The Original Persona 5
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- Опубліковано 20 вер 2024
- In the early 2010s, Persona 4 had taken the RPG world by storm. Even as western shooters and cinematic games took the mainstream market by storm, Persona 4 continued receiving new sequels and adaptations with every passing year. While anticipation had started to run high for Persona 5, most fans didn't notice that the game they were waiting so fervently for was already floating around online-5 years before its eventual release.
This video covers and explores the mystery surrounding the original Persona 5 that began circulating online in early 2012. Originally known simply as "Persona 5", it would later be known as the Persona 5: Imagining Project.
TWITTER: / axelayer
ENDSLATE ART BY: / borezet
MUSIC USED:
New Days - Persona 4
Pursuing My True Self - Persona 4
An Uncertain Fate - Skullgirls
TIGHTROPE 「 Title Screen 」- Persona 5: Imagining Project
(Tight Rope (Floor Mix) - vividblaze)
MORNING WAKE - Persona 5: Imagining Project
(Stay Gold - UTRECHT)
TAKE YOU HIGHER 「OPテーマ-3」- Persona 5: Imagining Project
(Take You Higher - Jabberloop and Satoru Kurihara)
ANOTHER STORY 「OPテーマ-4」- Persona 5: Imagining Project
(Bedtime Story (Another Story Remix) - Jazztronik feat. YUKI)
EPIPHANY - Persona 5: Imagining Project
(Epiphany - Monday Michiru)
Pulling the Strings - Persona 5: Imagining Project
(Mikumo - The Silver Case)
JIKA NET TANAKA 「 Super Bonus Round! 」- Persona 5: Imagining Project
(ガール ザ ジャップ / Girl The Jump - COPTER4016882)
WILD CARD - Persona 5: Imagining Project
(Real Clothes [JTK New Remix] - Jazztronik)
SOUL CHECK - Persona 5: Imagining Project
(Kagerou Daze - Jin)
Crimson Wings - Ys IV: The Dawn of Ys
Self - Shin Megami Tensei IV
Brand New Days - Persona 3: FES
SOURCES REFERENCED:
www.gamesradar...
www.trueachiev...
www.digitalspy...
news.microsoft...
web.archive.or...
/ trifectamix
gamebanana.com...
(Persona 4 mod that includes P5:IP's songs)
• Phil Fish "Japanese Ga...
lemmasoft.rena...
(P5:IP fangame)
• Persona 5 Imagining Pr...
(Assinine Syndrome's continuation)
www.youtube.co...
(guy who has mirrors of the original AtlusxP5 uploads)
#Persona5 #Persona #ShinMegamiTensei
"Fake game?" "Fan project?"
My homie, I just defeated Nyarlathotep in the Hall of Mirrors to get the true ending, what the f*ck have I been playing for the last two weeks
need for speed carbon
Send an interdimensional portal I want to play that.
oops, wrong universe
"Fake game?" "Fan project?"
Wow, you really are Solid Snake.
Only two weeks? Either the game is really short or you've got a lot of time on your hands
Nothing better than having vague memories of looking up Persona soundtracks on UA-cam then looking at a soundtrack for a game that doesn't even exist, then watching your video and figuring out what it was all about. I can't say I was one of the people who believed in the ruse, but then again, that's probably because I became aware of the franchise closer to that original P5 teaser (2014ish).
(Great video BTW)
Yooo HowardGAYman
Literally how it went for me.
Hello! I am the creator of the Trifectamix blog, and thank you for making this. This project is very dear to me and this video made me really happy, you fully represented this topic perfectly. The amount of views this video has makes me overjoyed to witness (hoping more people will become interested in it now). Hopefully the creator of this project sees this as well, I'm sure it would make them happy too. Thank you for mentioning my blog in the video and the special thanks, that was really kind of you.
Hey! Many thanks for keeping that blog alive for all these years; if it weren't for the presence of a central hub for all the archives that everyone worked so hard to save over the years, this video wouldn't be possible. I'm just the guy who put the pieces together, after all.
