Random wish, but I hope this game actually goes through a whole year. I don’t know why, but it always kinda annoyed me how Persona 3 and 5 have a few months of a time skip at the end; as in, the final dungeon occurs months before the actual ending of the game. What I like most about Persona 4 is that the final boss is on your second-to-last day in Inaba.
@ZappBrannigan95 they are just checklist nonsense. There is nothing novel about it. And I just don't get the appeal of just going anywhere. Instead they can focus their resources in making limited areas even better.
I rather have limited areas instead of a vast open world of doing nothing, but gathering random stuff. At least with a limited space, the pacing doesn't dwindle and it keeps the story more engaging.
if the open world is full and there's actually a lot of stuff to do unlike most games then yeah, but otherwise i prefer the little areas that atlus already gives us
Another thing, I am kind of tired of the high school setting. Yea, it’s an art school, but having a protagonist that’s in college or even working in the real world could better reinforce the tradition vs modernity narrative. Especially with green being the color theme, I’m expecting technology and science to play a huge role in this one.
Persona was always about golden days in high school, they wouldn't make it in a college setting just because some fans are graduated from high school now
That would be cool, but it wouldn't be Persona if it was. It would need to be a spinoff game. The central theme is oppressed teens are bestowed power to defy fate
That's one of the reasons I enjoyed Soul Hackers 2 so much. As much as I love Persona 5, the teenage angle started to become tiresome and Soul Hackers 2 was a welcome change.
-I like Green as the guiding color but the dual protagonist rumor makes me think Black and White should be the colors instead. - so far the dual protagonists rumor is probably the one I'm most interested in. -I'd prefer DLC over a rerelease but I'm not sure yet if I wanna get an expansion pass. It depends on what the dlcs are.
I expect DLC, it's really bad to have to buy the same game again because they rereleased something. If I bought it once I should be able to buy the DLC to improve it if I wish. I shouldn't be forced to buy the same game again for an extra chapter that could be released in DLC, we are not stuck in old PS2 era anymore.
@A117-b7g I'm fine with a sequel instead of dlcs or rereleases. I would prefer the Persona spinoffs taking a page from FF7 and doing sequels/prequels, etc, rather than the current approach. In hindsight Kasumi and Maruki would've been better served in a p5-2 style entry.
@@zbaksh101 I am fine with spin offs, like ffvii crisis core and dirge of Cerberus, they are new games entirely. And thats cool, it's a decent way to improve the experience of the storytelling in that world. What I am against is re-releasing the same game with something different to force people to buy it again, like persona 5 and persona 5-royals, or final fantasy vii remake and final fantasy vii remake integrade (which can only be purchased if you buy the PC version or the PS5, you cannot just buy a dlc for PS4 for example)
Seeing as how Persona has been compared to JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Persona 6 will be loosely akin to Stone Ocean in certain respects, just as Persona 5 was for Golden Wind, Persona 4 for Diamond is Unbreakable, and Persona 3 for Stardust Crusaders.
If p6 is coming out next year we'll see it at the game awards. with atlus skipping the switch on recent titles like persona 3 reload or metaphor i dont see them delaying p6 specifically for the switch 2 unless heavy incentive from nintendo is present.
It's definitely NOT coming next year and definitely WON'T be at TGA. And who says Atlus would be delaying P6 for the Ounce? It would just be a happy coincidence. They definitely would release it without the Ounce out if it was what they wanted to do, but they don't want to do it until at least 2026 anyways and the Ounce will definitely be out by then. And the reason it is 2026 is indeed not because of the Ounce it is because of the 30th anniversary.
@@Aurange persona 3 reload set the record for fastest total sales in 1 week for all atlus games, metaphor broke this record by being the fastest selling atlus game,1 million in 1 day without switch releases. atlus response? Lets wait 2 years to release the next mainline persona game, lets not strike the iron while its hot...... Without any incentive from nintendo that would be an bad april seasons joke for me and probably nightmare for shareholders. Can you imagine going into an meeting ''yeah so we rose sales by 30% YoY, in 2025 we're not doing anything except delay product thats ready for shipping'' 🤣
@@Aurange ''Head on the Block, previously known as I'm a Hero Too, who proved to be extremely reliable in the past regarding Persona series rumors, talked earlier in march about the yet-to-be-revealed sixth entry in the series, saying that it is 95% complete and that it will release in 2025.'' Ready for shipping might be jumping ahead but with 5, soon 6 year dev cycle how can it not be? team zero metaphor 7 year cycle sure its their first project but the main persona team? The main persona team working more years than the number next to the persona title would be crazy. Could be mismanagement due to the reliance on ''openworld''/scopecreep but so far nothing has led me to think that development has been troubling.
@@kowaikokoro We don't know when it actually started being worked on, and P3R definitely stalled development on P6 when it was being worked on it. The team is still not big enough to work on two big games at once. I don't believe Hero or Ryan or Nate or Ramona. Especially when 3 of them are literally just repeating the same info ad nauseum. It's not even anything new. It's the same thing over and over again.
@@TheWehzyignore the hate your about to get, your right. People can’t take criticism of the game ATM, give it some time. It’s still an amazing title, I adore it, but it lacks ALOT of polish and really would love a rerelease.
I may not be a leaker, but I firmly disagree with it being unlikely that P6 is announced at TGA...especially if Metaphor recieves GOTY. Atlus would have an unmatched opportunity to cap off the show with the P6 announcement in a moment where all eyes are on them, much like Fromsoft announcing Armored Core 6 after winning with Elden Ring.
@@Yae_1995 I can only hope it does. The game certainly deserves it...but yeah. A lot of hope went out the window when they changed the rules to nominate DLC for a previous winner.
I’m cool with having open world dungeons, but other than that, I think that open world would be a bit too much for this series. It’s one thing for a game like Elden Ring or Zelda to have open world since in those games you play as adventurers/explorers, but as a high school student, I feel as though there wouldn’t be many interesting things to do.
