3D = Dancing, Dancing, Dungeoneering
With a new Atlus livestream event comes a raftload of new announcements, and fans of both franchise-milking andPersonawon’t be disappointed. A 3DS-based sequel to the crossover dungeon-crawlerPersona Qwas announced, but as of right nowit’s little more than a teaser site. Even the title,Persona Q 2, is tentative.
More solid are the next announcements, which finally answers the question of how Atlus would outdo the radical step of convertingPersona 4into a dancing game. That answer? ConvertPersona 3andPersona 5into TWO dancing games. TitledPersona 3:Dancing Moon NightandPersona 5: Dancing Star Night, the new games are based on the characters and soundtracks ofPersona 3andPersona 5, respectively.
Being targeted for both the PS Vita and PS4, they look fairly close toDancing All Nightgraphically. Notably, this is our first look at thePersona 3cast with high detail modeling, as this is their first official appearance in a game with that level of graphical horsepower. They look good! Given that bothPersona 3and5were quite a bit more serious in tone than4, I can’t wait to see what kinds of narrative contortions the games will go through to justify having these teens vanquish their foes with the power of slick moves rather than weapons and magic as per usual.
Both games are due in Spring 2018 in Japan, and their trailers are below, along with a teaser site and some cool character art of the P3 and P5 leads (no P3 female version?) locatedhere. For my part, I’m on board, though as a new Switch owner I have to do the obvious thing and ask whether these might come to the Switch at some point in the future. That platform would be perfect for this style of game (and even for the mainline series entries, come to think of it).
Persona 3 and 5 Dancing Trailers live [Atlus viaMoetron]
