Persona 3 Reload's menu goes hard, and one game develo🦂per thinks he's figured out why.

Atlus just put out Persona 3 Reload, the long-a𒁏waited remake, last week on February 2, and UI elements like the game's pause menu are going down a storm. Senior UX designer Alex Tokmakchiev has looked to a past Persona interview (translated by ), to figure out why Persona 3 Reload's UI features look so good.

"In Japan, UI design is often handled by new employees," Persona 5 director Katsura Hashino said at the time. "Top level designers are usually in charge of characters and background graphics, with the U﷽I being secondary. I think that’s a mistake. That’s why At𝓡lus' UI designers are paid so well," the senior developer continued.

Hashino alludes to Atlus putting its UI designer♍s in better positions than its Japanese counterparts, and so as a result, Atlus games have more stylized and impactful UI elements like menus. The Atlus developer also adds, elsewhere in the interview, that UI elements are very important in a game like Persona, where a lot of time is spent interacting with menus.

Tokmakch🅺iev believes a lot of UI and UX designers in Western game development are "vastly underpaid compared to others," hinting at this being why Western-made games don't quite have the same standard of UI as games like the Persona series. In all fairness, comparing any game's UI elements to that of the Persona series is like fi🍷ghting a losing battle.

Persona 3 Reload ဣis Atlus🔯's biggest-ever Steam game launch, which goes to show how well the wider game is going down with audiences both new and old, not jus🦂t the UI🐓 features. 

However, Persona 3 Reload has seemingly quashed a long-standing fan theory surrounding none other than Ryuji Sakamoto.