Persona 4, Assassin's Creed...Welcome Back, Late 2000s

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Stephanie Liu
March 21, 2025

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With that out of the way, let’s talk about some recent developments in the gaming world! I was thinking of discussing Assassin’s Creed Shadows and its success (what with them achieving over a million players the first day it came out and all). But right before I sat down to type up this newsletter, I saw so much discourse on my timeline. I do think it’s hilarious that no one batted an eye at previous Assassin’s Creed games’ factual inaccuracies and, shall we say, flexible approach to historical fiction. Yet as soon as the main character is a black man in Japan—a black man who, if you do even the quickest of Google searches, appeared in Japanese media and literature before, and whom historians generally agree to exist—it’s suddenly dreadful that Ubisoft is taking so many liberties with its newest entry.

Discourse is such a drag, though! Who in the world wants to read that? Instead, let’s talk about the Persona 4 remake that’s got the Internet abuzz. Persona 4, ha! No one can ever start up discourse about that cherry game. Jokes aside, that Atlus might remake the game is not really a surprise, though. Persona 3 Reload was a huge success, after all. And just like how the original Persona 4 basically reused the same assets from Persona 3, they have all the assets they could want to repurpose right there! It’s like history repeating itself. That’s not a bad thing, of course. Persona 4 was an amazing game, even if it looked like a recolored Persona 3 half the time. Atlus might even take the opportunity to test out some new systems or mechanics it’ll use in Persona 6.

Okay, I admit it’s a little funny that we’re hearing more about a Persona 4 remake (potentially) before we hear anything about Persona 6. We even got a Persona 3 Reload while we were waiting for that! But real ones remember when people called Akira “Chair-kun.” Sometimes Atlus just needs that extra time to finesse whatever it’s working on, and if they want to warm up the market first with some nostalgia, more power to them.

Top 10 Stories From the Past Week

  1. Hatsune Miku Gundam Crossover Figures Teased - The Wing Gundam Zero already looked super cool, so of course the aesthetic works great on Miku.

  2. Petit Holo Village Will Be an Animal Crossing-Like Hololive Game - An older story that still resonated with readers this week.

  3. The 5 Best Square JRPGs - Imagine if we had actually gotten a new Parasite Eve project instead of the NFT one. That would’ve been cool.

  4. Final Fantasy Chocobos Get Jobs Again With Returning Plush - It’s not enough that we treat them like livestock. Chocobos have to get jobs in this economy too </3

  5. Next Monster Hunter Wilds Patch Launches Next Week - This article is from March 7 so the patch already went live, but people were really interested in this one.

  6. New Hololive VTuber Nendoroids Include Fuwamoco - Other prototypes shown include IRyS, Ouro, and Hakos!

  7. Review: Glover Could Use a Helping Hand - A retro classic that might not have made it into the 21st century as smooth as it wanted to.

  8. Square Enix Selling FFXIV Regulator and Warrior of Light Bag - The Regulator has LED lights in it!

  9. Fate/Stay Night Saber 1/4 Scale Figure Will Cost Over $1,000 - It’s one of those Prime 1 Studio statues and it honestly looks pretty cool. If you’re a diehard Saber fan with the space and $1,000 to spend on it, why not, I guess?

  10. All NieR and NieR Automata Nendoroids Available Now, Listed - The Emil Nendoroid from 2022 is really cute, but he’s almost impossible to find right now unless you get lucky on the secondhand market.

Upcoming Releases

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  • InZOI - PS5, XSX, PC (March 28, 2025)