I'd buy it! Perhaps portals open when a critical mass of characters do something to transcend their scripted role as brainless, unskilled, uncreative minimum wage workers? Also maybe consider care workers, cleaners, and agricultural laborers? For these, their employers' informality, unpredictability, and lack of institutional organization adds to the pain of working for them.
Have you played Persona 3? It was the first Persona game with Social Links and the time management aspect. Persona 2 (both parts) and Persona 1 follow completely different gameplay formulas than the one that made Persona 3, 4, and 5 so compelling.
Also, the part about the bosses being people in authority is unique to Persona 5, though. In Persona 4, the boss monsters were the parts of the person needing rescue that he or she was in denial about and wouldn't admit existed - the Jungian "shadow self" made literal - and I think I remember the Persona 3 bosses being based on Tarot card symbolism and not representing any specific person.
I'd buy it! Perhaps portals open when a critical mass of characters do something to transcend their scripted role as brainless, unskilled, uncreative minimum wage workers? Also maybe consider care workers, cleaners, and agricultural laborers? For these, their employers' informality, unpredictability, and lack of institutional organization adds to the pain of working for them.
Oh, and besides Persona 3, the other game in the series you need to look at for inspiration is Catherine.
Have you played Persona 3? It was the first Persona game with Social Links and the time management aspect. Persona 2 (both parts) and Persona 1 follow completely different gameplay formulas than the one that made Persona 3, 4, and 5 so compelling.
Also, the part about the bosses being people in authority is unique to Persona 5, though. In Persona 4, the boss monsters were the parts of the person needing rescue that he or she was in denial about and wouldn't admit existed - the Jungian "shadow self" made literal - and I think I remember the Persona 3 bosses being based on Tarot card symbolism and not representing any specific person.
Are you familiar w/ http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-3008 ?
It is basically an Ikea store, infinitely large
People get trapped in there for years