I feel you’re thinking of an open world persona game wrongly. Imagine this, the game takes place in a smaller town like in p4. Maybe mountainside or just something to show more nature. And you’re able to walk freely around this town, it’s not big but it has a bunch of detail with many buildings you can enter. So like a small GTA map but with the beauty of a quant town. Basically just combine all of the small areas you’d get in a normal persona game but they’re all combined. You can walk from your house to the convenience store to school without having to go through a cumbersome world map. It’s not a botw huge open adventure, but more just a nice walk through a small town. Honestly this seems like less of a new twist and more of an obvious improvement that just makes the game better with no downsides.
@@Aurange And how exactly do you define open world? What's the cut off? That big bloated empty map with tons of scattered icons for filler made popular by Bethesda? Jak and Daxter's near seamless interconnected world? the hub worlds and nonlinear levels of SM64 (what we would now call open zone)? Because the term has different meanings to different people.
We don’t need 1 and 2 remakes - even a 4 remake . It’s time for a new persona game. No one expects over decade old games to be playable - besides persona 4 plays great now anyways
as someone who’s just finished their 1st persona game, i’m extremely excited to play the new remakes of the old games if they’re anything like p3r it’ll be so much better graphics wise and voice acting wise, i’m almost more excited for those than p6
What a 2-3 year DLC road map actually means to me, is that the game will still be in development for 2-3 years after it releases, so there's no point in playing it before that.
Yeah honestly I would just rather have one big paid dlc like 2 years after the game released that adds a new side campaign plus the improved version of the game like royal or golden.
I don't really feel like "the leakers back each other up" is necessarily a reason to believe it. It could also be a case of "this person said this thing, so I am going to repeat it and add some more stuff I made up".
I wonder how much Shadow of the Erdtree will influence DLC development. As controversial as the GOTY decision was, it could be incentivizing studios to bring their absolute best when it comes to making DLC
i really hope itll take some parts from metaphor. i LOVE the synthesis moves, allies changing their archetype and follower ranks being ready to rank up without having to hangout. anytime i finish a persona game, my confidants are all so many different levels but metaphor felt like they ranked up at a very nice pace throughout the story
i'm really excited for P6 but i kinda dislike the whole "bigger" thing that games have nowadays, as in, the newest games have to be massive and super long. p5 was already pretty long and it felt like it dragged on a bit tbh. hopefully they actually make it different and have new things and it's not just an even longer story
@ocskope i know that ? lollll but P4 and P3 didn't feel as long as P5 and then they're saying P6 is "even bigger!!!1!1!" like with most games nowadays. that's all im saying, like i don't really mind if a game is only 20 hours or something :|
The leaks regarding the theme being "Black & White", "Modern vs Tradition" is very on the nose in how similar in concept to Pokémon Black and White's theming. I'm interested to see where they go with it if it's true.
Great video, it's nice to have someone pool together all the tiny bits of info we've gotten over the last few years. P6 feels like some mystical thing at this point, gonna feel kind of surreal when it actually gets shown lol I was dead set that we were seeing it at TGA but considering the P5X domain stuff from a week or two ago that dream is dead, and I guess well hear about P6 early next year and I'm praying Altus doesn't delay it to 2026 to coincide with the 30th anniversary. Don't think they will, as of now they have nothing for 2025 outside of P5X and if the rumors are true I think P4R announcement, P1&2 remasters and a P6 DLC could do the job of fueling the 2026 anniversary hype stuff just fine.
I'm kind of interested in what theme this new entry will explore. P3 explored self-sacrifice for the greater good, while also emphasizing that the journey to reaching your destination is just as important as obtaining the answer. And the Festival edition's afterword involving the characters learning how to lead their own lives in the absence of the Protag was a very touching sendoff. P4 leaned in the moral that you shouldn't be led astray by false messages and pursue the truth, and that bonds of friendship are power. It was such an overly cheerful entry (despite the thing that kickstarted the plot being a murder investigation), I'm hardly surprised the color they went with for that one was Yellow to contrast with P3's Blue. P5 dove into the issue of Social Reform through unethical means, rebelling against a rigid system of order that surpresses the aimless masses by controlling and distorting their desires. Red was an appropriate color choice. P5X goes the opposite direction by having our main character become a Phantom Thief because he wanted find out what he wants to do with his life, in short, "Retaking Your Desires". What sort of story will they craft now, with the world painted in Green, I wonder.
You mean just like Tatsuya and Maya? Hum maybee, it could be like a throwback i guess. Kuro means "black" and Shiro is "white", which probably means they gonna be "opposites" somehow, although I still think those names are temporary.
Im talking metaphor not persona but I feel I want to talk about this, I think whether it uses a sub job type system or a rotating main job system like metaphor 1 will depend on what makes sense for that games story, for example while I'm sure they will always take place in high fantasy worlds and be traveling stories and time management I doubt all of the future games will be about a hated tribe becoming king. Persona and smt are the same, some elements present in all games, but the tone of the story can be very different. For example persona 3 and 4, both star high school students, form bonds and everything but tone wise they are polar opposites. Want to hear how I think a sub archetype system would work?
@Oisc. using metaphor 1 for examples sake, the characters would have a main archetype they'd always be, protag as a seeker for example, and would learn skills for that via xp levels, it would evolve into magic seeker once unlocked and protag at a high enough level, say 23, and learn skills that can only be learned via that method, even if seeker was equipped to someone else as a sub archetype. But would learn late game skills even if you never evolve it, sub archetypes would be identical to how archetypes do work in metaphor 1, up to rank 20 and Stat boosts when mastered. Would also influence affinities and can equip a second weapon, so protag with healer can have swords and staffs and can choose which to attack with. No skill enharitance though, the sub job itself comes with more skills after all.
A lot of persona fans are tired of re-releases and Atlus knows it, so DLC is the best alternative, There are a lot of things that DLC normally can't fix that re-releases can, so Atlus is probably going to release extra extra extra a lot of DLC so that the game will be bigger and greater than all games before, while Atlus still makes a lot of money
I think that Atlus will never publish another exclusive game ever again. After the staggering success of P4G on PC Atlus has been pushing to make ever future release, and some past releases, be on PC and consoles outside of PlayStation.
