With Persona 3 Reload out the door and Persona 4 Revival subsequent in line, collection producer Kazuhisa Wada has mentioned remakes of the primary two video games will “in all probability” occur as properly.
Developer Atlus appears to be on a mission to revisit each high-schooling, demon-mashing, double-life-simulating sport it is ever made. In 2024, the studio pulled the gun on Persona 3 Reload earlier than beginning work on Persona 4 Revival, coming subsequent February. However Atlus might attain even additional again for some new (previous) supply materials.
In an interview with RPS, Wada mentioned the crew initially got here up with the thought to remake Persona 3 and Persona 4 across the identical time. The latter “needed to be put” on the backburner for some time, however the intent for each was the identical. “I believe a remaster or remake is a few type of cultural preservation,” he mentioned, per a translator.
Wada continued to clarify that it is Atlus’ “obligation” to verify its older video games aren’t misplaced to time “and are nonetheless round within the modern-day.” With that in thoughts, “Persona 1 and a couple of are one thing we’ll in all probability finally do, too.” There you have got it, people.
Persona 1 and Persona 2 are additionally the one mainline video games within the collection that are not readily that can be purchased on any fashionable system, making Wada’s level about “cultural preservation” much more salient right here.
Regardless, I believe it at all times made sense to start this remake voyage with Persona 3, the sport that spawned the collection’ extra recognisable options (social parts, courting, and many others) and notably did not embody a serious antagonist that may be difficult to depict in the identical approach these days (a rumour-fuelled Hitler reincarnation).
A number of years again, a distinguished Sega leaker claimed that Persona 1 and a couple of remakes have been within the works, alongside a Persona 4 remake that hadn’t been made official on the time. It wasn’t clear how considerably completely different these rumoured remakes can be, nevertheless.
