Looks like Persona 5 might be getting the FES/Golden treatment soon.

[Wolf Kanno]

There have been a lot of rumblings and teasers from Atlus recently concerning the P5 IP and most people imagine it's because we'll be getting a Director's Cut version like FES or Golden. So what do you hope to see in this version? What do you hope not to see?

[Lord Golbez]

I'd prefer not to see a relentless dungeon crawler followup like The Answer. The Answer was alright but suffered significantly from removing the non-dungeon crawler aspects of the main game.

What would I like to see? I don't know. New social links and new locations/available after school activities seems to be the standard and that works fine for me. It might be nice to balance some extra social links with more ability to spend time during some of the long stretches of story sequences spanning multiple calendar days, which harm the pacing of P5 a bit.

[Jinx]

I want you to be able to play as a girl, and I want you to be able to romance any character, regardless of gender.

ALSO ROMANCE AKECHI

[Lord Golbez]

Would romancing Akechi affect the plot or no (not that it usually does for other characters)?

For me to some extent the opposite although more an issue for P6 than a director's cut for P5 because I don't want them to take away stuff. I'd like there to be characters of both genders for whom romancing is not an option. It's just a bit too much to me that you can romance every female social link. At least in P3 and P4 you couldn't romance every female character, even if it was just kids and elderly woman that you couldn't....wait I guess you can't romance Makoto's sister. That's something. Sure, it's kind of funny that you can romance the teacher and doctor, but also messed up.

[Jinx]

Would romancing Akechi affect the plot or no (not that it usually does for other characters)?

For me to some extent the opposite although more an issue for P6 than a director's cut for P5 because I don't want them to take away stuff. I'd like there to be characters of both genders for whom romancing is not an option. It's just a bit too much to me that you can romance every female social link. At least in P3 and P4 you couldn't romance every female character, even if it was just kids and elderly woman that you couldn't....wait I guess you can't romance Makoto's sister. That's something. Sure, it's kind of funny that you can romance the teacher and doctor, but also messed up.

Oh, I didn't mean every character in the game, I just meant ones you already had social links with. Basically I just don't like that the game is so heteronormative and would like some gay options.

[maybee]

I want you to be able to play as a girl, and I want you to be able to romance any character, regardless of gender.


Yes !

[Jessweeee♪]

Being a girl in P3P was pretty cool, I'd love to see that option more in the series. I'll echo that, and LGBT routes with social links.


And yeah, The Answer. That was one big awful grind with no breaks. I need breaks.


Would romancing Akechi affect the plot or no (not that it usually does for other characters)?

It could work. I think it was already a little romantic how Akechi really admired the protagonist in his own way.

[Scotty_ffgamer]

I think an Akechi romance could be a pretty interesting social link, especially if you could make some choices in it that could get you another alternate ending.

[Jinx]

I think an Akechi romance could be a pretty interesting social link, especially if you could make some choices in it that could get you another alternate ending.

this this this

[Fynn]

That’s exactly what they did with Adachi. Minus the romance part. Cowards.

[Scotty_ffgamer]

I was thinking they did that with Adachi. I don’t think I ever saw the alternate ending though.

[Fynn]

It’s the creepiest ending ever. It’s called the Accomplice Ending for good reason

[Scotty_ffgamer]

I’ve been playing on my vita a lot more lately. Might be time to play through P4 again and aim for that ending.

[Lord Golbez]

Do you get that automatically for maxing Jester or is there a choice?

[Fynn]

Do you get that automatically for maxing Jester or is there a choice?

Rather, Jester only maxes as Jester if you make this choice, which is pretty much when you get the ending.

[Mr. Carnelian]

I want you to be able to play as a girl, and I want you to be able to romance any character, regardless of gender.


Yes !

Yepiddy yep yep. I want gay romance options and the choice to play as a female character.

Will we get either of these things? Probably not.

[Vyk]

Also, don't play the game online or the gods at Atlus will strike down your account. You have been warned, puny humans

[Wolf Kanno]

The one thing I don't want to see but considering the company's trends lately, I'll likely be denied this is the developers hamfisting a new character into the narrative. Like I would love to have the Sae Confidant expanded into a more conventional SL but I'm sure I'm instead going to get some new quirky TV Reporter/DJ who is going to fulfill a role similar to Marie or the new chick from Strange Journey Redux.

I'll also say I would love for either a Female lead option, or a gay option being added into the game. A few new customization options for the rest of the playable cast would be nice as well.

[Lord Golbez]

There's already a reporter in the original Confidants, so I doubt they'd go that redundant. They might do someone like Marie, but again with the number of velvet room confidants that might feel too redundant.

This is kind of why I had trouble answering the question. I think some new social links would be nice but I don't see where they would work them in. A Shido social link, for example, would not be believable and would mess up the story. Maybe Ann's friend but she's really too integral to Ann's confidant arc. I think she works best just as Ann's friend. There could be a decent way to work in a completely new character but I'd have to see it. They could flesh out the part time jobs more by adding a social link in one of them. In Persona 4 there were a number of part time jobs tied to social links. In P5 there's hardly any incentive to do any job more than a couple times. Oh yeah! What about Lala from Crossroads as a confidant? That seems like it could work. I know Ohya's link already largely takes place there, but I don't think that's a huge problem. Lala's presence in those scenes isn't so much that it would preclude a social link of her own.

[Vyk]

I have this weird feeling Atlus is too obsessed with dancing games recently and will shoehorn that garbage into this re-release

[WarZidane]

Nah, their dancing games are just easy cash grabs but not really anything that would help move a re-release.

Assuming it even is a re-release. R could stand for many things, could be a Persona 5 equivalent to P4 Arena, or even a racing game :p

[Fynn]

I will defend the dancing games to my last breath. They’re incredibly fun and the remixes are very nice

Also, yeah, I almost forgot that to Atlus “enhanced rerelease” means “add new waifu”

[Wolf Kanno]

Nah, their dancing games are just easy cash grabs but not really anything that would help move a re-release.

Assuming it even is a re-release. R could stand for many things, could be a Persona 5 equivalent to P4 Arena, or even a racing game :p

Atlus registered like 5 different domain names, so it wouldn't be a surprise if one of them was an Arena style game, but it's also likely one of them is also going to be a directors cut version as well.

[Mr. Carnelian]

What about Lala from Crossroads as a confidant?

Sassy drag queen Social Link?! YAAAAAAS!!

[Jessweeee♪]

The one thing I don't want to see but considering the company's trends lately, I'll likely be denied this is the developers hamfisting a new character into the narrative. Like I would love to have the Sae Confidant expanded into a more conventional SL but I'm sure I'm instead going to get some new quirky TV Reporter/DJ who is going to fulfill a role similar to Marie or the new chick from Strange Journey Redux.

Yeah, I mean a new dungeon is fun and all but it's weird to just shove a new character in like that. Especially for players that started with the Golden. And then you need to explain away why we never saw them the first time around it's because magical selective amnesia. Kingdom Hearts has beaten that particular dead horse to the point where it is just wine now and I want to be done with it forever.

[Lord Golbez]

I don't recall Marie really being a huge deal change to the narrative. She's just an extra social link character and she's inserted through the Velvet Room, which is mysterious enough still that it seems like an easy way to introduce a new character without them feeling too out of place. Your comment about trying to explain why we never saw them "the first time" is some kind of strange meta-logic that I don't understand why you would even try to reconcile.