So you mentioned a few times how some of the ads were just spoiling the whole story, and that comes down to a difference in Japanese vs Western ad ideals. In America, ads for movies and games are usually like "Here's a few scenes from the beginning, here's some dialogue hinting at the overarching story, now come enjoy this to see where it goes!" In Japan, they basically do it backwards. "Here's a few scenes from the middle, a scene or two from near the end, now come enjoy this to find out how the heck we got there!"
America: “Heres a bit of the story now, learn what happens next by playing the game.” Japan: “Yeah, that’s me. You’re probably wondering how I got in this situation.”
18:58 Funny story. So, I pre-ordered P3Portable when it was released because I wanted both the OST and the Junpei cap that were part of the bonus for pre-order. Apparently, my copy was shipped late so I got a very apologetic email and they said they were including a gift as well. So when my copy arrived, I not only got my Junpei cap and OST, but they ALSO threw in a S.E.E.S armband as well. This pretty much cemented me prordering SMT and Persona games since this was my first experience with GOOD customer service from a company like Atlus.
@@DRAG0NSPIRIT10 Yeah, I was lucky enough that the hat fit me as I was kind of worried about Asian sizes being a factor in how it fit on my head so I ordered a little bigger than normal. I even used it and the armband to do a Junpei cosplay as well a few years ago.
Anyone else remember how PV 2 of Persona 5 was exclusive to Japanese buyers of a special edition of Persona 4 Dancing so all the leaked RU-vid uploads got taken down and people tried to disguise it as videos about economics? Good times, first time we heard Last Surprise as well.
@@gingivere8326 They know they can't do much to such an old game so they put hidden bangers in it. The contrast of the gameplay and those songs are just so jarring lol
actually the first announcement of p5 was really hype, you can just search on youtube how many people upload a speculation and theory video based on that chair alone.
YEAH and I remember that when the second trailer released, people called Joker “Chairy Potter-kun” bcuz he kinda resembled Harry Potter & the trailer featured chairs so much!!
Tbh, I loved the aesthetic for the Chair trailer of Persona 5. The words “You are slave. Want emancipation?” Stuck in my mind along with the balls and chain. It made it seem like the game was going to be a LOT darker
It is absolutely incredible to see how Persona has evolved sense the first game came out over 20 years ago. You can definitely see it with all of the trailers
the p4 one with igor slowly appearing closer and closer on the tv screen is lowkey horror game vibes D: also, the fes commercials were made with a target audience in mind that had already played persona 3, i think. that's probably why they show certain spoilery things & skip some more expository stuff like the evokers.
Fun fact; Persona 4 Dancing was originally going to be made by the devs of the Hatsune Miku Project Diva games. In the early trailers you can even see that the gameplay is very similar to the Project Diva games while being very different from the final product we got. This is because Atlus was unhappy with how the game's quality was turning out and decided to take over the development of the game.
Didnt they literally make the game tho? Maybe ATLUS got involved but the game was still made by them from what I’ve heard. That’s also why Miku is DLC. And plus, the project diva games were really good. The games were really good under their specific dev team before it was dissolved after F 2nd. The quality of the games tanked after that, and it’s likely that the quality was just fine. You’re making it sound like ATLUS saved the game from being poorly made lol Anyway, the only reason they’ve Miku games have made a come back is cuz of Project Sekai (made with a different dev team).
AHHHH Crystal you didn't show it in this video but in the first full length Royal trailer there's a clip of Haru staring out of the helicopter (from when they escape Maruki's Palace in the game) and in the background you can see a black and blue striped leg. When that trailer first came out, Akechi fans went INSANE over that clip because it matched Akechi's Black Mask costume & proved he could be alive after the Engine Room - or at the very least, there was going to be more content WITH HIM BEING HIS TRUE SELF!!! The theories that were flying around were amazing & the hype was CRAZY. Then the next trailer came out & as you pointed out, you can see Akechi's new Black Mask combat icon and his full body in cutscenes. It was the best feeling ever to realise that Atlus was gonna do him justice this time around. Just thought you'd like to know since ur a big Akechi fan :))
Yeah, i dont think its mandatory to play persona 1 and 2 but i think that others should at least investigate morw about it. I myself actually played one version of each game in order after i finished Persona 5.
