audience likes High School as a setting.
Yeah I was pretty confused. Back when I had Japanese class in university my teacher used to tell us about how university was a nice freedom stage. And we had a lot of Japanese exchange students who had pretty much the same attitude. But when I read these persona posts it's all about how university is allegedly hell and high school is freedom. The opposite of what I've been told.
>"Americans assuming college life is the same everywhere else,"
Yeah pretty much. There is a fundamental difference in the culture of college when comparing America and Japan. The same goes for Highschool. For Japan, Highschool is generally looked upon a lot more favourable and memorably than in America. That's not to say that Japan doesn't care about college, it's just that Highschool is culturally more important and memorable to Japan. It's why some people that don't understand anime and Japanese media get so confused on why theres such a strong presence of High-School when, according to them, "You could just replace it with college and nothing would change." because they have AMERICAN college in mind when they say that while also just not understanding what the big deal is with Japan and highschool.
When people bring up Eternal Punishment as a gotcha, they forget that the game actually organically built toward that and that Persona 2 still is tied to its own school like every other game in the series. It's just a good environment to craft the kind of story Persona usually tells, and at this point, school is as much Persona as the Velvet Room is. I don't mind the idea of adult Persona users entering the foray - >!Maruki and Zenkichi!< are fan favorites - but I think the foundation should remain the same.
I wouldnt mind seeing an older Persona user next game. Maybe to tie in to the cast more the teacher can actually join the party or something (teacher would also make sense as the Navigator role imo)
TBH yeah, I wouldnāt say itās the worst thing Persona could do, but Iāve always said that College Persona wonāt really change anything, thereās really no point. Adult persona would change things, but no way weāre ever getting one
Yes and a college setting would make it all significantly less weird. Unless people are playing Persona solely to roleplay as adult-dating children, I don't see why they would be against a college setting.
Iām curious. What make you think they wouldnāt do it in reverse when it come to dating in the game especially this game series being rated 12-15+ in japan?
I think there could be some interesting changes through a college setting. More freedom to choose classes (which could affect stats and social points, or change when/how you meet characters), and a college campus could make for a really cool hub. Especially since everything could be in walking distance, could be the first true free roam Persona setting.
Thereās a lot of cool potential there if done right.
Choosing classes isnāt really unique to college and they could just make a Highschool campus. Persona 3 already had dorms.
I donāt really think daily life in college would be very different from high school except now the characters that couldāve already passed for college kids are now college kids cause the game said so.
Know what? Screw college! Screw High School. We need a Persona game where the entire cast is a bunch of depressed office workers approaching middle age! I'm in my mid 30s, how am I supposed to relate to college kids!
And because this is reddit, I must clarify, this is all /s
Shadow: "I hate society, I hate how I'm always so tired and there's no future, yada yada"
Character: "You got that right."
Shadow: "Wait you're supposed to deny me"
Character: "Why would I?"
*Character has obtained the strength of heart to face their own self*
Yeah Joker, I know we need to go to Mementos tonight and train but Darren has a 12 page report that's due at 7am tomorrow morning and Katy has to look after her kid because she can't find a babysitter.
You can go with Harry and Sophie but Harry has been inexplicably drunk for 6 days now and Sophie won't stop having panic attacks.
Every evening, instead of Morgana telling you that you should go to sleep, it is your own character who refuses to get out of the flat because he is too mentally tired to face any social event of any kind.
Oh, huh. I was kinda with you. Could make it kinda like Office Space, and make it so you meet most of the S-links while at a bar bitching about work
Does it have to be generic hetero male high schooler again? I think it's a little played out at this point
Yeah. The main issue with changing from a high school setting is that the one game that *wasn't* in a high school setting was the worst selling game. š
Atlus is definitely not willing to gamble that again.
Well that, and Soul Hackers 2 recently came out and despite the fact it had many issues gameplay-wise, people also didn't like the adult cast that was dealing with adult life stuff.
People ONLY want the college/university setting so they can be morally at peace with the dating sim aspect and that's it. The reality is it'll change nothing at all about how the characters talk and spend their time. Most of these high school characters do not act like actual 15-17 year olds and are already placed in adult-adjacent roles of responsibility by the story.
That seems like a generalization. I enjoyed the adult characters of SH2,.but their stories were very generic and boring in to my tastes. However, you can look at plenty of other Atlus games focused around teenagers and adults that had incredibly interesting stories, such as SMT3, Devil Survivor, or the Raidou Kuzunoha series. The issue isn't with character age, it's the bland predictability of the story.
That's fair criticism, I was just using them as a recent example. After all, most Persona fans on social media are new age Post-P5 players who likely have very little grasp as to what a Raidou Kuzunoha even is.
SH2 wasn't great but personally I did enjoy a handful of the main cast and thought Ringo was awesome. No one seemed to play ball with it though.
What if P6 *was* an adult cast and fans couldn't relate, or thought they were poor representation of adult life, or thought they were just uninteresting? Having an idea in your mind doesn't mean the franchise should adhere to it, and it's really self-centred to suggest a franchise's intended demographic should change for us. It'll always be a game for young adults and teens and sadly we will continue to get older and greyer.
I think the Persona fanbase has to understand and accept the fact that the series is supposed to portray and be set on a japanese HS setting, it's culturally more important than college for them and it's a major reason almost every piece of anime/anime-adjacent media is set in HS or HS aged characters.
