This might be a hot take but I feel like there should have been some more music in the Persona category. Whilst I'm glad we didn't get limited to purely P5, it's odd that we got quite limited in some ways. Some ideas here:
Keeper of Lust: Kinda a no-brainer given the nature of its use as an early-game boss theme. It also has that cool Smash-y vibe to it... how do I describe it, I have no idea.
Will Power: Another seemingly obvious choice, given its metal-like nature and literally being in battles... so why wouldn't it be here?
Blooming Villain: A really different sound overall, but given it's a cool theme for bosses, I think it would have worked well in Smash.
The Whims of Fate: A personal pick? Yeah, admittedly, but I feel this would fit well. It has that wonderfully groovy feeling and happens to be pretty popular.
Tokyo Daylight: Whilst it might seem too upbeat to really be a battle theme, this really applies to any "overworld" theme. It seems like it's a weird omission - a way to represent the "social" aspect of Persona would be cool, and music seems like a great way to do it. The main other point here is Layer Cake, which I think would have also been a really neat inclusion.
Literally anything from P5D: This... feels bizarre. Like, even just
GROOVY (the main theme of the title) would have been a pretty good shout - and P5D released several months before Joker's announcement. I think it would have been cool to get a few remixes in there actually - my own suggestions being the
Last Surprise remix by ☆Taku Takahashi, the
Whims of Fate remix by Yukihiro Fukutomi, and
Triumph, a remix of the victory theme in the game. (On this note, it would have been cool if the second Shujin costume were replaced with the P5D design?) I suggest this because at this point, Persona is very much defined, in some ways, by its spinoffs - it's literally a spinoff itself, after all.
Break In To Break Out: Whilst this is from the P5 anime, which is... garbage, the song itself is absolute fire, and given we've got the Advent remixes in Smash now, it feels like a weird omission. This also applies to Dark Sun to a lesser extent, but the former makes more sense.
It's not like Atlus wouldn't have had any of these, but I want to stress that I'm genuinely really glad we got P3 and P4 music. As much as I'd love to suggest stuff from the rest of the Persona series, as well as some more P3/P4 stuff and even some SMT tracks, I feel like... there's a surprising number of omissions, which is kinda disappointing for a series famed for having exceptional music.
