Can’t stop the #Millenials
Atlus may have effectively banned in-depth streaming for Persona 5, but that won’t stop people from turning arguably the most anticipated JRPG of the last few years into a meme machine.
In the few days since the game’s release, in fact, the game’s gone so viral you’d think no sharing features were disabled at all, if not for the phone-quality screenshots most folks are forced to take. For my money, people taking photos of their TVs makes me feel almost nostalgic for the days before every piece of hardware we played on came with built-in recording and sharing tools.
Anyway, we’ve also taken a tiny sampling of some of our favorite #content, arranged for your convenience below.
A warning: I’ve tried to remove all plot spoilers from the roundup, though the truly spoiler-sensitive may want to shy away if they absolutely don’t want to see anything from the game proper.
Persona 5 allows players to come up with their own names for their group of thieves, so naturally, people went clowning around with that stuff:
— Persona ebooks (@Persona_ebooks) April 6, 2017
OH NO I WAS HALF ASLEEP WHEN I NAMED MY GROUP AND I FORGOT ABOUT THIS pic.twitter.com/hXrIwLnaP0
— Gredlen (@Gredlen) April 8, 2017
Others continued to harp on the game’s somewhat controversial localization, matching some of the clangers with the many expressions of Vince McMahon:
— Yokelization (@ritobito) April 10, 2017
And still others had a bit of fun comparing the happy-go-lucky tone of Persona 4 with Persona 5‘s edgy atmosphere:
Persona 4: Lets hang out at the mall and solve mysteries
Persona 5: Lets emotionally annihilate every adult from the inside out.— Fujoshi’s Island (@Dauragon) April 10, 2017
When u make bad choices and stay up too late vs when u wake up the next morning pic.twitter.com/84OfmkE1wx
— Toppie (@TopHatting) March 2, 2017
Of course, the above bits are more “viral” than outright memetic, by some measures, in which case one of the more versatile bits of culture to emerge from Persona 5‘s debut is how folks have latched onto its sense of style. The game’s absurdly busy UI and battle interface were quickly extracted by intrepid fans, and applied to all manner of situations:
for anybody that wants to use this, here you go
it took a painstakingly long time to edit, pic.twitter.com/hQtwGSOPo7
— Brent (@Brento_Bento) April 9, 2017
Every time I play Persona 5 I can’t help but think of this pic.twitter.com/BegKbLhxTY
— Tristan Cooper (@TristanACooper) April 11, 2017
I remember when @yokotaro said that Persona would kill Nier. But I think they go together quite nicely! #Persona5 #NieR #NierAutomata pic.twitter.com/z7E4WPhovI
— Glory to Marchekind (@Marche100) April 11, 2017
— Erica June (@aurahack) April 10, 2017
— Ryan E.O. Speedwagon (@RyGuy176) April 10, 2017
And that’s just a small fraction of the sheer volume of stuff excited gamers are putting out. If you’ve got a few favorites, share ’em with us for yuks and chuckles, why don’t you?