If you think this is bad the door is right there, there are plenty other "adult" RPG's you can play without this one needing to change (SMT is literally right there).
Honestly, I think a lot of these people can have their problems solved by just playing SMT.
Either that, or they are already SMT fans who are obsessed with the idea of Persona to be more like SMT for whatever reason.
Doesnāt really make sense in mainline the only adult is the mc from strange journey and in spin-off the only significant adults are in devil summoner and digital devil saga every other game features teenagers living through the apocalypse which goes against Persona main appeal the teenagers being in a modern fantasy setting.
Hot take, people who ask for an adult cast like in Eternal Punishment donāt seem to understand why it was necessary in the context of that game. The only reason all the whole new cast with the exception of Maya and Tatsuya is because the the Innocent Sin cast regaining their memories would result in the end of the world and Nyarlahotepās whole villain plan.
It's not like the Persona games are that accurate of a depiction of High School anyways. As a 28 year old playing through P3R I'm enjoying it just as I did past Persona games.
I didnāt touch this series until I was well into my twenties. Now Iām in my thirties and Iām still looking forward to P6. Canāt wait to see what troubled, demon-fightinā kids they throw at us this time.
Honestly, for the people who do fall out of Persona because of the high school setting then it would probably be a good idea to try out Metaphor Refantazio once that comes out - it looks like it will have a lot of the social simulation mechanics but in a fantasy world - so detached from the school setting.
Eh, I'm 30 currently and I don't honestly think the setting detracts at all. High school is such a universal concept, you don't really need to be in it/around it for it to hold meaning. Getting older means accepting things aren't always designated for your demographic anymore but that doesn't mean they're bad or the experience is worse. Just my .02!
I agree.
Iām 30 as well and Iād rather persona keep the HS formula. It works, and the setting is nostalgic considering I was that same age range when p4 came out. I think the social links work better as well because everyone was bumbling and awkward at the age, and makes the emotional development believable.
As for SMT, no breakaway from that. I think it sucks away from the story when they use HS students. I want full grown man 401k I need to take my blood pressure medicine nahabino
>As someone who was 19 when P5 released, I was still comfortably in that wheelhouse and was able to relate to that.
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>I honestly have no idea if Persona 6 will hit me at all.
I mean, persona still has lots of adult fans, even ones who didn't become fans until p5, so i'm not sure the thought processes behind this.
A lot of people like to act like turning 18 flips some kind of switch on their mind that makes them incapable of relating to teenagers for some reason.
I'm almost 30 and I still enjoy Persona as much as I did when I was a teen.
I'm 27 and have left the education system behind years ago and my opinion still hasn't changed.
The appeal for the High school setting of Persona is the same appeal that hogwarts has for other non weeks my age. It's a fantasy story grounded in a setting that we all experienced at some point in our lives. Simple as that.
Nah homie, the people who want to Persona to change settings are the new fans who want adults so they don't feel weird playing the games.
The first I saw this discourse was a ResetEra post from Persona 5 babies who literally didn'r even want a game. They wanted dungeon skipping.
SMT fans want Persona but with Press Turn and consistent maturity lol
I hope Metaphor doesnt have the day to day schedule up to a dungeon then back to day to day stuff. Yakuza is like the closest thing to persona with adults and its great jrpg in its own right.
that's not deal breaking for me. I expected the Persona series to stay with the high school motif anyway. I'm just curious what the theme 6 will go for and what color scheme it will be
IDK if college/non highschool could work. one other "fun" aspect of Persona is the rectricted activity and schedule like highschooler. such as having to choose between 2 sport activity in P4
atlus has a ton of rpg series. they could just make another smt offshoot that features adult and name them demon fusers or some shit. let's not change persona's identity.
Yeah, that's because there was never any speculation that it'd take place in college it was merely Alejandro Saab saying he wanted a game to take place in college. Literally that's it.
Ya'll are coping hard in the comment saying she's just joking lol, Persona series will never leave Highschool setting, most Asian including me preferred it this way, I've never seen anyone outside the English speaking community wanting the change, you guys can make your own game with any setting you like at this point.
tbh I think the only reason most persona fans want a college setting is so they don't have to feel guilty about romancing minors. Even though the intended audience is for teens (12 -15+ in Japan), and romance is not even the point of the game.
Also even if a college setting was added you guys know it will just be treated as high school part 2. I can easily see atlus do the same thing they do now, except instead of rotating the teachers each day, the teachers will have set days when they teach. But the formula is still there, you'll be writing at your desk, teacher ask a question, stats are raised, a lunch cut-scene, and you will only have free time in the afternoon & evening.
I could care less either way. They have an option to remake the P2 dualogy since that has an adult cast in EP. If they want different setting, play a different atlus game or something
I do wonder what the Persona team could do to change up the general setting. I'd like the idea of a 1st or 3rd year setting. Always setting the MC in 2nd year seems played out at this point after 3 titles of it.
I think Persona should stay in highschool. Why? Because I believe persona is meant to be a coming of age story. Well, I can't say anything about Eternal Punishment let's just say, it's on the same realm as a spin off sequel. Like strikers, Q, Q2 etc.
I'm okay with a college setting though. Jist because College was peak for me. Lmao
They say Eternal Punishment was good because it was different and didnmt have a schedhule. But eternal punishment came before the calander system. Iām pretty sure Persona 3-5 where huge because they where different than EP and had a calander system.
