The leaked 2015 Persona 5 beta build! 

You have to admit "Bitch Feet" would be an amazing IRL name for a shoe store.

O stop self promoting no one cares

thank you for your service o7

@dougr8646 Now now, there’s no need to call yourself that.

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Add that with recent events of Dan and the quiet on set documentary, this comment is aging well so far in the sense of “truth” ☠️ that your not far off . Stay golden my boy

@@johnathanortiz3066what

¿Podría ser que al principio querían que volviera a interpretar a un juego de «Persona»?

its possible but i like to believe she only recorded it as a demo for the vocalist that they would eventually find (that being Lyn)@@guerreromedieval1003

agree

@@wearepristin That's very likely since they lyrics are mostly just nonsense in Kawamura's version, so it's probably just what they wanted the song to sound like.

Also lead vocal of P1 psp remake

hes been waiting for this

hes been waiting for this

hes been waiting for this

He’s been waiting for this And She won’t miss

How it should've been, plus Adult Nanako

It does appear a few times in the Game for example when they searched for a new target after kamoshida and when they were looking up the Website for Mementos Quests

BRUH I wish we'd gotten that instead...

@@IceQueen975 it would probably get an AO rating at that point

@@adrianquinton2008 Tbf P5 (2017) was Pegi-18 (European rating for 18+) (thx Mara *cough cough*)

@@xpendore ah, yes mara the dick chariot

It probably got removed cause it tells the player somethings up with Igor and the velvet room way too early.

Honestly at that point why they didn't just cut it all together is baffling to me

I get the anime trope of a guy getting beat up by girls as a comedic thing, but damn that was undeserved.

@@badatgamesguy5399 I think one person REALLY wanted Ryuji assaulted and everyone was trying to tone it down cus that one person was the only person to find it funny. This stuff does happen, sometimes there’s just ONE person in power that can decide everything and everyone else has to scramble to appease them. So I’m wondering if this was a directorial decision. And then in Royal they added the thieves den confirmation that they apologized to Ryuji. It really feels like they were trying to backtrack and tone it down as much as possible.

Yeah, the one shown in the video is from the Feb 2016 build. It is honestly an easy mistake to make considering folks were & are still looking into Feb 2016 and Dec 2015 at the same time. You can tell which is which by the background. I really feel bad for Ryuji. Makes me concerned about what a 2014 build could have for him.

That scene is so bad it's crazy that it used to be *worse*, though let's be real it'd be better if that scene was just completely cut, even ignoring the trope Ryuji's confidant has him bring up that his dad was a physically abusive drunk so it's just really unpleasant

I wasn't really saying that but it's just cool that stuff is in the files

@Neglected_Nuggets Nah I figured you know. I was more commenting it for others before some bs rumors get thrown around

I mean they aren't.

Still crazy cool to see Yukari and Yu with proper next gen proportions way back then

For some reason she looks like an elongated child

@@ShuckleII i don't think she would be an adult yet if the game took place around 2015/2016

​​@@Risette Yeah. Apparently she's actually around the same age as futaba? Looked it up. She's 2004 born. So she's 3 yrs younger than futaba.

@@htsunmikuthe model doesn’t make her look 12 tho

Old cast members making cameos aren’t new but none have been plot relevant outside of spin-offs since persona 2 (where some of the p1 crew is involved with the story’s unfolding events) As for the spin offs you have the p3 crew shown in their young 20’s during the events of 4 arena . We’ve yet to see the p4 crew in that age yet outside of their dancing game which shows us they aged some but you can tell it’s still very early adult hood. Otherwise no doubt be ready to hear something about the phantom thieves in 6 as a little Easter egg or nod . And hopefully we get to see more old cast members, if not in 6 I see hopes in a spin-off (which don’t fret the dancing games and arena are canon to the story , Q is debatable since atlus never outright said it’s events are canon , but what’s unfolded in the games does shed light and makes sense of “some things , for me it’s the reminder there are beings on “philemons” level (so on par of most final bosses in each persona game holding on to that high grade deity status)

Both are bad!

