Persona 6 Just Got MASSIVE Updates... (The BIGGEST Persona Yet!)

[@VanagloriaVT]

I dont wanna get my hopes up, but it would be really really cool to see something regarding Persona at the game awards

[@Truuuuuuuuu]

hopefully we at least get a p5x global release announcement

[@VanagloriaVT]

@@Truuuuuuuuu That'd be cool for everyone in the west!

[@Aurange]

Not gonna happen.

[@Aurange]

@@Truuuuuuuuu P5X is probably happening yeah.

[@soulnha]

@@Aurangeon YOUR soul especially persona 6 WILL be announced in the game awards

[@Falloutboy76.4]

An open world persona game would scare me. Breath of the Wild X Persona would be a fearful crossover.

[@SylDragonia]

That is the worst thing I have heard today. Persona getting the worst gameplay element in current gaming scene. No sir.

[@ZappBrannigan95]

Honestly I'm sick and tired of open world games

[@SylDragonia]

@ZappBrannigan95 they are just checklist nonsense. There is nothing novel about it. And I just don't get the appeal of just going anywhere. Instead they can focus their resources in making limited areas even better.

[@knox7945]

I rather have limited areas instead of a vast open world of doing nothing, but gathering random stuff. At least with a limited space, the pacing doesn't dwindle and it keeps the story more engaging.

[@maijennytulls7768]

if the open world is full and there's actually a lot of stuff to do unlike most games then yeah, but otherwise i prefer the little areas that atlus already gives us

[@mkloven101]

My guess is they’re using metaphor as a guide to make p6, or maybe it’s the other way around? Not sure but either way i can’t fucking wait

[@TheWehzy]

But persona 5 is way more polished than metaphor.

[@mkloven101]

@ In what ways?

[@projectmessiah]

​@@TheWehzyNot really

[@Megidolaon999]

@@TheWehzyignore the hate your about to get, your right. People can’t take criticism of the game ATM, give it some time. It’s still an amazing title, I adore it, but it lacks ALOT of polish and really would love a rerelease.

[@dakotachamber7183]

@@Megidolaon999 Lmao, its got the best gameplay and artstyle compared to the other Persona games

[@gnuwaves743]

I hope it takes place in high school and a talking animal tells me how cool I am and won't let me stay up late.

[@starboy_0_0]

Hopefully a mammal to

[@KahoonaGT]

capybara or a fwcking tiger

[@milmil5350]

I would like for it to be in college. I'm sick of the high school trope.

[@qwereder]

@@milmil5350 play another game, persona is about school

[@kowaikokoro]

If p6 is coming out next year we'll see it at the game awards. with atlus skipping the switch on recent titles like persona 3 reload or metaphor i dont see them delaying p6 specifically for the switch 2 unless heavy incentive from nintendo is present.

[@Aurange]

It's definitely NOT coming next year and definitely WON'T be at TGA. And who says Atlus would be delaying P6 for the Ounce? It would just be a happy coincidence. They definitely would release it without the Ounce out if it was what they wanted to do, but they don't want to do it until at least 2026 anyways and the Ounce will definitely be out by then. And the reason it is 2026 is indeed not because of the Ounce it is because of the 30th anniversary.

[@kowaikokoro]

​@@Aurange persona 3 reload set the record for fastest total sales in 1 week for all atlus games, metaphor broke this record by being the fastest selling atlus game,1 million in 1 day without switch releases. atlus response? Lets wait 2 years to release the next mainline persona game, lets not strike the iron while its hot...... Without any incentive from nintendo that would be an bad april seasons joke for me and probably nightmare for shareholders. Can you imagine going into an meeting ''yeah so we rose sales by 30% YoY, in 2025 we're not doing anything except delay product thats ready for shipping'' 🤣

[@Aurange]

@@kowaikokoro Who says it is ready for shipping?