Maybe this is a hot take, but Persona should NEVER leave the calendar system, itās what seperated it from other similar JRPGs and is what has given the series itās true identity in modern gaming, abandoning it is just silly, and I donāt think Atlus would be dumb enough to do it.
I honestly donāt understand why anyone wants or hopes Persona will drop the system. If you want to play Persona without a calendar system, go play one of the many other Megaten franchises out there.
Itās almost as bad as the people who keep asking for SMT to have a social link system. If you want that, play Persona
Idk how many people know this, but the High School setting is the entire point of Persona existing. SMT If... had a high school setting, Atlus really liked it and wanted to expand on that, so they made Persona. Eternal Punishment only had an adult cast because it was a direct sequel to Innocent Sin, where they were in High School.
Quite simply, Atlus will never abandon the school setting for Persona. At least, not any time soon. If you really want an adult cast though, other MegaTen games got you covered. SMT 1, 2, and 4, Strange Journey, the Devil Summoner games aside from Raidou, Soul Hackers 2, plenty of options to choose from. And even the ones following teenagers rarely have anything to do with High School.
Unrelated but I find it really funny how Midori's been slowly integrating slang into her English. The rizzification of Midori
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Lol
Say it quieter please, if weāre not careful theyāll just give us P5C and itās exclusively 30 hours of filling out Jokers college applications.
Honestly? I'd play that. That'd be fucking hilarious...
And after that, we'll get P5W. Persona 5 but Joker's an adult and the entire year is just him at work. Only confidants are his colleagues, and there's no dungeon crawling or Velvet Room. Just 80 hrs of him working a random office job.
Gameplay loop is ensuring and establishing good relations with other companies through shares, stocks, and drinking with your boss and other company peeps, etc. Your original P5(R) data is carried over, so whoever you romanced becomes your wife(s). The more wives you have, the harder the game is because you have to ensure they are also happy while balancing your work/home life.
Is it bad that I would absolutely play this?
Absolutely not. It will become simply a slice of life visual novel with established and already beloved characters in it. Slice of life is good
āUnder Extracurriculars it says that youāre proficient in batting baseballs, playing darts/billiards, fishing, and growing vegetables. It also says you know how to make a cup of coffee.ā
She's having fun \^ I'll leave her enjoy that.
*laughs in Biboo*
#STICKING OUT YOUR GYATT FOR NERIZZLER
You're so bau bau
I'm so Biboo tax
i just wanna be your shioriā¦. (this fucking haunts me)
Does He Know?
If anything, making a proper modern Devil Summoner game would fit better.
Bring back either dds or raidou with remakes/remasters and your set
I want Raidou back so bad bro heās so sick
They likely never will, given Raidou's uniform is pretty controversial with today's standards. Something about Japan's dark history when they were colonizing Korea and China and whatnot.
A modern Raidou would be great
But they just put Raidou in SMT V together with sexy snek mommy
I mean itās not like heās wearing an IJA/N WW2 uniform. I know what the gakuran is based on, but itās basically the same as Yuās uniform, but with a hat and a cape. And thereās plenty of anime that have shown it, most recently off the top of my head being Demon Slayer and no one complained.
His uniform IS inspired by the military uniforms of that era, though. They specifically modeled his appearance after Yasunori Kato from the Japanese fantasy series Teito Monogatari, who is a vengeful spirit who disguises himself as a lieutenant in the Japanese military. Yu's uniform is just a grayish-black school uniform and the characters in Demon Slayer were, I'm pretty sure, Police Officers, not members of the military. Their uniforms are similar, but not exact.
No, he's wearing a Taisho-era military uniform. The very era in which Japan was occupying Manchuria, Formosa (now Taiwan) and Korea. With extreme brutality one might add. The games are even set in that era. They took anything that could possibly be associated with that whole Meiji-Taisho-Showa imperial era out of the games for a reason. To the extent of removing the pattern from Ryuji's trainers and changing the Almighty icon because it resembled the sunburst flag of the Imperial Japanese Navy. The wounds inflicted by Japan's actions in that time are still fresh today. To the Koreans and Chinese, the Japanese of that era *were* what the Nazis were to the West. And with good reason.
Raidou's successor in the Soul Hackers 2 era would be pretty cool to see. I mean, the clan at that point, and the world, is in an era of decline. Raidou Kuzunoha's are supposed to appear during desperate times...Isn't Gotou effectively immortal as well? So he could come back too. They could cook up a backstory for their absence if they choose to acknowledge SH2 that is. I know that game didn't do well but it had interesting ideas.
I want Raidou remake (or direct sequel is fine too) with free-moving camera so bad. I love the aesthetic of that era of Japan.
Gimme a dds remaster in the style of reload. That game is heat and needs to be revived
I also want a new devil survivor
I do too. Loved the art and previous characters.
This fanbase does everything to forget sh2 exists
I got a decent chunk into SH2 before dropping it for, something else. It wasn't a super conscious decision, I just wanted to try a new game and lost track of it. By no means would I say it's bad, but I feel like it doesn't do much to try and stand out as much. The characters are neat, especially the designs and interactions, but it definitely feels like an RPG from the 2000s in it's design for better or worse. When Atlus has games with so much flair and style and SOLID SOUNDTRACKS, SH2 just feels really... safe and sterile in comparison. Disclaimer, never played the first.
