Persona 4 Revival, the long-rumored remake of the fourth entry in the series by ATLUS, has been announced today for PC and consoles.
The remake was revealed with a new short teaser trailer shown during this year’s Xbox Games Showcase, which provided a quick look at the town of Inaba where the game takes place and at the main character, Yu Narukami. Unfortunately, not a lot has been shown in the trailer, but the usage of the Persona 4 Golden combat theme Time to Make History may suggest the remake will be based upon this version of the game, and not the PlayStation 2 original release. A release window has also not been confirmed, so we do not know when the game will launch.
Though the teaser trailer revealed very little about the game, we know that Persona 4 Revival will feature a brand-new voice cast, as in the past few days, multiple voice actors who played some of the game’s protagonists confirmed they wouldn’t be back in the remake.
Persona 4 Revival will launch on a yet-to-be-confirmed release date on PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, and Xbox Series S worldwide. If you have never played the original game, you can learn more about it by checking Kai’s hands-on with the Steam release, which launched a few years back.
Coming in at a size of 13.63GB, this PC port of Persona 4 Golden offers remastered visuals that go above and beyond what the PlayStation Vita could output on its 544p display. The majority of the improvements are in the unlockable framerate and character models themselves. From what I could tell, the still images for dialogue and menus remain the same from the PlayStation Vita release with only some antialiasing touch ups to make them look better on full HD displays. The environmental textures and signage are cleaned up but so have a fuzzy and muddied look compared to how much the character models stand out. Cutscene videos also seem to suffer a bit of compression. Persona 4 Golden might not be the prettiest JRPG to grace PC’s in 2020 but the style and presentation still hold up more than a decade after original release.
