Neon Genesis Evangelion's Ikuto Yamashita (the guy who designs all those kickass mechs) apparently gave Persona's director the push he needed when pursuing a new fantasy world in Metaphor: ReFantazio.
Speaking to Polygon, Katsura Hashino, director and producer of the Persona series, touched on the team's early struggles when developing an all-new fantasy setting. Persona and the Shin Megami Tensei series brilliantly inject supernatural ongoings into our everyday modern worlds, but Hashino "didn't really know much about fantasy" and thus had to ask for some world-class help.
