David Ellis' controversial Killzone 2 criticisms on last week's 1UP Yours spawned massive message-board flame wars, so unless you listened closely, you might've missed a kinder, gentler gaming take: Shane Bettenhausen raving about Persona 4, Atlus' anticipated PS2 sequel to out-of-nowhere high school-sim role-playing hits Persona 3 and Persona 3: FES. And our resident Man-God's not the only admirer. Shane, Philip Kollar, Ray Barnholt, and myself are all on the same page: This is definitely one of the year's best RPGs -- Japanese or otherwise.
In anticipation of the fast-approaching December 9 release, 1UP tracked down Persona 4 project lead Yu Namba and lead editor Nich Maragos for a follow-up interview; they first chatted with the localization duo back at Anime Expo in July as the project ramped up in intensity. But now that it's over and done with, what are their thoughts on how everything turned out? Persona 4's twisting rural mystery really deserves a spoiler-free playthrough, so 1UP has tried to keep any specific plot and character elements to an absolute minimum here -- but just as a friendly warning, this chat does contain some very, very minor spoilers.
The Switch would definitely benefit from Persona games, but at the end of the day, it doesn't need them for fans to scratch the itch.
At the end of the day Atlus/Sega can put Persona on whatever platform they want. Their business and their choice.
I mean techincally there are Persona games on Switch. Just not the core series. That being said, sales would definitely benefit from the Japanese market Switch owners if they ever decided to put them on there.
The PlayStation Brahs:
"The first of the Persona 25th anniversary announcements will come in September, as early as the 1st of the month. Which will start a series of 7 announcements, all the way up to Autumn 2022. With the announcements coming as early as tomorrow, I thought it would be interesting to talk about what I think my be announced during all of it".
As excited as I am to see more Persona, I really want to know the status of Project Re Fantasy. It's been nearly five years since that game was announced and we know absolutely nothing about it outside of a teaser trailer.
Persona 6 and Persona 3 FES port to PC, I don't know what else to expect, I'd buy a port of P3 Fes to go with P4G.
Strong sales of Persona 4: Golden port will lead to more Sega catalogue titles on PC
It only makes sense. I expect to finally see the hd definitive version of p3 by the end of the year.
I'm even surprised by how well it did. But I was one who bought on day one. Despite it coming out of no where. Loved the game on Vita. Hopefully they'll bring a version of Persona 3 that's a mix between combat from P3P, female and male protag, as well as the complete 3d game like FES etc. Basically the version where you get the best of everything, no compromise