While this would be cool, and the Persona 2 duology is my favorite game in the franchise, with Eternal Punishment being absolute peak Persona, I feel like a P2 remake could easily end up in a Monkey's Paw situation. People would want Social Links or romances (something more than what's in Innocent Sin) and those would just not work with P2's narrative at all.
There's one difference in particular between Persona 1 and 2 vs Persona 3/4/5: Persona 1 and 2 has all the supernatural shit front and center in the open for the most part. Persona 1 literally starts with an earthquake happening and a whole ass operating room disappears while zombies are in the building, and then you go outside and there's demons in the streets. You literally save normal doctors and nurses in the hospital. The school ends up getting used as an anti-demon fortification. If you play Snow Queen the school gets frozen with people still inside.
Persona 2 starts with a fight between some members of the party over an amateur rock band and trying the Joker rumor out, including some people even getting their desires sucked out and becoming husks. Almost immediately after you fight the fucking principal who wields a giant wrench, as a statue of him walks around outside.
My point here is that having all the normal people act like everything is all hunky dory (at least until near the end of the game like in 3/4/5) and just saying "Yeah let's go get some 'fsteak after school" really wouldn't fit. A statue of your principal is just walking around the courtyard of the school, but let's go hit up Peace Diner! Some cultists set a bomb just blew up a gym but want to go on a long walk on the beach?
