FUTURE DLC

[Bill "Balls deep" Clinton]

Is there any talk about the future of the game? DLC that will expand main story?

[moshiwakeda]

I haven't heard of anything official. But I think we can 100% expect both DLC and sequels or spin-offs.

Hopefully they don't go the mobile gacha game route

They worked for nearly a decade on all these assets, so we can expect they will not let that go to waste

Personally, I really hope they don't do the Persona 5 Royal thing where they re-release the same game with a bunch of added stuff

[Grmacon]

I'm sure we will get a directors cut just like Royal, Golden, and FES. Doubt we will get more story dlc. My bets on Metaphore 2 happening in about 15 years right after Persona 6

[Argonisgema]

If metaphor is meant to be the start of a new franchise like how persona got started then you bet they will pull a royal.
I haven't seen them do a royal for soul hackers two yet.

[Servant_HolyKnight]

Honestly I don't see how Metaphor could be a long-running series. A very interesting one-off game sure but a series? They kinda botched the potential after the midway point...

[Leziropav]

there are so much room for expansion, but i dont think the base game itself will have that. Atlus tends to re-release the game with extra content

[causality]

This has much more opportunity to flourish into a new IP than Persona 6 because there are other parts of the world we don't know about. And not talking just about the protag, but there is room to write new characters in too. I hope we get Metaphor 2 over Persona 6.

[Hi.standard]

Originally posted by causality:

This has much more opportunity to flourish into a new IP than Persona 6 because there are other parts of the world we don't know about. And not talking just about the protag, but there is room to write new characters in too. I hope we get Metaphor 2 over Persona 6. :mtp_captain:

Agreed I think there is more overall potential, i mean as far as Persona goes..is no one tired of the high school setting?

Hell, I think it would be cool if the next Persona was like a Corporate/business setting or something. We've DONE HS enough...but I guess it's not as relatable or marketable if it is a more adult setting.

[REhorror]

New cities, more dungeon and of course, more story branching like in SMTVV.

Let's do it, Atlus!

[Fuhrer]

Realistically speaking, that's up in the air. This was a random side game without terribly high expectations, so I don't imagine anything further than what we have was in the cards or planned at launch. I know it reviewed well, but I'm not sure how good sales were when all was said and done. If it performed well, we *might* get a lazy $70 rerelease with 10% more content. Maybe a sequel someday, but it's all speculation.

[Sharkon]

hope there will be a sequel soon. I'm King now and want to rule ;)

[Splinter of Chaos]

Originally posted by Fuhrer:

This was a random side game without terribly high expectations,

Persona at one point was also just a random side project. But these days, games are so massively expensive to produce that game companies don't really have a lot of room for experimenting with games that might not be very successful, at least not at this scale.

I think the fact that Metaphor carries neither the "Persona" nor the "Shin Megami Tensei" name represents a fairly significant shift in Atlus' strategy for keeping the studio running and whether or not we get a sequel to Metaphor or not, we can expect more surprises in the future.

[wgriskell]

People automatically assuming a re release are either people who cannot think for themselves and just repeat what their brainrot social media tells them or are just stupid. Sega has openly stated they wanted to expand in particular Atlus and Yakuza franchises with consistent DLC. We just saw it with P3R. Did they rerelease the answer like in the old days with FES or do DLC? Use your brains the days of re releases are over. SMT V only got rerelease because it had the multiplat excuse. They will sell a definitive editon on Switch 2 and charge everyone else for a season pass. We will get a $50 season passes with the new content in a year or so. Plus the person saying this was a project with low expectations is even dumber. Atlus invested a lot in this game more then Soul Hackers 2 and definitely on par with P5 and SMTV. Metaphor was a big deal to them.

[JCKLNTRN]

I think it's very likely we will get an expansion at some point, and I hope we do.

[Sage Pirotess]

Originally posted by Servant_HolyKnight:

Honestly I don't see how Metaphor could be a long-running series. A very interesting one-off game sure but a series? They kinda botched the potential after the midway point...

Why do you think or say that?

[Sage Pirotess]

Technically, a king is a king.... rule over land, but not the globe, hence an emperor for part 2 could work.