Can you link up the blog? I'd like to follow! :)
@@DeeFig66a link would be helpful 📝👀
@@DeeFig66 Check the description of this video.
OMG it’s you!
Dude you realize you've just helped categorize internet history. Can't believe this thing actually existed before Persona 5 was even released.
yo youre back😮
Oh shit you again
Any video with a JustinY comment has secured its place in internet history
The legend returns
Heyyy.. long time no see
I'm the one who archived the Atlus forums thread! I was so passionate about this project at the time and a bit distraught over the way that small community would go away, lol. I'm happy to have contributed to the preservation of this project. I still listen from time to time and kill time imagining what kind of story AxP5 was trying to tell through this music. I also have grown quite fond of several artists included in the project and listen to them today!
Hey, thank you for going through that effort of archiving the thread! A whole chunk of this video straight-up wouldn't be possible if it wasn't for the added context of those forum archives, so you're one of the real ones for preserving an obscure part of internet history.
Respect ya man
I really miss moments like this in the earlier internet days where you can just blindly stumble across something and become lost in the what ifs regarding it. I remember being on forums talking about Persona 5 imagine when the uploads were new and the speculations regarding them was insane. A lot of the songs imo also did line up with what Persona 5 actually did become too. I love persona 5 (royal specifically) and had a blast when i finally got my hands on it in 2020 but damn did I not have random fever dream thoughts of the imagination project while I was playing it.
no more what if's
I remember as soon as the chair thing came out for persona 5 they speculated persona 6’s color was going to be green. I don’t know color theory of anything but it seems like they mightve be right.
Damn I feel this hard. Different series, but I remember going through something similar with Street Fighter back in the day. When it seemed like SF4 was never going to happen, I used to theorize with my friends what the SF characters and storyline of the future would look like. I of course appreciate that I did get to see the return of an IP I love, especially since it continues to go strong now. But also you just can't help but hold on to those what ifs.
God I recall this project seeing this video reminded me of it such amazing video thank you the amazing work put into this!
The current P5IP community is definitely my favorite little corner of the internet. This project influenced me alot in my younger years, so i have a ton of appreciation for it.
yooo its the guy!!!!!11!!!!11111!
😢
Sorry if this is bothering you. But can you tell me where can I see all the promotional art used for the project?
@@betuna9487 ATLUSxP5 has the link to everything on his channel
@@betuna9487 There are some sources and information in the description of this video.
I am glad you actually explained this phenomenon because I remember experiencing it vaguely way back in the day but every time I talked to anyone else I knew about it they insisted they had no idea what I was talking about. Thought I had Mandela Effect'd myself.
Oh my... hahaha.... hi?
Yeah, just the Twitter account. It really was just for fun on all parts, can't really say much more, but... yeah.
Gotta say, this was a really good detective work, and those Atlus forums screenshots really throws me back... good times.
Hope you're doing well!
That "we'll probably never know for sure" line sure sounds kinda silly now, huh?
Yo. man I loved your fan OST. I’m just really glad to see another fan of DJ Deckstream.
Also, since you’re familiar with Utrecht (which honestly blows my mind), are you familiar of band copter4016882?
Muito obrigado. Pela imaginação, pela inspiração, pelo fruto de amor que o projeto foi... Obrigado
Do you realize WHAT YOU'VE DONE!!!
SOME DAMN GOOD WORK.
Me losing it over the fact that the P5IP project wasnt just some fever dream I had, your editing and research into this whole thing is phenomenal! Can't wait to see more of your stuff!
I still regularly listen to some of the false persona 5 soundtrack, still hits those vibes
same
Fr the ost really give vibes of Altus going back to persona 1&2 atmosphere while keep the features of persona 3&4.
Bro, I can't get over how the art is literally from Mari from Prison School & Dojima from a yaoi doujinshi & nobody every decided to do light research on the images.🤣
One of the OSTs was literally Discoteque from Rosario Vampire! The music were bops tho
The thumbnail did look to me like dojima, can't believe they'd steal fucking yaoi shit
I was certain that was dojima haha, how did people not notice?
