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    Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4

    Game » consists of 5 releases. Released Jul 10, 2008

    Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4 is a role-playing game developed and published by Atlus for the PlayStation 2. It is chronologically the fifth installment in the Shin Megami Tensei: Persona series. Like its predecessor, its gameplay combines a traditional role-playing game with elements of a social simulation. Its critical and commercial success spawned a sizable media empire, including several spinoff titles.

    Which past Persona characters would you like to see in P5?

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    #1  Edited By SmasheControllers

     What cameos? Not cast.
     
    Tatsuya he made a cameo in P3, but only by name.
    Philemon he's a key character in the series but he was only referenced but not in 3 or 4.
    the P4 or P3 group.

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    #2  Edited By blair

    Funky Student!   
     
    Give me some Mysterious Fox as well.

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    #3  Edited By C2C

    With the exception of Igor, I really wouldn't mind a brand new cast.

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    #4  Edited By SmasheControllers
    @C2C: I mean cameo.
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    #5  Edited By s-a-n-JR

     
    Kanji....and Chie... 
     
    and Yosuke...Rise....Teddie...Yukiko... 
     
    and Nanako! 
     

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    #6  Edited By eldiax

    Definitely Nanako.

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    #7  Edited By willin

    An older version of Nanako. Maybe when she is 13 or something.
     
    Maybe she could be part of the Persona 5 party?!?

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    #8  Edited By Vorbis

    Agree with the others, an older Nanko.

     

     
     
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    #9  Edited By s-a-n-JR

    It would be kinda cool to see an older Nanako...but also a little weird. I mean, she wouldn't be that adorable little Nanako anymore! :P She'd be like a girl with..girl parts. :S
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    #10  Edited By ZenGaijin

    I'd like to see Junpei return from P3 god I love that guy he was always in my party. Other than that I'd like to Aegis return as shes a robot and does'nt age.

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    #11  Edited By FlipperDesert

    An older Nanako, possibly involved with the main storyline. Or Akihiko! He's already in the anime, after all.
     
    Though, a completely new cast would be preferable.

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    #12  Edited By TheKing

    Persona Cart Racing coming soon!

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    #13  Edited By acklay

    id like to see minato from p3 comeback to life

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    #14  Edited By FatalError
    @acklay:  Massive spoilers there!
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    #15  Edited By Cerza

    I'd like to see Hidetoshi from Persona 3 return as one of the teachers.

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    #16  Edited By Vect
    @Sanj said:
    "It would be kinda cool to see an older Nanako...but also a little weird. I mean, she wouldn't be that adorable little Nanako anymore! :P She'd be like a girl with..girl parts. :S "
    The Proper Term is "She got Hot!" 
     
    They could do what they did in Persona 4, IE have minor characters (Social Link characters) get mini-cameos to see how they're doing rather than just Main Characters popping up. Perhaps a mention to Junes and how the Inaba branch is doing under new management or a newspaper article mentioning Sgt. Satonaka roundhouse-kicking a pursesnatcher or Risette's new single. Nothing too major, just a cameo would seem fine enough without being seemingly shoehorned in.  
     
    While obviously squeeworthy for the characters, I doubt that scenes in Gekkougan High in P4 where characters meet SEES members could come off smoothly. That's why the game takes place probably after the cast have graduated and moved on since their Spiritual Adventures have ended and they're free to move on to their Happy Endings...
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    #17  Edited By Happy

    A grizzled Kanji in his 20s or 30s running an adorable textile shop with his "life partner."

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    #18  Edited By penguindust

     
     
    Can I ask for Chihiro Fushimi from P3 and P4?  Let's just keep her around for all subsequent games.  Maybe at some point she becomes a teacher in one of the future Persona games.
     
    Also, wouldn't it be cool is Nanako became a teenager and was a selectable member of the party in Persona 5 or P-whatever?
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    #19  Edited By General_D23

    An older Nanako would be awesome. For most of the other characters, I'd say small mentions here and there, or at most, cameos, would be good. 
     
