The JRPG veteran chargeable for Persona and Megami Tensei is engaged on a 'faculty life RPG' with the Neptunia collection studio
Kouji Okada helped co-found Atlus and is likely one of the co-creators of its two greatest JRPG collection in Shin Megami Tensei and Persona. He left the corporate in 2003 to kind now-shuttered studio Gaia, and hasn’t been energetic in sport improvement for 16 years. Till now: JRPG studio Compile Hearts, greatest recognized for the Neptunia collection, has revealed Okada is engaged on a brand new “faculty life RPG” alongside fellow Atlus veterans.
And in case the importance of Okada’s enter was unclear to you, Compile Hearts has you coated: they describe the sport as “Okada’s final message to those that will lead the subsequent era”.
Okada is joined by author Tadashi Satomi, who’s credited as a situation author for Persona 2 and Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Satan Saga and its sequel, amongst others. Other than Megami Tensei, he is additionally chargeable for writing The Caligula Impact collection, in addition to Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising. The composer for Digital Satan Story: Megami Tensei and plenty of different early Atlus JRPGs, Tsukasa Masuko, can be a part of the workforce. Masuko most lately labored on The Caligula Impact collection and Monark.
Whereas Okada and co had been instrumental within the creation of Megami Tensei and its Persona offshoot, the collection has advanced a good bit since their departure. Okada did not work on Persona 3, for instance, which was the primary instalment to function its now series-defining social hyperlinks system.
Nonetheless, Okada was undeniably chargeable for setting the tone of the collection with 1996’s Revelations: Persona, and the Persona-fusing parts have been there proper from the beginning, as has its highschool setting.
It is shaping as much as be a fairly good 12 months for individuals who love surrealist JRPGs set in Japanese excessive faculties: Persona 4 Revival is on the way in which, and a Persona 6 announcement is unquestionably going to occur in some unspecified time in the future (contact wooden).