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 However Atlus could attain even additional again for some new (outdated) supply materials.
In an interview with RPS, Wada mentioned the workforce initially got here up with the concept 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 feel a remaster or remake is a few type of cultural preservation,” he mentioned, per a translator.
Wada continued to elucidate that it is Atlus’ “responsibility” 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 pair of are one thing we’ll in all probability ultimately do, too.” There you’ve gotten it, people.
Persona 1 and Persona 2 are additionally the one mainline video games within the collection that are not readily available for purchase on any trendy system, making Wada’s level about “cultural preservation” much more salient right here.
Regardless, I feel it all the time made sense to start this remake voyage with Persona 3, the sport that spawned the collection’ extra recognisable options (social components, courting, and so on) and notably did not embrace a serious antagonist that is perhaps tough to depict in the identical method these days (a rumour-fuelled Hitler reincarnation).
Just a few years again, a distinguished Sega leaker claimed that Persona 1 and a pair of remakes had been within the works, alongside a Persona 4 remake that hadn’t been made official on the time. It wasn’t clear how considerably totally different these rumoured remakes could be, nevertheless.