The Persona collection has been a beloved franchise by the corporate and the gamers. It’s in the best way so many spinoffs have been made for Persona 3, 4, and 5, plus ports for Revelations: Persona and Persona 2. In distinction to their upbeat facade, the video games often contact upon darkish themes (sure, even the “cheerful” Persona 4).
In fact, followers can’t be happy with solely spinoffs and remakes, so that they’ve been searching for the subsequent sport within the collection. It’s been seven years since Persona 5 and three years since Strikers have been launched. It’s excessive time that the subsequent sport within the franchise seems.
Hints, Rumors, and Hypothesis
Final yr, Atlus celebrated the franchise’s twenty fifth anniversary. They introduced numerous issues, confirmed some merchandise, and made followers blissful. On the ultimate day, individuals got flyers. These mentioned that Atlus nonetheless had many issues to announce however deeply regretted not having the ability to but.
Issues can be shared on the proper time, or so it mentioned. Many have thought this was alleged to be a Persona 6 announcement or reveal. Nonetheless, one thing occurred that prevented them from saying something about it. The explanations can cowl a variety of developmental troubles, although we received’t be aware about these.
There’s one factor we are able to infer about Persona 6. Whereas it may very well be only a rumor, it issues the colour theme of the sport. Earlier video games have this, akin to 3 being predominantly blue (or pink), 4 having yellow, and 5 being crimson.
The first supply of the rumor is an image of all earlier protagonists for Persona video games standing in entrance of a graffitied wall. Some characters have colourful splatters on them, and Joker is even holding a twig paint can. Beside him is sufficient house for yet another character, a bucket of inexperienced paint, and a twig can of the identical colour.
Curiously, this image has little to no inexperienced aside from the talked about bucket and might, a splatter throughout Joker, and a flower-like type on the very prime of the mural above Maya and Tatsuya. This ‘flower’ has six petals and appears barely like a clover.
Builders often use colours to evoke particular feelings and emotions. Persona 3 offers with the inevitability of dying, becoming to have melancholic blue as its theme. Persona 4 is an upbeat and considerably lighter detective thriller, matching with cheerful however cautioning yellow. Persona 5 has themes of rise up and opposition, making crimson an ideal complement to the hazard they face and the fervour they’ve.
Inexperienced evokes a sense of envy, however additionally it is the colour of vegetation, symbolizing development and prosperity. If the sport’s image is a clover, it might additionally symbolize luck and the unfairness of your circumstances. The brand new protagonist may very well be somebody envying the higher class, being born poor, or one thing comparable. Granted, it doesn’t look as high-stakes as dying, a serial killer, and a ‘god’ who needs to strip free will away. Nonetheless, relying on the writing, it may very well be an thrilling story.
What We Need to See in Persona 6
Regardless of being in the identical franchise, the circulate of time calls for that it’ll have adjustments to the same old components. Listed here are some issues gamers need Persona 6 to have.
A Protagonist With a Character
Positive, blank-slate participant characters are a method so that you can mission your self into them. Nonetheless, the commonest technique to create one is to make them mute and non-expressive more often than not. It was considerably averted with P5’s Joker, as he can vocalize in cutscenes and is established as courageous. At the least courageous sufficient to struggle towards one of many antagonists, even when he doesn’t discover till assembly him once more.
It’s additionally averted with Tatsuya, who has some persona tidbits talked about by different characters. Some supplementary supplies additionally element different traits. The identical goes for Maya Amano, by being characterised in Persona 2: Harmless Sin whereas being a mute protagonist in Everlasting Punishment.
The protagonists for P3 and 4 are clean slates. They don’t have a lot background, and you may select numerous tones for his or her dialogs, however a lot is left open for the participant to fill in. P3P’s feminine protagonist adjustments it up. Her dialog selections are extra optimistic, upbeat, and diversified than her male counterpart’s. Nonetheless, aside from that, she’s a clean slate.
Whereas each types have benefit, followers wish to see extra of a personality’s persona in future video games. There’s little character development to see in the event that they don’t have anything to start out with. A option to play as a feminine protagonist would even be welcome. It was attainable for P3P, and Maya is a feminine protagonist, so why not for the opposite video games?
