Persona games and spin-offs, name a more iconic duo.
Chinese giant Perfect World announced earlier today a new mobile game Code Name: X, which with its soundtrack and art style and pretty much everything suggested it was a Persona 5 game, without actually coming out and saying it.
Which was weird, and led some initial viewers to think it was simply a rip-off, but Perfect World, perhaps aware of this, did later confirm with Niko Partners’ Daniel Ahmad that, yeah, it’s a Persona 5 game.
As of now, it’s only coming to China.
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I don’t care how they write it in catalogs, if they keep using that art, I’m calling it Codexnames.
Which is completely fair given gamings track records with Namco x Capcom, Cross x Edge and various other cross over games.