I would defintley love to see that I think even P5 lacked that when it came to telling the story. Problem is costing of additional voice acting for the protagonist for both genders but fingers crossed they do that. It be really great for diversity and allowing people of a different gender to play as the protagonist they feel more aligned with or of their choosing (Alongside getting to choose your protagonist name in most persona games now, and having your characters say the same of your character to gain more immersion, AI could be useful for this) . But even for Atlus and fans It shouldn't impact story wise on the gender of the protagonist if they let you choose the gender of them (Pretty cool to see Protagonist customization as well) . Also I am hoping to see where you can date each/every romancable confidant as well regardless of gender as well, that be pretty cool to see.
@aki_nter The thing is, I have doubts about the double protagonist. All Persona and Atlus games include animated cinematics, which would cost a lot to produce for two different characters unless they decide to do them in first person.
I'm curious what kind of location P6 will be set in? Like Tatsumi Port Island for P3, Inaba for P4 and Tokyo for P5, is it gonna be a more rural area again?
Metaphor already felt like a spiritual successor to P5 in a lot of ways, so I'm honestly okay right now with not getting an *actual* P6 reveal until next year. Especially if actual P6 is going to be as big of a leap for the series as these rumors suggest... That being said, I'm really looking forward to comparing & contrasting how different the gameplay direction is gonna be between those two games. Passing time in Metaphor felt a lot more linear because it was really playing to the strengths of P3-5's calendar system, and it's the most consistently well-paced a Hashino game has ever been for me because of it. Meanwhile, if these rumors are true, it sounds like P6 is going hard the opposite direction with waaaay more freedom in player choice. And I really wonder what that's going to look like. Like, how do you tell a story with dual protags with persona's calendar & social systems? What does "more interactivity" in social links even entail? I have no idea how to imagine all that and that's kinda exciting.
Honestly, I'm hoping it somehow has multiplayer. I know it's a longshot but imagine how fun it could be. 2 Protagonists does make room for it, and stuff like social links are supposedly being made more fluid and less restrictive. Realistically I know it'll never happen, but a man can hope
(comment made before watching) Above all else I really hope the game takes place in college. It would be a unique setting for the series, it could allow for new themes like nostalgia and learning to move on from younger years, and it would also allow for more relatability as the majority of fans r young adults or r getting there. also, since we can probably assume that the trend of having odd relationships with older characters will continue(which is most likely there just to not alienate adult players that dont feel comfortable romancing characters closer to the protagonists age), it would make those relationships less weird and more natural
The real question now is if P6's duel protagonists will be similar to P3P where u have to pick ur protagonist at the beginning or if they allow u to play as both throughout the game. 🤷🏻
i think they're going with DLCs now rather than releasing a definitive edition like Royal or Vengeance later because the latter disincentivizes people to buy the game at launch and people who do that sometimes feel "cheated" if they need to buy the game again to get the extra content.
As a KH fan, it's really hard for me to believe Mr. Midori, I will say though that the duality thing is interesting. I do kind of doubt since the idea of tradition vs modernism feels like it could be narratively similar to Persona 5, but we'll see if that's even the case. The idea that there's a playable female character in the real world who isn't playable in the shadow/demon world is interesting to me. That sounds super odd which makes me suspicious of it. If it's true, this is either a sailor star scenario or would suggest that the two main characters can't reach each other for some reason and perhaps live in different worlds entirely. Interesting...
My best guess is that maybe the female character will be the main navigator for the whole game. Like Futaba and Fuuka, her persona might just not be built for combat.
Would be cool if was announced with a teaser at New Year's Eve after midnight, lol. But released during P30th Anniversary, they need this one to be a banger and not a whimper as P25th was. So using 2025 to build up hype for it.
Nahhh P6 is *certainly* going to be announced at TGA only because MR is up for GOTY. If they were planning on doing it at a Switch 2 event, MR’s GOTY nomination has changed that plan.
A persona game selling 5 millions copies will not be an easy task because it is not a mainstream RPG like Pokemon, Mass effect, Elder, Scrolls, Dragon Quest, Baldurs gate, Elden ring or Final Fantasy. But I wish them good luck because I want persona/Shin megami tensei games to be more popular
I think that before Persona 6 comes out, we should have something more from the Phantom Thieves, like maybe a Persona 5 Arena Also, Persona 6 still has a LONG way to go before it comes out, so it still needs to be announced
Now that I think about it, It's been nearly 8 years since p5...I think it's time Atlus. Since Metaphor just released, I think 2025 is a good time to announce it.
Idk how I feel about all this information. I don’t mind them having an art school setting, or more time for social links. But I really don’t like the idea of 2 protagonist being played side by side, nor do I like the idea of pumping out a bunch of DLC especially ones that adds more story. This works for P3r because episode aigis is pretty removed from the main story. But imagine something like royal, where new characters are added that you have to complete their social links to unlock the new content. how is that going to work with dlc? Am I expecting to replay the game over from the beginning every time more story ,and character dlc is added? I also don’t like putting story and characters behind a pay wall. Cosmetics features and persona were fine but now Altus is just joining everyone else in the greedy dlc practices. Another thing ,what do they mean by semi-open world? Why would we need an open world persona game? That makes me feel like finding things is going to be a lot more difficult. Y’all remember having to find the Ginza line, in the beginning of 5, why would they want to make that even more complicated. The more I think about it the less I’m liking anything that I’m hearing about p6 ,but only time will tell.
I was hopping that before Persona 6 we could get a last game for Persona 5 and Joker story, a final part that give the Phantom Thiefs the propper good bye they deserve
No💀 Inaba had a cool vibe but Tatsumi Port Island is the most boring setting, especially size wise. I don't want locked cameras like in P3 and P4. Tokyo was perfect size wise in P5R and I hope P6 will be even more ambitious
I'm honestly hoping we get a lot more with P6 and it seems to be an amazing game in the works, looking forward to the reveal. I would love to see what they do with the romance confidants and confidants in the next game. Fingers crossed we see a choice of between two protagonists both a girl and a boy you can choose from. This would be amazing to see and fingers crossed hopefully with the choosing of the protagonist and allowing romanceable confidants to allow you to date a confidant that is same gender as your protagonist as well (not affecting story wise, we can say Akechi is gay 100%). But overall looking forward to whats ahead for P6.
