History VideoGame / PersonaQ2NewCinemaLabyrinth

* AdultFear:

** Shinjiro: ''P3'' female protagonist suggests "Brood", not because he's broody, but because he's like the team's brood mother.

* TyrannosaurusRex: Naturally, the dinosaur themed labyrinth has one as an F.O.E.

* DemotedToExtra: The ''P4'' and male ''P3'' protagonists will not play a major role in this game like they did in the previous. Instead, Joker will be the sole protagonist of the game with the ''[=P3P=]'' Heroine taking a major role as well.

** In the 4th movie, Hikari asks for Joker's favorite movie. You have a choice between "[[Film/TheDarkKnightRises The Cake Knight Rises]]", "Love Definitely", and "[[Theatre/LesMiserables Mes Miserable]]", all of which are movies that you can watch in his home game.

** "Kamoshidaman" casts you, the Phantom Thieves of Hearts as the villain destroying Kamoshidaman's utopia, ignoring the fact that you didn't do anything other than land in his city.

* EleventhHourSuperpower: The Ultimate Personas become available after you finish all four Sooty Film fights. At earliest, you'd have made some headway into the final dungeon at the time.

** [[Spoiler:Played Straight with the people shown in the 4th Cinema (except Hikari’s Father) who all bullied her for being different and being the cause of her mental breakdown.]]

* HateSink: Hikari is this In Universe, the 4th cinema portrays her as an abnormal horrible person who disobeys the social status quo, however she never did anything wrong making this a subversion.
** Played Straight with the people shown in the 4th Cinema (except Hikari’s Father) who all bullied her for being different and being the cause of her mental breakdown.

* TrappedInTVLand: Or in this case, case multiple Movie-worlds, which is the entire game plot. [[spoiler: However, the last dungeon takes place in a {{Stuiopolis}} level.]]

** Persona 3: [[spoiler: Shinjiro is killed trying to protect Ken from Takaya.]]
** Persona 4: [[spoiler: Nanako will be kidnapped by Taro Namatabe and is then brought into the TV world.]]
** Persona 5: [[spoiler: Akechi will betray the Phantom Thieves, leading to Joker to be arrested by the authorities]].

* CrapsaccharineWorld: The fourth film is an overly cheerful animated musical that begins with a trailer of dancing characters... all set to a song about LossOfIdentity as Hikari stands forlornly in the middle, sinking back into depression. Even from the trailer, everyone playable is creeped out and it only gets worse from there. [[spoiler:When entered, it turns out to be a biopic of Hikari herself crossed with her [[PsychologicalTormentZone Palace]], and all the cheerful characters are embodiments of trauma people forcing her to be normal she's suffered.]] In the final floor, [[spoiler:this CrapsaccharineWorld drops off its guise and reveals a disturbing monochrome flowerbed where the flowers have hollow, large and black eyes and were dripping blood from them. This, along with the nature of the FOEs in the labyrinth, represents her view of society being ultimately two-faced: putting up a false face of niceness only to drop it once something doesn't fit in. And to make things even worse, judging from the labyrinth's nature, this is Hikari's '''ACTUAL MINDSET.''' The false belief that her father was rejecting her combined with all of the traumas throughout her childhood has convinced her that [[DespairEventHorizon her life is so awful that she has no reason to live already.]]]]

* CrapsaccharineWorld: The fourth film is an overly cheerful animated musical that begins with a trailer of dancing characters... all set to a song about LossOfIdentity as Hikari stands forlornly in the middle, sinking back into depression. Even from the trailer, everyone playable is creeped out and it only gets worse from there. [[spoiler:When entered, it turns out to be a biopic of Hikari herself crossed with her [[PsychologicalTormentZone Palace]], and all the cheerful characters are embodiments of trauma people forcing her to be normal she's suffered.]] In the final floor, [[spoiler:this CrapsaccharineWorld drops off its guise and reveals a disturbing monochrome flowerbed where the flowers have hollow, large and black eyes and were dripping blood from them. And to make things even worse, judging from the labyrinth's nature, this is Hikari's '''ACTUAL MINDSET.''' The false belief that her father was rejecting her combined with all of the traumas throughout her childhood has convinced her that [[DespairEventHorizon her life is so awful that she has no reason to live already.]]]]

* BaitAndSwitch: The ''Junessic Land'' labyrinth likes to play this; It's the ''entire premise'' of its plot. The movie trailer makes you think that the Carnivores and the BigBad of the movie; In reality, that's the Herbivores who suffocate and mindbreak any of their pack members whose opinions don't match theirs.