Stuff taken from Ergo Proxy also
Genuinely rare to see a video from someone I’ve never seen instantly pull me in from the thumbnail alone anymore, let alone keep me interested in every single detail despite me already being able to piece together where the conclusion was heading. Great work cataloguing such an amazing fan project in such a way that honors its legacy so people like me can now discover it.
Butt kissing
As an outsider looking in, I think it’s really obvious that it was fan made be it it was literally called an “Imagining Project.” The creator was imagining what Persona 5 would be like. That being said this aesthetic is amazing and I’d love to see P6 take on this style
There's actually another creator named Assinine Syndrome who took the torch and made their own version of the Imaging Project with its own story including one for a Persona 6 and maybe a Persona 7 as well.
My favorite is the themes for The King in Yellow as the endings.
Well, like they said in the video, the "imagining project" subtitle wasn't originally there, it only appeared after a rebrand happened.
We need the Green.Persona 6 will be green
personally wouldn't like any new mainline persona games to follow this aesthetic tbh, it just feels pretty opposite to the social mechanics in the recent games, ontop of all of the new games from 3-5 has had a more upbeat and stylistic nature to it, this would just be odd.
It fits more into a mainline SMT game than a persona game imo
@skywoofyt5375 I would. While there's been flashes of it here and there I kinda want a full modern persona game with the themes of the original 2.
Concept-wise the creator actually made a lot of thematically fitting choices. The “puppeteer” motif is a great because you can tie in elements like “Rebelling against the Creator” or “Cutting ties with what’s controlling you”. I’ve only played P4 and P5 but a mirror world seems like another intuitive option as the “reflection” cognitive world that ties into the collective unconscious. This fan project had a really cool premise… maybe a theater/stage as the Velvet Room would’ve been cool!
I always forget how long ago P5 was announced, and I had no clue this fan project was even a thing. Super interesting video, subbed
I mean the guy on the cover looking eerily similar to Dojima was already a big giveaway.
And screencaps/scenes literally ripped from episode 23 of Ergo Proxy (2006)
@@starwarschic123actually a lot of the "animated" trailers are scenes from Ergo Proxy
What an awesome video! Hi 👋 I’m the creator of Persona 6 VERGS, Persona 7 Soul Rhythm, and even my own version of Persona 5 Imagining Projects straight from AtlusxP5 era. Thanks for the shoutout Blue!
I have to stress to you the impact AtlusxP5 project had on so many young people including me! To be honest back then I always knew it was to good to be true but it was the music that really pulled you in! And that’s the same feeling I wanted to give other people. I wanted people to hear some music from different places, and get into mixing as well. I’m so happy a video is being done on this.
My channel was made as a tribute to the same feelings P5 Imagining Project gave so many people, regardless of it being fan made.
Please guys go out and make your projects, maybe Altus could look at your material and add it to future games. And it’s actually kinda fun 😊. May the algorithm bless this video 🙏
I've been watching your videos since 2016 dude . Thanks for keeping the dream alive man And continuing Introducing me to some great artists and musicians.😁
You got me into Jazztronik, which is now my favourite band ever! Can't thank you enough for that!
Love the video, liking and commenting for boost! I’m exciting to check out the music.
One correction for anyone who loves art: Black, white, and grey images are actually ‘Achromatic!’ Monochromatic refers to images with only one hue, such as all values of blue. If you desaturate a monochromatic image then it has no chroma (or color) just black and white + all the gray values between-achromatic!
Thanks for the correction! I legit didn't know achromatic was even a term before. I've somehow never stumbled across or heard of it in any way, so it's pretty cool to learn about.
The nerd in me is screaming to talk about Greco-Roman linguistics, as knowing your prefixes can really spice up your vocabulary. I doubt anyone wants to hear about the breakdown of the word heterochromatism, the concept of differing colored eyes, or the word chromatology, which has the suffix that denotes it's the science of color. Chromatology is how we discern the elemental makeup of some stars out there based on what elements burn what colors.