Let's be honest it would be cool to see P6 on Switch 2 but if anything the switch 2 would be as powerful as a PS4 and in that case they would be using the P5 Engine (old ass PS3 Engine) just like Metaphor from this year; That game was my favorite of all time but I don't want P6 to look like P5 or Metaphor because realistically they look like ass compared to P3R which uses Unreal 4.
Highly doubt the game will come anytime soon. There was just recently P3R and Metaphor and next year they probably focus on getting a global release of P5X gacha game and that will be it. I don't think any of the rumors are true they sound more like western wishful thinking to me. And I believe the game will probably revealed late 2025 and release will also be late 2026/2027. Theres no reason for ATLUS to rush P6 and if P5X is successful with global release they will really take their time.
I hate if the leakers are right about the dlc being a story patch for years and it is just for Atlas to make more money as it is a disgusting practice i remember when people got mad over Atlas done costume packs for smt4 but now we have reached the point where they can just put pieces of the storyline behind a paywall
I don't want the story to be added onto the main game with the DLC. Imagine if they add something that's in some random month and you've already finished the game. What then? Start over for a small amount of content? It just seems kind of dumb, expansions I can get behind, those can be cool, like The Answer. The epilogues and stuff I'm fine with. But adding something in the middle of the game just seems kinda shitty.
I just really hope they dont tie themselves to highschool. So many of the weird aspects of persona would be avoided in a college setting. It's not hard.
Stalker (not stalker 2) is exactly that, it’s 20 big levels that are all open and you move from level to level with a loading screen but it’s all 1 world that you have freedom to explore
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I hope it takes place in high school and a talking animal tells me how cool I am and won't let me stay up late.
Hopefully a mammal to
capybara or a fwcking tiger
I would like for it to be in college. I'm sick of the high school trope.
@@milmil5350 play another game, persona is about school
HAHHAHAHAHAHA
Random wish, but I hope this game actually goes through a whole year. I don’t know why, but it always kinda annoyed me how Persona 3 and 5 have a few months of a time skip at the end; as in, the final dungeon occurs months before the actual ending of the game. What I like most about Persona 4 is that the final boss is on your second-to-last day in Inaba.
I always thought it was weird how they said “go and live for a year” but then it was like 9 months? It just was really weird
An open world persona game would scare me. Breath of the Wild X Persona would be a fearful crossover.
That is the worst thing I have heard today. Persona getting the worst gameplay element in current gaming scene. No sir.
Honestly I'm sick and tired of open world games
@ZappBrannigan95 they are just checklist nonsense. There is nothing novel about it. And I just don't get the appeal of just going anywhere. Instead they can focus their resources in making limited areas even better.
I rather have limited areas instead of a vast open world of doing nothing, but gathering random stuff. At least with a limited space, the pacing doesn't dwindle and it keeps the story more engaging.
if the open world is full and there's actually a lot of stuff to do unlike most games then yeah, but otherwise i prefer the little areas that atlus already gives us
I dont wanna get my hopes up, but it would be really really cool to see something regarding Persona at the game awards
hopefully we at least get a p5x global release announcement
@@Truuuuuuuuu That'd be cool for everyone in the west!
Not gonna happen.
@@Truuuuuuuuu P5X is probably happening yeah.
@@Aurangeon YOUR soul especially persona 6 WILL be announced in the game awards
Another thing, I am kind of tired of the high school setting. Yea, it’s an art school, but having a protagonist that’s in college or even working in the real world could better reinforce the tradition vs modernity narrative. Especially with green being the color theme, I’m expecting technology and science to play a huge role in this one.
Persona was always about golden days in high school, they wouldn't make it in a college setting just because some fans are graduated from high school now
I agree I was hoping Altus would mature the franchise with its audience and reset back to how 2 was conceptually
@@AdacherTheCabbageEaterI think college is also a lot of people’s glory days since you can do a lot more and you live on your own but aight
That would be cool, but it wouldn't be Persona if it was. It would need to be a spinoff game. The central theme is oppressed teens are bestowed power to defy fate
That's one of the reasons I enjoyed Soul Hackers 2 so much. As much as I love Persona 5, the teenage angle started to become tiresome and Soul Hackers 2 was a welcome change.
-I like Green as the guiding color but the dual protagonist rumor makes me think Black and White should be the colors instead.
- so far the dual protagonists rumor is probably the one I'm most interested in.
-I'd prefer DLC over a rerelease but I'm not sure yet if I wanna get an expansion pass. It depends on what the dlcs are.
I expect DLC, it's really bad to have to buy the same game again because they rereleased something. If I bought it once I should be able to buy the DLC to improve it if I wish. I shouldn't be forced to buy the same game again for an extra chapter that could be released in DLC, we are not stuck in old PS2 era anymore.
@A117-b7g I'm fine with a sequel instead of dlcs or rereleases. I would prefer the Persona spinoffs taking a page from FF7 and doing sequels/prequels, etc, rather than the current approach. In hindsight Kasumi and Maruki would've been better served in a p5-2 style entry.
@@zbaksh101 I am fine with spin offs, like ffvii crisis core and dirge of Cerberus, they are new games entirely. And thats cool, it's a decent way to improve the experience of the storytelling in that world. What I am against is re-releasing the same game with something different to force people to buy it again, like persona 5 and persona 5-royals, or final fantasy vii remake and final fantasy vii remake integrade (which can only be purchased if you buy the PC version or the PS5, you cannot just buy a dlc for PS4 for example)
@@A117-b7gGame companies will keep doing this as long as it’s profitable, unfortunately
Seeing as how Persona has been compared to JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Persona 6 will be loosely akin to Stone Ocean in certain respects, just as Persona 5 was for Golden Wind, Persona 4 for Diamond is Unbreakable, and Persona 3 for Stardust Crusaders.
If p6 is coming out next year we'll see it at the game awards. with atlus skipping the switch on recent titles like persona 3 reload or metaphor i dont see them delaying p6 specifically for the switch 2 unless heavy incentive from nintendo is present.
