There are people here who want persona to ditch the highschool setting

Didn't P2 sell horribly tho

it should also ditch arcanas and social links and go back to being SMT

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There's an easy way to write around that stuff.

>Main Party are a group of co-workers and neighbors who all get hired/promoted into a special division in their company
>That division is SEES or some SEES equivalent
>They get paid to do Persona research, but their job has two aspects to it the dungeon crawling stuff and then IRL where they have to do deskwork to try and figure out what the hell is going on in the other dimension
The IRL deskwork would function similarly to taking classes at school, but instead you'd solve puzzles to further research on the Persona realm.
You also could have a social life outside work by joining clubs/community organizations/doing community work.

I don't even know why people want the setting to change, it would be the same shit.
It's like when people who like Call of Duty think the game will change because you're 1st person shooting in Vietnam this time and not Afghanistan.

I just want another Catherine and the only Fatlus game that still gets sequels these days is Persona and EO

Always had a cool dream where Persona would stem from special adults that are part of the military that have the power.

so Japanese Jericho?

Reminder that the target audience for persona games are high-school students and that's why the setting works so well.

If you're a 25-30 year old something and you enjoy the setting you probably just want to re-live HS just as a Chad instead of a loser as you originally did.

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I just want it to go back more to a P3-style darker theme rather than the whimsicial scooby doo adventures of 4 and 5.

I'd love to see a college setting.

>tfw getting smashed at bars/clubs every night and skipping dungeons

I really wanna make an RPG where you're a high school protagonist who can open a gateway to another world and explore it, and throughout the initial phase of the game before you've assembled your party it hints at these various gifted students at your school being your future party members but the first time someone stumbles into the other world when you're going there it's your lazy teacher. You then continue picking up adults in various industries who are all going through various sort of slumps in their lives as party members.

Towards the end it's revealed that the gifted students at the school do actually explore the other world just like you and you were supposed to join them as their final teammate. You then have to fight the lot of them as bosses.

>Going to bars and getting drunk with people increases the social link
>But you risk missing out on dungeons and being too hungover the next day to do anything
>This mean you might miss opportunities with other people and fuck up your social links/standing with them
heh...just like real life

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Yes and what's the problem? University students have way more free time and freedom. They are also older so it would make sense for them to save the world or whatever.

>University students have way more free time and freedom
not in japan

How the fuck is that even possible? Do they study 24/7 or something?

salaryman who takes a job at a fucked up shady firm. I'm talking like people go in and never come back out, then people pretend like they never existed kind of shady. The "pray to god you are never called by the intercom/ you ever notice that nobody here has actually seen what the boss looks like?" kind of shady where maybe the entire business is just a front for something more sinister.

Or you could make a persona about just a group of travel-mates run aways like the movie Easy Rider. Nomadic freebirds who go from town to town city to city doing odd-jobs and just all treat each other like family while living out of the back of their RV. Maybe have some tear-jerky subplot where the at-home life was so shit they all just pooled together cash, left and never looked back.

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Yes in Japan. Third year high-school students have zero free time, because which university you go to determines which company will accept you and therefore the course of your entire life. However, once the entrance exams are actually complete, university itself is much easier and requires much less time.

t. Not japanese student