TY  - JOUR
A1  - Cromwell, Jennifer
ED  - Ambühl, Annemarie
ED  - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo
ED  - Rollinger, Christian
ED  - Walde, Christine
T1  - From Pyramids to Obscure Gods
BT  - The Creation of an Egyptian World in Persona 5
JF  - thersites 14
N2  - Within Persona 5’s modern Tokyo setting, imagined worlds are created that represent the cognitive processes of various characters. These ‘palaces’ allow the player to explore locations far removed from the game’s real-world, contemporary backdrop. One episode creates an ancient Egyptian world. This article examines how this world has been produced and the different transmedial tropes and other influences that its developers have drawn upon. Many references are recognisable to a broad audience (pyramids, gods, hieroglyphs), while others reflect Japanese pop-cultural trends (in various manga and anime), including the mention of an obscure Egyptian god, Medjed. The intentionally fictitious nature of these ‘palaces’ means that the Egypt that appears in this game is not bound by the need to replicate an ‘accurate’ landscape. Instead, the developers were free to design a gamescape that combines multiple and diverse receptions of ancient Egypt.
KW  - Egypt
KW  - videogames
KW  - Persona 5
KW  - pyramids
KW  - gods
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol14.199
SN  - 2364-7612
VL  - 2022
IS  - 14
SP  - 1
EP  - 40
ER  -