It's definitely NOT coming next year and definitely WON'T be at TGA. And who says Atlus would be delaying P6 for the Ounce? It would just be a happy coincidence. They definitely would release it without the Ounce out if it was what they wanted to do, but they don't want to do it until at least 2026 anyways and the Ounce will definitely be out by then. And the reason it is 2026 is indeed not because of the Ounce it is because of the 30th anniversary.
@@Aurange persona 3 reload set the record for fastest total sales in 1 week for all atlus games, metaphor broke this record by being the fastest selling atlus game,1 million in 1 day without switch releases. atlus response? Lets wait 2 years to release the next mainline persona game, lets not strike the iron while its hot...... Without any incentive from nintendo that would be an bad april seasons joke for me and probably nightmare for shareholders. Can you imagine going into an meeting ''yeah so we rose sales by 30% YoY, in 2025 we're not doing anything except delay product thats ready for shipping'' 🤣
@@kowaikokoro Who says it is ready for shipping?
@@Aurange ''Head on the Block, previously known as I'm a Hero Too, who proved to be extremely reliable in the past regarding Persona series rumors, talked earlier in march about the yet-to-be-revealed sixth entry in the series, saying that it is 95% complete and that it will release in 2025.''
Ready for shipping might be jumping ahead but with 5, soon 6 year dev cycle how can it not be? team zero metaphor 7 year cycle sure its their first project but the main persona team? The main persona team working more years than the number next to the persona title would be crazy. Could be mismanagement due to the reliance on ''openworld''/scopecreep but so far nothing has led me to think that development has been troubling.
@@kowaikokoro We don't know when it actually started being worked on, and P3R definitely stalled development on P6 when it was being worked on it. The team is still not big enough to work on two big games at once. I don't believe Hero or Ryan or Nate or Ramona. Especially when 3 of them are literally just repeating the same info ad nauseum. It's not even anything new. It's the same thing over and over again.
My guess is they’re using metaphor as a guide to make p6, or maybe it’s the other way around? Not sure but either way i can’t fucking wait
But persona 5 is way more polished than metaphor.
@ In what ways?
@@TheWehzyNot really
@@TheWehzyignore the hate your about to get, your right. People can’t take criticism of the game ATM, give it some time. It’s still an amazing title, I adore it, but it lacks ALOT of polish and really would love a rerelease.
@@Megidolaon999 Lmao, its got the best gameplay and artstyle compared to the other Persona games
I may not be a leaker, but I firmly disagree with it being unlikely that P6 is announced at TGA...especially if Metaphor recieves GOTY. Atlus would have an unmatched opportunity to cap off the show with the P6 announcement in a moment where all eyes are on them, much like Fromsoft announcing Armored Core 6 after winning with Elden Ring.
Unfortunately metaphor won’t win GOTY.
@@Yae_1995 I can only hope it does. The game certainly deserves it...but yeah. A lot of hope went out the window when they changed the rules to nominate DLC for a previous winner.
@@MukarI'm holding out for it to win best music score.
You were completely wrong.
I’m cool with having open world dungeons, but other than that, I think that open world would be a bit too much for this series. It’s one thing for a game like Elden Ring or Zelda to have open world since in those games you play as adventurers/explorers, but as a high school student, I feel as though there wouldn’t be many interesting things to do.
I feel you’re thinking of an open world persona game wrongly. Imagine this, the game takes place in a smaller town like in p4. Maybe mountainside or just something to show more nature. And you’re able to walk freely around this town, it’s not big but it has a bunch of detail with many buildings you can enter. So like a small GTA map but with the beauty of a quant town. Basically just combine all of the small areas you’d get in a normal persona game but they’re all combined. You can walk from your house to the convenience store to school without having to go through a cumbersome world map. It’s not a botw huge open adventure, but more just a nice walk through a small town. Honestly this seems like less of a new twist and more of an obvious improvement that just makes the game better with no downsides.
Open world is ass and open world dungeons wouldn't make sense and would be complete ass.
@@AurangeOpen world dungeons would be weird, but I don’t think open world in general would be bad. It would all depend on the execution, no?
@@deadman4110 Not in my opinion. I've never seen a good open world.
@@Aurange And how exactly do you define open world? What's the cut off? That big bloated empty map with tons of scattered icons for filler made popular by Bethesda? Jak and Daxter's near seamless interconnected world? the hub worlds and nonlinear levels of SM64 (what we would now call open zone)? Because the term has different meanings to different people.
screw p4r that can wait until 1 and 2 are actually playable, p4g is good enough for the time being
Just don't expect a remake with the same concept as modern persona. A remake of P1 or P2 will look more like an SMT game
@@LuisDiaz-fs5pm i am NOT complaining, peak story with more smt type combat and difficulty will be awesome
@LuisDiaz-fs5pm i think the reason they haven't remade 1 and 2 is because it's going to be a complete remake
@@LuisDiaz-fs5pm oh my GOD YES I WANT THAT
We don’t need 1 and 2 remakes - even a 4 remake . It’s time for a new persona game. No one expects over decade old games to be playable - besides persona 4 plays great now anyways
I finished my first Atlus game Metaphor Refantazio im currently at the end of October in Persona 3 Reload and man what a depressing month it has been
I feel that man
Hope you're enjoying the games 🙏
@Angie-ji7be masterpieces 👍😀
it will get worse, dont worry. p3r is a masterpiece
as someone who’s just finished their 1st persona game, i’m extremely excited to play the new remakes of the old games if they’re anything like p3r it’ll be so much better graphics wise and voice acting wise, i’m almost more excited for those than p6
I dunno if you’ve seen the older games but they are pretty different from what I’ve seem
What a 2-3 year DLC road map actually means to me, is that the game will still be in development for 2-3 years after it releases, so there's no point in playing it before that.
Yeah honestly I would just rather have one big paid dlc like 2 years after the game released that adds a new side campaign plus the improved version of the game like royal or golden.
I don't buy any of the bs rumours but DLC is definitely not gonna be like that.
Yeah I don't think that's the case at all. The game will be complete but there will be new "years" or "semesters" added with new conflicts years after
@@phillemon7664 That would be interesting but has literally 0% chance of happening.