They did Ryuji dirty

Ryuji

Yeah Persona 5 will flip flop between great social commentary and awareness of societal issues, then have the student that has suffered frkm physical abuse get beat up as a gag

​@@KoryLunaaEarly P5 has some beautiful moments and well done commentary. It really is such a shame that they seem to drop it around halfway into the game. And they just stop being delinquents too! That was like, half of the game's advertising...

congrats on her transition

Sho was coded as "p5hero" in game code

Actually, she reminded me of the early reveal of Project Re:Fantazio.

Considering Sho was suppossedly going to be the next protag it explains that part, but I'm pretty sure they made a genderbend because of how well received it was in P3P and they ended up dropping both ideas 😔

nahh i think she looks more like Sophia in P5S

That’s almost exactly what they were

Yea, the much more undercooked gaming industry universe. We're already heading in that direction.

That's the most surprising honestly

Or perhaps a leftover from when the game was about travelling the world? Who knows.

ooo that is a good idea, my other thought would be the scraped Akechi palace (would have happened in between Sae and Shido). we don't know a lot about it but still

I think they just used it for inspiration I feel like

Nah no way I said persona bruh 😭

@@Neglected_Nuggets Come! Fursona!

And then proceeded to pronounce Susano-o as "ඞ-a'no."

Yeah they made Catherine as test for their new in house engine to make rpgs with in the future. Despite that Atlus has only ever made 2 rpgs with that game engine, Persona 5/royal and now metaphor.

Don't think so, buddy, sorry

For persona 4, it made sense for Yosuke, his character arc reeked of insecurities, with how much he was ganging up on Kanji, you would imagine he was picking up on what he hated in himself and thus, being gay but kind of homophobic would make sense and it would complete his arc. Ryuji, on the other hand.... It would be cool, but they don't usually add stuff if it doesn't serve a narrative purpose or fan service

​@@m.l.7558 yosukes character arc was about him realizing the weight of a love that couldn't be, if you added the romance shit on top of that it would've just been jarring

@@m.l.7558 I agree. The comment was just a joke lol.

@@dandy5175 So all of the girls s. links can have arcs AND romance but if Yosuke had it then it’s jarring? 💀

Apperently Sho was meant to be P5's protagonist but somewhere down the line they completely scrapped that idea (from P4AU's code and the manga). so it'll made sense why P5's FeMC looks like Sho

it could've also been a very early design for one of the social links that was used for testing

Planning since the beginning. Hopefully we'll get another one in Persona 6 or Persona 3 Reload+

Yeah Atlus said they cut it before the game came out because it would honestly take even longer to make

@@deepflare1028 very unlikely. they said they won't do that again. even the new IP metaphor doesn't have one

can u explain the wolverine leak? i haven’t heard of it omg

afraid of what? the dmca stuff only goes after the leakers and distributors to try to scare them into not leaking things or to take them down, it doesn't target anyone who downloads the leaked content since that's impossible to enforce (for one, they have no way to actually track who downloaded it, but those who upload it are much easier to track, they contact the service it was uploaded to and request the uploader's ip address and other data if it's a paid server).

That is what VPNs are for pal

@@ShuckleII hes just talking about viruses. Its not some social issue, people are just paranoid about getting malware when downloading that shit

Yeah after finding out they cut an early Joker from Ultimax and then seeing the concept art for the original two protagonists I feel like Sho was made from those early concepts before they ultimately chose the current Joker design instead. Especially since Sho looks similar to the cut FeMC and even current Joker to me rather than the art style of the 3/4 characters.

@@TREVORVADER He looks so much like the OG trailer Joker cut in with the shark teeth and more sinister design

@@KNXCKLE yeah

Now that's proper blackmail underage drinking 🤯

Troubled development, the game was originally supposed to be about the phantom thieves changing hearts all across Japan or world, instead of just Tokyo, which explains the Nanako and Yukari models. Eventually the game was redone after the earthquake from 2011. I imagine a lot of games or movies made in Japan were changed thanks to that, just like how 9/11 changed games like GTA 3.