[@kowaikokoro]

@@Aurange ''Head on the Block, previously known as I'm a Hero Too, who proved to be extremely reliable in the past regarding Persona series rumors, talked earlier in march about the yet-to-be-revealed sixth entry in the series, saying that it is 95% complete and that it will release in 2025.'' Ready for shipping might be jumping ahead but with 5, soon 6 year dev cycle how can it not be? team zero metaphor 7 year cycle sure its their first project but the main persona team? The main persona team working more years than the number next to the persona title would be crazy. Could be mismanagement due to the reliance on ''openworld''/scopecreep but so far nothing has led me to think that development has been troubling.

[@Aurange]

@@kowaikokoro We don't know when it actually started being worked on, and P3R definitely stalled development on P6 when it was being worked on it. The team is still not big enough to work on two big games at once. I don't believe Hero or Ryan or Nate or Ramona. Especially when 3 of them are literally just repeating the same info ad nauseum. It's not even anything new. It's the same thing over and over again.

[@MilkyWayGrump]

Another Midori detail you missed: they mentioned Yokohama was the city the game would take place in

[@marty4625]

screw p4r that can wait until 1 and 2 are actually playable, p4g is good enough for the time being

[@LuisDiaz-fs5pm]

Just don't expect a remake with the same concept as modern persona. A remake of P1 or P2 will look more like an SMT game

[@Zentai_Kun]

@@LuisDiaz-fs5pm i am NOT complaining, peak story with more smt type combat and difficulty will be awesome

[@HoodedAlchemy]

​@LuisDiaz-fs5pm i think the reason they haven't remade 1 and 2 is because it's going to be a complete remake

[@xiiir838]

​@@LuisDiaz-fs5pm oh my GOD YES I WANT THAT

[@TLOUProfessor]

We don’t need 1 and 2 remakes - even a 4 remake . It’s time for a new persona game. No one expects over decade old games to be playable - besides persona 4 plays great now anyways

[@zbaksh101]

-I like Green as the guiding color but the dual protagonist rumor makes me think Black and White should be the colors instead. - so far the dual protagonists rumor is probably the one I'm most interested in. -I'd prefer DLC over a rerelease but I'm not sure yet if I wanna get an expansion pass. It depends on what the dlcs are.

[@A117-b7g]

I expect DLC, it's really bad to have to buy the same game again because they rereleased something. If I bought it once I should be able to buy the DLC to improve it if I wish. I shouldn't be forced to buy the same game again for an extra chapter that could be released in DLC, we are not stuck in old PS2 era anymore.

[@zbaksh101]

@A117-b7g I'm fine with a sequel instead of dlcs or rereleases. I would prefer the Persona spinoffs taking a page from FF7 and doing sequels/prequels, etc, rather than the current approach. In hindsight Kasumi and Maruki would've been better served in a p5-2 style entry.

[@A117-b7g]

@@zbaksh101 I am fine with spin offs, like ffvii crisis core and dirge of Cerberus, they are new games entirely. And thats cool, it's a decent way to improve the experience of the storytelling in that world. What I am against is re-releasing the same game with something different to force people to buy it again, like persona 5 and persona 5-royals, or final fantasy vii remake and final fantasy vii remake integrade (which can only be purchased if you buy the PC version or the PS5, you cannot just buy a dlc for PS4 for example)

[@Zevrules]

I’m cool with having open world dungeons, but other than that, I think that open world would be a bit too much for this series. It’s one thing for a game like Elden Ring or Zelda to have open world since in those games you play as adventurers/explorers, but as a high school student, I feel as though there wouldn’t be many interesting things to do.

[@TheRealGobo1]

I feel you’re thinking of an open world persona game wrongly. Imagine this, the game takes place in a smaller town like in p4. Maybe mountainside or just something to show more nature. And you’re able to walk freely around this town, it’s not big but it has a bunch of detail with many buildings you can enter. So like a small GTA map but with the beauty of a quant town. Basically just combine all of the small areas you’d get in a normal persona game but they’re all combined. You can walk from your house to the convenience store to school without having to go through a cumbersome world map. It’s not a botw huge open adventure, but more just a nice walk through a small town. Honestly this seems like less of a new twist and more of an obvious improvement that just makes the game better with no downsides.