    No matter how much I like Yukiko, Kanji, Rise, and Naoto, as well as the rest of the characters, I think their main story's should stay in P4. 
     

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    Assuming P5 takes place a 2-3 years after P4, the P4 group would be 20 or 21, P3 group would be 23 and 24, P2 they'd be 30 and 40's.

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    #21  Edited By JB16

    I would really like to see Junpei and Akihiko make an appearance, it would be extra awesome if they were like advisors or something.

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    #22  Edited By bulletstorm

    Um; well I asked this question in the P5 wishlist but apparently it's important enough for it's own thread?  
     
    I'd like Nanoko / one of your S.Link buddies to show up in cameo; like Daisuke becomes the P.E. teacher in whatever school or Yumi is mentioned as some kind of movie star.  
     
    I don't think any of the investigation team is suited to return in P5 because well most of them seem like they are going to be stuck in Inaba forever; cept Rise, so maybe a Risette commercial or movie poster. 

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    #23  Edited By safelybeds
    @BulletStorm said:
    "Um; well I asked this question in the P5 wishlist but apparently it's important enough for it's own thread?   I'd like Nanoko / one of your S.Link buddies to show up in cameo; like Daisuke becomes the P.E. teacher in whatever school or Yumi is mentioned as some kind of movie star.   I don't think any of the investigation team is suited to return in P5 because well most of them seem like they are going to be stuck in Inaba forever; cept Rise, so maybe a Risette commercial or movie poster.  "

    I'd doubt Yosuke and Naoto (and Rise, as you said) would stay in Inaba, don't you? It doesn't really seem to fit them.
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    #24  Edited By SubwayD
    @Happy said:

    " A grizzled Kanji in his 20s or 30s running an adorable textile shop with his "life partner." "

    ^ This. 
    Or an older Ayane playing some avant-garde trombone recital the main character can watch to raise his Culture stats. 
    I wonder if I'm the only person here to max the s-link and get intimate with her? :P
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    #25  Edited By C2C

    What I would really like to see is an MMO S. Link again.  Bonus points if it was called Eternal Punishment. 

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    #26  Edited By MrGtD
    @SubwayD said:
    "  I wonder if I'm the only person here to max the s-link and get intimate with her? :P "
    Probably because she looks like she's 7.
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    #27  Edited By Storphrax
    @TheKing said:

    " Persona Cart Racing coming soon! "

    I would buy that day 1.
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    #28  Edited By FluxWaveZ

    It's a given that Tanaka and Igor would appear as persistent characters in the sequel.  I think Rise and Nanako would briefly appear somewhere, also.  There could also be references to Junes (maybe even a Junes store where you can go to) and references to Teddie (a little Teddie toy somewhere).
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    @C2C: Innocent Sin is 1000x better then Eternal Punishment.
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    #30  Edited By C2C
    @SmashedControllers: Oh really? I only played Eternal Punishment since Innocent Sin was never released in the US. I demand Atlus localize Innocent Sin and release it to the US >:(
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    #31  Edited By bulletstorm

    Ayane is the trobone player no? Well; she grows up to be in Oreskaband! That would make Persona 5 a massively epic win. 

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    #32  Edited By ArbitraryWater

    Well, I would assume that they will do something like what they did in Persona 4, where they had Chihiro and Mr. Edogawa appearing as well as a reference to Mitsuru.
     
     So I would expect a minor S. Link character to appear at some point in P5, make a statement that vaguely references a member of the investigation team, and then leave.

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    #33  Edited By Cube

    Kanji. 

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    #34  Edited By loldetaerleo

    Kanji all day everyday baby!

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    #35  Edited By nick69

    Unless Persona 5 is going to be in inaba, we aren't going to see most of the p4 characters, except for rise, and possibly souji. I'd like to see an older nanako too, if they can find a way to put her into p5.

