Deja Review: Persona 4 Golden
This is a Deja Review, a quick look at the new features and relative agelessness of remade, revived and re-released games. Try explaining Persona 4 to a friend sometime – it’s not easy. Any explanation inevitably begins with: “Well, it’s about Japanese high schoolers who fight demons in an alternative dimension that can be accessed through a TV.” And it only gets crazier from there.
Back in 2008 though, it was Persona 4’s slightly insane premise and its unique format – the story follows a high schooler from April to December as he tries to keep up with his studies, make friends, and solve supernatural murders – that helped it stand out against the drab backdrop of the declining Japanese game industry. It’s no less charming on the PlayStation Vita, where it benefits from redrawn high-definition art and some very interesting online functionality. Then, as now, it stands among the best Japanese-developed RPGs of the past decade.
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