Persona 4
Persona 4 is a role-playing video game developed and published by Atlus for Sony's PlayStation 2, and chronologically the fifth installment in the "Persona" series, itself a part of the larger "Megami Tensei" franchise. The game was released in Japan in July 2008, North America in December 2008, and Europe in March 2009. "Persona 4" takes place in a fictional Japanese countryside and is indirectly related to earlier "Persona" games. The player-named protagonist is a high-school student who moved into the countryside from the city for a year. During his year-long stay, he becomes involved in investigating mysterious murders while harnessing the power of summoning Persona. The game features a weather forecast system with events happening on foggy days to replace the moon phase system implemented in the previous games.
Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight
Development of "Dancing in Starlight" began in 2015 following the positive feedback from "Dancing All Night"; it was created by P-Studio, an internal Atlus department responsible for managing the "Persona" series. While the team were initially encouraged to develop "" as a standalone title, the fact that "Persona 5" was also in development prompted them to create a rhythm game based upon it. Development of the two games ran concurrently, with the team using their experience from "Dancing All Night" to improve the experience for their new projects. The development proved challenging as the team were creating two game's worth of content at the same time. Kazuhisa Wada, who produced and directed "Dancing All Night", returned as producer. Originally intending to produce and direct again, the game was instead directed by Nobuyoshi Miwa. Shigenori Soejima returned as character designer. The game was developed for both PlayStation 4 (PS4) and PlayStation Vita, with the main difference being that the PS4 version ran at a higher frame rate. The team initially intended to have both "Dancing" titles as a single game, but decided against this due to the two projects' contrasting identities.