“We’ve executed lots of surveys with customers and followers, and at any time when we did a survey on what individuals needed to see as a remake for the Persona collection, the primary reply was at all times Persona 3,” P3R Producer Ryota Niitsuma advised me. “After Persona 5 Royal got here out, the Persona group was prepared for one more mission and we had been making an attempt to consider what to do. We had been saying, ‘Hey, a remake could possibly be fairly good. All people needs to see Persona 3, so that is the appropriate time.’ The celebrities have aligned.”
Respecting the influence that the unique had on gamers, the group needed to protect the core of Persona 3, whereas additionally bridging the 15 12 months plus hole because it launched, and all the technological advances in that timeframe.
“When [the original Persona 3] first got here out, I actually thought that each then and now that this recreation is simply unbelievable, one thing that, though a few years have handed within the interval, the colours of them haven’t light,” shared Recreation Director Takuya Yamaguchi.
“I needed to go away all the elements that made Persona 3 what it was, all of the elements that made up the core of how lovely it was, as-is, however then attempt to handle the issues which have modified within the interim… I needed customers to assume that once they performed this recreation. ‘I’m taking part in, not a remake of one thing outdated, however I’m taking part in one thing that’s the latest entry to the Persona collection.’”