[@Aurange]

Open world is ass and open world dungeons wouldn't make sense and would be complete ass.

[@deadman4110]

@@AurangeOpen world dungeons would be weird, but I don’t think open world in general would be bad. It would all depend on the execution, no?

[@Aurange]

@@deadman4110 Not in my opinion. I've never seen a good open world.

[@Phaeton635]

@@Aurange And how exactly do you define open world? What's the cut off? That big bloated empty map with tons of scattered icons for filler made popular by Bethesda? Jak and Daxter's near seamless interconnected world? the hub worlds and nonlinear levels of SM64 (what we would now call open zone)? Because the term has different meanings to different people.

[@guruthosamarthruin4459]

What a 2-3 year DLC road map actually means to me, is that the game will still be in development for 2-3 years after it releases, so there's no point in playing it before that.

[@TheRealGobo1]

Yeah honestly I would just rather have one big paid dlc like 2 years after the game released that adds a new side campaign plus the improved version of the game like royal or golden.

[@Aurange]

I don't buy any of the bs rumours but DLC is definitely not gonna be like that.

[@phillemon7664]

Yeah I don't think that's the case at all. The game will be complete but there will be new "years" or "semesters" added with new conflicts years after

[@Aurange]

@@phillemon7664 That would be interesting but has literally 0% chance of happening.

[@guruthosamarthruin4459]

@@phillemon7664 Which would mean it's still in development...

[@Mukar]

I may not be a leaker, but I firmly disagree with it being unlikely that P6 is announced at TGA...especially if Metaphor recieves GOTY. Atlus would have an unmatched opportunity to cap off the show with the P6 announcement in a moment where all eyes are on them, much like Fromsoft announcing Armored Core 6 after winning with Elden Ring.

[@Yae_1995]

Unfortunately metaphor won’t win GOTY.

[@Mukar]

@@Yae_1995 I can only hope it does. The game certainly deserves it...but yeah. A lot of hope went out the window when they changed the rules to nominate DLC for a previous winner.

[@Persona-Joop-157]

A lot of persona fans are tired of re-releases and Atlus knows it, so DLC is the best alternative, There are a lot of things that DLC normally can't fix that re-releases can, so Atlus is probably going to release extra extra extra a lot of DLC so that the game will be bigger and greater than all games before, while Atlus still makes a lot of money

[@allopeep543]

Aghh I'm so excited for Persona 6~! I can relate to an art school setting so honestly it feels even more perfect

[@Aurange]

You shouldn't be looking too deeply at these bs rumours.

[@TranscendencyBand1]

@@AurangeLike you’re looking deeply at every single rumour video currently on KZbin and spam commenting on them being an asshole? 🤡

[@allopeep543]

@@Aurange I understand but the idea of it sounds really fun! I don't get bummed out that much if doesn't turn out to be true :^)!

[@Aurange]

@@allopeep543 Fair enough. I'm indifferent to the idea personally but yeah I just don't believe rumours without any proof.

[@Oisc.]

How would they summon their Personas tho?

[@lenaflower2916]

Random wish, but I hope this game actually goes through a whole year. I don’t know why, but it always kinda annoyed me how Persona 3 and 5 have a few months of a time skip at the end; as in, the final dungeon occurs months before the actual ending of the game. What I like most about Persona 4 is that the final boss is on your second-to-last day in Inaba.

