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[Iva Demilcol]

How in the world did you get that impression? XD

And what didn't you like about P4?

The question wasn't directed at me but I say that all those anime cliches for the P4 cast are quite awful. I was kinda disappointed with the cast because of that. Also, the evolution of the story sucks.

 

[Acquiescence]

My guess for release date is December 2015 for JP. Feburary 2016 for US. I really want to eat crow on this.

EU? What's that?

EU is the continent that's going to import rather than wait a year for it to come out, so don't region-lock that shit like you did with Arena Atlus or I will fucking demolish you.

 

[RiverKwai]

Fluent in Japanese, and I work in the localization industry. =p

It's not like either is necessary to know that though.
I speak Japanese worse than a 3 year old. (I've been there half a dozen times though)

 

[TheGreatLugia]

I'm late to posting since I've been rewatching the trailer so many times.

My experience with Persona mainly consists of playing the first 15-20 hours of 3, but I think one of the reasons it didn't quite click with me is that I already knew so much about 3 and 4 secondhand ages before I started playing 3.

At this point, I think starting with a fresh game I don't know anything about would be a better entry way into the series for me. It also helps that I love everything I've seen about the game so far.

 

[Caronte]

What did you not like about P4?

I mean P3 was a lot more mature character wise but are there specifics?

How "cheerful" it was. Too much to my taste. I liked the dark mood of P3 more.

And the dungeons/social ratio (too much social) but we haven't seen anything of that yet.

How in the world did you get that impression? XD

And what didn't you like about P4?

The way they dance and stuff. And the music. It really gives me P4 vibes. For the second question read the above.

I really wish Meguro would go back to darker music. Digital Devil Saga was godly and P3 had some good ones too. Not a fan of P4 OST

 

[mocolostrocolos]

Any good wallpaper for my phone?

 

[brickarts295]

I did this a few hours ago. It's the main visual, minimal retouched.

You're doing gods work. Thanks!

 

[ivysaur12]

Oh man, that's perfect.

 

[Highwind]

On the fucking train now.

Trailer was charming as hell.

 

[Shouta]

Nice catch. Wonder who Greed will be. What is our MC? Wrath in my opinion.

Ryuji will probably be greed, I think. Yellow represents Greed, as I recall.

 

[Pandora012]

My guess for release date is December 2015 for JP. Feburary 2016 for US. I really want to eat crow on this.

EU? What's that?

I thought Atlus confirmed 2015 release for both regions.

 

[super-famicom]

How "cheerful" it was. Too much to my taste. I liked the dark mood of P3 more.

And the dungeons/social ratio (too much social) but we haven't seen anything of that yet.



The way they dance and stuff. And the music. It really gives me P4 vibes. For the second question read the above.

I really wish Meguro would go back to darker music. Digital Devil Saga was godly and P3 had some good ones too. Not a fan of P4 OST

The "We're thieves" and Velvet Room is a prison aspect seems slightly less light hearted than P4 to me.

 

[RobotVM]

So this game is going to push me to buy a PS4 again.

 

[DeaviL]

It's on PS3, actually. And I would totally see this getting remade in the future with the way atlus does things.

Quelle horreur

EDIT: Platform(s) PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4
So, yeah. Buying a PS4

Wait, i see what you meant.
I didn't own a previous gen console.

 

[Flying Toaster]

How "cheerful" it was. Too much to my taste. I liked the dark mood of P3 more.

I can see this being an issue. Persona 4 is usually not my type of game but by the time Teddy came around I was hooked. I just accepted it as quirky and went with it.

 

[Cess007]

I did this a few hours ago. It's the main visual, minimal retouched.

Loved it! Did you have a version where his persona is visible too? :3 I found your version less painful to my eyes that (too much red for my eyes in the original image @_@)

 

[Wazzy]

I'll have this inside of me now please and thank you.

I'm in love with the character designs.

 

[CrazyDude]

Nice catch. Wonder who Greed will be. What is our MC? Wrath in my opinion.

MC is probably going to be Pride since it's the source of all the other sins.

 

[Thoraxes]

I thought Atlus confirmed 2015 release for both regions.

They confirmed 2015 for NA a few times in these past couple months.

 

[motorised mallard]

Since we are talking about the twins, did anyone else notice the eyepatches?

 

[sjay1994]

So the persona for the main characters are going to represent the Seven Deadly Sins? When the cat transforms it says Luxuria Persona and Luxuria is Latin for lust. This should be interesting....

7?

I am expecting 5, since the initial reveal had 5 chairs, and 4 active party members were shown in the trailer. I am guessing the 5th is probably a support character ala Fuuka and Rise.

 

[CrazyDude]

They confirmed 2015 for NA a few times in these past couple months.

It's possible they are translating the game at the same time as the developers are working on it.

 

[Steel]

Looking back at 1:34 of the video shows the cat having 5 of the deadly sins listed on him and one demon:

Left to right(maybe I should be going right to left?):
Gula: Gluttony
Luxuria: Lust
Invidia: Envy
Ira: Wrath
Superbia: Pride

The demon:
Irritum: Apparently a demon of nothingness?

