

It's even got the same weird Velvet Room where your Persona powers are manipulated.

The game unfolds in a strict calendar format, each day full of choice: dungeon crawling, shopping, socialising, and more. You form bonds with your fellow schoolmates - the jock, the pretty one, the feisty one - who each discover the powers of their own Persona in a parallel world contained within technology (here a TV, in P5 a mobile phone). You play as a young man who moves to a new school in a new area of mysterious happenings.

It's not beyond criticism from fresh eyes in fact, this is an opportunity to reflect on the past and appreciate how far representation in games has come.Īs with other games in the series, P4G follows the same dungeon-crawling JRPG and social simulation structure for a formulaic experience. But after the success of Persona 5, this release of P4G is bringing the game to a new (more global) audience. After all, it's a product of its time and of its culture. It may seem unfair to critique a Japanese game from over a decade ago for having outdated views. This isn't a fine red wine, but a bottle of sparkling that's gone flat. Yet with its outdated stereotypes and dialogue filled with misogyny and homophobia, P4G has not aged well. Persona Series - Announce Trailer | Xbox Game Pass, Xbox Series X|S, PS4, PS5, PC, Nintendo Switch Watch on YouTubeįirst released in 2008 and followed by the Golden version on PS Vita in 2012, this launch is something of a retro re-release.
