Atlus will probably remake Persona 1 and 2 one day, according to a new interview with series producer Kazuhisa Wada conducted by Rock Paper Shotgun.
"For me, I think a remaster or remake is some kind of cultural preservation," Wada said. "As a creator, it’s your duty to take the things you’ve done and make sure they’re not lost, and are still around in the modern day. From that same perspective, Persona 1 and 2 are something we’ll probably eventually do too.”
Persona Revelations was released on the original PlayStation in 1996. It's actually been lightly reissued before, in 2009 for the PlayStation Portable, and surprisingly, there's even a 1999 PC port that was never released in the west. While it focuses on a cast of school students, the social links system—arguably the series' best trick—wasn't introduced to the series until Persona 3. It's the Persona game that feels closest to the older Shin Megami Tensei games, since it has first-person blobber-style dungeon exploration, though overworld exploration is co...
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