All of the art - still shots of the characters during dialog, background textures, and character model textures - has been polished. Those details come through much better in this surprising new release, as well. Golden may be a little kludgy in the details around the game compared to later releases, but the story and play themselves do so many things right that it’s hard to care. This is a theme that continued throughout my time with the game. Persona 5 has a key betrayal too, but there’s never a chance to flub your investigation, or side with the traitor, both options that make Persona 4 more interesting. There’s also a heart-rending moment when those stakes become very real. You do have to suss the killer out on your own, and you can get it wrong. The story’s strength comes from unraveling its central mystery. Life in small-town Inaba may not be like bustling Tokyo, where 5 is set, but I think this helped bolster the narrative and keep an admittedly surreal story safely on the rails. For every quality of life point I could award to Persona 5, Golden won me over with a stranger tale that felt like it had much higher stakes. I preferred being able to capture a persona during Shuffle Time over having to negotiate ambiguous dialog prompts with a knocked down Shadow, a feature even the improved Persona 5 Royal still wasn’t able to correct. The procedural dungeons weren’t always compelling, but the combat clicked for me after Persona 5.
Inaba’s characters are endearing, and Golden’s pacing gave them all time to win my heart.
One murder becomes two, and your character and his new friends soon discover a strange world inside the town’s television sets.
#PERSONA 4 GOLDEN STEAM TV#
The story of the protagonist’s trip to sleepy, rural Inaba is immediately shrouded in mystery, after a body is discovered hanging from a TV antennas. By the time we’d returned home a week later, I’d practically inhaled more than 40 hours of Golden, the nasty cold giving me the perfect opportunity to savor its long mystery.Īnd Golden lived up to the hype, even with the flashier sequel still fresh in my mind.
I started feeling really sick the morning of our flight there, and ended up spending a good portion of the trip holed up in a separate guest bedroom to avoid infecting everyone else over Christmas. After I had diligently played everything I could to help judge Game of the Year in 2017, an upcoming holiday trip to my boyfriend’s family’s home seemed like the perfect moment to dive into Persona 4 Golden. I should know, the Vita is how I first experienced this game. Finally, everyone who wants to do so can try one of the best Persona games. The personalities of this game are larger than life, and deserve to fill up a bigger screen than a Vita handheld. It’s a direct port of the original game there’s no new story, dungeons or characters. Not many fans were going to buy a defunct handheld to play a single game.īut Persona 4 Golden on Steam captures all that magic for me.
#PERSONA 4 GOLDEN STEAM PORTABLE#
The problem was that Persona 4 Golden was also locked away on the PlayStation Vita, a portable that, at best, has become a fun way to play indie games, but never managed to rival any handheld system produced by Nintendo, and isn’t exactly easy to track down now unless you want to go to the secondary market. It certainly was mine, but after writing a glowing essay for Polygon’s 2017 Game of the Year list, I was told by Persona fans I knew (and in the our comments) that in fact Persona 4 Golden - the definitive version of Persona 4 released in 2012 - was still superior in many ways. The flashy JRPGs ooze pizzazz, from their wildly dressed heroes, to slick menus and reimagined takes on the former games’ repetitive dungeons.Īnd Persona 5 was the first entry into Persona’s deep world for many people. In the Persona franchise pantheon, Persona 5 and Persona 5 Royal became the measure of progress in the Persona pantheon. There’s usually a sequel, re-imagining, or spiritual successor that has finessed the controls, updated the style, or overhauled the whole package for modern quality-of-life standards. It’s often hard to recommend older games these days.
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