@@phillemon7664 Which would mean it's still in development...
I don't really feel like "the leakers back each other up" is necessarily a reason to believe it. It could also be a case of "this person said this thing, so I am going to repeat it and add some more stuff I made up".
Another Midori detail you missed: they mentioned Yokohama was the city the game would take place in
I wonder how much Shadow of the Erdtree will influence DLC development. As controversial as the GOTY decision was, it could be incentivizing studios to bring their absolute best when it comes to making DLC
i really hope itll take some parts from metaphor. i LOVE the synthesis moves, allies changing their archetype and follower ranks being ready to rank up without having to hangout. anytime i finish a persona game, my confidants are all so many different levels but metaphor felt like they ranked up at a very nice pace throughout the story
Aghh I'm so excited for Persona 6~! I can relate to an art school setting so honestly it feels even more perfect
You shouldn't be looking too deeply at these bs rumours.
@@AurangeLike you’re looking deeply at every single rumour video currently on TH-cam and spam commenting on them being an asshole? 🤡
@@Aurange I understand but the idea of it sounds really fun! I don't get bummed out that much if doesn't turn out to be true :^)!
@@allopeep543 Fair enough. I'm indifferent to the idea personally but yeah I just don't believe rumours without any proof.
How would they summon their Personas tho?
i'm really excited for P6 but i kinda dislike the whole "bigger" thing that games have nowadays, as in, the newest games have to be massive and super long. p5 was already pretty long and it felt like it dragged on a bit tbh.
hopefully they actually make it different and have new things and it's not just an even longer story
P5 was the perfect length
p5 was perfect length wise
idk i guess bc i wasn't used to persona at the time lol but i felt kinda bored at the end ngl... lol
They’ve always been pretty long games…
@ocskope i know that ? lollll but P4 and P3 didn't feel as long as P5 and then they're saying P6 is "even bigger!!!1!1!" like with most games nowadays. that's all im saying, like i don't really mind if a game is only 20 hours or something :|
very clickbaity title when it's just what we know so far nothing "just got updated"
that and the incredibly generic probably ai gened thumbnail give a real bad taste in my mouth
@@beepboop7345 it's very cringe
@@Gakki_Aniki Veeeeery
Thank you for keeping us updated
I really hope they make a persona game that’s main line that centered around college life instead of high school
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't one of the leaks previously also mentions something involving "Sleep"?
The leaks regarding the theme being "Black & White", "Modern vs Tradition" is very on the nose in how similar in concept to Pokémon Black and White's theming. I'm interested to see where they go with it if it's true.
Cant fricking wait bro
I just don’t want a silent protag anymore 😔
Sadly I don't think they'll ever stop doing that.
@@Aurangewell Refantazio was different, so it might happen
You’re gonna be happy then.
p3r and metaphor are basically practice runs so expect a talking mc
@@kaffka4753 I wouldn't look at Metaphor for anything to do with Persona.
Great video, it's nice to have someone pool together all the tiny bits of info we've gotten over the last few years. P6 feels like some mystical thing at this point, gonna feel kind of surreal when it actually gets shown lol I was dead set that we were seeing it at TGA but considering the P5X domain stuff from a week or two ago that dream is dead, and I guess well hear about P6 early next year and I'm praying Altus doesn't delay it to 2026 to coincide with the 30th anniversary. Don't think they will, as of now they have nothing for 2025 outside of P5X and if the rumors are true I think P4R announcement, P1&2 remasters and a P6 DLC could do the job of fueling the 2026 anniversary hype stuff just fine.
I'm kind of interested in what theme this new entry will explore. P3 explored self-sacrifice for the greater good, while also emphasizing that the journey to reaching your destination is just as important as obtaining the answer. And the Festival edition's afterword involving the characters learning how to lead their own lives in the absence of the Protag was a very touching sendoff.
P4 leaned in the moral that you shouldn't be led astray by false messages and pursue the truth, and that bonds of friendship are power. It was such an overly cheerful entry (despite the thing that kickstarted the plot being a murder investigation), I'm hardly surprised the color they went with for that one was Yellow to contrast with P3's Blue.
P5 dove into the issue of Social Reform through unethical means, rebelling against a rigid system of order that surpresses the aimless masses by controlling and distorting their desires. Red was an appropriate color choice.
P5X goes the opposite direction by having our main character become a Phantom Thief because he wanted find out what he wants to do with his life, in short, "Retaking Your Desires".
What sort of story will they craft now, with the world painted in Green, I wonder.
tbh i want persona 4 remake over persona 6 but this still a W
p1 and 2 over 4
@@Bartsonaw
why would you want a remake over a brand new game
@@Stickmon_ P4 was released in 2008. How is that new?
Finally an original thought
I think it’d be so cool if Kuro and Shiro’s Personas were Apollo and Artemis, which would have different stats and abilities.
You mean just like Tatsuya and Maya? Hum maybee, it could be like a throwback i guess. Kuro means "black" and Shiro is "white", which probably means they gonna be "opposites" somehow, although I still think those names are temporary.
@ Yeah! It’d be great in so many aspects.
Im talking metaphor not persona but I feel I want to talk about this, I think whether it uses a sub job type system or a rotating main job system like metaphor 1 will depend on what makes sense for that games story, for example while I'm sure they will always take place in high fantasy worlds and be traveling stories and time management I doubt all of the future games will be about a hated tribe becoming king. Persona and smt are the same, some elements present in all games, but the tone of the story can be very different. For example persona 3 and 4, both star high school students, form bonds and everything but tone wise they are polar opposites. Want to hear how I think a sub archetype system would work?
Go ahead. Let us listen to your ”sub archetype” mechanic.
@Oisc. using metaphor 1 for examples sake, the characters would have a main archetype they'd always be, protag as a seeker for example, and would learn skills for that via xp levels, it would evolve into magic seeker once unlocked and protag at a high enough level, say 23, and learn skills that can only be learned via that method, even if seeker was equipped to someone else as a sub archetype. But would learn late game skills even if you never evolve it, sub archetypes would be identical to how archetypes do work in metaphor 1, up to rank 20 and Stat boosts when mastered. Would also influence affinities and can equip a second weapon, so protag with healer can have swords and staffs and can choose which to attack with. No skill enharitance though, the sub job itself comes with more skills after all.
