Nirasawa mentions writing a demon summoning program on a handheld computer by scratch and being able to fit a Cerberus on a single disk, a reference to Akemi Nakajima who wrote his own program, stored demons on floppy disks, and had Cerberus as his demon ally.The Nether-realm in the quest parallels the Expanse from if.The quest shares the same setting as Shin Megami Tensei: if.: Karukozaka High School.Persona Thief makes a number of references to older games in the series:.In this quest, it is confirmed that the stories are not canon, as evidenced by the end, where the cast break the fourth wall, referring to the player and the small audience playing the game, to enjoy the game to make Nameless happy. The third quest takes place in Karukozaka High School. Hermelin High School but no cast members from the first Persona make a physical appearance except for Yukino if the player has her in their party.

School of the Heart takes place within St. The first two quests are actually two parts of one story. Thus, to gain ranks in the localized versions, players must repeat any one of the three quests. In the Japanese release, players may make and share quests but in all other releases this function was taken out of the game. It contains three official quests made by Atlus: School of the Heart (Part 1), School of the Heart (Part 2), and Persona Thief. Motoko Mitsugi serves as a guide in the theater menu and is the only NPC to appear within the theater itself. The Climax Theater provides various side quests written by various different Atlus writers whose canonical quality is questionable.

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