I love this game like you wouldn't believe...

The guy who did the rerelease content for Royal (the best part of the game) is probably gonna be the new director for 6 and beyond so it's looking bright. Hashino was feeling fatigue with Persona, and you could tell in 5.

but Daiki wants to remove the calendar system he said. I'm just scared that if they ever take a new direction it would just break the Persona feel to the franchise. God knows P1 and P2 are not that good.

its likely going to use fantasy as a way of relating back to the modern world

and given Hashino directed SMT nocturne, Catherine, and Digital Devil Saga 1 in addition to P3, 4 and 5 we can assume its going to be baller. Hashino is Atlus's Kojima

where did he say that? It also might not be a bad thing to try a different direction after 3 games of the same thing.

Atlus isn't going to let him rock the boat especially since Persona right now is one of their hottest franchises in terms of sales and merchandise.

Where did he say that? In any case, if that does end up happening, I would welcome it, I liked the calendar system, but I think it did the series good when Hashino was afforded the opportunity to have the level of creative freedom that brought about the Calendar system, and I would want Itoh to be afforded the same opportunity. I trust that the series is in good hands with him based off what he's done in the past, and if he wants to do something different, then I trust he knows how to do it while maintaining what makes the series enjoyable, he's worked on the series and contributed to it enough to clearly understand what people like about the games.

Also, I haven't played either P2 game, but P1 is fine. It's not incredible, but it has some cool stuff in it, and I've definitely played worse MegaTen games. Besides, even if you really don't like them, the series could remove the Calendar system while still being close to P3-5 than P1 and 2, and I expect that will be the case if they do remove it.

I like Hashino and I'm not worried about the staff of the game, I'm just saying it would be nice to know a little more about the game. Also, while I do like Hashino, and while Hashino has definitely been a big part of a lot of the bigger games ATLUS has done, ATLUS has more than one good director. Yamai in particular has worked on a lot of great games.

my bad, it was the Scramble director, not Daiki that wants to remove calendar system. I hope Daiki can make Persona 6 as good if not better than how he handled Royal. I want to believe he sowed many foreshadowing for the next trilogy direction with the way he handled Royal. Jose in general seems to be the start of a much bigger plot.

After Hashino left the SMT team (now Team Maniacs) and they put out two of the best games in the franchise right after with Strange Journey and SMTIV. P-Studio will do well under Itoh as evidenced by Royal being superior to the original P5 and it makes me excited for P6. Not sure if Meguro will do the soundtrack though.

It was already stated when Hashino left to go form Studio Zero that Meguro and Soejima would be pulling double duties and will still be working on the Persona franchise.

that's the right move, meguro and soejima are in Persona's DNA and having them also be in Re Fantasy makes it appeal to Persona Fans

I literally can't imagine Persona without Soejima's art and Meguro's music. I get that they can get fatigued on working with the same franchise over and over again but I really hope they won't leave.

Each game has a wildly different soundtrack though, and they're spread way the fuck out. I can't imagine there being burnout, but Japanese work culture is also fucking retarded, so who knows.

I wouldn't be surprised if there's burnout for Meguro at least in doing spinoffs, he has been doing P5 styled music for while now and probably will continue to do so considering they almost certainly have more P5 spinoffs on the way. He got to do the new SJR music too though when that came out, and he's likely doing Project Re: Fantasy's music too now, so it's not like he's exclusively doing P5 stuff.

Meguro has been splitting spin-off duties with Konishi and Kitajoh which is likely helping with the fatigue. Lotus Juice has also stepped in and started writing lyrics since most of P5R's new vocal tracks had the lyrics all written by Lotus Juice. They got a pretty competent OST group in general now for Persona.

Meguro only composed Alex's theme in SJR. I think all the other new tracks were either by Kozuka or Kenichi.

Royal's songs are so fucking good holy shit
youtube.com/watch?v=bwNNiyu56yY&list=FLLAm052ttrpiVbIyYV04BQA&index=5&t=0s

>while now and probably will continue to do so considering they almost certainly have more P5 spinoffs on the way.
Part of me feels like Scramble, Royal and whatever else comes in the future is prepping the staff who are going to take over as front runners. Soejima and Meguro will still be involved, but likely not to the same amount as they were in the other titles.

Persona 5 Scramble will eventually release worldwide.

And you might want to try giving 4 a go if you liked the concept.

>I literally can't imagine Persona without Soejima's art and Meguro's music
P1 and P2 but Meguro did some of the music in the original games.

>God knows P1 and P2 are not that good.
Kill yourself you colossal faggot.

see P1 and P2 are not that good. The best Persona experience for me starts with Hashino.

it may sound weird but Project Re Fantasy could end up being more popular than Persona. Simply for the fact that Final Fantasy dropped the ball for being *the* turn based fantasy RPG

I disagree, P2IS and P2EP are still enjoyable minus some gripes with the gameplay. Modern Persona only really hit it's stride at P4 mechanically.

I wouldn't count on Re Fantasy being turn based since we know absolutely nothing about the game.

P4 is the same game as P3 with more lenient knockdown mechanics and party control(which is in P3P and easily moddable in FES), the differences are pretty superfluous. P5 is the game that makes serious mechanical changes.

it would be surprising if it wasn't given Atlus's track record.