Pause Menus Shouldn't Be This Good

Oh god, he's back on the menu design, someone call ATLUS and see if there are any survivors in their UI department

What’s on the menu tonight, Alax? Menus? Ah, good.

7:39 Are we just gonna ignore the fact that he named his character "Shrek 2 DVD"?

Joker in p5 menu: I’m smashing the corrupt constructs of society! Makoto in p3r menu: “help me, I am under de water”

7:13 "he even kills himself, so relatable."

My boyfriend convinced me to play P3R, and every damn time I see the UI it blows me away. It’s fuckin wild

Now it's my turn to sound like I'm smart, specifically for P3P: You've played the original P3, and you've gotten so used to the ever present tint of blue that, at times, you completely forget about it. Then, later on, you're getting ready to play P3P, but as you start up you see something... new. Something different. A choice. A force convinces you to select the new option, whether it be curiosity, preference, or hunger for a new experience. Either way, the game starts, and all of the menus are just as you remember them... except that the blue you've grown so accustomed to has vanished. In its place, all of the menus, from the calendar to the battles, have been dyed a gentle pink. For you see, like the menus, the game itself remains virtually unchanged. However, the pink reminds you that playing through the game as FeMC presents an important change that shall follow you throughout the whole game.

"Persona is one of my favourites" "I haven't finished Persona 3 yet" Every Persona fan, amazing

1:44 Still more than most fans

1:44 confirmed not a real persona fan

Those UI are so good that I used it a lot of times in school art projects

You’ll end up making this type of video every time a persona game comes out lol

“Continue, restart, exit.” - Siddhartha Gautama (525 BCE)

Mother 3 changes the music to really calm when you open the pause screen. The most serious moment just happens and you open up the menu screen to hear elevator music. This is hilarious

Your enthusiasm is contagious bro could talk about shoes and I'd be excited

Another thing about P4's UI, notice how the battle screen has a rounded black border resembling a TV set when irs a characters turn. This both ties into the TV world itself and one of the games central themes of "people only see what they want to see."

"Joker and his property damage" lmao

His voice when he said "A BLUE CLUE" sounded so much like Josh from the show. It's uncanny.

The world ends with you and Neo: the world ends with you have some of my favorite Ui and music ever, along side Persona

One game with pause menus that I really enjoy is Astral Chain, because of how diegetic it is. You are not freezing the game in its tracks to look up information about the game or make adjustments, it's the protagonist checking their own mobile device for the items they're carrying, information about the current case that they've been cataloguing, the state of maintenance and upgrades of their legions. The protagonist doesn't even leave the screen during the pause, the camera just moves until they are on the left corner and the menu is visible to the player. It also helps that the save menu is separate from the pause menu, contextualized as a PC at NEURON HQ, where it makes sense to make a more complete report of the current events and keep all that information saved. Those things really help keep you immersed in the game, since you're not broken out of the game setting when you need to pause