Ruining characters for "muh modern audience" in a game about facing your shadow self is certainty a choice.
Not to mention, Persona 4 doesn't take place in the 2020s. At this point, they might as well change all the flip phones in game to smart phones.
I'll never understand why changes like this are necessary at all. Last time I checked, 99.9% of the FANS who played original release of Persona 4 liked Yosuke just the way he was.
Him being insensitive was PART of his character. It was his flaw. What made so many people, including myself, resonate with the characters of Persona 4 was that they felt like real-life teenagers. Growing up, I knew people who just acted like every character in the main cast.
This developer said they made these changes to Yosuke to better fit in the world we live in today, but what does that even mean? There's still hundreds, thousands, possibly millions of people who act exactly like Yosuke today, just as it was 20 years ago. This is not something that "ages poorly". This a natural trait among teenage boys that made Yosuke relatable.
Why be ashamed of that now? Who exactly are you trying to please when you make decisions like this? How faithful can this game really be to the original if you don't even have enough *faith* to leave the character that you created, and everyone loved, exactly the way he was?
None of these characters should've been touched. After hearing this, my interest in Persona 4 Revival is now starting to disappear.
They need to stop with their attempts to appeal to the "modern audience". Changing dialogue for a game that's set in 2011.
I can only imagine the shitstorm that is gonna come when Naoto's VA is announced.
@hourunclock I just want you to know life will never get better for someone like you. The anti depressants arent the issue. Your brain is just that broken.
Please have some respect, dont subject others to your thoughts.
If the KIDS Act H.R. 7757 passes, here is what we are going to get.
> Mandatory age checks for online access
> Government-mandated content safety policies
> Perpetual monitoring of online speech
> Potential censorship of lawful speech
> Restrictions on "addictive" online content
> "Harmful" content is heavily moderated
This is going to lead to a mass chilling effect, not just on controversial "speech" and opinions, but also on lawful adult content. It will lead to data breaches, mass doxxing, and various other privacy issues as well.
Even if it does pass, it won't meaningfully stop minors and kids from accessing content they are not supposed to access, as most are smart enough to find workarounds for it... then...
...this could potentially pave the way towards harsher restrictions on internet privacy, such as outlawing VPNs and encrypted transmission of data.
>New Fans Join the Community because its popular now
>They hate everything about the community they joined
>They want to force everything to change for them
Why are people like this?
The US Government just voted to kill the internet and start building infrastructure to roll out Chinese style digital ID and it’s not even trending on X.
Persona is one of many Japanese series that have attracted a subset of Western "fans" that don't actually seem to like anything about it beyond a surface level.
They don't care about faithful translations, they want censorship that suits their fragile sensibilities, & are somehow under the delusion that they actually love Japanese media while having no respect for the people & culture that create it.
Japanese creators need to realize caring about "global appeal" is a mistake & simply create as they see fit without caving to this type of nonsense.
Japanese media is appealing in part due to its differences, not in spite of them.