First they need to make Persona 6, which they are working on.
Oh yeah? What was different? I've only played Golden so I'm not sure what they changed
Shadow Yukiko's Ice weakness in Golden was originally on her adds in OG 4, in which she had no elemental weakness to exploit. And while I did take multiple tries to win the first time I fought her, like I imagine a lot of people did and that's why they changed it, I'm of the opinion that giving her a weakness, making it easier to deal a lot of damage and keep her stunned with Dizzy, makes the fight easier than it needs to be while delaying the teaching of the lesson to the player that not every enemy (especially bosses) will have a straightforward weakness, requiring you to use other tactics like fighting defensively or using stat buffs to succeed.
They probably are developing Persona 6. It's not like Atlus aren't big enough to have some B-level studio work on copying Persona 4 while their best creatives are working on something new. After all, it doesn't matter if a remake is spectacular or even better than the original, since it will sell based off of name and reputation alone.
I guess, although its strange that they have 2 team doing almost exactly the same type of game at once, you'd figure there was a ton of overlap. Even if its a remake, I imagine the scope would be broadly the same as a new game.
The setting isn't really rural, its more like suburb.
It's definitely rural. But rural Japan, not America. Or what they call inaka, which is like the countryside in english. Even the town you live in is called inaba, it's almost literally in the name.
That's a coincidence. Inaba is (or was) a real place in Japan, and there's a fair bit of mythology surrounding it - which was used to create the fictional town in the game.
en.wikipedia.org
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Homonym puns are exceedingly common in Japanese, even if the kanji isn't the same one.That's a coincidence. Inaba is (or was) a real place in Japan, and there's a fair bit of mythology surrounding it - which was used to create the fictional town in the game.
Inaba Province - Wikipedia
Hare of Inaba - Wikipedia
Also, the kanji are nothing alike:
Inaba (as used in the game): 稲羽
Inaka: 田舎
Considering the historical and mythological weight that Inaba already carries and has carried for millennia, I would be genuinely surprised to learn from a firsthand source that they were stacking a cheap pun on top of that.
It will probably be exactly how the old game was if we use p3R as a comparison point. That game's script was nearly identical. Though the English translation may differ, since the p3r english translation was accurate, unlike that of the original game back in the day. I remember people amazed by Yukari not being a biatch any more and I was confused cause I played p3 in Jp and she was always very nice and considerate, albeit selfish too. So maybe some of your issues would be fixed too by a more accurate translation.