 

[Green Mamba]

7?

I am expecting 5, since the initial reveal had 5 chairs, and 4 active party members were shown in the trailer. I am guessing the 5th is probably a support character ala Fuuka and Rise.

You don't think the initial reveal had five chairs because it was Persona 5?

 

[Caronte]

I can see this being an issue. Persona 4 is usually not my type of game but by the time Teddy came around I was hooked. I just accepted it as quirky and went with it.

The odd thing is I actually loved Teddie lol It was some of the other characters that really did nothing for me (Yosuke, Chie and Yukiko, which is a problem since they are your 'main' friends in the game).

The "We're thieves" and Velvet Room is a prison aspect seems slightly less light hearted than P4 to me.

I hope you're right.

 

[Thoraxes]

It's possible they are translating the game at the same time as the developers are working on it.

Highly likely for this title. I hope it turns out like the SMT IV localization did. Maybe even faster.

 

[Verelios]

This...was absolutely beautiful. Loved the transition from cover play to platform environments.

Gah, this is giving me P2 vibes strangely enough, which is great! The girl even reminds me of Lisa!

 

[JudgmentJay]

This looks reeeeeeeeeeally good. Can't wait!

 

[Robert at Zeboyd Games]

7?

I am expecting 5, since the initial reveal had 5 chairs, and 4 active party members were shown in the trailer. I am guessing the 5th is probably a support character ala Fuuka and Rise.

I thought about that too, but chances are the 5 chairs was just because it's Persona 5. If it does refer to party members, it may not represent everyone there (like the cat wouldn't need a chair at school).

7 characters is the number of playable characters in Persona 4, the number of deadly sins, and it just generally works well with a 4 person party since you have your main character and 2 groups of 3 (so you could play the game twice and main all of the main characters).

 

[freeofgreed]

That was glorious. So stylish.

Just realized that it doesn't look like your party members follow you around in dungeons anymore. I actually liked that feature in the P3.

Haha, so the Velvet Room is a prison now, cool.

Looks like the twins have eyepatches alternating eyes.

 

[Flying Toaster]

The odd thing is I actually loved Teddie lol It was some of the other characters that really did nothing for me (Yosuke, Chie and Yukiko, which is a problem since they are your 'main' friends in the game).

Yeah Chie was a hard pill to swallow... by the end of my first play-through though her and Teddy were my favorites. I just accepted the zaniness and went with it.

Perhaps Persona 6 will be dark like 3. You and I could always hope.

 

[Gentleman Jack]

Takamaki Anne? Hope I'm not being ignorant, but Anne doesn't sound very Japanese. Is she perhaps from somewhere else?

It's just a romanization of 杏

Ken Watanabe's daughter has the same name and it gets romanized to 'Anne' as well.

 

[TheBaronOfNA]

And Igor is the Warden!

Interesting that the Velvet Room is now a prision. Igor is must proabbly still is ally/PersonaFuser but seems that now the space between the "self" and the "collective" is now a opressive state than one of transistion.

Maybe thats whyb they are fighting demons?

 

[Steel]

Just realized that it doesn't look like your party members follow you around in dungeons anymore. I actually liked that feature in the P3.

Don't be so quick to assume that, there's only one portrait in the bottom right so he's probably in that particular dungeon alone.

 

[JNA]

I thought about that too, but chances are the 5 chairs was just because it's Persona 5. If it does refer to party members, it may not represent everyone there (like the cat wouldn't need a chair at school).

That and we have no idea if these are ALL the characters.

I doubt Atlus showed everything in one trailer.

 

[Sera O]

So who's up to speculate about the mc's persona? I wanted to guess Prometheus, but I wasn't sure what to make of the heart imagery (printed on the sleeve). Usually the description of his sentence involves being bound to a rock and having his liver pecked out every day (regenerates every night). Apparently there are accounts of it being his heart instead, but I've only ever read it was his liver. It would be harder to draw a recognizable liver on a sleeve, I guess, and it does appear to be like a tally...

The tie with Pandora works with the allusion to sins in the game (she was made and sent to humanity as punishment for the having the fire they weren't supposed to have and ended up releasing all the bad stuff), and the emancipation thing perhaps might work with the idea of his punishment and the chain/prison imagery. As for the thieving and vigilante stuff, his claim to fame is stealing fire in defiance of the gods/natural order.

Other ideas?

 

[Love Deterrence]

Haha, so the Velvet Room is a prison now, cool.

Wow. That's a great catch.

 

[De-mon]

Loved it! Did you have a version where his persona is visible too? :3 I found your version less painful to my eyes that (too much red for my eyes in the original image @_@)

I could resize the original artwork to show the Persona.

I have not found this artwork in HQ.

 

[SlowRevolution]

game of the year: persona 5 menus.

 

[Saint Gregory]

So the persona for the main characters are going to represent the Seven Deadly Sins? When the cat transforms it says Luxuria Persona and Luxuria is Latin for lust. This should be interesting....

