But he needs to be designing the characters and demons for SMTV (if there was one). Especially after the bland designs of SMTIV.Collecting royalty checks for artbook reprints.
But he needs to be designing the characters and demons for SMTV (if there was one). Especially after the bland designs of SMTIV.Collecting royalty checks for artbook reprints.
So they can be less secretive when hiring people? Announcing the basic premise of the game as being fantasy allows them to attract people who would not be interested in working on a non-fantasy/Persona game.So they are just gearing up for hiring? What the hell is the point of announcing anything? I mean of course hey won't say what the platform is since by the time this releases somewhere around 2020-2021 who the hell knows any platform that will be successful.
Hell, mobile might become a desirable platform for console gamers (Nvidia Shield 4 or 5 will be out by then). Please be excited.
But he needs to be designing the characters and demons for SMTV (if there was one). Especially after the bland designs of SMTIV.
Collecting royalty checks for artbook reprints.
I sure hope Soejima being on this new IP means that Kaneko might come back to active duty on SMT. But I don't want to get my hopes up.
But he needs to be designing the characters and demons for SMTV (if there was one). Especially after the bland designs of SMTIV.
- 4 people riding on a horse carrage together with a dog with the subtitle: bonds
What's the correlation? It's not like Soejima was the artist at Team Maniax working on the recent SMT games.
True. Just wishful thinking that they might put Ishida and Doi on Persona and Kaneko back on SMT. I guess they have other artists who could take over Persona, but would they trust their money-maker to someone unproven?
But it's in the OP....
Soejima is an indispensable member of the Persona series staff, but we dont want his work to stop there. Meguro is the same. Both will continue to participate in the Persona series in the future."
- Direct Katsura Hoshino comment: Even though the current hardware it will appear on is unannounced, we are making this for those that like home console games and love Atlus games. It is going to take a fair amount of time to complete, but I will be doing everything I can so please look forward to it.
I think he'll still do illustration work, but everything else will be other people.Well, yeah.. it's a bit ambiguous. I guess either he'll be hands-on on both IPs, or he'll step back to more of an advisory role on Persona. Either way I'm sure Kaneko isn't coming back...
I would be curious to know why they feel the need to start an entirely new studio for this, though. If Hashino, Soejima and Meguro are all onboard, why go through the hassle of building the rest of the studio from scratch when they already have a talented staff? Why not leverage the notoriety of P-Studio and say you're turning it into a two-team studio? Is it a cultural thing?
"Studio" in this sense just means "new internal team" really. There's really no hassle here. They're going to recruit aggressively using this new project as an attraction because they need the staff. It doesn't mean they're not going to have leads in the company also working on this. The main message is that the company is expanding now, and they'er going to work on more things moving forward.
Atlus seems to be notorious for doing this lately - with Persona 5 being announced so early and SMTxFE also being announced even before any ideas had been made (although that might be Nintendo's fault).
So basically, Atlus are creating a new internal team and expanding their size, and also announcing a brand new game due to that effort, in addition to the games they are already working on now a P-studio
Sounds good to me.
I would not be surprised if they eventually went PS4/Switch/PC and aimed much higher for both their domestic market and the global market.
This kinda guarantees no 3ds, yes?
This kinda guarantees no 3ds, yes?
Not even slightly? Pretty sure it will be a console title.This kinda guarantees no 3ds, yes?
Really sounds like Switch is the platform it's aiming for which isn't ideal but I can work with that. Glad Atlus has put their faith in Hashino when the man hasn't made a error since he started with directing Smt3. The only thing I can see is social link being carried over but not a extract replica, romantic options don't have to be in it of course.
The new game, currently titled Project Re Fantasy, is currently without an announced platform, release date, or price.
it will begin large-scale recruiting for the new RPG project.
The character in the illustration made for the cover isnt necessarily the protagonist either.
Switch? I don't see that implied as their primary platform especially with their huge build up...why would they bother with no real actual evidence of how it would do at launch or beyond? My guess is they are starting with PS4 as a base but don't want to say at the moment. It was the same for Platinum's new game.