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"There is no doubt that Persona influenced this title," series veteran says of his new RPG

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"There is no doubt that Persona influenced this title," series veteran says of his new RPG

The Persona series casts a heck of a shadow, so founding Atlus member Kouji "Cozy" Okada, widely known as a godfather to Shin Megami Tensei and branching series including Persona, accepts that his new game, Villion:Code, a school-set action RPG with genome editing baked into its DNA, is going to invite some comparisons. Speaking with GamesRadar+ in a new video interview, Okada says Persona definitely has definitely influenced his work, but so have the many, many other games he's worked on and created.

Before a period of mobile-focused game development, Okada had been making RPGs since the 1980s, dating back to the original Megami Tensei, leading into Persona precursor Shin Megami Tensei If..., and covering the original three Persona games themselves. You don't just shrug off that kind of experience for the sake of being arbitrarily different.

"There is no doubt that Persona influenced this title," Okada says of Villion:Code, which is out January 26, 2027 on PS4, PS5, Switch, Switch 2, and Steam. "However, the same can be said of the many other series and standalone games I have worked on throughout my career."

We asked Okada if Persona and Shin Megami Tensei directly influenced his approach to Villion:Code, or if all of these games sit in the same place in his mind. "That is quite a perceptive question," he responds, saying it touches on his overall approach to games.

"This may stray slightly from the question, but although I would not go so far as to call it my personal philosophy, I believe games stand apart from other forms of entertainment because they make the fullest use of interactivity," he explains.


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