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Persona 5's 3rd Promo Video Reveals Summer 2016 Delay, Cast

Atlus debuted the third promotional video for its Persona 5 game on Thursday. The video reveals that the game has been rescheduled for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3 next summer.

In the video, the radio announcer talks about a train accident with an unknown cause, and a person in the crowd mentions how there have been a lot of accidents lately. A student speaks about a rumor that hearts are being stolen, and another mentions they saw something like that being talked about on the Internet. The protagonist's friend Nidai exclaims at how the school has changed appearance into the form of a castle. The feline companion mentions that these places called "palaces" are the materialization of twisted human desire. The character voiced by Tomokazu Sugita mentions how surprised he is that the phantom thief who steals hearts really exists. And old man says that the Persona is the armor, the mask that protects its user.

The cast includes:

• Jun Fukuyama as Protagonist
• Rina Satō
• Aki Toyosaki
• Nana Mizuki as An Takamaki
• Hirohiko Kakegawa
• Tomokazu Sugita
• Jouji Nakata
• Yūji Mitsuya
• Ikue Ohtani
• Kazunari Tanaka
• Minako Arakawa
• Mamoru Miyano as Ryuji Sakamoto
• Yūko Kaida
• Masane Tsukayama
• Souichiro Hoshi
• Aoi Yūki
• Shuuichi Ikeda
• Haruka Tomatsu
• Yukitoshi Hori

Atlus also posted an interview with director Katsura Hashino:

Persona 5 was announced for a Winter 2014 release on PlayStation 3 in Japan. Then it was delayed once in Japan and North America to this year, before this latest delay.