Hiku said:
Yeah, his creations are not redesigned in a fundamental way when they appear in 3d. But the 3d models in P3 have a more cartoony style and are less detailed.
 
Btw, I want to note that I mistakenly remembered that the enemy sprites in SMT IV were just cropped out images of their official artwork. There was this enemy in the beginning of the game that looked like a blue horse with two heads. It was one of Nirasawa's abominations, and I remembered it like it was, perhaps because the artwork appears when you have a conversation with the monster. Another reason was because artwork of the enemies will often appear during boss battles.
Anyway, the monsters and characters in battle look fairly cartoony in P3. And Kaneko's distinct doll-like/human style faces for example on some of his humanoid characters are not particularly apparent in this style.
Actually, after thinking about this, I realized you may never actually fight any of Kanako's creations in Persona 3. And 4?
The monsters tend to look like this.
I may be remembering wrong, but I can't recall the monsters you face in battle ever being the Persona that you can acquire. In Persona 4 you face the Persona that your main characters use at one point or another, but I'm not sure who designed those.
So if that's the case, the only time you see Kaneko's monster design in P3 is when you use them as the main character, which causes a transparent ghost like image of them to appear above him for a brief moment when he shoots himself in the head with an evoker.
In the everyday life gameplay/story, you'll only ever see Soejima's artwork. And in battles, it's this cartoony style. In Menus you can see both Soejima and Kaneko's art. But along with the 3d cartoony, less detailed style in battle, and the separation of monsters from society, it made it feel like none of the designs were out of place.
It's a bit different when you see Doi's characters having a conversation with Kaneko's characters in SMT IV. But perhaps because of how I transitioned through the series, I didn't think about it as strange.
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Well, Persona also started off being all Kaneko:
And that was appreciated. And then came Persona 3 with mixed artists for characters and Persona, and that was appreciated as well.
I agree that Kaneko's style feels more suited for a darker atmosphere. But I wonder if the mainline SMT series will go back to being all Kaneko. It may not. We're now seeing what appears to be yet another artist for SMT IV: Final.
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Yeah, but like I said, I feel like the new style fits Persona better than Kaneko's style, which is why I don't mind it. I think Persona 5 would be worse in his style. But I feel the opposite with the mainline series.
In regards to Final, I think that's just because it's set in literally the same universe. It wouldn't make sense to change artists for a spin off game like that.
