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# Persona 5 teaser heralds a New Wave for JRPGs
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/persona-5-announced-insane-french-new-wave-teaser/
- Published: 2013-11-25T15:09:36.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T16:13:57.000Z
- Description: Last night, after a week-long countdown, Atlus unleashed a flurry of Persona-related news. The big one is the release of Persona 5 for PS3 in winter 2014, although they backed that up with announcements for (deep breath): Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth, a series-spanning 3DS dungeon-crawler; Per
- Author: Clayton Purdom
- Tags: News, Atlus, JRPG, Persona, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

Last night, after a week-long countdown, Atlus unleashed a flurry of *Persona*\-related news. The big one is the release of *Persona 5* for PS3 in winter 2014, although they backed that up with announcements for (deep breath): *Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth*, a series-spanning 3DS dungeon-crawler; *Persona 4: Dancing All Night*, a Vita game in which you dance to the series’ jubilant J-Pop in the game and not just quietly, in your own apartment, while holding a Vita; and also a sequel to *Persona 4 Arena* called either *Persona 4 Arena 2* or *Persona 4: The Ultimax Ultra Suplex Hold*, depending on your brain’s elasticity.

All of the games look characteristically absurd and stylish, but the *Persona 5* teaser in particular seems to have the verve (and some of the iconography) of the French New Wave. Check it out below:

The morbidity is classic *Persona*, but the typography, the suggestiveness, the confident use of monochrome and the musical left-turn are more Truffaut than Sakaguchi. Combine this with the Francophilic turn of the most recent *Pokemon* game and the looming specter of the decidedly French-Canadian *Child of Light*, and there seems to be a trend brewing in the JRPG world. Long a sort of arch-conservative genre, it’s gaining new life by challenging the, erm, spiky haired, large-sworded traditions it was built on. Can a Dimitri from Paris-soundtracked *Final Fantasy* be far behind? Only if we’re lucky.