While Persona 4 Revival has yet to be announced for Nintendo Switch 2 by Atlus and SEGA it is expected to come at some point. Today, more information has been revealed about the eagerly-awaited game to make it more palatable for the current era. Persona Team General Producer Kazuhisa Wada said that they will be making changes to Yosuke saying that, “He’s a little bit insensitive in terms of how he treats outsiders sometimes. So we wanted to lighten that up and make it a little bit more fitting for the world we live in now.” Persona 4 Revival launches on multiple formats 18th February, 2027.
Persona 4 Revival producer says there will be changes to Yosuke
I won’t buy it
HAHAHAHA THE CHUDS LOST LMAOOO
Expected, since Yosuke’s commentaries about the girls and Kanji wouldn’t jive with “modern audiences”.
Still it’s a stupid thing, just like when Netflix removed Sokka’s sexism in the TLA live-action series, because said sexism (and, in Yosuke’s case, slight homophobia) were character flaws that needed to be overcome. By removing such things, they made the characters way less interesting.
He never does “overcome it” though, it’s treated like a running gag not a character arc.
The things chuds will say to excuse blatant homophobia smh, good riddance.
I don’t need to “get over” anything chud, we won lmaooo.
And we’ll keep winning until bigotry is out of video games forever 😘
Keep losing chud lmaoooo
Fall further into irrelevency 🫵😂
The things corporate chodes will bend over backwards for to defend censorship.
Idk, Sokka’s sexism was actually challenged by the narrative in Avatar, and he grew because of it. Yosuke’s homophobia doesn’t get challenged like at all in p4’s narrative – all it really does is reinforce how much his character is set in the 2000’s, which you know looking at it in that way, it makes sense to change it for modern audiences.
i’m worried about you if you need sexism and homophobia to be interesting.
jokes aside
i don’t mind them removing the sexism from sokka, makes him more likable faster (wich netflix needed) and avoids awkward, exaggerated traits that don’t translate well from cartoon to live-action
aang is also less childish vs the cartoon because those things don’t translate the same in to live action.
Nice to see the MNN comment section discourse is as mature and intelligent as ever.
That aside, this news doesn’t surprise me much. People have been complaining about some of the stuff Youske says in the originals for years.
It also wouldn’t surprise me if characters like Hanako were removed from the remake entirely, for obvious reasons.
I don’t think so. I kinda remember the director talking about Hanako being his favorite character, hence why she never gets her comeuppance in the story, and not even Golden changed that.
Atlus has a massive double standard regarding female characters doing antics for years. I bet the infamous Amagi Inn sequence will be transplanted 1:1. Or P5 having Kawakami as a romance option with all the values dissonance it entails.
Hanako is literally in the trailer 😭
Persona 4 Golden exists and is readily available for a more authentic experience of the original. That gives room for the remake to make changes as they see fit. Everything should be on the table.
I never liked Yosuke for lots of reasons – I don’t necessarily want them to make him super likeable because I feel like him being an insecure loser is kind of the point, but if I don’t groan every time I see his face I will see that as an improvement.
Of course, if done ham-handedly, you will lose the beauty of Persona 4 along the way. But if done well, the game will feel like a great interpretation of the classic and we can safely ignore the people who will compare each individual word the cast speaks to the original and leave them to do what they do.
ChatGPT ahhh comment 😭
UK studios already destroyed games no more Conker.. because since they banned free speech in the 80’s they slowly conditioned everyone to be offended by everything.
People are such fragile snowflakes today srlsly.
I’ll play the ps2 original again thanks
Oh dear, the person pretending to be multiple different people is here again.
And he still thinks he’s being subtle about it, oh dear.
In this day of easily offended sissies, we have decided to tone down Yosuke’s personality to not offend the adult babies of this new overreacting society.
It’s the “modern audiences” all over again.
Wasn’t even that interested on P4R anyway, though it casts a shadow over how they’ll make P6 to resonate with “modern audiences” too. My sole hope is mainline SMT; at least you’ll end up killing most people by the end of it.
Although the main question is: why is this even being announced here at all, since P4R isn’t Switch or Switch 2 bound. Slow day much? In that case, people should talk about Tokon being blocked in 132 countries or Sony deciding to end physical media (which, by the way, slightly affects gaming more as a whole instead of a remake that’s not even coming to Nintendo consoles right now).
Maybe Youske will actually be tolerable now. Probably not, but maybe.
Shame Yukiko still exists though, worst character in the entire franchise.
I think you miswrote “Yukari”, dude. Though it’s understandable, their names start with “YUK”. Compared to the bullshit Yukari pulls during the main game and ESPECIALLY The Answer, Yukiko is a saint.
Nah, Yukari actually has a character beyond “acting aloof” and “obnoxious laughing”, unlike Yukiko.
Yukiko is the worst character in the entire franchise, bar none. She’s as deep as a puddle and annoying beyond belief.
Nice censorship there, ATLUS. Let’s pretend this game from 2008 is now happening in 2027.
I never understood why these companies are so adamant on trying to bring in an audience that not only doesn’t exist but also won’t be there to buy their games. Stop catering to the modern audience, they will never buy and/or play the game, they didn’t even do that with other games catering to the modern audience like DAV or Mixtape.
Aaaaand the comments are garbage again. Great….
SEGA is so brutally raped. I’ve stopped supporting them since 2022 and am more vindicated with each passing release. They wonder why their games are dwindling in sales with each subsequent release, but then strip every interesting aspect of them.
except Atlus is making this decision and they’re bigger than ever, but continue seething I guess.
Most people might complain about changes, but they will still buy it since they have a sweet spot for the series, maybe not a launch but sooner or later.
Either way the game should still be true to the “facing yourself” theme.
Nope. Not getting it. I will stick with original uncensored version that offends alphabet weirdos.
But why not… both.
You’ll have your OG version that tickles that nostalgia and is reminiscent of the unchanging world, the one that is safe because time has stopped there and refused to move. Then there is the new one which challenges that, brings in new clichés and shows how Altus has changed as a company.
Atlas has got worse as a company if they are self censoring. I refuse to buy anymore from them.
That’s usually the immediate thought, that Altus, a company you trusted has ended up disappointing you. It’s not the same as it used to be, and they won’t ever be the same. A political reason being what’s in the way of you buying any game from them. Games that are supposed to be fun and not heavily political. The intellectual properties and the characters in them are not to blame because of the pressure the companies face. Your favorite characters though changed are still in their core the same character. It’s like how friends change when the years go by, becoming calmer and less aggressive about a lot of things, yet their core is still the same.