@@fenniken5381 so basically just sub persona system from persona q but slightly retooled
@asuraofwrath can't imagine it being anything else, skill enharitance makes the bravely default sub job system a moot point.
Not gonna be a thing.
A lot of persona fans are tired of re-releases and Atlus knows it, so DLC is the best alternative, There are a lot of things that DLC normally can't fix that re-releases can, so Atlus is probably going to release extra extra extra a lot of DLC so that the game will be bigger and greater than all games before, while Atlus still makes a lot of money
P5 excl the one with the paint were excellent dvmbass
I think that Atlus will never publish another exclusive game ever again. After the staggering success of P4G on PC Atlus has been pushing to make ever future release, and some past releases, be on PC and consoles outside of PlayStation.
Voiced protagonist, regardless of gender, will be awesome, especially after Metaphor.
I would defintley love to see that I think even P5 lacked that when it came to telling the story. Problem is costing of additional voice acting for the protagonist for both genders but fingers crossed they do that. It be really great for diversity and allowing people of a different gender to play as the protagonist they feel more aligned with or of their choosing (Alongside getting to choose your protagonist name in most persona games now, and having your characters say the same of your character to gain more immersion, AI could be useful for this) . But even for Atlus and fans It shouldn't impact story wise on the gender of the protagonist if they let you choose the gender of them (Pretty cool to see Protagonist customization as well) . Also I am hoping to see where you can date each/every romancable confidant as well regardless of gender as well, that be pretty cool to see.
@aki_nter The thing is, I have doubts about the double protagonist. All Persona and Atlus games include animated cinematics, which would cost a lot to produce for two different characters unless they decide to do them in first person.
18:18 praying for a new fighting game in development
I'm curious what kind of location P6 will be set in? Like Tatsumi Port Island for P3, Inaba for P4 and Tokyo for P5, is it gonna be a more rural area again?
HOLY CRAP I really hope this is true and it is coming out I love the persona series
Metaphor already felt like a spiritual successor to P5 in a lot of ways, so I'm honestly okay right now with not getting an *actual* P6 reveal until next year. Especially if actual P6 is going to be as big of a leap for the series as these rumors suggest... That being said, I'm really looking forward to comparing & contrasting how different the gameplay direction is gonna be between those two games.
Passing time in Metaphor felt a lot more linear because it was really playing to the strengths of P3-5's calendar system, and it's the most consistently well-paced a Hashino game has ever been for me because of it. Meanwhile, if these rumors are true, it sounds like P6 is going hard the opposite direction with waaaay more freedom in player choice. And I really wonder what that's going to look like.
Like, how do you tell a story with dual protags with persona's calendar & social systems? What does "more interactivity" in social links even entail? I have no idea how to imagine all that and that's kinda exciting.
Persona 1 and 2 should get a remake that makes the stories the same but the it plays like Persona 3 - 5
Persona 6 might be announced and released this 2025, and prolly the enhanced version and expansion just like reload, golden and royal...
Honestly, I'm hoping it somehow has multiplayer. I know it's a longshot but imagine how fun it could be. 2 Protagonists does make room for it, and stuff like social links are supposedly being made more fluid and less restrictive. Realistically I know it'll never happen, but a man can hope
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Above all else I really hope the game takes place in college. It would be a unique setting for the series, it could allow for new themes like nostalgia and learning to move on from younger years, and it would also allow for more relatability as the majority of fans r young adults or r getting there. also, since we can probably assume that the trend of having odd relationships with older characters will continue(which is most likely there just to not alienate adult players that dont feel comfortable romancing characters closer to the protagonists age), it would make those relationships less weird and more natural
The real question now is if P6's duel protagonists will be similar to P3P where u have to pick ur protagonist at the beginning or if they allow u to play as both throughout the game. 🤷🏻
Basically wait until 2030 when all paid P6 DLC is fully out to get an complete edition or on sale
Even if you believe the bs rumours it would be 2027-2029 not 2030.
i think they're going with DLCs now rather than releasing a definitive edition like Royal or Vengeance later because the latter disincentivizes people to buy the game at launch and people who do that sometimes feel "cheated" if they need to buy the game again to get the extra content.
As a KH fan, it's really hard for me to believe Mr. Midori, I will say though that the duality thing is interesting. I do kind of doubt since the idea of tradition vs modernism feels like it could be narratively similar to Persona 5, but we'll see if that's even the case. The idea that there's a playable female character in the real world who isn't playable in the shadow/demon world is interesting to me. That sounds super odd which makes me suspicious of it. If it's true, this is either a sailor star scenario or would suggest that the two main characters can't reach each other for some reason and perhaps live in different worlds entirely. Interesting...
My best guess is that maybe the female character will be the main navigator for the whole game. Like Futaba and Fuuka, her persona might just not be built for combat.
I really want P6 due to just really wanting something brand new to me and being able to experience fully again so i hope this drops soon
What gets announced first. Persona 6, Persona X or another P5 spin off or mobile game collab?
Would be cool if was announced with a teaser at New Year's Eve after midnight, lol. But released during P30th Anniversary, they need this one to be a banger and not a whimper as P25th was. So using 2025 to build up hype for it.
I get the feeling that p3r was a training tool to get new hires up to speed with the atlus workflow and go from there
I CANNOT WAIT
Nahhh P6 is *certainly* going to be announced at TGA only because MR is up for GOTY. If they were planning on doing it at a Switch 2 event, MR’s GOTY nomination has changed that plan.
The bar for a Persona 6 is going to be very high.
Finally, we got the day one update.
I'm here wondering if Kuro and Shiro are in a fight club style alter ego thing.