[@owenexists210]

I always thought it was weird how they said “go and live for a year” but then it was like 9 months? It just was really weird

[@romahnii]

as someone who’s just finished their 1st persona game, i’m extremely excited to play the new remakes of the old games if they’re anything like p3r it’ll be so much better graphics wise and voice acting wise, i’m almost more excited for those than p6

[@EpicOpMc]

Great video, it's nice to have someone pool together all the tiny bits of info we've gotten over the last few years. P6 feels like some mystical thing at this point, gonna feel kind of surreal when it actually gets shown lol I was dead set that we were seeing it at TGA but considering the P5X domain stuff from a week or two ago that dream is dead, and I guess well hear about P6 early next year and I'm praying Altus doesn't delay it to 2026 to coincide with the 30th anniversary. Don't think they will, as of now they have nothing for 2025 outside of P5X and if the rumors are true I think P4R announcement, P1&2 remasters and a P6 DLC could do the job of fueling the 2026 anniversary hype stuff just fine.

[@skinnyyoungjiggy4471]

i'm really excited for P6 but i kinda dislike the whole "bigger" thing that games have nowadays, as in, the newest games have to be massive and super long. p5 was already pretty long and it felt like it dragged on a bit tbh. hopefully they actually make it different and have new things and it's not just an even longer story

[@zukosvfx]

P5 was the perfect length

[@FLXMSY-JML]

p5 was perfect length wise

[@skinnyyoungjiggy4471]

idk i guess bc i wasn't used to persona at the time lol but i felt kinda bored at the end ngl... lol

[@ocskope]

They’ve always been pretty long games…

[@skinnyyoungjiggy4471]

@ocskope i know that ? lollll but P4 and P3 didn't feel as long as P5 and then they're saying P6 is "even bigger!!!1!1!" like with most games nowadays. that's all im saying, like i don't really mind if a game is only 20 hours or something :|

[@theadorjespert]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't one of the leaks previously also mentions something involving "Sleep"?

[@kevinr7216]

Nahhh P6 is *certainly* going to be announced at TGA only because MR is up for GOTY. If they were planning on doing it at a Switch 2 event, MR’s GOTY nomination has changed that plan.

[@samuelpinnock3289]

Thank you for keeping us updated

[@ninjagowarrior2274]

I just don’t want a silent protag anymore 😔

[@Aurange]

Sadly I don't think they'll ever stop doing that.

[@kaffka4753]

​@@Aurangewell Refantazio was different, so it might happen

[@splurgyreal]

You’re gonna be happy then.

[@shunguloy1012]

p3r and metaphor are basically practice runs so expect a talking mc

[@Aurange]

@@kaffka4753 I wouldn't look at Metaphor for anything to do with Persona.

[@fenniken5381]

Im talking metaphor not persona but I feel I want to talk about this, I think whether it uses a sub job type system or a rotating main job system like metaphor 1 will depend on what makes sense for that games story, for example while I'm sure they will always take place in high fantasy worlds and be traveling stories and time management I doubt all of the future games will be about a hated tribe becoming king. Persona and smt are the same, some elements present in all games, but the tone of the story can be very different. For example persona 3 and 4, both star high school students, form bonds and everything but tone wise they are polar opposites. Want to hear how I think a sub archetype system would work?

[@Oisc.]

Go ahead. Let us listen to your ”sub archetype” mechanic.

[@fenniken5381]

@Oisc. using metaphor 1 for examples sake, the characters would have a main archetype they'd always be, protag as a seeker for example, and would learn skills for that via xp levels, it would evolve into magic seeker once unlocked and protag at a high enough level, say 23, and learn skills that can only be learned via that method, even if seeker was equipped to someone else as a sub archetype. But would learn late game skills even if you never evolve it, sub archetypes would be identical to how archetypes do work in metaphor 1, up to rank 20 and Stat boosts when mastered. Would also influence affinities and can equip a second weapon, so protag with healer can have swords and staffs and can choose which to attack with. No skill enharitance though, the sub job itself comes with more skills after all.

[@asuraofwrath]

@@fenniken5381 so basically just sub persona system from persona q but slightly retooled

[@fenniken5381]

@asuraofwrath can't imagine it being anything else, skill enharitance makes the bravely default sub job system a moot point.

[@Aurange]

Not gonna be a thing.