Yeah see I can't help it. Nerding out over language. Feel free to use prefix knowledge to make your own words, like trichromatism or calling a four-wheelers quadrocycles.
P5 IP was 100% a labour of love of the series. It has that spark that warms your heart like that later iterations of Persona were known for and the project made me so happy during that really long limbo between P4 and P5. It was nothing short of Magical and it kinda brought the community together in a hopeful way. I know I've left messages on those vids asking around if anyone knew if this was a real leak but I always knew in my heart it couldn't be real. P5IP will always hold a very special place in my heart.
I knew I was not the only early SMT/persona fan that loved the "original persona 5 soundtrack". The wait of persona 4 to persona 5 was legendary so speculation was everywhere. The music from these will always be in my brain.
This is honestly one of the few topics I didn't think I would ever come across again. This is a great video explaining this passion project. This takes me back when I first heard the soundtrack and how much I loved it. I'm currently relistening to it now. Thanks for sharing this little snippet of the past.
I loved the imagining project. There are those of us that make our own imagining projects as a tribute still. There is a community for this genre of Persona content. I personally made my own P6 imaging project admittedly. Thanks for shining light on this community!
I want to thank whoever made P5IP for helping me awaken my music preferences and introducing me to my favorite artists that I still listen to everyday.
If not for them, I would never discover Shiina Ringo, Soil & Pimp Sessions, school food punishment, etc.
I love school food punishment. Thanks for the other names😊
srsly fantastic editing bro. honestly i find the imagining project really endearing, you can tell the person behind it has a lot of passion for the series and just wanted to show it off in their own way
Interesting that Jazztronic would eventually remix real Persona 5 songs for Dancing in the Starlight.
Tightrope is genuinely my favorite song of all time because of this project. It has formed my current music taste from childhood. Thank you for shining a light on it.
Thanks John for sending me here
Hi there.
So, are you new to the project or to this video?
The art and music quality is just insane. Always thought it was weird how it sorta appeared
thank you for covering this subject, the early persona 5 hype and this project was such a fun tribute. thanks to fan ost, i found out abt jabberloop, jazztronik, karen aoki, copter4016882. this ost helped me formed my tastes haha, but amazing video! keep up the good work
this video is REALLY well put together, and about something I'd never heard of as a more casual persona fan
thanks for posting it!
Another amazing video.
I remember seeing a lot of images about this back in those days but I wasn't into SMT back then so never checked those discussions that much, pretty surprised to see how big the whole deal was for a fan project.
This kind of reminds about how MGSV also got a few fan projects that were trying to pose as a sequel/true ending DLC for the actual game, although they were clearly way more amateurish than this.
Thank you for making this! I've been a HUGE fan of this project since 2018, and it's good that someone is covering it so that more people can know about it.
The imagining project was scrap, period
imagine if someone took this concept and turned it into a stand alone game instead of something persona related, I would play the hell out of it
This concept is Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 5.
The release version of Persona 5 completely dropped the SMT moniker because at some point in development they made the deliberate choice to separate the two into their own distinct franchises.
@@mariokarter13 Yes, I'm aware- I watched the video. I'm saying someone could turn it into an original concept unrelated to SMT or Persona.
@@mariokarter13Persona never had the SMT moniker originally, that was something added in localisation.
Hoping and praying and begging on my knees for the algorithm to pick you up again man, you deserve to have a hundred times more subscribers than this!
That channel actually introduced me to DJ Deckstream which ive been grateful for ever since
As someone who reuploaded these tracks on a whim back in the day, I'm glad somebody did a deep dive on these.
Deeply interesting. These passion-driven and high quality fan projects seemed to be a fairly common phenomena when I first started using the internet, about 15 years ago. Seems like in the last 5 years, as you stated, it's become difficult to engage with the internet in the same way. Still really cool to hear about, though.
