Not familiar with Negima series at all :heh:

Neither am I, but just ask any Negima fan how much they love Shaft for making that movie for them, heh :p

Well, only whose who do nothing do without mistakes :)

I still think P3's atmosphere fits Shaft style.

While i agree that the story probably won't fit a movie, however you guys are very much overestimating the scale of P3's story.
Besides tartaros (which isn't even plot relevant , because technically you don't have to climb it untill the end of the game but you will be underleveld for the shadows), the story mostly consists of the "events" (i rather call them character interactions with the SEES members) prior and after the fights with the shadow and that was mosty irrelvant untill the plot actually started when

I think you are being too concerned with relevance in the game and are forgetting the fact that the entire point of SEES when the MC joined up was to find out what was going on and at the start the goal was to explore all of Tartarus. It was only after the Full Moon events and everything started coming out into the open that the tower faded a bit in importance.

I have to agree with others who have said the game has too much required story to fit into a movie format. Even cutting out social links and "grinding" as a lot of people are putting it, the story would still be at least 10-15 hours, it did spread across almost a full year time wise.

Now I'm wondering how they did with the P4 movie. Was it rushed, did it rely too much on people having watched the series, that kind of thing.

Or was it just an hour long recap followed by 30 minutes of new content?

Heck P4 was shorter by about 5 weeks and they couldn't fit it in the 26 episode format despite cutting so much.

Let's remember some important events that should've be put in the story:

Of course this is under impression that all arcana bosses will be dealt by less than 5 minutes screentime. They might be able to squeeze all of it, but I don't think it will make a good movie. Of course, if they retcon a couple of bits about the story (like not having to kill all 12 arcana bosses, combining some important part of events to a single event) and still lead up to a coherent plot with the game ending...well, it's good enough for me :heh:

Do you think this will have a chance to be more than one movie? Perhaps a trilogy or something?

If its not a single movie then its the best news I can get for P3.

I thought p3 was shorter because

maybe they will pull out something like Unlimited Blade Works of Fate/stay night. the Unlimited Blade Works route is longer than Fate route, yet Fate route got adapted into a TV Series while Unlimited Blade Works got adapted into a 100 min movie

I don't think the length was what they were considering when they make their decision :heh: Simply put there's a reason why the 'Fate' route is the first route.

I'm personally expect its would be a lot like UBW movie, embrace yourself.

You're still allowed to grind/do social links during this time, and that month is actually filled with minor story events where the party gains resolve, etc.

P3 would probably be easier to fit into 2 cours because yes, there ARE less individual story events than P4, but a movie...? Nah.

If its going to be a ubw style. Then be prepared for sudden change of settings and don't even bother to ask for explanation. It's only wtf :heh: :heh: :heh:

Well maybe they expect the one who will be watching already played the game or watched p4 animation.

Bah, I wanna get into more detail about how movie length is IMO perfect for P3, but it's like major MAJOR spoiler material that's not appropriate even under spoiler tags... but regardless of what other people think, I'm very happy with the news. :heh:

this will be rushed.

I wonder if we'll finally have an official name for the MC
hopefully, it will be a 2 part movie so that The Answer arc will be included

Indeed, but like UBW this will be aimed at people who have already played the source material.. so as long as some scenes are animated and well done than I can't really complain....

Also must keep Operation Babe Hunt.

I'm pretty sure it'll be included since, it's how they met Aigis :D