Persona, Persona, Persona and Persona during Atlus’ announcement
For fans of the Atlus hit series Persona, the midnight hour struck hard last night. Atlus had been teasing Persona announcements for over a week to drum up interest for their announcement. And it seems like the Publisher behind the Persona series had something up their sleeve for all, so Persona fans can get their fix on a large variety of game systems. Is your favourite among them?
PlayStation
Because this site is home to a lot of PlayStation owners I thought it would be best not to keep you in waiting any longer and tell you what you want to know. So without further ado;
Persona 5 winter 2014 on PS3
Arguably the biggest announcement of the bunch; Persona 5 is coming to Japanese PS3s during the winter 2014 timeframe.
We don’t know much about the game other than that the trailer, which you can view below, has English text in it. This hints at a localisation (like that wasn’t to be expected).
Also the sort teaser-video mentions slavery and emancipation. It remains to be seen in what light we have to put these themes of the game, and how much they will influence little things like gameplay and story.
Persona 4: Dancing All Night on PS VIta
Persona 4 Golden for the PS Vita was a big hit and for many a Vita gamer their first experience with the Persona games. Because of that Atlus decided to release the next great entry of their RPG series on Vita. Nope, sorry scratch that. The next Persona game to come to PS Vita is a rhythm based dancer named Persona 4 dancing All Night.
Personal interest aside fans of rhythm games will applaud Atlus for bringing this game to Vita. But because rhythm games aren’t my cup of tea I look with envy to those who have a 3DS, more on this later. First you can watch the trailer for the dancing game below.
Persona 4 The Ultimax Ultra Suplex Hold for PS3
If you liked Persona arena then you will want to keep an eye out for the next iteration of the fighter in the Persona series. I personally love it when franchises make cross genre games, and mixing it up with a fighter proved to be a smart and natural choice for the series. P4U is set for a PlayStation 3 release.
Nintendo
Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth goes 3DS
Like I said before, not only did Atlus cater to gamers who love to play Persona games on PlayStation systems, they also showed a little bit of Persona love to the Nintendo crowd. Guess what; if you own a 3DS and want to experience a Persona game on that system, as soon as June 6th 2014 you can, at least in Japan.
Design wise Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth shows a more chibi like anime style, and it looks like the story will revolve around both the Persona 3 and Persona 4 cast of characters. This will be the first time that any Persona the spinoff of the Shin Megami Tensei series gets a Nintendo release.
There you have it, all of the four new games that where presented during Atlus’ announcement. Which oneare you most exited for?Show your support for this kind of article by sharing through the usual social suspects; aka Google+, Twitter, Facebook ect. You can contact me directly on twitter @italkgame or leave a comment below
Yes! Finally!! P5!!!
Lots of exciting stuff announced today – I’m still a bit confused with Dancing All Night, but I’m super excited about Persona 5 and very interested to see how the 3DS game turns out. I was hoping that Persona 5 would be on the Vita as well as the PS3, but maybe that still has a chance of happening later on. I wouldn’t mind at all playing it on the PS3, but I feel that Persona 4 (my introduction to the Persona series) felt very at-home on the Vita.
P5 ofcourse, cus I don’t want buy a 3DS just for PQ.
The 3DS actually has some pretty good games. It probably has a better library than the Vita (perhaps only equally good, if you like more of the Vita games than I do), plus full support for DS games. I’m very glad to have bought a 3DS XL, though my wife doesn’t like it because she says it’s uncomfortable to hold. But there were a bunch of games for it that I wanted, like Mario Kart, FF Theatrhythm, Kingdom Hearts, Code of Princess, SF4, etc., so if the only series you’re interested in is Persona then you’re surely correct.
I’m not very far in P4 (just got Chie as a party member) but so far it hasn’t impressed me much.
This might change, and I might love this news, in a few weeks time, after putting more hours into P4G.
I agree. P3 was loads better.
Actually I just finished P3P (I played an undub version, meaning it has the original japanese voices, so, much better), I had never played it before and wanted to know what the fuss was all about.
I didn’t quite like the characters (except yukari who I loved), Ryoji seemed like an afterthought, and I mildly cared for Aegis, but that’s it. I wanted to punch Junpei in the face, damn he annoyed me and I could go on. The lack of poligonal characters (as in the PS2 version) hurt the game’s presentation a lot.
The music was nice though and Nyx battle is one of the best final boss songs ever.
While I haven’t finished P4G just yet, it’s better in every aspect so far, a story that unfolds quickly (and isn’t the usual overused save the world one), more interesting and real characters, far better interactions which don’t feel disjointed and actually improve the plot (on P3 the social interactions felt like a total different game…) P3 just didn’t feel cohesive. P4G does.
I could go on and on, P4 is just the superior game, and the hype and “milking” it is getting shows it
I might actually pick P3 up again simply because of the hype ive heard for P4. I thought P3 was an ok game with an interesting story that was completly ruined by its *** combat and dungeon system. that game garnered so much hate from me because of it, but I might just try to play it again if only to slog through the crappy gameplay and enjoy the story, which I was doing prior to throwing it at the wall for the combat hate.
Thank god I got that abysmal game on ps+ instead of paying.
P:Q 🙂 so happy to be owner of a 3ds.
I got both handheld consoles.. but you still cant play them because no localization yet…
1° Big fan of Rythm games
2° Big fan of OST of all the Persona games
So?, the Vita release of Dancing gonna be one heck of a experience (^-^)V
Give it some time man, it will probably be ported later. Anyway I actually want the dance all night game, love the ost for the persona games and rhythm games so its a match made in heaven. 😀
YEEEEEEEEEES!!! I’m a huge fan of the Persona series! And I want ALL.OF.THEM. *-*
While this all sounds wonderful, I was hoping for a Persona 4 Arena Vita release. Hopefully P4U will make it to Vita in a year or two.
eh, where is the PS4 Persona??? now that would have been NEWS!
I watched this and the emergency announcement 😀 It was awesome (Even though I don’t understand Japanese) I saw the english all over and thought localisation too. It was amazing :D!!
Persona 5 is of course the one that interests me the most but Persona Q is yet another incentive to get a 3DS.
Well yeah, i might as well start gathering money.. Love Persona games, and waiting for the P3 movie, and the Q looks nice, and cant wait for the OST.. ITS THE ONLY REAL REASON I KEEP COMING BACK TO OLD GAMES 😀 Want new songs from LJ 😀