Weekly Famitsu magazine issue #1564 includes a 14-page launch feature on Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth.

The cover of this week’s magazine is of Persona Q2, and the feature is a summary of the game and its main characters from Persona 3, Persona 4, and Persona 5. There is also a developer interview with the game’s producer Daisuke Kaneda, and director Yuta Aihara.

The Famitsu review for the game can be seen in a previous post.

Clean version of the cover via Famitsu:

Some Bullet Points from the Interview

Director Yuta Aihara was responsible for the dungeons and quests (which are now “special screenings” in the new game) in Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth. After that, he was in charge of planning Confidants in Persona 5. After a sequel to PQ was decided, he was assigned as the director.

Producer Daisuke Kaneda has been paying attention to a lot of fan reception following the reveal of Persona Q2, and the thing that caused the biggest response was the female protagonist from Persona 3 Portable. It was decided that she’d appear as the stinger at the end of the initial commercial for the game, and this caused a bigger positive response on social media than they had expected.

With 28 characters featured from previous Persona games, it is hard to feature everyone in the main story. However, with the complementary “special screenings,” these episodes truly emphasize the cross-over feeling of the game, alongside the main story.

By creating a story from a single perspective instead of two like the previous title, the overall playtime will be shortened but there will be a higher capacity of events, character voices, animated cutscenes, music, etc.

For example, there are about twice as many animated cutscenes compared to the first PQ, including trailers inserted for each movie world.

For the music, the previous game’s soundtrack was a set of 2CDs, but this time it will be a set of 3 CDs. Composer Atsushi Kitajoh put in a lot of work regarding that.

The first Persona Q had around 220 different personas. New Cinema Labyrinth has around 300.

Weekly Famitsu magazine #1564—or the December 6, 2018 issue—was released on November 22, 2018.

Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth will release on the Nintendo 3DS in Japan on November 29, 2018.