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It's really odd that she's here when she was absent from the dancing games, yeah; however, it is great to see her again!
Well I certainly never saw that COMINGGGG!
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I'd be surprised if we only get Persona 5, given how ATLUS has shown itself to be very very very willing to license all sorts of Persona, MegaTen, and other IPs out to other companies for crossover events.
I'm of the opinion that you can't have any stage other than the Velvet Room. It's a series staple, and given how it can change it's appearance and structure, it'd be easy to turn it into an arena.
That’s a great idea actually, additionally it could change between different Velvet Room layouts from across the series like Kalos Pokémon League.
Yeah, I considered Aigis and Jack Frost personally, just to spread things out so the majority of Persona/SMT representation wouldn't all be from one game. Also, if it was different Velvet Room layouts, you could have the different residents appear in the backgrounds of the stages, too.
Yeah that’s what I was thinking, Elizabeth and Theodore could appear in the background from Persona 3, Margaret and Marie could appear in the background for Persona 4 (The limo could have it’s doors open for blast-zones), Caroline and Justine in the Persona 5 one, so on and so forth, covering the Persona series as a whole. It’s a perfect stage for the series.
I personally really want a general ATLUS travelling stage - including the streets Tokyo from SMTIV and SMTIVA, Destinyland from SMT1, the Idolsphere from TMS#FE, a labyrinth from Etrian Odyssey, etc., though I agree that the Velvet Room would be best for Persona in particular - maybe including five versions, if they want to use the P1/2 and PQ designs in addition to the iconic ones.
The Jack Bros would be amazing as an Assist Trophy, they could all go around on the battlefield dealing their own elemental attacks and it would be great fanservice for such a sought-after hidden gem on the Virtual Boy.
Yeah, something really going in favor of Persona representation in general is that Sakurai is actually a huge fan of the series, he loves the games so I really think he could bring a Persona character to life in Smash if he tried and would love to see whoever it may be.
Yeah, if there is any argument for MegaTen/Persona being important to Nintendo history, it's their casually developing a game exclusive to the Virtual Boy. That cannot have been a good business move...
That said, it should be noted that Sakurai seems to respect the series from a developer perspective moreso then be a fan of it from a gamer PoV. He did say that Persona 5 has the greatest UI of all video games (and I have a personal conspiracy theory that the new Final Smash cut-ins are directly inspired by P5); however, he also commented that he struggled to find the amount of time it would take to play it.
It’s a great game, I actually played it on emulator before and had a blast, but I agree that releasing it on Virtual Boy was not the smartest business move. It’s a shame too because it really is the textbook definition of a hidden gem.
Also since the whole thing about Morgana is that he can turn into a bus, I feel like it would just be kinda redundant with the inclusion of Kap’n as one, he could use his Persona and all but I feel like Aigis has so much more history and weight to her, she could use her Persona but as well as this she could use missiles, gattling guns, cannons, her rocket boosters, there’s a lot to work with her cybernetic body, even just for an Assist (I imagine it being similar to how she was in the Arena series and Blazblue Cross Tag Battle)
Yeah that’s true, Sakurai is a fan but that said it’s a long game so he struggles to find a dedicated time to play it. That being said he certainly has a lot of praise and respect for the series, pointing out a lot of the strong points that it has in his Famitsu article.
Yeah, it does look pretty fun from the limited gameplay I've seen of it - I certainly would purchase a remake if ATLUS was inclined to make one.
That's true - Zorro definitely isn't as iconic of a Persona as Athena is, and the bus gimmick is taken. Aigis does also have a giant arsenal of options for moves too, so she'd make a lot of sense.
True, he does seem to know a lot about it in spite of claiming to not have played much of it. It should also be noted that the respect is likely mutual, given how there is a SMT Devil Survivor character named after him and, in the English version at least, Futaba casually shout-outs Smash Brothers in one of the least subtle references she makes in Persona 5.
Snake proves that guns are fine anyway, so it definitely shouldn't be an issue!
This is purely prospective, but I imagine the game will be rated T anyway. With Bayonetta being on the base roster as well as Snake returning, not to mention the outright brutality of some of the Final Smashes we've seen, I think they might be a little more flexible with the contents of the game and allow things like guns. Could be wrong though.
Yeah... I don’t think it would be the Phantom Theives logo.
