Sometimes I still don't quite believe it. After years, decades, of Atlus stubbornly refusing to put a bunch of Persona games on anything but a PlayStation, I now have 3, 4 and 5—in their expanded-edition forms—plus a 3 remake in my Steam library. What a time to be alive.
Of course, there's still something missing, isn't there? Persona 1 and 2, the original PS1 games that were made before the series came under the directorship of Katsura Hashino (who's now off working on Metaphor: ReFantazio), are hard to play nowadays. The first game technically came out on PC, but good luck getting a hold of it legitimately, while the second has never broken free of its Sony jail.
The good news is that Persona series general producer Kazuhisa Wada is well-aware people want to get their hands on the originals in some form, and it sounds like he'd like to do it. The bad news is that—if it ever happens—it doesn't sound like it'll be soon. In a chat with GameSpot, Wada said that remakes of the original games weren't "on [his] schedule right now," but he'd "like to do it someday." Which sounds like the kind of thing my parents used to tell me when I asked for a toy I was absolutely, definitively, never, ever going to get.
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Of course, there's still something missing, isn't there? Persona 1 and 2, the original PS1 games that were made before the series came under the directorship of Katsura Hashino (who's now off working on Metaphor: ReFantazio), are hard to play nowadays. The first game technically came out on PC, but good luck getting a hold of it legitimately, while the second has never broken free of its Sony jail.
The good news is that Persona series general producer Kazuhisa Wada is well-aware people want to get their hands on the originals in some form, and it sounds like he'd like to do it. The bad news is that—if it ever happens—it doesn't sound like it'll be soon. In a chat with GameSpot, Wada said that remakes of the original games weren't "on [his] schedule right now," but he'd "like to do it someday." Which sounds like the kind of thing my parents used to tell me when I asked for a toy I was absolutely, definitively, never, ever going to get.
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Atlus lead says he'd like to do Persona 1 and 2 remakes, but you're not getting them any time soon
I say just release some light-touch remasters in all their glorious jank.