A persona game selling 5 millions copies will not be an easy task because it is not a mainstream RPG like Pokemon, Mass effect, Elder, Scrolls, Dragon Quest, Baldurs gate, Elden ring or Final Fantasy. But I wish them good luck because I want persona/Shin megami tensei games to be more popular
TGA shit was blown to bits huh
Good overview thnx
I want P6, A Q and Q2 Multiplatform Port, and P5U, if at least one of these are revealed at TGA I'd Be Happy
ATLUS give me back the depression mechanic on p3 and my soul is yours!
no TGA announcement:(
I think that before Persona 6 comes out, we should have something more from the Phantom Thieves, like maybe a Persona 5 Arena
Also, Persona 6 still has a LONG way to go before it comes out, so it still needs to be announced
i hope persona 6 will finally have 3 year school semester also be rated r would be amazing if its true
Now that I think about it, It's been nearly 8 years since p5...I think it's time Atlus. Since Metaphor just released, I think 2025 is a good time to announce it.
Well eight years was the gap between P4 and 5 so yeah
as an artist going to art school i am all for it taking place at an art school
0:56 We've been saying that for like 2 years now 🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲
God it better be on the switch 2
Idk how I feel about all this information. I don’t mind them having an art school setting, or more time for social links. But I really don’t like the idea of 2 protagonist being played side by side, nor do I like the idea of pumping out a bunch of DLC especially ones that adds more story. This works for P3r because episode aigis is pretty removed from the main story. But imagine something like royal, where new characters are added that you have to complete their social links to unlock the new content. how is that going to work with dlc? Am I expecting to replay the game over from the beginning every time more story ,and character dlc is added? I also don’t like putting story and characters behind a pay wall. Cosmetics features and persona were fine but now Altus is just joining everyone else in the greedy dlc practices. Another thing ,what do they mean by semi-open world? Why would we need an open world persona game? That makes me feel like finding things is going to be a lot more difficult. Y’all remember having to find the Ginza line, in the beginning of 5, why would they want to make that even more complicated. The more I think about it the less I’m liking anything that I’m hearing about p6 ,but only time will tell.
Hold on! There are more P5 milking on the way. Persona 5 Racing, Persona 5 Rogue Like, Persona 5 Card Game, Persona 5 Tower Defense and more
I was hopping that before Persona 6 we could get a last game for Persona 5 and Joker story, a final part that give the Phantom Thiefs the propper good bye they deserve
Isn't TGS Tokyo Game Show? not TGA
One thing im worried about is if they do the same thing with p5 and release royal after a few years cause i can't buy dlc where i come from
my dream for 6 is someone from 1 or 2 showing back up.
Kinda sucks that there’s DLC planned from the get-go instead of it starting after, ya know, launch. But whatever
The main question is what is the main color for persona 6? Blue, yellow n red already used.
It's long been rumored to be green.
What's the thumbnail art?
I’m hoping Persona 6 isn’t another OWG. If anything, I’d rather it be similar to P3’s Tatsumi Port Island or even P4’s Inaba in terms of world size.
No💀 Inaba had a cool vibe but Tatsumi Port Island is the most boring setting, especially size wise. I don't want locked cameras like in P3 and P4. Tokyo was perfect size wise in P5R and I hope P6 will be even more ambitious
@@MasiPTNah gimme Tatsumi Port Island of Inaba any day
I'm honestly hoping we get a lot more with P6 and it seems to be an amazing game in the works, looking forward to the reveal. I would love to see what they do with the romance confidants and confidants in the next game. Fingers crossed we see a choice of between two protagonists both a girl and a boy you can choose from. This would be amazing to see and fingers crossed hopefully with the choosing of the protagonist and allowing romanceable confidants to allow you to date a confidant that is same gender as your protagonist as well (not affecting story wise, we can say Akechi is gay 100%).
But overall looking forward to whats ahead for P6.
You know what else is MASSIVE?
Announcement in 2025, release in 2026 on all platforms
If its set in college I will cry because it means Atlus will make even MORE fanservice for female characters...
Let's be honest it would be cool to see P6 on Switch 2 but if anything the switch 2 would be as powerful as a PS4 and in that case they would be using the P5 Engine (old ass PS3 Engine) just like Metaphor from this year; That game was my favorite of all time but I don't want P6 to look like P5 or Metaphor because realistically they look like ass compared to P3R which uses Unreal 4.
Highly doubt the game will come anytime soon. There was just recently P3R and Metaphor and next year they probably focus on getting a global release of P5X gacha game and that will be it. I don't think any of the rumors are true they sound more like western wishful thinking to me. And I believe the game will probably revealed late 2025 and release will also be late 2026/2027. Theres no reason for ATLUS to rush P6 and if P5X is successful with global release they will really take their time.
I hate if the leakers are right about the dlc being a story patch for years and it is just for Atlas to make more money as it is a disgusting practice i remember when people got mad over Atlas done costume packs for smt4 but now we have reached the point where they can just put pieces of the storyline behind a paywall
P6 will hit more than 5 mil first year...he's just being humble imo
This game will be massive but you wanna know what else is massive
Low taper fade!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don't want the story to be added onto the main game with the DLC. Imagine if they add something that's in some random month and you've already finished the game. What then? Start over for a small amount of content? It just seems kind of dumb, expansions I can get behind, those can be cool, like The Answer. The epilogues and stuff I'm fine with. But adding something in the middle of the game just seems kinda shitty.
With the scop of metaphor re fantazio they've shown they now have the means to deliver
I can't wait to see how much Atlus will milk Persona 6 after it releases
Persona 6 Mascot: Lobby
He a lobster & he liturally sounds like jake the dog.
Got my soul burning
Release date: 2025, Repackage Release Date for Anniversary: 2026
I just really hope they dont tie themselves to highschool. So many of the weird aspects of persona would be avoided in a college setting. It's not hard.
I'll be happy as long as it stays away from the school setting. For the love of god.
Persona 6 Just Got MASSIVE Backshots...
I was guessing a 'Green' theme 😂
It's too close to metaphor IMO. It would make more sense business wise to announce in 2025 and release at the end of the year or early 2026.
For real tho, wtf does fully-semi open world mean?
Stalker (not stalker 2) is exactly that, it’s 20 big levels that are all open and you move from level to level with a loading screen but it’s all 1 world that you have freedom to explore
My guess is it's gonna release with the switch 2