Since i’m diving into the hell hole known as Persona, my mind’s been coming up with ideas and stuff related to it. So, might as well share an idea for a Persona spin-off.

What i have in mind is a mystery dungeon style game called Persona: Twisted Memories, see it as like…Persona Q, but better.

The story is that, out of the blue, the casts of P5, P4, and P3 find themselves in a strange realm that resembles a large library. For some reason, they seem to have forgotten a majority of their memories (minus some important ones, like their names, the fact they’re all friends, they have Personas, etc) and they don’t know why it happened or how they got there. A mysterious duo; a little girl named Lune and a strange man named Chro, reside in this strange library and they wish to aid them in their journey to recover their memories.

They later learn that their memories are actually scattered across “Story Worlds”, manifestations of stories and tropes as small pocket dimensions that changes how it’s structured every time someone enters it. So the Phantom Thieves, the Investigation Team, and S.E.E.S must travel through these worlds and recover their memories. Along the way, they find they are not the only ones dragged into this realm, they find Naoya and Tatsuya, the protags of P1 and P2, who lost their memories as well, but unlike the others, they (and by extension everyone in the P1 and P2 cast) have lost all their memories, turning into grey hollow husks of who they once were, all they know is that they must fight for a reason they don’t remember.

As for gameplay, you all know how a mystery dungeon game works, right? We all played PMD at some point. It’s like that but with Persona’s mechanics mixed in. You can build a team of five and run through dungeons, attacking demons with melee attacks, ranged attacks, and Persona attacks. Oh, and you can also recruit demons if you’re lucky. And yes, you can do an All-Out Attack too, if there’s a large amount of enemies in one room, you can unleash an All-Out Attack against them (see it as like Alliance Attacks from PSMD). You can do fusion too, just like other Persona games, but this time the one who’s doing it is Chro, for some strange and ominous reason, no one from the Velvet Room can reach them, so Chro has taken their place of fusing Personas.

Other game stuff includes; a bookstore that sells items, Memory Goals are basically missions to retrieve a memory for a certain character, Social Links help make characters stronger and their Arcana too.

And (i’m just throwing it here cause i don’t know where else to put this) there are five hard dungeons that are tied to the five protagonists and their friends; they are collectively called The Doors to Remembrance, they hold the core memories of the protagonists. The Door of Identity leads to a distorted school building and it holds Naoya’s core memory; the death of his brother, and they must fight Shadow Naoya to gain it. The Door of Paradox leads to a large shrine with five different colored floors and it holds Tatsuya’s core memory; his choice that led to Eternal Punishment, they must fight Shadow Tatsuya to gain it. The Door of Mortality leads to a dark and eerie tower with chains binding it and it holds Minato’s core memory; his sacrifice to seal away Nyx, they must fight Shadow Minato to gain it. The Door of Self Worth leads to a distorted version of the Midnight Channel and it holds Yu’s core memory; facing the truth, they must fight Shadow Yu to gain it. And The Door of Justice leads to a maze-like hallway, that looks kinda like Mementos, holds relics from all the palaces, and it all leads to a large stage, it holds Ren’s core memory; the false assault charge, they must fight Shadow Ren to gain it.

And that’s about it. Might add more. What do you guys think? Let me know! :)