[@Cryptic7274]

tbh i want persona 4 remake over persona 6 but this still a W

[@thetismon_simp9593]

p1 and 2 over 4

[@AdApT3Rx]

@@thetismon_simp9593w

[@Stickmon_]

why would you want a remake over a brand new game

[@everythinggirl12]

@@Stickmon_ P4 was released in 2008. How is that new?

[@thatforemankid2262]

Finally an original thought

[@blackgoku1357]

The leaks regarding the theme being "Black & White", "Modern vs Tradition" is very on the nose in how similar in concept to Pokémon Black and White's theming. I'm interested to see where they go with it if it's true.

[@CulturedGamerGuy3595]

18:18 praying for a new fighting game in development

[@losersGuide]

as an artist going to art school i am all for it taking place at an art school

[@GhostBusters-wb4un]

Persona 1 and 2 should get a remake that makes the stories the same but the it plays like Persona 3 - 5

[@ladyweirdo6035]

As a KH fan, it's really hard for me to believe Mr. Midori, I will say though that the duality thing is interesting. I do kind of doubt since the idea of tradition vs modernism feels like it could be narratively similar to Persona 5, but we'll see if that's even the case. The idea that there's a playable female character in the real world who isn't playable in the shadow/demon world is interesting to me. That sounds super odd which makes me suspicious of it. If it's true, this is either a sailor star scenario or would suggest that the two main characters can't reach each other for some reason and perhaps live in different worlds entirely. Interesting...

[@debbieburns0156k]

Idk how I feel about all this information. I don’t mind them having an art school setting, or more time for social links. But I really don’t like the idea of 2 protagonist being played side by side, nor do I like the idea of pumping out a bunch of DLC especially ones that adds more story. This works for P3r because episode aigis is pretty removed from the main story. But imagine something like royal, where new characters are added that you have to complete their social links to unlock the new content. how is that going to work with dlc? Am I expecting to replay the game over from the beginning every time more story ,and character dlc is added? I also don’t like putting story and characters behind a pay wall. Cosmetics features and persona were fine but now Altus is just joining everyone else in the greedy dlc practices. Another thing ,what do they mean by semi-open world? Why would we need an open world persona game? That makes me feel like finding things is going to be a lot more difficult. Y’all remember having to find the Ginza line, in the beginning of 5, why would they want to make that even more complicated. The more I think about it the less I’m liking anything that I’m hearing about p6 ,but only time will tell.

[@deyon100]

I finished my first Atlus game Metaphor Refantazio im currently at the end of October in Persona 3 Reload and man what a depressing month it has been

[@SomeChristianGuy9]

God it better be on the switch 2

[@charlesclements7382]

Good overview thnx

[@Gakki_Aniki]

very clickbaity title when it's just what we know so far nothing "just got updated"

[@charlesclements7382]

With the scop of metaphor re fantazio they've shown they now have the means to deliver

[@charlesclements7382]

My guess is it's gonna release with the switch 2

[@gnuwaves743]

For real tho, wtf does fully-semi open world mean?

[@andrewwells5594]

Stalker (not stalker 2) is exactly that, it’s 20 big levels that are all open and you move from level to level with a loading screen but it’s all 1 world that you have freedom to explore

[@CuttinInIdaho]

P6 will hit more than 5 mil first year...he's just being humble imo

[@v.emiltheii-nd.8094]

Will the theme of P6 be sickness this time?

[@v.emiltheii-nd.8094]

If so consider me hyped.

[@personafanatic4597]

i'd like to get my hopes up but they keep coming out with sequel games of p5 instead 😢 i liked Tactica and Strikers but i want a new game and crew to get to know

[@oriongear2499]

I’m hoping Persona 6 isn’t another OWG. If anything, I’d rather it be similar to P3’s Tatsumi Port Island or even P4’s Inaba in terms of world size.

