Mm, I dunno dude. Things change. Details in the stages could change. Jack may have been dropped for all we know. Or he could be there somewhere. We don't have it yet. If they weren't able to nail Joker, P5R and P5U, the stage, the delay of Persona 5 U The Fighting Game because of a GranBlue fighting game, AND then "guess" the other 4 I'd be more inclined to agree. But I've come to learn that no leak is black and white. As a matter of fact, even IF this leak were true I feel like Steve got dropped in favor of Banjo. Like I said, things change, I still think this leak was at least a little legit. Enough for Erdrick to still be likely as hell.
Maybe, but implying Jack Frost is a stage element and then the real stage gimmick being color change, doesn’t make sense to me.
Maybe it changed but those are two completely different ways the stage plays. On top of them not mentioning the joker alts, it feels off.
Joker literally bought so much with him that’s its insane. His presentation shows how dedicated Sakurai and his team were to replicating what a persona game feels like. He has more fanfare then anyone on the roster. The closest being mega man with his unique death animation.
Joker has every fine detail from his game and stands out cause of it. Plus there wasn’t even a Jack Frost costume.
This is really weird for him to just disappear from the game. There’s what 3 other persona games referenced? How do you live Jack Frost out there? Or more specifically, how do you put Jack Frost in with all the other fanfare and then say, “eh he doesn’t matter get rid of him”.
To me that doesn’t add up. Either Jack Frost wasn’t even in the game to start with or he for no reason was removed. Which the former seems likelier to me.
I’ll admit that’s odd though considering jokers code name is Jack. Likely a reference to Jack Frost. Either way th correlations between the 5ch leak and the actual game are odd.
It can still go down as you said and maybe he was removed, but that’s a very weird scenario that I don’t see how it could happen given everything we just saw.
It doesn’t necessarily deconfrim erdrick but I do think if this leak is fake it’s a pretty heavy hit. Verge was being real sly about the square rep until this leak came out. Then he eventually put that list out and said he thought it was erdrick. Which that’s pretty piggybacking to me, even more so as other insiders were just clearly following verge.
So it can still go either way but we shall see.