Hashino said that if there is one thing that lies at the center of the games’ theme, it is the notion that people have a lot of things in their minds that they want to do but can’t actually do it for one reason or another.
The game director adds that one of the goals in making “Persona 5” is to give those people an outlet to explore those thrills and experience that sense of freedom that the protagonists get to do within the game.
The delay in the release of “Persona 5” was admittedly a big blow to the anxious gamers, who have been agonizingly waiting for the game for quite some time. Atlus nonetheless considers it as a blessing in disguise because it will give them enough time to further finetune the game and make it really perfect when it finally comes out in the Sony gaming consoles.
In exchange for announcing the delay in the release of “Persona 5,” the game developer attempted to ease the impact of the bad news among gamers when it revealed the main storyline of the game in the September 24 issue of the weekly Famitsu video game magazine in Japan.