Not Even Persona Q's Getting Left Behind

I see what you're saying and I somewhat agree, but all of these P4 spin-off titles really are fanservice first, so it makes sense that they wouldn't be as thought out in terms of narrative and how the characters are depicted compared to a mainline title.

I wouldn't worry too much in the case of Persona 5. I have faith that Atlus knows what they're doing with it and that the story and characters will be just as engrossing as the other RPGs.

Fair enough. My perspective is that they're re-purposing characters in ways that betrays the spirit of the original games and that worries me, especially following some of the writing in arena where the characters seemed to occupy smaller and smaller spaces until their personalities were reduced to single note references to the original games (Chie is steak, Akihiko is fighting, ect.). In some ways it seems like the creative spirit that drove Persona 3 & 4 and gave them what felt like a very particular vision has diminished.

It might have zero bearing on where the series goes from here though, they might have just run into a bit of a wall in terms of how to deal with these characters.

As I am playing Etrian Odyssey IV right now, I am stupidly excited for this. Definitely a chocolate-peanut butter situation

I wonder if that song is supposed to be in English. It seriously took me until close to the end of Persona 4 for me to realize that almost all of the songs were in English, so it wouldn't surprise me if it was.

Also I'm looking forward to this.

While I always knew Persona 5 would likely get a Western release, the other games were the ones I was unsure about, and I was absolutely giddy to find out they were all coming over.

I was just thinking the other day about wanting a North American release for this game. Glad to see Atlus can read my mind.

Persona 4 Golden got me to buy a Vita, now this game will probably force me to finally buy a 3DS. Damn you, Atlus! (shakes fist in general direction of Japan).

P4: Dancing All Night is also coming to Vita in NA, love those jams!

I don't see the problem of making fanservice games for the people who want more of the Persona 3/Persona 4 world, while keeping things fresh with a whole new entry in the series.

So much fan service for a super late PS2/Vita only title--I'd love to see a PS3/Steam version of Persona 4.

Looks groovy.

Don't forget about Dancing All Night!

If it gets more people to play Persona I say go for it, as long as P5 is still awesome :3

Things have been getting a little too fan-servicey in the Persona world lately, it's starting to worry me about the future of the series.

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Awesome, lots of Persona games to play!