@@Chillgamesh all of them are easy actually, even the "harder" ones like P3 and EP. Tho i can see how the gameplay can be boring because of how IS for the PSP made the menus worse to navigate and how there are a lot of encounters
Honestly, I totally loved the chair teaser at the time, and still kinda do. It was so mysterious and foreboding, and gave you just enough to speculate about the direction Persona 5 would take. Plus, I love any time the key staff get hyped up like that. I would totally be down for a teaser along those lines for whenever Persona 6 officially gets announced.
The Persona 5 trailers section was such a walk down memory lane for me, I had literally just beat P3P and watched the P4 anime when that chair teaser came out and I was already obsessed, this leading into the next few trailers where I remember I was super excited for Yusuke's first reveal (and was theorizing he was gonna be evil lol), all of that hyping up and culminating in me buying a PS3 in 2017 specifically so I could play Persona 5, and when it came out I got super lucky that it was a holiday week for me, so I literally just locked myself in my room and played it all day and all night, not only beating the game but also getting the platinum trophy, it's stupid but it's probably one of my favorite moments of my life, so thank you for helping me relive that, great video! :D
I am so sad the little mini trailers for Royal didn't make it in where they sprinkled scenes at the end of each from the 3rd semester to confuse EVERYONE.
Probably a little late for this message but as someone who was waiting for P5 all that time hearing the Trailer Igor say 'Welcome to MY Velvet room' Instantly threw me for a loop
This reminded me of a time when P5 trailers started rolling in. Some of the Japanese lines are ingrained in my mind as I rewatched them countless times trying to get every little detail. And on a different note, Elizabeth's Japanese VA is the absolute queen. Goes to the recording booth, allows Elizabeth's spirit to take control of her mortal body, does a recording and leaves. What a power move.
I think P1 and 2 duology really need a comeback as long as they don’t fuck it up. I’ve been playing the first game with the PS1 OST patched in. It’s been fun so far even if I’m worried about the difficulty spiking around any corner.
That first Persona 5 reveal trailer was something else. The release date being so totally off. "Want emancipation?" It was so wild. I can't stop laughing whenever I look at it
It looked like a creepypasta compared to all the other trailers before lol 😅😅😅 Also not sure if its ever been shown off or lost media at this point but I'd love to see an super early build or concept art of what the first trailer was hinting at ^^
Persona 5 and SMTV were like the games I thought I'd never get. Like, Atlus would just drop a trailer and be like "this exists!" and the entire fandom would go "where game?" for 5 years while slowly falling into insanity. Then the games released and almost everyone would return to normal as if we didn't share a collective half-decade long meltdown...
Feels like anything that wasn't Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest was like, "WE GOTTA PROVE WE A GOOD ONE TOO!" and so they led with all those awards a lot.
Can I just say: the editing on this video is amazing. The edit at 0:19 caught me completely off guard, and every edit afterwards is great too. I'm only a few minutes in, and the edits have all been top notch. Props to Pinoy for the amazing edits, bravo :D
Damn the P5R announcement trailer gave me some intense nostalgia, I remember sitting in the hallway every morning outside of my 1st period and just watching it over and over and over and over and over and over again until I had to go to class. And then because I had animation 2nd period me and my friends would huddle around one of our computers and watch it over and over and over and over and over and over till our teacher would come around and tell us to get back to work... and then when he left we'd watch it over and over and over and over and over... we never got any work done in that class.
I remember staying up all night hoping they'd announce persona 5. I think they did a fake out thing too. Kinda like "alright bye everybody", then the static kicked in to show that "want emancipation?" stuff. I think persona Q was announced around the same time, maybe even the same stream in the middle of the night here, and the promise of a crossover game was really exciting to me
Persona 3 was my first Persona and I distinctly remember 9 years old me being so excited for Persona 4 when the trailer dropped. I bet my comments from my old acc are still there. 🤣 Same with Persona 5, I remember when people kept calling Ren "chair kun" since the trailer was so vague and also disturbing tbh. The trailer was where I learned the word "emancipation" lol. Thank you for making me remember core fond memories I've had waiting for these wonderful games to drop. 😊
@@drilltotheheavens1695 I couldnt play P3 and P4 until I was around 11 actually haha. Just watched my big bro play P3 it and instantly got hooked. It was made easier cuz he let me use his New Game Plus save files and guided me whenever I was stuck which was a lot of times hahah.