The fanmade Persona 5 ost was dope, I still listen to it up to this day.
Amazing work with this video. I think I was the first to reupload all of the songs the first time the ATLUSxP5 channel had removed the songs. I had contacted the ATLUSxP5 channel back after they started uploading again and got their blessing on reuploading their songs while letting them know I'd be happy to remove them should they wish me to or if they wanted to reupload themselves. Those messages seem to be lost to the old UA-cam inbox. I guess as one note to it, our discussion was in English so them being a person from the Atlus Faitful forums could be correct.
I stopped following the project with life getting busy and then stopped using this account too, hard to believe this was nearly 12 years ago. This was a great walk down memory lane, thank you for this dive into the story.
Gaming Magazines: Turn-based JRPG's are dead
JRPG Fans: huh? since when?
The person(s) behind this project definitely sound like the kind who I'd love to be friends with and bounce ideas off of for whatever piece of media is inspiring us at that moment. Their concepts for this are so fun. I like to come up with more or less entire AUs for some stories - not even necessarily to create - and they seem very much in the same lane.
The editing is so clean
Stumbled upon this in my recommended and well done! I actually never knew about this so thank you for sharing! Also nice to see an Elira cameo in there!
This is the project that made me discover DJ Kawasaki, Rahze, MEG and Soil & Pimp sessions
What a trip, this is so nostalgic!
I remember lurking through the forum thread back in 2012-2013, being so immersed in the story presented by AxP5. Reading through all of the theories, and looking forward to what happens next. It made the wait for the actual Persona 5 bearable lmao.
The fan soundtrack has a special place in my heart. Through it I discovered Yasutaka Nakata, known for his works on Perfume, KPP, MEG, and of course, CAPSULE.
Along with P5IP's bangin songs, it completely changed my music tastes. I still listen to the soundtrack to this day, and it's always such a vibe to play during commutes.
To the creator of the project, if you're reading this, thank you for changing my life.
And thank you for covering the topic, Blue. As mentioned in the top comments, P5IP does deserve a place in internet history.
Immaculate editing. This was extremely enjoyable. Super nostalgic time it was to be alive. P5xATLUS was more high effort than I'd ever realized.
8:13-8:20 Honestly, just by looking at some the facial work from (presumably) the protagonists shadow and the girl shown briefly on in the ‘promo’ artwork, it kinda gives me Ergo Proxy vibes. The protagonist’s shadow reminds me of Vincent and the girl reminds of Re-L. Maybe they took inspiration from it? Not too sure on that, just been watching this video again and thought of that. Well, that and and I love getting lost in the sudo-existent ‘lost-media’ vibe of this project.
Also, the Suda51 mention is AWESOME. Truly based work from the original creator, especially since he was (and still arguably is) relatively unknown in the West during that time.
I'm glad the project is getting the exposure deserves today. I 100% brought into this back in the day. I was a huge persona four fan and the very happy persona 5 became the hit that it has. However I have a attachment to the imagine project which I realise as you say is maybe in part that such a project like this can never exist in the internet today.
With the shroud of the music revealed in part thanks to things like Spotify, I now have quite a few of these songs on my liked to rotation. Tightrope and Hanabi being my favourites: and when I listen to them I very much have the idea of this project a black and white persona in my mind. Actually a big fan of MEG and her Collab works now.
Thank you for making this video I don't know why but the whole thing around this just tickles a very special feeling.
I remember finding out about this almost a decade ago and it introduced me to some banging tunes. Great video!
With so much cynicism and general distaste towards fan projects, fandoms and the olden days of youtube. This was a very pleasant thing to get recommended. I'm happy too see the legacy still lives on and too get a good look at what the project was. (I on;y learned about it through Asinine Syndrome. Who's currently wrapping up P6 IP last time I checked.)
What a solid video. I think the scripting definitely elevated it. It’s unfortunate there wasn’t some super obscure leaked P5 but hey that’s just how things are sometimes.
Honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if this whole fan project actually inspired if only in part what the actual Persona 5 would become later on, and I do hope it also influences future games as well.
