Atlus to Remake Persona 2Hopefully this means a P4:PSP is in the cards too :D
Innocent Sin hitting Japan this winter.
By Kevin Gifford, 10/27/2010
Atlus announced plans in this week's Famitsu magazine to remake Persona 2: Innocent Sin, a PlayStation RPG originally released in 1999 that still enjoys a cult following among series fans. The PSP-based remake will hit Japanese stores sometime this winter, with a soundtrack CD available for customers who preorder the game.
Innocent Sin, set a few years after the original Persona (the PSP remake of which came out last year in America), once again features teams of high-school students teaming up with mystical demons to fight against evil. This time, the city of Sumaru's been cursed by a strange spell that makes any rumor reality if enough people believe in it -- your job is to tour around the city and keep things safe.
The new Innocent Sin will not be vastly different from the PlayStation original. Most of the updates mentioned in Famitsu are incremental in nature, including remade demon graphics and character portraits, a revised and streamlined battle interface, and a new opening movie produced by anime studio Satellite. "I think a lot of people have an image in their minds that Atlus games are hard, and this game will probably not change that much, admittedly," director Shoji Meguro told the magazine. "Nonetheless, I'm positive that it controls better and is overall easier to follow than before. You can change the game's difficulty at any point you like, and it's really easy to get into the story even if you haven't played the original. There are other new features, too, which I can't talk about yet, so stay tuned for more updates!"
Innocent Sin is actually the first of a two-game set that together tell the whole story of Persona 2. Atlus USA at the time only released the second game, Eternal Punishment, revising the plot extensively to change the setting from Japan to the US -- a fan translation released a couple years back stuck truer to the original. "We had debated remaking Eternal Punishment at the same time as this," Meguro commented, "but it just wasn't possible to get both games onto one UMD. We also thought both games would come out quicker if we released them in order instead of developing them simultaneously. Right now, Eternal Punishment is a total blank slate, but personally, I am absolutely raring to make it."
No word on a US release for this remake yet.
Hopefully this means a P4:PSP is in the cards too :D
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't they already working an P4P?Maybe, I don't pay attention much to the JP gaming news anymore :(
It would be very interesting to see this come out in the states. I mean, we'd get to fight HITLER! Well, if they don't replace him in the remake with some new villain, of course. :VSeconded, though I wouldn't be surprised if they did change it.
Is P1P any good? I finished P3P a while ago, and now I'm curious.The game didn't age well. And unfortunately the remake doesn't help :\
The game didn't age well. And unfortunately the remake doesn't help :
He was referring to the "remake". <_<And I am too derphead. I said the remake doesn't really fix the fact the game didn't age well at all =P
And yet people loved them, so people have to be doing something right. I have both Devil Survivor and Strange Journey, and while both can be tricky, if you know what you're doing you shouldn't have too much trouble.Yeah but you have to think from a marketing perspective Persona is a niche game, and the other SMT games even moreso. Plus returns on PSP sales are dismal at best (rampant piracy and low install base compared to DS). 3DS isn't even out yet, and the hardware doesn't seem to be a significant upgrade from the DS. So realistically if they will report (which I doubt), it wouldn't happen until the PSP2 at the earliest.
Persona is the "easy" series. Games like Devil Survivor and Nocturne are just stupid hard.Hmmm...Nocturne I'll give you, but Devil Survivor was actually pretty simple. Definitely had a couple classic screw you moments (Wendigo and Beldr come to mind), but I found it simpler than even P3.
Hmmm...Nocturne I'll give you, but Devil Survivor was actually pretty simple. Definitely had a couple classic screw you moments (Wendigo and Beldr come to mind), but I found it simpler than even P3.Yeah Persona really is a more wide-appeal approach to the whole SMT franchise compared to the more traditional SMT games. And even then P1/P2 got remade mostly because of the fantastic branding to the Persona name Persona 3/4 built.
Of course, as far as games in general are concerned, even DS was pretty tough and aimed at a specific crowd, so I guess you've got a point.
Digital Devil Saga isn't that bad. At first...
Have the Opening Video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkQUnth9vV4)I like the Power Ranger-ish masks in the video. As for the rest, it's just as trippy as Persona 3 Portable's new opening. I like it.
I like the Power Ranger-ish masks in the video.
Hmmm...Nocturne I'll give you, but Devil Survivor was actually pretty simple. Definitely had a couple classic screw you moments (Wendigo and Beldr come to mind), but I found it simpler than even P3.
Of course, as far as games in general are concerned, even DS was pretty tough and aimed at a specific crowd, so I guess you've got a point.