The footage, a showreel similar to the one showcasing
footage of Persona 3 Reload that leaked prior to its announcement, features three sections of the game—field, battle, and event scenes built around 2D illustrations.
Persona 2: Innocent Sin protagonist Tatsuya Suou appears in the battle section of the footage. However, since he does not appear in
Revelations: Persona, he may be a stand-in for another character. It’s also possible that remakes of
Persona 2: Innocent Sin and / or
Persona 2: Eternal Punishment are simultaneously in development.
Other things worth noting are the constant appearance of Unreal Engine debut text in the upper-left corner of the screen and the fact that Eriko Kirishima appears to use the same Persona summon animation as Yukiko Amagi in
Persona 4 Revival, lending the footage further credibility.
As for the source of the footage, it was originally posted to
YouTube by a user named “P1REMAKE”
today at 2:25 a.m. PT / 5:25 a.m. ET. As of press time, the YouTube video remains accessible, but copies have also been hosted on file-sharing websites such as
Gofile and
Catbox, and shared in communities like
r/GamingLeaksAndRumours. The YouTube account was created in March 2010 and has only ever posted two other videos, though its username was likely changed to “P1REMAKE” around the time the footage was posted.