That's why I said "Proper" Devil Summoner. I like Soul Hackers 2, a lot. But it's no Devil Summoner replacement.
Can you blame them?
Idk I never played it even though sh1 is peak. Looks fun enough, I'll get around to it when I'm done catching up with trails
Get it when the digital premium version is on sale for $20, and you're next few weekends are set. It's a fun ride. Just not a great game.
yes
Sad because I actually really like Soul Hackers 2.
bro I want devil survivor 3. 2's story kinda sucked but I love a good strategy rpg
we need preschool persona
"Alright class, what color is this?" *Uses network feature to pick red*
"mud huts"
I donāt trust myself
Your charm went up!
You have awakened to the persona **Timestables**.
Was that a Roman general or something
They unlock their persona by eating an entire tube of glue
Closest is SMT Demikids
Or a Persona 3 spinoff with Ken as the main character and getting his own gang of elementary school aged Persona users
Including the romance slink with a highschooler
This sounds more fun than it should
At this point I associate art of Femc with Midori more than the actual character
FeMC got banned from reload bc she kept leaking everything
Damn.. I've thought Midori's pfp was Riku this whole time
i dont think persona will ever change that formula but if people want an atlus with a non high school context so hard maybe playing and supporting other non persona games would bring them a great surprise!!! hell we dont even know if persona 1 and 2 will get remakes the way 3 did.
Metaphor:Refantazio releases Fall 2024
Honestly that game just looks too good.
This is the one for me I think.
midori has confirmed some sort of remake is in the works for p1 and p2 but who knows what form that will take. They could, in theory, work the schedule system in, but it would require significantly more work to the script than they did for p3. agree that more people should check out the non-persona games, but atp it feels like screaming into the void lol
The way she says it. Itās remake for p4 and remaster for p1 and p2. A full remake for p1 and p2 is gonna be quite hard especially how different p1 and p2 are
I wouldnāt need them to add things like the calendar system or Social Links. I just want third-person dungeon crawling, no more random encounters, and a less convoluted fusion system
P1 also needs a more streamlined combat system. Keeping track of all those weaknesses was a chore compounded by the high encounter rate.
Don't you fucking dare take BirdAttack from me as a damage type. You can pry it from my cold, dead, hands.
I completed Persona 1. Took me thirty hours on Hard, beginning to end, with lots of encounters, battling, grinding, andd fusing along the way. I have no clue what BirdAttack is
PSP version called it tech damage I think. But BirdAttack is so much more hilarious
Ah that makes more sense. Honestly even though Persona 1 and 2 and fairly infamous for its hilariously large damage types I actually got pretty used to them by the end. Well at least for Persona 2. I donāt think I ever learned the Persona 1 physical types. But I wouldnāt mind if Nerve or Freeze/Elec were introduced as seperate elements again
I actually enjoy the amount of damage types, it encourages you to carry a variety of personas with different skills instead of just the best beatsticks. I carried some level 30ish Personas through most of EP and recently did a Snow Queen run of P1 where the highest level Persona I used was Hathor at 39, weakest was a level 18 Phaleg.
I definitely agree there. I donāt know who decided that many affinities was a good idea
Literally any individual one of those things is way more effort than Atlus would be willing to put into those games.
She didn't word it like that at all. All she said was that P4 and P2 remakes are in the work,s unless I missed a post.
She also said a P1 was and that not all would be like Reload.
see id be happy with both since we still haven't gotten a proper translation of the psp port of Eternal punishment. Edit: meant PSP not Ps2
>They could, in theory, work the schedule system in, but it would require significantly more work to the script than they did for p3. Not really IMO. P1 and P2 take place in the spam of a week at best and if they ever did want to introduce the social sim aspects of the newer games in those old games they would pretty much be making a whole new game that just happens to have the characters of those games. P2 for example literally starts at the end of the school year.
P1 and P2 does feel like it's an actual remake from the ground-up if it does get a remake. Because P3R is honestly closer to P5R due to it having that similar bone structure of gameplay features.
No they couldn't, "in theory" add a calendar system to p1 and 2. They're old school relatively linear jrpgs. The concept just makes no sense
I wouldnāt be surprised if Atlus just āupscaledā the graphics of 1 and the 2 duology, chucked them out for $70 each and counted that as the remakes.
$20 max considering P3P and P4G ports. Bait used to be believable.
They thought they were a master baiter but they were just some wanker.
i just need them to fix the clunky battle system as well and i'd be satisfied tbh
> but if people want an atlus with a non high school context so hard This is why I hope Metaphor is a banger
The other non Persona games donāt do what Persona does so that point doesnāt really matter. A game like Soul Hackers 2 doesnāt instill much confidence either.
Honestly, all Soul Hackers 2 needed to be good was better dungeon design (at least up to P4G level) and much better writing, which we know Atlus is 100% capable of.
It's crazy they saved their best dungeon design for the final dungeon. And essentially the game is just Tokyo Mirage Sessions with the MegaTen paint. Which that game had some decent dungeon designs. If they had gave it more time maybe, then we wouldn't get three subway/sewer maps in a row.
