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How Metaphor: ReFantazio's Will Embodies The Hero's Journey Through Archetypes
The protagonist of Metaphor: ReFantazio, known officially as Will, follows a journey that mirrors both the Fool Arcana archetype shared by Hashino’s three Persona protagonists: Makoto Yuki, Yu Narukami, and Ren Amamiya, and the classical Hero’s Journey formula, as Metaphor is akin to a fantasy RPG story. The Hero’s Journey is a powerful, universal storytelling structure conceived by Joseph…
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Theurgy and Prime Time: Battle Super Mechanics in Persona Remakes
Persona 3 Reload and Persona 4 Revival, two modernized remakes of the long-time classics Persona 3 and Persona 4, introduce special battle mechanics that unleash the ultimate power of a Persona User’s Persona. Modeled after the Magatsuhi mechanic in Shin Megami Tensei V and its updated rerelease, Vengeance, Persona 3 Reload and Persona 4 Revival introduce Theurgy and Prime Time, respectively, in…
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Remakes: How Persona 3 Reload and Persona 4 Revival's Menu UIs Masterfully Highlight Persona 3 and Persona 4's Themes and Symbolism
In modern times, leading up to the highly anticipated release of Persona 6, Persona 3 and Persona 4 both received modernized, updated remakes incorporating gameplay and user interface elements from the popular Persona 5: Persona 3 Reload and Persona 4 Revival. Both of them lean heavily into Persona 5’s UI style, but do an excellent job of emphasizing their themes in their respective spins on…
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How Persona 6 Could Evolve the Persona Series While Also Returning It to Its Roots
In the most recent Xbox Games Showcase, aired on June 7, 2026, Atlus and SEGA, as part of their long-term partnership with Microsoft and Xbox, revealed the long-anticipated next entry in the beloved Persona series: Persona 6. Set to release after the release of the upcoming Persona 4 remake, known as Persona 4 Revival, Persona 6 brings much excitement to old and new fans of the Persona series…
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Persona 3: Shinjiro Aragaki, Akihiko Sanada, and The Dioscuri
Two well-known figures in Greek mythology are the twin warriors Castor and Pollux. Due to the unusual circumstances of their births, sharing a mother but born of different fathers, Castor, the son of the mortal Spartan King Tyndareus, was mortal, whereas Pollux, the son of Zeus, was an immortal demigod. Castor was ultimately slain, being pierced by a bow, and Pollux, in his grief and heartbreak,…
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Beauty and The Beast: The Arcs of Persona 4's Naoto Shirogane and Kanji Tatsumi
Perhaps one of the most well-known stories of all is the story known as “Beauty and the Beast”. It chronicles Beauty, the most beloved daughter of a man, and Beast, a seemingly abominable beast who turns out to be a handsome prince, placed under a curse until someone could love him for who he truly was. The story is also deeply Jungian, as it embodies crucial concepts of the shadow, anima, and…
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Persona 5's Ren Amamiya and The Hero Cycle
One of the most well-known examples of the classic hero myth is the Winnebago Hero Cycle, prevalent in Native American Mythology. The classic hero cycle of the Winnebago myth has four stages: The Trickster, the Hare, the Red Horn, and the Twins. The Trickster disrupts rigid higher order before higher consciousness emerges, The Hare mediates instinct with society, The Red Horn confronts truths and…
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Private Schools vs. Public Schools: How Persona 3 and Persona 4 Utilize Contrasting Academic Settings to Tackle Jungian Themes
Persona 3 and Persona 4 are well known for their settings in a contemporary high school in Japan. However, while high school is a hallmark setting of the Persona series due to adolescence being a key point of self-discovery, Persona 3 and Persona 4 in particular utilize the contrasting settings of a private school and a public school in different environments, showcasing the different lifestyles…
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Izanagi and Izanami: A Creation Myth Made Manifest Through Persona 4's Yu Narukami as an Arc of Individuation
In Japanese mythology, one of the key stories prevalent within it is the creation myth featuring the creator deities of Izanagi and Izanami, the tale of the two forging islands of Japan, and stirring the primordial oceans, as chronicled in the Kojiki. Upon the birth of Kagutsuchi, the fire god, Izanami died, and in an attempt to retrieve her, Izanagi descended into the underworld of Yomi, where…
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Orpheus and the "Son of Man": How Persona 3's Makoto Yuki Embodies the Arc of Individuation Through Linked Mythic Figures
In the book “Man and His Symbols”, Joseph L. Henderson, a pupil of Carl G. Jung and a pioneering Jungian psychologist, discusses the tales of Orpheus and Christ, known as the “Son of Man”. From a Jungian standpoint, the mythologies and religions surrounding these two are in contrast yet interconnected, embodying archetypes that mediate between humans, nature, and the divine, offering hope of a…
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Persona 3 and Persona 4: How Cycles of Nature Reflect the Psyche
In Persona 3 and Persona 4, the first two games of Katsura Hashino’s era of the Persona series, the calendar system not only emphasizes the passage of time but also the cycles of natural phenomena. Persona 3 bases its significant events on moon cycles, culminating in each full moon, while Persona 4 uses the weather: certain patterns of weather create deadlines by which confrontation must occur…
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How Persona Uses a Modern Societal Setting to Convey Jungian Themes
Most fantasy RPGs act as an escapist fantasy, leaving the modern world behind in medieval, fantastical worlds. Persona, however, takes place in contemporary society itself, akin to our own world, and in doing so forces players to confront reality itself, asking an uncomfortable question: what if our modern world itself is psychologically broken? The Persona series draws heavily from the work of…
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Persona Summoning Rituals: How They Represent Confrontation with Uncomfortable Truths of the Self
In the modern Persona games, the Persona Users of the groups summon their Personas through dramatic, often painful means. These range from shattering a tarot card to shooting oneself in the head with a metaphorical tool to tearing off a mask. These methods, as gruesome as they can look, are not merely painful-looking for the sake of it: they represent a brutal confrontation with painful truths…
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Individuation: The World Arcana and Universe Arcana as the Realization of the Self
Every Persona protagonist begins as The Fool: undefined, incomplete, and full of potential. But what does it actually mean to finish that journey? In Jungian psychology, that answer is individuation: the realization of the Self. In Persona, that realization takes form as The World, or perhaps The Universe. Jungian Individuation: What is it? In Jungian psychology, in the psychological journey of…
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Apathy as the Enemy: How Persona's Bad Endings Represent the Poison of Apathy
In Persona, the “bad endings” of the stories don’t represent the victory of evil over good. Rather, they represent a consequence of something far more disturbing: the moment the protagonists stop caring. When you think of a “bad ending” in a story, you’d think of an actual living antagonist claiming a tangible victory over the protagonist, or the protagonist exhibiting a moral failure and…
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The Fool's Journey: How The Fool Finds The Truth Through The Will Of Their Teams
While all Persona games center around a group of characters, the modern trilogy, under the direction of Katsura Hashino, centers around the central Wild Card, who undergoes the Fool’s Journey. The Fool Arcana, as the 0th Arcana, represents infinite possibility and limitless potential. Those who are in search of themselves are “no one” as long as the search continues, and have the ability to…
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From Masks to Roles: How Metaphor: ReFantazio Evolves Jungian Archetypes Beyond Persona
While the Persona games indirectly embody the Jungian concept of the Archetype through the Personas themselves and the Tarot Arcana, Metaphor: ReFantazio takes the concept to its more literal meaning, and its characters summon what are literally known as Archetypes. The Persona games embody the Personas as archetypes of internal truths; however, Metaphor: ReFantazio’s Archetypes embody lived…
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