Katsura Hashino with Shigenori Soejima and Shoji Meguro work on "Project Re Fantasy" :) The Good: The main team of Persona is working on more persona games. Win - win situation for all =)

Looking good, Zura

Zura Janai. Katsura Da.

XDDDDD

Was hoping someone got it.  

I sure hope not! I don't think Atlus could handle such a long development cycle considering their size.

2038. 

That's not the point I'm making. The goal of this game is to turn the RPG genre on it's head, in a similar way to what the original SMT was doing back on the Super Nintendo (and NES with megami tensei).

The Persona team has a lot of talent, but the are absolutely a mainstream RPG maker by comparison. Which is fine, but I don't expect anything close to as different as what SMT was to modern RPGs of that era. It would have to be like a first person open world turn based RPG with some completely original setting, theme, concept, etc so match that, and I don't think the Persona team have ever claimed to have that kind of spirit to reject norms in them. Which is fine. They make good games. What they don't make are ground-breakingly different games.

Again, in an era where every RPG was a high fantasy 3rd person game top down game, SMT was a cyber punk horror story set in a real world location with real world-accurate representation of demons and mythological entities, and all in the first person. Persona 5 is not the polar opposite of RPGs being made today. Again, which is fine. But even looking at the art released thus far, there's nothing that screams "different." That would not have been the case for SMT 1+2.

I'm not worried about the quality. I'm concerned about the intent. I'm very sure this won't be an action RPG. That's not what worries me. I don't agree with the sentiment that we don't have enough info to worry. We know the team and the purpose. The team has a history that clashes with that purpose.

And that intent or purpose would be?By what you answered in the same quote, you mean "breaking the convention"?By that, the Persona team already did that, with Persona 3.Few RPGs are set in a modern day, and few do that in excellency.Persona 3 did just that.But that wasnt the real changer P3 brought.It was the time management and social aspect(simulation) of it and how it meshed so naturally with the dungeon crawling aspect of it.There is not one single game that does that, or at the very least nothing that comes near it.

By all means, AStlus, and more specifically the Persona team is the best one to handle that kind of task, much more than the SMT team.Will they succeed?No idea.But saying that when you are basing solely on a few artworks and the team performance(which should actually make you confident in it), is silly in my opinion.

Atlus is awesome, Katsura Hashino too. The next great game, wait of more infos and the first trailer :)

Great to see it's coming to ps4. Probably won't release for a few years though.