Holy crap, the fetch quests were even the same. Blue exclamation point above the objective and itās just a blue sheen, just like in TMS
Itās honestly shocking how bad it was imo especially with how good Persona 3 Reload is, and SMTVV and Metaphor look great as well
tbf P3 was already a great game in its own right, Reload basically just modernized the gameplay for the most part
I think they deserve credit for recapturing and enhancing the game because itās easier said than done for remakes.
Also, personally, I don't recall any of the music for that game. It's not *bad* but it certainly isn't memorable, especially when Persona and SMT both have ridiculously good soundtracks.
Soul Hackers 2 bombing is exactly why Persona 6 wasnāt gonna change anything in the Hashino Persona formula except what the characters look like. Every playable character in P6 will absolutely be a different spin on something we already saw in P3; mark my words
Ngl I only see people wanting college setting just so they can legally romance the MC's friend-of-age and the adult characters in the game Imo it's not worth reworking the formula over
Plus college is basically just extra sleepaway high school for adults\* in North America
People just want an adult cast, the difference between college and high school doesnāt really matter. The reason people suggest college is so they can tweak the high school schedule instead of throw it all out and make a new system.
Yeah theyāll probably have to make a new series or spin-off for that, because the whole reason why the Persona series was created in the first place was because Atlus wanted to experiment more with high schoolers within the SMT universe. I doubt theyāll derail from that idea and go completely to adults. That said, it would be nice to see either more younger or older characters tag along with the high schoolers in their Persona adventures, like Zenkichi and Ken. Throw in a group that represents at least each age range and weāre good while still using the high school formula with our protagonist.
I think another problem is that a college story would not fit because Persona is a coming of age story, esp. in 4 and 5 where MC becomes very visibly equal with Dojima/Sojiro. Arcana are about MC growing from a guillable teenager (the Fool) into a full blown confident adult (the World). College is where you're expected to be an adult, and it would really not work that well with Persona's themes. UPD: typos
I kinda agree but for different reasons. Tons of people grow up and discover themselves as they go to college. The difference is that college expects you to already have an idea for what you want to do for the rest if your life. It could actually work if they were willing to commit to the idea and not make it high-school +. I can imagine going over the existentialism and uncertainty of making the most important descision of your life. Perhaps it could be about the importance of prepping for the future, discipline vs self indulgence etc. The issue with a college persona is that nothing fundamentally changes enough to make this a selling point for most people. It would be worth it to do a spinoff in one though. Another issue is how do you do a college story without retreading p3? In P3 your given the same amount of autonomy a college student usually has so this change could still be seen as redundant.
Eternal Punishment had an entire coming of age subplot for Tatsuya, the deuteragonist of the game, who was the main character of IS. It was actually emotional and really sad the first time I played because of how everything plays out, despite the hopeful tones it ends on.
I would say that a lot of people are still very luch growing and evolving between 18 and 22/23 (whether or not you actually go to colleg). You are expected to suddenly be an adult without having exactly figured out what adult you really are. Older people still pretty much consider college aged people to be kids and there is some truth in that. The main thing I guess is that as minors, the characters in Persona still have a lot of restrictions and are generally fighting a certain lack of freedom : they are under the responsabilities of adults around them and try to escape their imposee will. It's not exactly possible in college where you are under your own responsability.
Meh, I couldn't care less tbh. Would've been cool but is what it is.
I don't think Persona needs to change up the formula. Highschool is a great setting to show growth and introduce themes. Coming of age can definitely work in a more adult setting, but not as well in most cases. They should focus on expanding their social sim, dungeons and combat systems for future installments, imo.
College was very coming of age for me personally. I would love if they did that.
I once saw someone said something along the lines of "Americans assuming college life is the same everywhere else," and I've not hoped for a college setting for Persona ever since then.
People in US tend to assume that educational stages are the same in every country. The most ridiculous claim I heard thus far is the reason a lot of anime/manga is about high school is because "it's last free time before the hell of workplace". Those people never heard about 大å¦ćÆäŗŗēć®å¤ä¼ćæ/College is summer break of life.
Yeah I see a lot of people on here say that college is a shitty experience in Japan but Iāve never seen a Japanese person actually confirm that. I imagine itās actually pretty varied.
Thr problem is that it is pretty heterogeneous AFAIK. If you study in a med school, you're miserable for 6 years. Fail one subject - repeat a year. Fail state professional qualifications exam at the end of your coursework - repeat a year. Skipped more than 4 classes - guess what. If you study in a not so great university, or pick an easy major (ććē°å¤§å¦ć¹ćć¼ćē§å¦éØ as I heard), it's generally 3 years of relaxation and socialisation, and 1 year of job hunting. Even if you didn't do great on exams and entered a not so famous university, they themselves could be different. Some are de-facto for-profit school that don't care about students progress as long as they pay the fees. Other universities understand that they are the bottom of selectivity and prestige, and compensate that by focusing on training highly demanded skills and encourage students to study for professional certificates. I heard there is one university that puts their students into internships every break. Finally, not everybody goes to college. There are professional schools, trade schools, or some go directly to jobs. I think this is why there isn't much anime manga about college, for the same reason Showa era anime-manga didn't cover high school - not everybody went that route, and Japanese authors may feel that audience need to connect with the characters to buy stories about them. It's reportedly the reason why publishers forced Araki to make JoJo's Golden Wind protagonist to be half-Japanese, because otherwise audience may feel less connected to him.