** When you reach the depths of the [[spoiler:Theater District for the first time, Enlil]] summons a duo of Shadows to attack you, which are Rain Leg Musha and Wicked turret. In reality, the "Rain Leg Musha" is Hakurou Musha and uses Hakurou Musha's model. [[note]]Rain Leg Musha are blue and wear a straw hat, while Hakurou Musha are white and wear a samurai helmet.[[/note]]

* TheNicknamer: Futaba calls Akihiko "Hikohiko" and Koromaru as just "the doggy."

** The music when the Philemon butterfly is showing Joker the quote comes from ''VideoGame/{{Persona}}'', which is titularly named after the game.

* SequelDifficultyDrop: The game has a lot of AntiFrustrationFeatures that makes it easier than ''Persona Q''. This time, you recover all HP and SP if you return to the central hub. You are free to visit any floor of any movie, whereas in the first game, you could only choose the first or current floor (or, if you completed it, the final floor).
** Similarly, while the first game did avert the usual SMT/Persona rule of [[WeCannotGoOnWithoutYou an instant Game Over]] upon the leader's death, restricting it only to [[HarderThanHard Risky Mode]], [[CantDropTheHero you could not drop whichever protagonist you were playing as]]. In this game, not only is the aversion/Risky Mode clause still in effect, it only applies to Joker, and you can freely drop him from your party at your leisure.
** In the first ''Q'', you could only perform an All-Out Attack if at least 3 party members were in Boost by the final turn, regardless of whether or not you knocked every enemy down. Here, an All-Out Attack triggers as soon as all enemies are down, just like the mainline ''Persona'' games. This makes battles much quicker if you know how to exploit the enemies' weaknesses, and also makes difficult battles far less tedious.
** Requests from Elizabeth are now divided into selectable side missions that take place within already completed labyrinths instead of being a task you complete during the main quest, making them much easier to keep track of. Characters specified for these missions also receive bonus experience, giving you more opportunities to level up party members that you may have neglected and making character management less of a pain.
** Sacrifice Fusions can now bestow experience to main Personas, relieving some effort of LevelGrinding for the game's enormous playable cast.
** This is inverted with the main boss fights, however, which are much harder than those of the first game.
** Rare Shadows are much easier to hit and are far less likely to run away from you unless you take too long.
** Exiting the labyrinth during a special screening does not reset the mission, meaning that you can pick up where you left off if you want to save, change party members, or get some supplies if you get stuck.

** Akihiko, Ken, and Naoto are the only non-''5'' characters to null their main elements when their Personas evolve. Everyone else continues to merely resist them.

** Any high-end Sub-Persona verges on this, as you would expect to complete the game by the time your characters are around level 70, and the only remaining content that may warrant their use is the postgame BonusBoss fight.
* BrutalHonesty: The ''[=P3P=]'' Heroine describes Fuuka's horrible cooking to something that can start a murder investgation right in front of Fuuka.

* MonsterCompendium:
** Persona Compendium, as usual.
** Enepedia: A list of Shadows in game. Carried over from Persona Q.

* BirdsOfAFeather:
** The P3 female protagonist immediately gets Futaba to open up to her by talking about headphones. Futaba also finds herself trying to help Hikari because they're similarly shy around strangers.
** Characters tend to get along with their expy from other teams (such as the three Navigators, Naoto and Akechi, Kanji and Ryuji) and it is through an event that allows them to perform a Unison with each other.
** Surprisingly, this is also true for Yusuke and Yukiko, bonding over their mutual love of art and {{Cloudcuckoolander}} tendencies.

** The postgame BonusBoss challenge involves fighting through the Velvet Attendants. You start off against Caroline and Justine, then Margaret joins the fight as a third combatant. The third combatant you face will be replaced with Theodore and finally Elizabeth as you complete each phase.

** Junpei once again brought up the "Have Pity Ordinance''.

** [[spoiler:As the party prepares to replace each Negative Film in the Depths of the Theater District, the cutscene for each boss reuses a ''PQ2'' rendition of the boss encounter theme from its representative game. Doe is the exception here.]]

* FutureSpandex: Implied with the Female Armor named "Future Tights."

** "Kamoshidaman" casts you, the Phantom Thieves of Hearts as the villain destroying Kamoshidaman's utopia, aside that you didn't do anything other than land on his city.

* BlindIdiotTranslation: When you reach the depths of the [[spoiler:Theater District for the first time, Enlil]] summons a duo of Shadows to attack you, which are Rain Leg Musha and Wicked turret. In reality, the "Rain Leg Musha" is Hakurou Musha and uses Hakurou Musha's model. [[note]]Rain Leg Musha are blue and wear a straw hat, while Hakurou Musha are white and wear a samurai helmet.[[/note]]

* BossRush: A variation, as you face the four end bosses of each dungeon in the form of The Negatives, bosses that lack the gimmicks of the actual bosses.