[@MasiPT]

No💀 Inaba had a cool vibe but Tatsumi Port Island is the most boring setting, especially size wise. I don't want locked cameras like in P3 and P4. Tokyo was perfect size wise in P5R and I hope P6 will be even more ambitious

[@Soooooooooooonicable]

What the heck does semi-open world even mean?

[@N0ahhh3214]

Not to be a negative Nancy but I couldn't care less about Persona 6, THIS might be Atlus' biggest game but it just seems so Meh. Like I know there is hype but it's going to be hard to replicate what 3, 4, and 5 did for us as a fan base if they can pull it off great but I'm not spending $80 dollars for a persona game that is probably going to be sub par at best because Right now persona 5 is like $30 dollars and royal is pretty much always on sale for $40, persona 3 and 4, along with golden are only $12 reload is $80 but at least we know it's good because persona 3 is really well made especially for a game made a while ago. I will change my opinion when P6 comes out, I have medium expectations at most right now.

[@ТорТор-ж9д]

Hello, I'm new here. Thanks for the heads up! Can someone please tell me: in this series would there be all languages released simultaneously or Japanese first, then global?

[@Teties]

Got my soul burning

[@mr.sol6666]

Persona 4 reload when?

[@Aurange]

After P6.

[@martinchristianaguilar5135]

Yare Yare Dawa

[@azurerider812]

Kek Jolyne that you?

[@KittyKatty999]

Atlus, please pull a P2 Eternal Punishment, and give us a female protagonist.

[@qwereder]

You really want them to tank their sales? Atlus knows female centric persona will sell less

[@Jacob-qs3qg]

I feel like we're gonna be disappointed and it won't come out until the end of 2025 if not 2026. Pessimism at is finest

[@TLOUProfessor]

Icl art school sounds terrible maybe just me tho

[@LaraAlana3]

I hope it isnt gonna be like the new game its to faded... At least to me ... Also i hope they gonna make finaly a female protagnist

[@TrueMonkeyNinja]

I just want the characters out of school and a playable FeMC.

[@qwereder]

play another game, persona is about school, you can always play smt games, like souls hackers 2

[@AdApT3Rx]

Maybe maybe not

[@steamrolller4143]

What is this medory stuff about idk how to spell it

[@yeryin]

midori was someone who gave incredibly accurate and reliable leaks

[@AdApT3Rx]

@@yeryinfr

[@Aurange]

Midori and they are a racist liar. No reason to bring them up.

[@Aurange]

@@yeryin And got lots of things wrong and was a racist.

[@Aurange]

@@AdApT3Rx No, not fr.

[@akiraevangelionultimateali5199]

Hope it gets adapted into anime too

[@Aurange]

If it is successful obviously it will be.

[@akiraevangelionultimateali5199]

@ I’m loving the p4 anime, which one is your favourite?

[@Aurange]

@@akiraevangelionultimateali5199 I've never watched any of them, I have no interest.

[@akiraevangelionultimateali5199]

@ I hope you can tho

[@Oisc.]

I want a new Persona game where the school setting is excluded and your protagonist wakes up in an outlandish landscape or something like that.

[@lunchwrap7667]

Hope the protagonist is a guy.

[@aboy-xu9ri]

i dont

[@ShumaiTheDetective]

Wow guy protagonist for the 6th time what an original idea Personally sick of it

[@Oisc.]

I’m sure they won’t miss this opportunity to give P6 a female protagonist. As long as someone on Atlus’ writing team knows how to write females. We’ll see about that.

[@NadineGomoll]

Hate female protagonists. They are lame,( lightning, you know). I am female btw

[@dakotachamber7183]

@@ShumaiTheDetective How are you sick of a gender? lmao

[@David-qy7sb]

You really need to get a life if all you have been thinking about is the next Persona game.

[@7osbeta]

God forbid a man have a hobby

[@HyouVizer]

Basically wait until 2030 when all paid P6 DLC is fully out to get an complete edition or on sale

[@Aurange]

Even if you believe the bs rumours it would be 2027-2029 not 2030.