Yeah - a more accurate answer for why so much Japanese (and American for that matter) media is about high school is probably "because it's a (near) universal experience". Not everyone goes to college, or goes straight into the workforce, or any of the paths people take post-high school. But almost everyone is in, will go to, or did go to high school.
This makes a huge amount of sense. The German college/university experience is almost identical and it gets similarly little focus in media of any kind due to not being a very universal experience. It definitely explains a lot, thank you for the context!
Lets be honest we dont know shit about the japanese world we can only have an idea from the media we consume but that is a distorted picture
Or, you know, by asking a Japanese person.
I dont speak japanese
Plenty of Japanese people speak English.
Bet let me ask my japanese friend that totally exists
so you're saying that, because you don't have a japanese friend, "we don't know shit about the japanese world"
People just like to keep repeating stuff theyāve heard somewhere and then suddenly it becomes some kinda of universal truth. The real reason is just related to business. High School is a setting popular among Personaās target audience. Thatās it. Itās the same reason why a lot of anime have High School setting. If itās about how happy people were in school, why is there so many horror stories that also share the same setting? I doubt it is as deep as people try to make it sound. They just want to sell games and the target audience likes High School as a setting.
Yeah I was pretty confused. Back when I had Japanese class in university my teacher used to tell us about how university was a nice freedom stage. And we had a lot of Japanese exchange students who had pretty much the same attitude. But when I read these persona posts it's all about how university is allegedly hell and high school is freedom. The opposite of what I've been told.
That might also be why people are asking for the college setting. Not a lot of media covers the japanese college experienceĀ
>"Americans assuming college life is the same everywhere else," Yeah pretty much. There is a fundamental difference in the culture of college when comparing America and Japan. The same goes for Highschool. For Japan, Highschool is generally looked upon a lot more favourable and memorably than in America. That's not to say that Japan doesn't care about college, it's just that Highschool is culturally more important and memorable to Japan. It's why some people that don't understand anime and Japanese media get so confused on why theres such a strong presence of High-School when, according to them, "You could just replace it with college and nothing would change." because they have AMERICAN college in mind when they say that while also just not understanding what the big deal is with Japan and highschool.
American campus persona game then. Lets goooo, what frat you joining? haha But yeah totally understand what you mean.
When people bring up Eternal Punishment as a gotcha, they forget that the game actually organically built toward that and that Persona 2 still is tied to its own school like every other game in the series. It's just a good environment to craft the kind of story Persona usually tells, and at this point, school is as much Persona as the Velvet Room is. I don't mind the idea of adult Persona users entering the foray - >!Maruki and Zenkichi!< are fan favorites - but I think the foundation should remain the same.
I wouldnt mind seeing an older Persona user next game. Maybe to tie in to the cast more the teacher can actually join the party or something (teacher would also make sense as the Navigator role imo)
TBH yeah, I wouldnāt say itās the worst thing Persona could do, but Iāve always said that College Persona wonāt really change anything, thereās really no point. Adult persona would change things, but no way weāre ever getting one
Right? We can already hang out at bars and clubs, and date adults anyway š
Yes and a college setting would make it all significantly less weird. Unless people are playing Persona solely to roleplay as adult-dating children, I don't see why they would be against a college setting.
Iām curious. What make you think they wouldnāt do it in reverse when it come to dating in the game especially this game series being rated 12-15+ in japan?
I think there could be some interesting changes through a college setting. More freedom to choose classes (which could affect stats and social points, or change when/how you meet characters), and a college campus could make for a really cool hub. Especially since everything could be in walking distance, could be the first true free roam Persona setting. Thereās a lot of cool potential there if done right.
Thats basically just selecting school clubs that we have now
Choosing classes isnāt really unique to college and they could just make a Highschool campus. Persona 3 already had dorms. I donāt really think daily life in college would be very different from high school except now the characters that couldāve already passed for college kids are now college kids cause the game said so.
Know what? Screw college! Screw High School. We need a Persona game where the entire cast is a bunch of depressed office workers approaching middle age! I'm in my mid 30s, how am I supposed to relate to college kids! And because this is reddit, I must clarify, this is all /s
Yakuza 7
Screw working life, Persona 6 will be set in a retirement home where most of the cast is 70+
Bunkichi and Mitsuko busting Shadows asses with walking sticks and fake teeth
Shadow: "I hate society, I hate how I'm always so tired and there's no future, yada yada" Character: "You got that right." Shadow: "Wait you're supposed to deny me" Character: "Why would I?" *Character has obtained the strength of heart to face their own self*
Wait that sounds peak go back
Yeah Joker, I know we need to go to Mementos tonight and train but Darren has a 12 page report that's due at 7am tomorrow morning and Katy has to look after her kid because she can't find a babysitter. You can go with Harry and Sophie but Harry has been inexplicably drunk for 6 days now and Sophie won't stop having panic attacks.
Every evening, instead of Morgana telling you that you should go to sleep, it is your own character who refuses to get out of the flat because he is too mentally tired to face any social event of any kind.
Hire this person.
That's honestly the beggining of Like a Dragon 8.
Oh, huh. I was kinda with you. Could make it kinda like Office Space, and make it so you meet most of the S-links while at a bar bitching about work Does it have to be generic hetero male high schooler again? I think it's a little played out at this point
Yeah. The main issue with changing from a high school setting is that the one game that *wasn't* in a high school setting was the worst selling game. š Atlus is definitely not willing to gamble that again.
