#personaphantom

I think I understand your question- you're asking I think if the alternate versions of certain Phantom Idols (such as Frostgale Mont, Seaside Moko, and Lion Dance Rin) might be their potential 5-star upgrades from other timelines (like, their version of Ceaseless Wind, Eternal Night Luce, and Pioneer Soy)?

Honestly, in my personal opinion? No, heh. The 5-star alternate versions we've gotten so far have all either connected to an event, or to their new Synergy, which feels different from the story upgrades that our team has gotten, at least to me. For instance:

Seaside Moko, and Summer Marian and Puppet, are pretty obviously equivalent to Tropical Closer, and the summer costumes for Wonder, Soy, and Wind. It may be a given, but these feel the least like their upgrades/powerups in the main story.

- Lion Dance Rin feels the same to me. It was an outfit she wore as part of the Spring Festival event, similar to Wonder's Spring Festival costume.

Frostgale Mont is just a costume from her Synergy that's given a mask in the Metaverse, so it doesn't really feel like a plot upgrade, either. To me it feels more like it represents Wonder's new understanding of her, or something, rather than an upgrade of her 4-star form. None of the story teammates' upgrades so far were based on a real-world outfit, either.

- Colorful Bui also falls in this category, in my opinion. It's a costume that they unlocked within Harvest World Online, as part of her new Synergy; it's not really an upgrade to the original Bui in the same sense that the story teammates' upgrades are, and it's basically equivalent to her wearing that outfit in the real world, haha.

You mean this Persona design, right?

(I included the image twice so the post is shorter.)

Honestly, the art really looks like concept art, so I think maybe it was just a very early version of Erytheia? Or, in other words, this Persona already got redesigned, into the Erytheia we know.

Heh, well, let's keep in mind that a remake still hasn't been announced yet for P4, so we probably shouldn't place all our bets on it happening! I do agree there's some evidence that one might be coming, but we'll just have to see.

I should have Phoebe's tomorrow once Version 1.4 releases for the mainland region of the game, but here's Vino's for now!

Heh, you mean romantic tension? Well, I know this blog has a tag for Rikoha already, so there's at least one other person shipping it with you.

Honestly, to me, it just sort of made sense that Closer would be the one to call out to her, since Closer's pretty friendly, and Riko and Motoha already knew each other prior to Riko joining the team (plus they needed someone to mix up her name so Riko could introduce her codename)! But I'm also not much of a shipper, myself.

I do think Wind will be added to the game before Futaba's chapter of the collab, yes, but you seem to be implying they'll be added in the same update, which I don't expect to be the case. (Also, it's still uncertain whether Wind is an actual navigator, or just able to act as a navigator, like Mona and Queen do!)

The primary reason I doubt Wind would be added in the same version as the Futaba chapter of the collab is the rough update cycle timeline that the developers posted a while back. It lists "mainline versions" and "event versions" separately, which means that story content for the game can be expected to come in different updates than events (such as the collab chapters). Since Wind is a story teammate, she'd be added with a mainline update, then, not an event update.

Well, it's very possible, if he even has that many team members! It does seem reasonable to assume that he'd have a teammate to correspond with each of the original Phantom Thieves, but it is worth noting that Wonder's team has had one fewer teammate than the original PT did for a while now. It's possible that trend will continue, and he'll only have 7 teammates by the end of whatever the "main story" here is! Not to mention, Violet wasn't in the original game, so the original PT team could have been considered unbalanced if you're counting Crow.

I'm not sure if it's necessarily an accurate reflection of what they'll do for his team, but as far as Phantom Idols go, there is a significantly larger number of girls than boys, as well. That may be because they're targeting the game at a primarily male audience, and think that girls will sell better, of course, but if Wonder's team ends up being short one female teammate, this could partially be to help "balance" that, so to speak.