Really through, a Persona game where you actually work alongside NYARLATHOTEP of all beings would be WILD!
GOOD LUCK!
Wow I was very young when the p5 imagining project dropped but I definitely remember seeing Assinine Syndrome P6 project back in 2017. Still have some of his stuff in a playlist I made back in 7th grade. This video has brought back a lot of memories. Cool shit man
I remembered discovering the Persona 5 Imagining project way back in 2012. The music was actually really good and memorable, I still go back and listen to it from time to time. Nice to see someone finally put in the work to break down this highly imaginative fan project. I love the real P5 OST but there's something special about the P5 Imagining soundtrack.
I couldn’t be more impressed with how you put this video together. Amazing editing and voice over work my man. Keep it up.
1:56 Can we just take a moment to appreciate this little animation.
I remember jamming to P5 Imagined OST for a while long before Persona 5 actually became something, it's crazy that someone is finally talking about this! Thank you for archiving this part of history!
P5IP was such a mysterious and profound thing, really living up to its name and sending your imagining soaring about was P5 could have been.
Although I still love how it turned out, I wish the P5 we got went the direction of P5IP … an adult-themed Persona we haven’t seen since P2EP, the return of Nyarlathotep as an ally, and a grand finale that concluded the saga of P1-4.
I know it’s never going to happen, but it would be awesome if the p5 imagining project was revamped into p6. The ideas, the theme, the story, it’s all there, and it’s awesome!
Was super into this fanwork way back, until it eventually faded away. Its nice to learn of that one final upload. Thanks for sharing.
"goodbye"
The way that was presented felt sad.
Imo, it implies when the change in direction sharply happened.
During that time, I've observed people who like SMT & Persona. I saw how fan's crippled when the release for P5 was delayed or teased.
Tbh, I thought you were going to talk about something different. Such as, Haru eating Chuppa Chups (which shows her eating in the opening visual). She never eats that candy in the games!
I'm quite certain she was meant to be a rich-brat type.
Aside.
What you've pit together here, is all new information and I'm amused. P5 is my first introduction to actually playing.
Though I have lots of knowledge about SMT and Persona.
Atlus gives the impression they center games around a music direction.
Meaning the songs are composed first.
Seeing the drawings available was amazing.
Looks in-depth and dark.
Maybe P6 will be that?
Then again...the way "goodbye" was shown with wreckage submerged...its a very sad visual.
Giving an impression that something truly ended.
Awe, noticed how you included your Fumo plushie.
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It's kinda hard to believe how people fell for this project back in the day given how dedicated fans are when it comes to researching, analysing and sourcing stuff like this, and in the case of the imagining project it wouldn't have been even that hard to "debunk" it, but I guess when it comes to stuff like this it's often times our own suspension of disbelieve that makes us buy into these "fan leaks". After all we all wished for the announcement for Persona 5, and when we see such high quality output like with that of the atlusxP5 yt channel, we of course want it to be real.
This is a superbly made video, wow. The editing and the actual content had me hooked. Unfortunately, I was not part of the fanbase back then so this is a great time capsule of a time past.
I was invested in the video already so at 1:55 I jumped up to stop my tv falling over with that animation you put in only to realise it was the animation
SAME WORH MY PHONE PROPPED UP LOL
THIS VIDEO IS BEAUTIFUL I am 2 minutes in and am absolutely blown away by the video presentation and the GENIUS IN MAKING IT LIKE P4s UI? Seriously respect, I am in love.
That Imagining project is pretty cool ngl, that person is very creative and had abgreat choice in music and art.
The editing and narration of the video is a whole nother level. I feel like I just watched a full-blown documentary on some cryptic phenomenon or urban legend - which I actually did. Please keep it up!
Im so happy you covered this. I remember listening to the “soundtrack” on youtube with the chained chair. ive been wondering about this forever, thank you
Dude how do you only have 9k subs? This is some insanely high quality work. Looking forward to seeing more from you!