If you freeze it just as it zooms out you can clearly make out 5 more of the sins written in Latin as well so I think this is definite. I can't see what the three on the top level are though. That would make two sins too many :/

 

[Paper Sparrow]

So who's up to speculate about the mc's persona? I wanted to guess Prometheus, but I wasn't sure what to make of the heart imagery (printed on the sleeve). Usually the description of his sentence involves being bound to a rock and having his liver pecked out every day (regenerates every night). Apparently there are accounts of it being his heart instead, but I've only ever read it was his liver. It would be harder to draw a recognizable liver on a sleeve, I guess, and it does appear to be like a tally...

The tie with Pandora works with the allusion to sins in the game (she was made and sent to humanity as punishment for the having the fire they weren't supposed to have and ended up releasing all the bad stuff), and the emancipation thing perhaps might work with the idea of his punishment and the chain/prison imagery. As for the thieving and vigilante stuff, his claim to fame is stealing fire in defiance of the gods/natural order.

Other ideas?

If it is Seven Deadly Sins related, it could be Satan or Lucifer depending on what sin you think the MC represents.

 

[ckohler]

It's not just reflective tape. The brightest part of the column shows through his head and clothing:

You can also see the person through him in that second picture.

No guys. He's not transparent. You can't see through him. You're confusing those bright vertical lens reflection effects on the poles behind him (combined with heavy mp4 compression artifacts). These lens reflections line up with the poles vertically. Notice in the image below that only the bright lights on the right shine on the "camera" causing this effect. There is no transparency on the MC or you would also see the person directly behind him as well as the pillar on the left but you don't.

the two guys doging the train in the animated cutscene are also transparent

No, they're not.

Again, you guys are confusing lens flares for transparency.

Damn, you guys must have way better vision than I do. Even in those two frames, if you hadn't circled what you were talking about, I probably wouldn't have noticed.

I thought you guys were talking about the lights reflecting off the silver part of his bag/shoulder strap - which I still think it might be doing.

Again, the bright lights are casting flares on the game's virtual camera. These flares are on top of him and because the flares line up with the vertical lighting on the pillars behind him, you're mistaking that for transparency.

 

[ZombiePlatypus]

So...anyone else completely dying at the prospect of having to wait now?

This trailer just day-1ed the game for me. It's soooo freaking stylish.

 

[CrazyDude]

So who's up to speculate about the mc's persona? I wanted to guess Prometheus, but I wasn't sure what to make of the heart imagery (printed on the sleeve). Usually the description of his sentence involves being bound to a rock and having his liver pecked out every day (regenerates every night). Apparently there are accounts of it being his heart instead, but I've only ever read it was his liver. It would be harder to draw a recognizable liver on a sleeve, I guess, and it does appear to be like a tally...

The tie with Pandora works with the allusion to sins in the game (she was made and sent to humanity as punishment for the having the fire they weren't supposed to have and ended up releasing all the bad stuff), and the emancipation thing perhaps might work with the idea of his punishment and the chain/prison imagery. As for the thieving and vigilante stuff, his claim to fame is stealing fire in defiance of the gods/natural order.

Other ideas?

Loki would work as well.

There is also Autolycus.

Autolycus, in Greek mythology, the maternal grandfather, through his daughter Anticleia, of the hero Odysseus. In Homer’s Odyssey the god Hermes rewards Autolycus’s faithful sacrifices to him by granting Autolycus skill in trickery, but later ancient authors made him the god’s son. He was believed to live at the foot of Mount Parnassus and was famous as a thief and swindler. Late sources say that on one occasion Sisyphus (the son of Aeolus), during a visit to Autolycus, recognized his stolen cattle. It is said that on that occasion Sisyphus seduced Autolycus’s daughter Anticleia and that hence Odysseus was really the son of Sisyphus, not of Laertes, whom Anticleia afterward married.

The object of the story probably was to establish the close connection between Hermes, the god of theft and cunning, and the three persons—Sisyphus, Odysseus, and Autolycus—who were the incarnate representations of that practice and quality.

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/44831/Autolycus

 

[Busaiku]

The one on the left might be then. Long ponytail can be ambiguous so maybe a boy. The one on the right has twin buns, I believe. So girl, lol

Hard to tell since it goes by so fast, but I think they're both in skirts.

 

[sjay1994]

game of the year: persona 5 menus.

OMG. Those menus are so fucking good.

 

[Steel]

If you freeze it just as it zooms out you can clearly make out 5 more of the sins written in Latin as well so I think this is definite. I can't see what the three on the top level are though. That would make two sins too many :/

1 of those 5 isn't a deadly sin, but a demon representing nothingness, Irritum.

 

[rhandino]

Hard to tell since it goes by so fast, but I think they're both in skirts.

Eye patches?

 

[super-famicom]

Loki would work as well.

There is also Autolycus.


http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/44831/Autolycus

This version or bust:

 

[Steel]

Hard to tell since it goes by so fast, but I think they're both in skirts.

The cartoon sequence has them both in shorts.