A part of me is actually wondering how a Persona 5 Arena would even pan out. There are, after all, certain aspects that should be considered.
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Idk, it seems like there's a lot of interesting questions here. I guess a roster could be cool, and there's still a ton of questions regarding the whole situation with ArcSys, but that aside, P5A could be an interesting sight...
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The issue of one Goro Akechi, or should I say two. The problem is, Akechi has his Prince and Black Mask forms with completely different Personas, being Robin Hood and Loki - and yet the issue is, the Arena games try to be canon, hence why he didn't get into P4A/P4AU. Akechi is literally dead, or at least implied to be... could they possibly like, cobble together an explaination that Akechi's Shadow Self is splintered somehow?
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I suppose this is a point too. Characters like SOPHIA, Zenkichi and Kasumi seem like no-brainer choices, but then it begs the question of how, in the case of Strikers, does Koei own the rights to Zenkichi and SOPHIA? I suppose Kasumi could theoretically get in, but even then that raises questions of the "timeline" given the theory that Persona 5 Royal is in a seperate timeline to Persona 5 Strikers. (What the hell happened there?)
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Okay, so how do we handle the Velvet Attendants? I mean, given that Lavenza is present in P5S, is it just going to be her, or is it Caroline and Justine... or both?
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So, who would return from previous titles? I mean, it could be cool to see the P4 cast in a similar way to how the P3 cast were seen in P4A, but then one has to ask - would the P3 characters return as well? I feel at that point, you could even get away with adding some characters from even older titles - like Naoya from P1, or maybe Tatsuya and Maya from the P2 duology. I mean, the 25th anniversary proves Atlus does, like, remember Persona 1 and 2 exist.
Idk, it seems like there's a lot of interesting questions here. I guess a roster could be cool, and there's still a ton of questions regarding the whole situation with ArcSys, but that aside, P5A could be an interesting sight...