Ahead of a more formal announcement that was likely due sometime over the next few days, a couple of trailers for new Persona games have leaked online. Well, they werenāt even leaked; they were posted accidentally on Atlusā English-language Instagram page, making them official leaks.
The first one is for a game called Persona 5 Tactica, which takes Atlusā RPG and shifts it to a turn-based tactical battlefield, ala Fire Emblem:
PERSONA 5 TACTICA TRAILER!!
releases 17/11/23 (17th november 2023) pic.twitter.com/sDklynkmaQ
— JUNO š¾ (@junoracle) June 8, 2023
The second is a full-blown Persona 3 remake, called Persona 3 Reload. I know, we only just got a Persona 3 re-release, but that was of the excellent portable edition; this looks like itās rebuilding the entire, original Persona 3 experience using Persona 5-level tech.
Persona 3 Remake / Persona 3 Reload trailer dropped on Atlus Wests's Instagram IG pic.twitter.com/SXYQx0WksB
— Spoopy06 (@Spoopy06) June 8, 2023
That is excellent news! Persona 3’s story and characters are some of the seriesā most beloved, and itās regarded as the first entry in the āmodernā Persona games (older ones were quite different), but some of that older gameās design decisionsāit was first released in 2006āhavenāt exactly aged well, particularly its grindy tower. Persona 3 Portable made some changes there, but whether Reload also makes some more modern concessions remains to be seen, since this is just a leaked trailer; the full announcement with details on this kind of stuff is yet to come.
Persona 5 Tacticaās trailer says that it will be out on November 17 on Xbox (and Game Pass) and PC, while Persona 3 Reloaded will be out in āearly 2024″ on Xbox, PC and Cloud. That doesnāt mean those are the only platforms theyāre releasing on, just that these trailers in particular may have been part of Xboxās June 11 showcase. So we can expect more information on what these are doing and which other platforms theyāre heading to to come after that!