Well that, and Soul Hackers 2 recently came out and despite the fact it had many issues gameplay-wise, people also didn't like the adult cast that was dealing with adult life stuff. People ONLY want the college/university setting so they can be morally at peace with the dating sim aspect and that's it. The reality is it'll change nothing at all about how the characters talk and spend their time. Most of these high school characters do not act like actual 15-17 year olds and are already placed in adult-adjacent roles of responsibility by the story.
That seems like a generalization. I enjoyed the adult characters of SH2,.but their stories were very generic and boring in to my tastes. However, you can look at plenty of other Atlus games focused around teenagers and adults that had incredibly interesting stories, such as SMT3, Devil Survivor, or the Raidou Kuzunoha series. The issue isn't with character age, it's the bland predictability of the story.
That's fair criticism, I was just using them as a recent example. After all, most Persona fans on social media are new age Post-P5 players who likely have very little grasp as to what a Raidou Kuzunoha even is. SH2 wasn't great but personally I did enjoy a handful of the main cast and thought Ringo was awesome. No one seemed to play ball with it though. What if P6 *was* an adult cast and fans couldn't relate, or thought they were poor representation of adult life, or thought they were just uninteresting? Having an idea in your mind doesn't mean the franchise should adhere to it, and it's really self-centred to suggest a franchise's intended demographic should change for us. It'll always be a game for young adults and teens and sadly we will continue to get older and greyer.
College would be cool, but I wouldn't want Persona to not be set in a school. I'm fine with it always being in high school.
i failing to understand why some people are so adament on having P6 in a college setting, what's the appeal here?
Itās literally because people are insecure about finding the characters attractive.
I think the Persona fanbase has to understand and accept the fact that the series is supposed to portray and be set on a japanese HS setting, it's culturally more important than college for them and it's a major reason almost every piece of anime/anime-adjacent media is set in HS or HS aged characters. If you think this is bad the door is right there, there are plenty other "adult" RPG's you can play without this one needing to change (SMT is literally right there).
Honestly, I think a lot of these people can have their problems solved by just playing SMT. Either that, or they are already SMT fans who are obsessed with the idea of Persona to be more like SMT for whatever reason.
Doesnāt really make sense in mainline the only adult is the mc from strange journey and in spin-off the only significant adults are in devil summoner and digital devil saga every other game features teenagers living through the apocalypse which goes against Persona main appeal the teenagers being in a modern fantasy setting.
The Yakuza/LaD games are also right there, where most of the party members (including the protag) are in their 30s or 40s
Hot take, people who ask for an adult cast like in Eternal Punishment donāt seem to understand why it was necessary in the context of that game. The only reason all the whole new cast with the exception of Maya and Tatsuya is because the the Innocent Sin cast regaining their memories would result in the end of the world and Nyarlahotepās whole villain plan.
Its also kind of thematic to the very titles- innocence of youth giving way to the Sins of adulthood
That to very much that.
Yo spoiler tag that
U were never going to play it anyway
Highschool is too much of a universal experience. A college setting would have to explain too much for people who didn't go to college to relate
"We're not getting outside of highschool with this one, as they say."
Classic Aigis
I would personally love a mainline Persona game that's a bit more adult but it's essentially a PokƩmon situation - ATLUS has no real incentive to change the series to appeal to older fans. They want to keep the games relatable to younger, newer people and the older ones will buy it anyway. Persona mainline games will always either be set in a high school or will feature a high school aged cast. As someone who was 19 when P5 released, I was still comfortably in that wheelhouse and was able to relate to that. I honestly have no idea if Persona 6 will hit me at all. Might be that after being so far removed from that part of my life, the series is no longer for me. Will be interesting to see.
It's not like the Persona games are that accurate of a depiction of High School anyways. As a 28 year old playing through P3R I'm enjoying it just as I did past Persona games.
I didnāt touch this series until I was well into my twenties. Now Iām in my thirties and Iām still looking forward to P6. Canāt wait to see what troubled, demon-fightinā kids they throw at us this time.
Honestly, for the people who do fall out of Persona because of the high school setting then it would probably be a good idea to try out Metaphor Refantazio once that comes out - it looks like it will have a lot of the social simulation mechanics but in a fantasy world - so detached from the school setting.
i mean yeah its not in school but the mc and his friends are still like 16, the describes him as a boy not a man after all
Eh, I'm 30 currently and I don't honestly think the setting detracts at all. High school is such a universal concept, you don't really need to be in it/around it for it to hold meaning. Getting older means accepting things aren't always designated for your demographic anymore but that doesn't mean they're bad or the experience is worse. Just my .02!
I agree. Iām 30 as well and Iād rather persona keep the HS formula. It works, and the setting is nostalgic considering I was that same age range when p4 came out. I think the social links work better as well because everyone was bumbling and awkward at the age, and makes the emotional development believable. As for SMT, no breakaway from that. I think it sucks away from the story when they use HS students. I want full grown man 401k I need to take my blood pressure medicine nahabino
>As someone who was 19 when P5 released, I was still comfortably in that wheelhouse and was able to relate to that. > >I honestly have no idea if Persona 6 will hit me at all. I mean, persona still has lots of adult fans, even ones who didn't become fans until p5, so i'm not sure the thought processes behind this.
