That Persona 5 Trailer

Why no Xbox love? :(

There are some cool subtle hints to speculate on for sure though.

Based on promotional stuff I'm speculating that the story is centered around the theme of social structure and the expectations placed on people based on birth or social status like a ball and chain. I'm basing this off a couple of things. First in the trailer the developers names are chained to their surnames which is a pretty obvious symbolism, this and the fact that the game will be set in Tokyo where class warfare is almost at San Fransisco levels makes me think that the protagonist will take on the role of a sort of delegate, bringing together people from all walks of life toward a common goal of equality and freedom. (also see classic Shin Megami Tensei Jesus allegories.)

It just dawned on me that the main series skipped the whole last generation. Damn.

They explained this a hundred times. The reason they don't do endurance runs any more is because people like them. Too many people have watched the persona 4 and deadly premonition endurance runs and Jeff saw that and told Drew that it was bad for the website and Drew emailed Brad and told him to put a memo to all staff saying they can no longer do endurance runs because that would be "selling out" and GB has to "keep it gully".

A P5 Endurance Run is never going to happen, but I would actually shit my pants if it did.

Do you hear that, GB staff? If you do a Persona 5 Endurance Run, I WILL shit my pants. I always keep my word.

I've waited so long since it's announcement! so any footage is a joy little sad it was to short to even get a chance to spot out the other character

@lausebub said:

@lifebydegrees said:

Basically nothing happens in this trailer and I'm just a bit unsure of what makes this a trailer.

Set in the big city presumably- which is the case with the other Shin Megami Tensei games.

Pure Stereotypes- More distinctly awkward up front than previous leads? If they emphasized that - and you had to develop from a more awkward- less neutral place- that could be interesting.

Fire Glasses!

All of that is round about speculation- and though I'm glad to have a bit more subtlety than the Persona Q trailers (Which are fan service heavy - which the game will be- which is fine.)- I'm hoping future trailers are a bit more informative than the first and second one's have been.

It actually has quite a bit of information. The first part is obvious: Smartphones. You see a shitload of them being either displayed or used. Even the protagonist has one! I would assume that you cast you personas using it and that "being trapped inside your phone" is probably going to be one the story themes. In addition to that:

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Oooooh, tantalizing hints! Thanks for posting. I was feeling quite frustrated during the trailer not being able to read Japanese.

I literally bought a PS4 because of this trailer. This put me over the edge. Can't wait.

It's not just the site, a whole lot of the internet is pretty excited about this. I guess it's just being carried by the name alone. The Persona series is pretty much a known quantity at this point, and everyone knew that P5 existed in some way, so it was nice to finally have something. Whether or not this makes Atlus a bit lazy by just riding it's own hype wave, I don't know.

I'm hyped anyway.

Edit: Also, I want that logo by itself in some way. A shirt, a sticker, a poster, something.

yeaaaaah!

Ah man, I wish Vinnie was still in the office.

As someone who just got to play Persona 4 the Golden(well, I'm playing the Japanese version), I think it's fair to assume that all of the those were taken from the intro cinematic.