#i think you can kinda see it a bit with carmen because she looks similarish to ann in terms of the hair and mask

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I think it's kinda weird how Kaneko had the "Persona is just it's user in a costume" and Soejima just said "no" even though it made contextual sense

Huh I never actually thought about that cause I tend to study the Soejima Personas but I see what you mean. I really like Kaneko's Personas and his work on the SMT games because I think his visual art style is really pretty and it has a certain feel to it that I can't really describe? And yeah tbh his idea of the Persona being the user in a costume makes a lot of sense given what Personas are (and it allows him to do some really cool shit too - see Nanjo's "Ultimate" Persona) but tbh I also love Soejima's idea of it being a less physical thing??

Like with Soejima's designs he kinda takes the essence of the character and incorporates it into the design. Even though the persona doesn't necessarily look like the user (e.g. Arsene and Joker for example) you can tell its that user's persona.

Honestly I really like both approaches and tbh I would like to see more of Kanko's Persona designs in a modern Persona game.