Following the success of Persona 5 Royal, Atlus made a reasonably big announcement again in October 2022. For the primary time ever, players would have the ability to expertise remastered variations of Persona 3 Transportable and Persona 4 Golden on Xbox and Nintendo consoles.
As somebody who simply acquired into the collection himself, due to Persona 5 Royal on Recreation Move, I used to be tremendous excited to listen to this information. Not solely are Persona 3 Transportable and Persona 4 Golden complimented as two of one of the best JRPGs of all time, however the truth that you’ll be able to romance nearly anybody and everybody made the relationship simmer in me leap for pleasure.
But, whereas I actually love Persona 4 Golden’s endearing characters and gripping detective narrative up to now, there’s one minor gripe I’ve. I completely can’t stand the tv reporter.
I do know, I do know, it’s a very odd and small factor to complain about, and the character is fairly insignificant, however I simply can’t get it off my thoughts. You see, nearly each time a big plot level has occurred up to now within the sport, gamers are given a tv report that offers them an concept of the problems their about to should face within the close to future.
Whereas that is all nicely and good as a means of teasing what’s to come back, one of many reporters that’s liable for getting the information out is totally dreadful. Each time he’s been on the display screen up to now, he’s finished one thing to make me go, “good lord, that wasn’t very skilled.”
The primary occasion of this happens when he interviews an eyewitness that discovered the physique in a homicide case. Within the report, the particular person they’re interviewing is clearly Saki Konishi, however we solely be taught that after the interview, as a voice scrambler is added and she or he’s solely known as a pupil.
So when the reporter goes up for the interview, logically talking, we, because the participant, suppose, oh, okay, he’s going to ask some questions to provide us all a bit perception into the homicide and what Saki’s function in issues are; tease us a bit concerning what her function goes to be in all of this.
As a substitute, what follows is likely one of the most uncomfortable homicide interviews I’ve ever seen (and I’ve seen a bunch of Netflix homicide documentaries). “What went by your thoughts while you noticed it? Might you inform she was useless? Did you see her face,” he says giddily, prodding for a sizzling scoop.
He then says, “Don’t ya suppose it’s scary that somebody was killed on a foggy day?,” in a weirdly enthusiastic means. Saki is noticeably uncomfortable all through the entire interview.
At first, I simply chalked this as much as an odd phase that wouldn’t have any significance. However then, as soon as the second physique is discovered, the reporter steps up his sport from oddly excited a couple of homicide to a creepy dude complimenting a teenage woman, Yukiko.
My first thought upon listening to his voice as soon as once more was, “time for some exposition.” That was till I noticed the station failed to fireside the nitwit after the primary incident, leading to an interview that’s one way or the other even worse than the primary time round.
The reporter goes to the inn the place Yukiko works and the place the second sufferer was staying. He bum-rushes her with a bizarre query about being the supervisor regardless of nonetheless being in highschool, then follows up by speaking about her kimono.
“You’re wanting attractive in that kimono. You need to have had a variety of male guests.” Yukiko appears to be like visibly uncomfortable, and it says that the reporter rambles on additional off-topic earlier than Nanako will get bored and adjustments the channel.
Since I’m nonetheless early within the sport, these are the one two cases I’ve seen of the reporter up to now, however my god, do I need to shove my hand into the display screen and punch him. Fortunately, every little thing else concerning the sport has been phenomenal up to now, as I’ve already come to care about characters like Teddy and Yosuke, regardless of having simply met them.
It appears to be like like Xbox and Nintendo followers don’t have something to fret about when it comes to this port, as every little thing I’ve performed up to now factors to a different nice JRPG. For extra specifics on what you’ll be able to count on, you should definitely take a look at our latest evaluate of Persona 4 Golden’s PC port, which we gave an ideal 5/5, due to its well-written characters, tales, and bumping soundtrack.