I totaly remember "the crazy moment" in 2015. After the persona music live in 2015, the first trailer( 52:00 )revealed. Fans were wating this game for 8 years. But also shocked because the game looked so good too. The whole live stage was on fire. I couldn't sleep so rewatched the trailer for 100 times frame by frame. I hope you will be the same if Atlus announced P6.
I'm fairly certain they can get away with showing a lot of the game since you *need* context. Unless it's CrystAAHHL. Then, I give her like a 50/50 chance to figure the plot and context from just a screenshot
I hate the fact they hide Akechi so much in the P5R trailers aside from the character trailer tailored towards him in the P5R release cycle. Like they showed the Black Mask and the traitor scene, at that point just go all out and show his confidant and his attitude like come ON Atlus show us our boy! I hope that if we ever have another game with him he's more advertised because he's so popular now in both the west and in Japan
To better explain why the japanese trailers are spoiling so much stuff: In the japanese mindset, it's a case of avoiding "scamming people", basically making sure their audience knows what they're going to be buying/participating in, basically showing up front to let them know if it's something they want. It's why in so much japanese marketing you basically see stuff that is meant to be a big plot reveal in the thing that's being advertised. Because they see "plot surprises" as basically scams because they didn't see it coming before they went to go see or play the thing that's being advertised. It's basically the same as watching a movie review to know if you'd like the movie or not so as to not waste your money, instead of, you know, going to go watch the thing to judge for yourself. If you get upset about what you payed for, there is a magical thing called "refunds". But that's just my dumb American brain talking, I prefer not being robbed of the storytelling and its surprise even if it cost me money to do so, if I didn't like the thing I paid for, I'd just ask for my money back.
It took some time for Atlas to get things nailed out (I think in part due to the acquisition of the studio by SEGA); but there is no denying, P5 ended up being stylish as f*ck in the end.
God I remember Persona 5 trailers got me so hyped. Also: FUNNY how we all thought it was gonna come early. And then it got delayed...and delayed...and delayed 😅
Its funny because that third trailer for p5 i stayed awake all night pretty much waiting for it to be streamed live in japan i think it was during one of the Persona concerts? and i watched it happen in my 2nd class of the day in high school and up to that point i still was watching it on my phone, come english class, right before class started and i was trying not to freak the heck out as they played that trailer.. damn.. its been a long time since then im 25 now and seeing that was like such a blast from the past
Funny enough, my very first contact with the persona series and smt as a whole was reading from people online complaining they've been starring at a chair for 7 month. I'd check back every couple of month in just to see how long these idiots would be staring at a chair until P5 came in.
jokes aside i unironically the chairs in the vanilla persona 5 reveal trailer left a pretty strong impression and i liked how overdramatic and dark it was compared to the actual game lol
I always forget how deep-seated my love for "Heartful Cry" is until I hear it out of the blue, what feels like once every few years. P3's OST is such a weird mixed bag but it still gets me in a couple places.
So... where is the Persona 2 "Another Side" trailer that showed how connected Persona 2's cast is with both games? That trailer was even given out when P2 EP came stateside, and it's dripping with ooze of 90s anime!
Yea they completely changed the team in the 9 or so years between P2 and P3, so the entire feel was completely different as it broke from it's original SMT roots to become it's own thing. The evolution is very interesting but its a choice is a very good one imo.
I was only 12 y/o 9 years ago when that BS Persona 5 teaser came out. Now… I’m 21, playing the mainstream trilogy backwards, with P4G being my favorite of the 3. Oh, how time flies.😅 I still plan to play Revelations/1, 2: Innocent Sin, and 2: Eternal Punishement when I have the time.😆/😭
Eternal Punishment and by association Innocent Sin has amazing story writing and symbolism. The symbolism of P2 is the blueprint of the way the messages are conveyed in the Hashino games (with the games themes about spiritualism, conspiratorial thinking, and it's consequences on a societal level).
