Atlus Starting Work on Persona 5
by admin on Mar.25, 2010, under News
It’s been a long time since we last heard anything about the followup to PS2 swan song Persona 4 – the last we heard, longtime Atlus composer Shoji Meguro had been credited with doing the soundtrack to Persona 5, but nothing concrete materialized from those rumors.
Now, however, we may have something definite, reports Kotaku. Katsura Hashino, who previously worked as producer and director on both Persona 3 and Persona 4, told Japanese game mag Dengeki PlayStation that work was beginning on the next Persona – but that things might be changing up a bit.
“We are preparing to start work on the next Persona,” said Hashino. “I want to add things that are being expected of the series,” he elaborated, but added that he also wanted “to change things that can be changed within those boundaries.”
Smart money says the next game will likely be about Japanese teenagers who have the ability to summon powerful alter egos based on their innermost selves, and who each fall into a different category of the tarot arcana. The power of said alter egos will depend as much on how much time the teenagers spend hanging out after school together as it does on how much time they spend level grinding in dungeons recreated out of the human psyche.
But that’s just a guess. He did say that he wanted to change it up, though. So maybe they’ll be… Japanese college students this time around? What would you like to see in a new Persona?
In other news, Kotaku’s Brian Ashcraft has excellent taste in pairing preferences.
April 11th, 2010 on 9:34 pm
for ps2 or ps3
May 8th, 2010 on 10:18 am
I’m a giant fan of the diversity of Persona 3 and 4, including the battle-system, character interactions, and the sort. what I’d love to see is being able to travel to different countries, as part of the plot, instead of just being situated in Japan or any single area. For example, what if the “major threat” popped up in multiple places around the world, and you had to complete a chapter in each to advance forward? Just an idea, but I think expanding the setting beyond one country or town would do wonders for the gameplay. The last thing I would like to suggest is being able to choose the protagonist’s gender. A simple, yet dramatic change like that would be welcome, I’m sure.
May 15th, 2010 on 10:09 pm
How about…(hold on to your butts now)..
AMERICAN college high-school or college students!!:-D
Since I am an american college student I would prefer college.
May 27th, 2010 on 5:03 pm
I can’t wait for this game! I would love for it too come out on both ps2 and ps3. I think they should let you choose if the main Character to be male or female. I would like to see the age change from teens to college students. Mabye different personas or demons too.
But i’ll be looking out for this game!
June 13th, 2010 on 11:55 pm
I’d like to see the option of being homosexual, like one of your teamates is gay, and a couple of the other social links include gay characters that you can date instead if the ladies, and a couple of lesbian social link characters if your female.
July 8th, 2010 on 5:39 am
if you want my advise i will say Japanese teenagers is best from Japanese college boring students the teenagers are more fun from college students the will be fun and make good anime like persona 4 and i hope it will be comedy and action and make extras and love point if you take my advise it will be the best game in all THE WORLD . I HOPE YOU EMAIL ME
August 9th, 2010 on 10:58 pm
Been waiting for a next gen shin megami tensei since persona 4, not necessarily a persona, but at least they are making one. Finally! ;}
August 14th, 2010 on 7:07 pm
i haven’t tried Persona 3 Portable yet, but i do like the idea of choosing genders (makes the gameplay more interesting). in persona 2 there was a mix of high school students and working young adults ,unlike persona 3 and persona 4 where the main characters are high school students only (except for amada ken), so i’m hoping the storyline for persona 5 would be more interesting by showing different points of views about it’s characters. the battles have to be kick-ass as well, including new skills and types of weapons. anyway, hope it comes out soon!