Ahead of a more formal announcement that was likely due sometime over the next few days, a couple of trailers for new Persona games have leaked online. Well, they werenât even leaked; they were posted accidentally on Atlusâ English-language Instagram page, making them official leaks.
The first one is for a game called Persona 5 Tactica, which takes Atlusâ RPG and shifts it to a turn-based tactical battlefield, ala Fire Emblem:
PERSONA 5 TACTICA TRAILER!!
releases 17/11/23 (17th november 2023) pic.twitter.com/sDklynkmaQ
â JUNO đŸ (@junoracle) June 8, 2023
The second is a full-blown Persona 3 remake, called Persona 3 Reload. I know, we only just got a Persona 3 re-release, but that was of the excellent portable edition; this looks like itâs rebuilding the entire, original Persona 3 experience using Persona 5-level tech.
Persona 3 Remake / Persona 3 Reload trailer dropped on Atlus Wests's Instagram IG pic.twitter.com/SXYQx0WksB
â Spoopy06 (@Spoopy06) June 8, 2023
That is excellent news! Persona 3âs story and characters are some of the seriesâ most beloved, and itâs regarded as the first entry in the âmodernâ Persona games (older ones were quite different), but some of that older gameâs design decisionsâit was first released in 2006âhavenât exactly aged well, particularly its grindy tower. Persona 3 Portable made some changes there, but whether Reload also makes some more modern concessions remains to be seen, since this is just a leaked trailer; the full announcement with details on this kind of stuff is yet to come.
Persona 5 Tacticaâs trailer says that it will be out on November 17 on Xbox (and Game Pass) and PC, while Persona 3 Reloaded will be out in âearly 2024âł on Xbox, PC and Cloud. That doesnât mean those are the only platforms theyâre releasing on, just that these trailers in particular may have been part of Xboxâs June 11 showcase. So we can expect more information on what these are doing and which other platforms theyâre heading to to come after that!