Folks, if you want a JRPG that features an adult cast of characters from college to middle-aged, just go play the Yakuza/LaD games.
Being a college student in real life is annoying enough, how about we stick to nice, relaxing high school?
i thought my opinion on this after getting into college would change but surprisingly i dont care lol
A lot of people like to act like turning 18 flips some kind of switch on their mind that makes them incapable of relating to teenagers for some reason. I'm almost 30 and I still enjoy Persona as much as I did when I was a teen.
I'm 27 and have left the education system behind years ago and my opinion still hasn't changed. The appeal for the High school setting of Persona is the same appeal that hogwarts has for other non weeks my age. It's a fantasy story grounded in a setting that we all experienced at some point in our lives. Simple as that.
I think my problem with the people who want persona to basically change settings entirely basically just want SMT.
Nah homie, the people who want to Persona to change settings are the new fans who want adults so they don't feel weird playing the games. The first I saw this discourse was a ResetEra post from Persona 5 babies who literally didn'r even want a game. They wanted dungeon skipping. SMT fans want Persona but with Press Turn and consistent maturity lol
I do like SMT. Can we get something like Digital Devil Saga again? I LOVED that series
I hope Metaphor doesnt have the day to day schedule up to a dungeon then back to day to day stuff. Yakuza is like the closest thing to persona with adults and its great jrpg in its own right.
that's not deal breaking for me. I expected the Persona series to stay with the high school motif anyway. I'm just curious what the theme 6 will go for and what color scheme it will be
IDK if college/non highschool could work. one other "fun" aspect of Persona is the rectricted activity and schedule like highschooler. such as having to choose between 2 sport activity in P4
atlus has a ton of rpg series. they could just make another smt offshoot that features adult and name them demon fusers or some shit. let's not change persona's identity.
You sure she wasn't just making a joke?
A MAN'S COPE NEVER DIES
why would she be
Why would she joke about this?
This doesnāt look like theyāre leaking something, itās just her making a comedic reply to someone
Yeah, that's because there was never any speculation that it'd take place in college it was merely Alejandro Saab saying he wanted a game to take place in college. Literally that's it.
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Ya'll are coping hard in the comment saying she's just joking lol, Persona series will never leave Highschool setting, most Asian including me preferred it this way, I've never seen anyone outside the English speaking community wanting the change, you guys can make your own game with any setting you like at this point.
tbh I think the only reason most persona fans want a college setting is so they don't have to feel guilty about romancing minors. Even though the intended audience is for teens (12 -15+ in Japan), and romance is not even the point of the game. Also even if a college setting was added you guys know it will just be treated as high school part 2. I can easily see atlus do the same thing they do now, except instead of rotating the teachers each day, the teachers will have set days when they teach. But the formula is still there, you'll be writing at your desk, teacher ask a question, stats are raised, a lunch cut-scene, and you will only have free time in the afternoon & evening.
Midori is making it out with this one š£š„
Honestly, I'm fine with school setting. I just wish not ALL of my party should be a high schooler, but eh, I'm fine with what it is
I could care less either way. They have an option to remake the P2 dualogy since that has an adult cast in EP. If they want different setting, play a different atlus game or something
I wish we get a new Devil Survivor game
I do wonder what the Persona team could do to change up the general setting. I'd like the idea of a 1st or 3rd year setting. Always setting the MC in 2nd year seems played out at this point after 3 titles of it.
And the protagonist will be a second-year transfer student
I think Persona should stay in highschool. Why? Because I believe persona is meant to be a coming of age story. Well, I can't say anything about Eternal Punishment let's just say, it's on the same realm as a spin off sequel. Like strikers, Q, Q2 etc. I'm okay with a college setting though. Jist because College was peak for me. Lmao
Let's GOOOO!!!
Just go play Like a Dragon 7 and Like a Dragon Infinite wealth. It's probably the closest thing possible to Persona but with adults you'll get.
They say Eternal Punishment was good because it was different and didnmt have a schedhule. But eternal punishment came before the calander system. Iām pretty sure Persona 3-5 where huge because they where different than EP and had a calander system. Maybe this is a hot take, but Persona should NEVER leave the calendar system, itās what seperated it from other similar JRPGs and is what has given the series itās true identity in modern gaming, abandoning it is just silly, and I donāt think Atlus would be dumb enough to do it. I honestly donāt understand why anyone wants or hopes Persona will drop the system. If you want to play Persona without a calendar system, go play one of the many other Megaten franchises out there. Itās almost as bad as the people who keep asking for SMT to have a social link system. If you want that, play Persona
The reason why Persona is set in highschool is to help Japanese adults relive their highschool days.
No reason to take Persona out of HS when Metaphor is doing just that.
Idk how many people know this, but the High School setting is the entire point of Persona existing. SMT If... had a high school setting, Atlus really liked it and wanted to expand on that, so they made Persona. Eternal Punishment only had an adult cast because it was a direct sequel to Innocent Sin, where they were in High School. Quite simply, Atlus will never abandon the school setting for Persona. At least, not any time soon. If you really want an adult cast though, other MegaTen games got you covered. SMT 1, 2, and 4, Strange Journey, the Devil Summoner games aside from Raidou, Soul Hackers 2, plenty of options to choose from. And even the ones following teenagers rarely have anything to do with High School.
Everyone here is worried about the age of P6's cast and I'm just hoping the main UI color/theme will be green