Shadows That Match the Theme of the Dungeon
One of the crucial distinguished variations between P5 and the 2 earlier video games is that Joker fights towards attainable personas. He then will get new ones by negotiating with them efficiently. In distinction, Persona 3 and 4 let gamers acquire new personas by means of Shuffle Time, which provides a component of randomness.
The latter appears a downgrade from the previous, but it surely allowed the dungeons to have distinctive enemies. Those who match the place they’re thematically and with out having to know trivia in regards to the persona.
The negotiation mechanic additionally makes it a little bit too just like the SMT franchise, which is the origin of this collection. Nonetheless, a distinction must be made between the 2, and that is one simple technique to do it. One various might nonetheless have thematic shadows and have the persona be a hidden enemy to barter with.
In some dungeon’s hidden corners is the persona, and you may battle it, negotiate, or it might ask you to do one thing for it so it’ll be a part of your crew. That could be a affordable compromise between the 2 mechanics.
LGBTQ+ Illustration
There was a homosexual choice in Persona 2 if Tatsuya selected Jun as a love curiosity. In P3P, it’s attainable to decide on to enter a romance with Aigis, even when utilizing the feminine protagonist. Whereas the previous is coded as feminine, how a lot it counts is obscure since she’s a robotic.
Afterward, the video games by no means actually give the selection to do it. Gamers should flip to fanworks to get their repair and are by no means formally canon. Subtext and implications are in all places, however followers want greater than that. See Yu (P4 protagonist) and Yosuke’s relationship. A lot of the latter’s dialog could be interpreted as romantic towards the previous, but it surely by no means turns into an precise relationship.
An official gay character(s) or different representations of the sexuality spectrum might assist the sport be extra accepted. As talked about, there are subtext and background characters that do recommend they exist within the Persona universe. Nonetheless, placing them on the forefront and making them shine will give gamers extra incentive to play and empathize with the characters.
Particularly if the theme does find yourself as ‘envy.’ That goes hand in hand with jealousy, and since a part of the sport is the ability of friendship, it’s going to work effectively with it. Love triangles are a cliched trope, however add jealousy and the issues of sexuality within the combine to make it extra attention-grabbing. It doesn’t tie in with luck, however a case could be made for it.
Ready Is Arduous Till It Isn’t
Since we’ll be ready for an announcement from ATLUS, listed below are some issues to do to tide you over.
You’ll be able to play the Shin Megami Tensei video games. Whereas they’re tougher than the Persona collection, they’re additionally fairly lengthy and have totally different endings for replay worth. Even one will take up a lot time you received’t discover it flying by.
The franchise additionally has Satan Summoner, Satan Survivor, and different titles. This totals a staggering variety of video games associated to the collection. Even taking out Persona video games doesn’t make a dent. For a way of scale, there are 6 mainline video games and 12 spinoffs within the Persona franchise alone. That features up to date rereleases akin to P5 Royal and P4 Golden. It’s 18 video games in a single sub-franchise, however you possibly can soar straight to the ‘higher’ variations with the rereleases. Nonetheless, that’s so many video games you possibly can sink your time into.
Going by means of them will certainly make the time cross so quick; Persona 6 can be out by the point you end. That’s in case you’re not speedrunning them. ATLUS additionally has the Etrian Oddysey and different video games to tide you over outdoors the SMT/Persona collection. Your solely drawback is getting the consoles to play the video games, however with porting and remastered variations, they’ve workarounds now.
If you need one thing aside from video games, there are film and anime variations you possibly can watch. Persona 4 and 5 have animes, and three has film variations. There are additionally musicals, however they don’t present these outdoors Japan. There may very well be movies on the web, although it doesn’t evaluate to watching it stay.
Excited But?
Whereas the details about the sport is scarce, many eagerly await it. Till additional discover, something above is simply hypothesis and nothing official (even whether it is generally handled as so). Issues might nonetheless go otherwise, however at the very least we’ll get Persona 6 out of it.