These trailers really got me thinking about time. Like I was 3 when persona 3 came out and I’m just sitting here like holy shit that game is almost 20 years old….persona 5 technically came out when I was 13…I’m now 20. Then it got me thinking about the characters. And if persona five takes place around 2016 then 2009 p3p Ken (who is like ten right? Imma say 10 cuz that rhymes with Ken. ) Is like the same age as makoto,Haru, and Akechi in that point of time, and my brain refuses to accept that information.
I will never not find that one 15 second P3 trailer where the man dies screaming bloody murder funny. Especially with your reaction lol. This was so fun to watch again.
aw, i’m disappointed that you didn’t see the anime trailer for persona 2 IS and EP. that one is amazing, it’s like a glimpse of what a p2 anime adaptation could’ve been
I'm not sure I've watched a Persona trailer before watching this! What a journey they take you on! The Dancing one with the wild use of English in particular.
Around the time P4D came out, somebody made a parody trailer for a cart racer - "Person 4: Driving All Day." I assume that Atlus shut it down, but I kind of wish that it had been a real game.
0:30 Clippit approved, Clippit tested. Clippit confirmed for P6? XD 1:03:27 Gotta say, it was so wild seeing them wait until THIS P5 Dancing trailer to show Futaba AT ALL!
Yeah, I remember being, "I'm not buying a PS Vita." Pretty much right until the release of Persona 4: The Golden and then being like, "Well, I guess I'm buying a PS Vita."
PS Vita released: "I sleep..." Atlus: "So we're releasing two PS Vita exclusive games on the PS Vita that won't be ported over until a decade later." Me: "So, I'm filling out my pre-order now and buying a PS Vita."
Oh wow, I had no idea P4Arena was called P4U for Ultimate Arena in Japan. Speaking of that, didn’t Atlus reserve a website domain for _P5U_ ? Really makes a girl think :)
Japanese ads remind me of a habbit i had as a kid when reading books. I used to hate reading a book to the end and feeling unsatisfied by the endings so whenever I wanted to know if a book was worth reading Id take it off the shelf and read the last page. Like it would not be enough info to tell me much about the books story but it gave me a sense of what the ending not felt like. If that last page wasnt enough id read the last cupple. It was also sometimes fun after reading that last page and reading the book that i had information the characters in the book didnt. I had a sense of where they were going and what they would do in some scenes. It was a interesting experience.
Seeing CrystAAHHL jamming so much to the music, really made me wonder how she would react to Honkai trailer's music. (Though Honkai Impact is made by Mihoyo, same company that made Genshin, which i know she doesn't like, so maybe she will never react to it. )
Wow japanese tv ads are so much shorter than the ones here in europe and the USA, Canada etc. I remember the japanese GBA ads for megaman zero are also short like that
Persona 4 Golden, YS: Foliage ocean in Celceta and YS 8: Lacrimosa of Dana are the sole reason I ever had a Vita. Eventually all of them went to PC. Essentially killing the Vita too. Also, there is a joke from Super Butten Buns (I super recommend her video on Persona 5 for Begginers) where she says: "Persona 5 was Released in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 for the Playstation 4" and I always laugh whenever I see it. Because it's so true.
It's funny, I got into the Shin Megami Tensei series when Is aw the Persona 3 trailer back in the day. Since it wasn't out yet, I got Persona 1 on my playstation (the one with infamous localization) and then when t came Persona 3. I've been a smt-head ever since.
The Original P5R trailer jebaited folks so damn hard. We were really on that copium thinking Sumire was going to be Ren's FeMC. What fools we once were lol
Japan ads about Persona 3: Advertise the game as a mystery game (including the use of "Deep Breath") with JRPG elements and an eeriee story. America advertising Persona 3: Translates the dialogues about the eerie story and leaves the scenes completely untouched outside of UI (now translated) but the game doesn't seem omnious thanks to "Changing Seasons" playing.