The Persona 5 trailer is better than a lot of things and here are some of those things
Kyle posted some newPersona 5screenshots earlier, which got me excited, which got me watching thePersona 5traileragain, which just got me more excited.
I like when a trailer can turn me on (not sexual). I watch a lot of them, in my line of work (competitive bird watcher/about-videogames writer). I might watch near all of them. And, not unlike movies, trailers have a particular way about them, certain editing tropes, that can be dull. Mostly, though, it’s that the trailer is exactly what you expect. Adam Jensen is an angelic allegory inDeus Ex: Even Yellower Still. Five O’Clock Shadow the Hedgehog does cool explosive stunt things forJust Cause 3. And it’s all compounded wheneverything is sequelsand everything is futurewar and everything is a mash up ofexisting, successful things.
There are moments of excitement, though. All I saw ofMetal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Painat E3 last year was a behind-closed-doors trailer and it was enoughto sell me. Recently,Little Devil Insidedazzled me with itsmysterious promise, even if I’m unsure the game can hit those levels. There was the hand-drawnCupheadat E3 last year and its 1930’s-style animation.
I was worried aboutPersona 5. Another JRPG romp would have been fine, sure. It could also have been stale.Thiswas not stale. This was exciting, dynamic, and full of tiny, idiosyncratic flourishes that make me feel alive. The menu screens, theCatherine-cribbed aesthetic, the playable cat.
The first thing I did the morning I knew the trailer would launch was paw around in the dark, eyes half closed, for my phone to watch it and it was somehow as good as I expected it to be despite unreasonable expectations.
But how good is that? We need context. Here are some things that thePersona 5trailer is better than:
1)Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones.
Having ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife.
The love and acceptance of a parent, because a parent is just going to die and leave you alone.Persona 5will never leave you.
4) The Iditarod.
5) The episode ofSeinfeldwhere Elaine dances badly.
- When America legalized standing with your feet close together, thus freeing public transport from sweaty, leg splayed wafts.
7) Ants.
8) Some cats.
This joke: “Need a friend named Nick so I can say ‘what do you call a guy with no balls?’ Eunuch.”
The time 50 Cent’s grandma made him take out the trash and he tweeted, “I’m rich fuck this I’m going home I don’t need this shit.”
11) Brett Makedonski’s basketball game.
- The time when I was like five years old, playing on the top of a bunk bed. I grabbed the guard rail, looked over the side, and the guard rail came loose, taking me down with it. I split my head open and lost so much blood that I had to be carried around the house (no, of course I didn’t go to the hospital, what am I, made of money?)
