We literally know nothing about this. Without knowing the devs or publisher, it's impossible to make a call.
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A new School RPG called Monark from former staff of Megaten/Shin Megami Tensei to be announced on June 10th
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Zero. Between NISA, Aksys, and the plethora of other "smaller" localization pubs, you can count on one of them to eventually pick it up if it looks even half decent.
Considering former members, doubt it. probably more like p2 or old megaten
Honestly I think it might be a sorta perpetual thing like comics where no console centric dev makes games about demographics other than 15-30 something straight white American or Japanese guys outside like Nintendo (also targets kids and in some cases more feminine folks) and like one team at Square (Kingdom Hearts apparently has a rather high female attach rate according to the Extra Credits folks) So the execs go "we need to appeal to the only demo that plays games here...15-30 somthing white/Japanese guys".
what is a super big topic among both sides of this age bracket? High school. Eitheir as a form of self insertion or nostalgia.
Okay, I was searching for it, and Eiji Ishida who typically runs with Mitsuru Hirata (he co-directed Tokyo Mirage Sessions and Strange Journey with him, and again, was on tons of SMT as a game and battle system designer), was interviewed around the release of Strange Journey Redux about game ideas he's working on, and there was this:
Again, it's probably not them, since they're both high up and presumably able to do mostly whatever they want at Atlus within reason, but would be interesting.
Again, it's probably not them, since they're both high up and presumably able to do mostly whatever they want at Atlus within reason, but would be interesting.
It could also be that college life isn't as interesting as high school life in Japan as it is in the West. You don't live in dorms, you live alone, and it doesn't seem like they have that much free time compared to the high school days. I know that working in Japan is rigorous if not downright exhausting with they it is looked down upon for you to take time off. It's possible that they don't want video games to reflect that but then again Atlus did make Catherine. More games JRPGs about audits would be great.
Wait, is this "new school" RPG as in trying something new, or "new" school RPG, literally being set in a school.
I sincerely hope the former.
I sincerely hope the former.
Shin Gakuen RPG
Could be SMT parody as it also Shin but different one
For me it's less about a 'contemporary setting' and more that the 'fantasy high school' stuff with all the attendant tropes and cliches around combining exams and teen drama and social links and the class dynamic of a whole cast the same age with RPG combat etc isn't exactly anything fresh either. Not after Persona, Trails of Cold Steel (x4), Valkyria 2, Fire Emblem TH, Caligula, Tokyo Xanadu etc etc, and regardless of whether those schools are in a contemporary setting or not.
I'm all for RPGs in fresh, 'real world' settings, I'm looking forward to Labyrinth of Yomi, a dungeon crawl set in the 1970s, and SMTV itself. Just not school settings which are almost as tired as riffing on Tolkien at this moment in time, given how much of the last decade has been spent rehashing it over and over again.
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Almost seems pointless them leaving Atlus to make another school setting RPG, really. Although if it's more Persona 1/SMT if... style then that style isn't as prominent in modern Atlus, I guess.
The setting doesn't really matter, just depends on how it's done, the battle system and the art style.
The setting doesn't really matter, just depends on how it's done, the battle system and the art style.
I don't think it's the contemporary setting that is the issue but high school dating crap that too often dips deep into pedo stuff. Bring all the contemporary RPGs with adult casts (who aren't hyper-sexualized & objectified, especially women). I don't think anyone has issues with those.
I feel like this is going to be one of things where if they just revealed the actual game there would be a lot less interest, because it's probably going to be small scope, low budget, not a console game, etc.
Final Fantasy VIII did it back in 1999.😏
Final Fantasy VIII did it back in 1999.😏
True, it's not like 'school in computer games' is anything new, I was playing 'School Daze' on an Amstrad in the 80s :D
It's more that this particular setting with all the attendant tropes has been very popular in the genre over the last decade or so. So a claim that it's somehow interchangable with both 'contemporary' and 'fresh' doesn't work for me when it's a pretty tired concept, even if it isn't as tired as 'quasi-medieval castles and swords' etc. I'm down to see pretty much any contemporary setting that isn't fantasy high school though.
FuRyu already has their own not Persona from former staff so I doubt they'd want to compete against themselves.
I think fantasy high school is almost more common than quasi-medieval stuff now tbh
/Fire Emblem TH tugs at it's collar nervously :D
(Don't get me wrong, that's one of my favourite JRPGs of recent years and one of my favourite games on the Switch).
Ironic that the only place you see a school in Tokyo Mirage Sessions is in the intro
I keep meaning to play that one, it's been on my pile for years now.
Yeah, would love more games that deviated from this, specially if they are going with a modern setting. Zanki Zero or Root Letter explored adult life after higschool and Yakuza games don't need to rely on that either.
Wish they'd actually enjoy adulthood enough to explore it instead of feeling restricted by it.
Those games you listed are all really good and people like them.
There are still way more RPGs not set in school than ones set in school.
I don't get the complaint.