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    #36  Edited By trophyhunter
    @nick69 said:
    " Unless Persona 5 is going to be in inaba, we aren't going to see most of the p4 characters, except for rise, and possibly souji. I'd like to see an older nanako too, if they can find a way to put her into p5. "
    P5 takes place in highschool or collage and nanako goes to that same one 
    that's how you fit her in easy
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    @trophyhunter: If thats true then the game would take place 2020 or so. I think P5 will only be a few years after P4 because of the fact that Persona games usually take places 2 years after the real year. example P2 was released in 1999 the game take place 2001 or so, P3 released in 2007 take place 2009, P4 release in 2008 took place 2011.
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    #38  Edited By trophyhunter
    @SmashedControllers said:
    " @trophyhunter: If thats true then the game would take place 2020 or so. "
    yeah 11 years is not a huge huge amount of time
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    #39  Edited By The_A_Drain

    None, the games are supposed to be unrelated. I don't want to see it devolve into direct sequels or awkward cameos and whatnot. I prefer they stay seperate and unrelated.
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    #40  Edited By willin
    @The_A_Drain said:
    " None, the games are supposed to be unrelated. I don't want to see it devolve into direct sequels or awkward cameos and whatnot. I prefer they stay seperate and unrelated. "
    Persona 3 and 4 both happen in the same universe at roughly the same time period, with your awkward cameo mixed into P4.
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    #41  Edited By Conflict

    I really hope an older Nanako shows up as part of the main cast of Persona 5, other than that maybe Naoto as a detective and Rise as a film star as cameos. I loved seeing Chihiro again, there needs to be more of that in Persona 5.

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    #42  Edited By Ghostiet

    Nanako, like the rest said. Also, cameos from both teams from P3 and P4 including the MC's would be quite cool. I assume both groups continue to work after the game ends, or at least they keep track of things even if they got over with their lives. I'd find quite satisfying, for example, including Naoto in P5 as an agent of the Investigation Team after some serious shit starts happening in the P5 storyline.

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    #43  Edited By vigorousjammer

    I'd like to see... an older Nanako... just like everybody else said.

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    #44  Edited By agent_lost

    My guess is that were going to get is a poster of Rise in the P5 protagonist room. As for what I like to see, I go with Yukiko but we all know that it not going to happen.

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    #45  Edited By lemon360

    I want Charlie Tunoku, as a little Atlus nod to GiantBomb for getting them so many P4 copies sold.
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    #46  Edited By Vect

    That'd likely be a localization in-joke.  
     
    A small cameo of a minor character or a brief mention to a main character (Posters for Rise's new movie, Tatsumi-brand dolls sellin' like crazy, Inventory Item shop is now Junes with a small mention to an Inaba branch). I doubt any of them need to be shoehorned into a major role since I take it that after their game the characters have since moved on to living a normal life (or as much of one as they can).

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    #47  Edited By the8bitNacho

    Definitely Rise.  Her being a television idol would make her easy to work in as a cameo. 
     
    Teddie is the only other one I could think of.  Maybe if P5 characters were to visit Inaba for god knows what reason, an older Yukiko tending to the Amagi Inn would be kinda cool.

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    #48  Edited By eirikr
    @Vect said:

    "A small cameo of a minor character or a brief mention to a main character (Posters for Rise's new movie, Tatsumi-brand dolls sellin' like crazy, Inventory Item shop is now Junes with a small mention to an Inaba branch). I doubt any of them need to be shoehorned into a major role since I take it that after their game the characters have since moved on to living a normal life (or as much of one as they can).
    "

    Excellent (and realistic) suggestions. 
     
    Trish the fairy should also return. She ran a healing spring in P1 and P2 and was rude and foul mouthed. In retrospect, she probably wouldn't have fit in the newer games so her hiatus was probably well-chosen.
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    #49  Edited By Fbomb

    Chuck Tuna. That guy was crazy.

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    #50  Edited By BradBrains

    new characters please.
     
    even though i love Chihiro.
     
    at least no one as a main character or supporting character. cameos are alright with me though

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