I think it emphasizes how close they’d planned the first release of p5, since Altus always references previous games in the next one - it was supposed to piggyback off of p4 and Catherine. Ending up with almost 10 years between them, I can see why they’d remove the bigger references

I really do think one person wanted the slapping but the rest of the team didn’t. And that’s why there’s so many iterations of that scene where they tone it down. Kinda like how P3 had that one beach dialogue and every subsequent game or adaption changed it. Like i totally get why Ann was upset but why the heck was everyone else unhappy?? lol

@@Neglected_Nuggets It was meant as compliment. Sry, English not good, was the sentence structure incorrect?

​@@blue-phoenix115 oh my bad dude

Persona 5 Royal+ Expanded and Enhanced Edition be like

They already did a directors cut dude, it's called PERSONA 5 ROYAL. HOW ARE PEOPLE THIS BRAINWASHED INTO TRIPLE BUYING THE SAME GAME AT FULL PRICE?

Keep this for when Atlus eventually pull a Naughty Dog and make a Persona 5 Royal: Remastered Remake for PS7

@@ShuckleII royal wasnt a directors cut It was a expanded rerelease

​@@ShuckleIIthey will do it they will find a way

they were indeed placeholder art, never intended to be in the game. But it's cool that they used these characters

The middle development builds are way more interesting than near completion builds, there was already another build of the game that was dated Feb 25 which was 7 months before the final release. Also, the wolverine build was from very early in development, not in the middle, which is why it has a ton of missing graphics. GTA6 on the other hand, besides the debug menus the game looks like it's almost done

@deepflare128 1) you learn way more from a completed build as in development builds are usually disconnected assets and tests while later builds have everything put together. 2) leaks like this have a massive impact on development as the story is often spoiled, public perception is ruined and often employee data is leaked like in insomiacs case.

@@danielgrezda3339 1) Not really, there's barely anything different from the final game in most near completion builds. Besides debug mode and a couple of different scenes and unused graphics or even different music. The Pokemon Diamond and Pearl early build leaks are a prime example. There was barely a difference from the near final build to final build. While the very early January build had a ton of interesting stuff like early pokemon designs, early music and early graphics. 2) True, but that's not relevant in the case of Persona 5, as the game has already been released. Most of the time early builds are leaked from private sellers years after the game released, unlike Wolverine's case where private information of Insomniac's employees were leaked sadly. Seeing game builds leaked before the game has even released is a very rare event, but I fear it'll be more common in the future.

She's like 12 in p5 time that ai art is Gross

@@Neglected_Nuggets for real, people like them really give the community a crappy look

​@@SoggyWetCheese Why are Persona fans such tourists?

I hear ya but this video was meant to go over all the findings in the beta even the placeholders I also just think it's cool that they did that. But thanks for looking out!

@@Neglected_Nuggets Okay, i didn't know, i was more worry about people maybe thinking that this was suppose to be like a big Persona crossover at one point, because the developers played around with P4 protags model in the beginnings of development to get the looks right, etc.

​@@ultimateshadeofwarThe P3 and P4 models shown here are new. Like, they have been only found in these builds so far from what I have seen. It would be strange to make completely new models for only testing imo but who knows.

@@micah0000 How much do you want to bet that, they not ever even you for the remakes, maybe for the dancing all night games, but i wouldn't put much stock into that, my best bet, they grab the old PS2 models played a bit in upgrading then and get the look they wanted and then proceed to use them for testing.

@@ultimateshadeofwar Why waste time to make multiple new models instead of just one for testing though? I don't think they would have been actual party members in the final game of course. Like, maybe they were going to used as a part of scrapped cameos or something. I just can't see someone making a new model for testing purposes when they could just use old ones personally.