Hell yeah. I ran a whole campaign inspired by P5 IP, which saw completion. The ideas and inspiration it had definitely has left a lasting impact on many.
I used to have two friends with whom I discovered this with. We spent hours theorizing and one of them even designed a tabletop roleplay campaign based on this.
Kaju, Night, if by any miracle you're reading this: I know we haven't talked in years, and that we probably aren't friends anymore... but I fondly remember this, and I cherish my memories of you.
Wow. To be honest, I kind of cried while reading your comment. Man, me and my friends You should do the exact same thing after I got them hooked on this fan soundtrack And it took me back to happier in simpler times in my life back in High School. Gratefully, I'm still friends of one of them till this day . But man were times were different back then. I also read someone else in the comments section slso did the same exact thing with their friends. Anyway, I hope you and your friends somewhere out there find peace, dude.🙏
Beautiful video my nigga. Shit gave me chills remembering about this time period in life. Subbed
P6 is apparently gonna have a black and white motif also, what a coincidence
Also the act iv description is taken straight out of the digital devil story novel, which is a sequel of the original megami tensei novel
I thought it was gonna be green?
@@KetchupRocket that was speculation, i'm talking about the recent leaks
Greeeeeen
Green
sick video, I remember there was a time for a year or two where when I couldn't go a day without seeing these on my youtube recommends when I was first getting into SMT/Persona
AFTER ALL THESE YEARS I JUST REALISED
a lot of the characters are all from my favorite show, Ergo Proxy lmao
The editing in this video is so underrated. You got yourself another subscriber!
I got into a rabbit hole of looking for more info on this project. So eerie that they were able to predict a lot of the themes for P5 before it came out and even still to this day with Royal now out. The one thing I have not seen people mention after watching this video was how ATLUSxP5 stole a lot of material from other sources and pieced it together as their own to form the illusion it was something else entirely new, and still to this day nobody knows who was the creator/creators of this project. Sort of like.....Phantom Thieves in a way?
This is such a high quality video! Good work!! You have my sub
this project is how I found some of my favorite artists, like MEG and Rahze/Deckstream
It surprises me how similar the actual P5 was to the IP. There's a lot of monochromatic themeing in the actual P5 (even if the theme is 'red'), the idea about being 'a puppet' (*cough cough* igor), going into a 'mirror world' (palaces/mementos), and so on so forth. Still listen to the soundtrack even today lol, and also appreciate assinine syndrome's other fan project albums they worked on :D
i guess but neither a ‘mirror world’ nor the protagonists being a puppet of some kind isn’t unique to persona 5
This might be a bit of a reach 😅
I'm impressed by the "Act IV the judgement" summary containing a weirdly on-point story beat as well lmao.
"Howard Carter is tricked by the false Philemon to thwart the Protagonist and Nyarlathotep from their plans - or else see all his friends die."
We definitely got a false Velvet Room person there, who also tricked Joker into doing Metaverse tampering - until we really saw all our friends disappear from reality when the public forgot about the PT...
And yeah, the ideas of Howard Carter & Nyarlathotep are definitely drawing on P2's usage of Lovecraft mythology - but still it's hilarious P5 Royal would ALSO dip from Lovecraft in a similar manner to P2 xD
@@manon8237yes but I feel like having main theme as a puppet goes on with persona 5 in depth
Maruki bad ending game over is very similar to the IP as in the ending where joker’s phone is dead battery and the butterfly theme would p5ip vibes
Edit: Also just realized that the persona 5 we got now is a dumbed down version of the original imaging project
It wasn't until the P4G Steam release that i started my "SMT phase", playing lots of games of the franchise, making SMT my favorite franchise period even if i still have tons of the games left, and i gotta say, now that i'm on the last dungeon of Digital Devil Saga 1, the story that Persona 5 Imagining Project presents is something i could 100% see as an SMT Spin-off, maybe from the PS2 era, to the point i think it's a shame it hasn't been made a fan game with such an interesting concept such as Manipulation, which could be very neatly tied to Demons, Angels and even Gods.
