While the dub is more than good enough – there’s only Chie that I’ve always found particularly annoying – it was a major sticking point when the game released in the West that there wasn’t the ability to revert to Japanese. One of the biggest improvements for fans and newcomers is the inclusion of both the original Japanese voice tracks and the English dub.

While the cutscenes are still fantastically animated, and bring the anime drama full circle, they are at times noticeably lower resolution than everything else, though not to any detriment to the game. The rest of the visuals can’t do a great deal to hide their humble origins Persona 4 Golden is an eight-year-old handheld game, itself a port of a PS2 title, so there’s little surprise that it’s showing its age.ĭespite that, the art style is just about distinct enough to hold up in 2020, and the benefit of the higher resolution is that everything, from the characters and enemies through to the different locations, is sharp and clear, emphasising the detail they hold. The character images during the frequent conversations look absolutely fantastic and help each character to feel like fully realised human beings rather than anime cyphers. What that all amounts to, is that Persona 4 Golden on PC is sharper and more vibrant than you’ve ever seen it before. You can change the rendering scale up to 200%, as well as alter settings for shadow quality, select the level of anisotropic filtering, and choose whether or not to play with anti-aliasing or V-Sync enabled.

With the move to PC there are a bunch of visual options that you can access, with Persona 4 Golden supporting resolutions up to 4K – a huge jump over the Vita’s native 960×544 or the PSTV’s 720p.

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