Persona Q2 – New Cinema Labyrinth

Persona Q2 – New Cinema Labyrinth is a 2018 dungeon crawler role-playing video game by Atlus for the Nintendo 3DS. It is a spin-off of the Persona series, itself part of the larger Megami Tensei franchise, and a sequel to Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth featuring the cast from Persona 3, Persona 4, and Persona 5. It was released in Japan in November 2018 and worldwide in June 2019. The game’s story is set in the events of Persona 5 (2016) during a trip to Mementos.

Joker and the rest of the Phantom Thieves of Hearts find themselves in a film, that is connected to a movie theater that is locked from the inside. With Makoto and Haru kidnapped, the Phantom Thieves encounter inhabitants in the theater who are also locked in with them, Nagi, the curator of the cinema, and Hikari, a shy amnesiac schoolgirl, as well as Doe, a Shadow in the projection room. Nagi explained that all of her customers aside from Hikari suddenly vanished, and with no other way forward.

The team decided to investigate each labyrinth throughout the movie to rescue Makoto and Haru. As the Phantom Thieves venture through movies, they are joined by Persona users from different timelines: the Persona 3 female protagonist in Kamoshidaman; the Investigation Team in Junessic Land; and SEES in A.I.G.I.S, all of them who have fallen into the movie world during a routine trip to the TV World and Tartarus.

Each film the group travels through has morals surrounding discarding individuality and personality and conforming to others’ expectations and consequences. Whilst traveling, the party’s goal is to derail each movie’s distorted moral codes by changing the films’ endings, giving them happy endings as Hikari and Nagi watch from the theater. Upon returning, Doe presents them with a key that unlocks each of the 4 locks on the door.