I remember finding that channel in late 2012, and being absolutely fuckin' convinced it was leaked audio from an upcoming P5. I promptly forgot about it since then.
Cool video. Nice bit of niche internet history.
I have run into these as someone who got into the franchise in 2019, I have ran into these and love them because it feels like a view into an alternate timeline and I love it.
The battle theme Tralala goes off so hard to the point where I just view it as a true Persona Battle theme.
honestly I was so interested the whole time you were explaining that if this was an actual game, even if it weren’t Altus
I would definitely play it
So the P5I project predicted Jazz as (one of) the style of P5, as with the themes of control (mostly with Akechi in P5, and Maruki in royal)
Im really glad someone finally covered this fan made project. I remember back in summer of 2014 when I was a young lad watching mekaku city actors (funny coincidence you talked about kagerous project too) and I discovered this soundtrack that seemed very cryptic (and awesome too) at the time. Made wondered how persona 5 will be and kinda unfortunate it didn’t turned the what this project presented it. Thanks for this explained video man
Hold on, I’ve heard from grape vine (leaks) that Persona 6’s colors is Black and White (Monochrome). AltusxP5 is an Atlus employee confirmed?! jk but that would be funny if true
I came across this back in late 2013 and fell in love with the imagination of the channel. It was cool to listen to the music and think about "what ifs?" of the Persona series.
Actually, despite its derivative elements it absolutely could've been real, this particular project obviously isn't but it's quite close to how a real internal pitch would be made. I think it's quite possible the author is a real game designer used to making such photobash pitches and trying to convey the feel of the game.
i agree. kinda annoyed how he didnt mention the fact that the images and themes in the imagining project are so similar to actual p5?? like firstly the pose for the supposed protagonist for the IP is like EXACTLY how joker looks in the interrogation room. and then there's also the blue butterfly and the themes of control and being a puppet...it just feels like there's something more happening, like there's no way that's all just coincidence.
@@cathackzz I don't know that I would advocate that this actually was real as there are some dead giveaways, those clips posted after P5 reveal and the timeline of it all also the fact that the guy would've been sued into oblivion as this would've have to have been a close employee to have acess to all of this. But what I'm saying that it's not uncommon for internal pitches to use copyrighted art or music to convey the idea, as this guy demonstrated it can paint quite a vivid picture. But as for the butterfly that's a motif from Persona 1 already and P1 protag already looks a lot like the P5 protaf just without the glasses.
Veeeeery good video, didn't know at all about this fan project, interesting stuff to say the least. Ur channel is gold, so glad i discovered it!
Ngl, the timeline where the P5 Imagining Project was the real P5 is one I'd like to experience. Everything about it went so hard. I remember downloading alot of the songs back when it was catching alot of attention.
1:55 This transition was sooo cool!!!
Thanks for putting me onto this. The music has to be my favorite part of this franchise so i always look forward to hearing more
1:54 this transition was so smooth I thought my laptop was falling off the arm of my couch and I nearly lunged to grab it...
i remember when i was first getting into persona i caught a few IP videos completely blind to anything around em, I think it all washed over me at the time (in a good way) but it’s really really crystallized in my head over time. I love this type piecemeal web spinning online story telling that dominated the internet at the time, it’s the perfect way to use the format of the internet to its advantage.
finally a video about one of my favorite things in the persona community. so many songs on that playlist have inspired my music taste to this very day. THANK YOU BLUE!!
i think it's just a fan sharing their vision for the yet to be announced p5. y'know, fan concepts and stuff
I'm incredibly pleased to see that somebody covered the topic on the Imagining Project! I came across the project earlier this summer and was instantly taken aback from the fan-made soundtrack, so much so that I really got interested and curious about the project. After doing some searching and browsing, I found tidbits of info and history behind the project like the protagonist's name being Kai and the various bits of the hypothetical story.
I would one day love to see this concept fully built into a fan game honestly!