I'm easy. These few images are enough to make my day. When it comes to Persona 3, just knowing that it might eventually come my way in portable form makes my day. Seeing this cover art and a couple of screens makes the sun shine brighter. My vision seems clearer. Dog sh*t stinks less. McDonald's tastes a bit better. I'm a simple man like that.
Behold the new dual-gender P3P box art, just revealed for Japan (full image in our gallery below). Famitsu got the first look at the cover of the upcoming Atlus RPG, set to release in Japan on November 1st. Looks great, doesn't it? I think Takeba is taking a back seat to the new female protaginist, though. I don't know how I feel about that yet.
In related news, Famitsu is hosting a P3P blog, and a recent entry by the game's character designer, Soejima Shigenori, reveals some great art of the newly updated cast. In his latest blog post, he said he had to fudge around a few times before he came up with a good female lead character. He also noted that the original design for the female character was simply a female version of the male character, same hair and all. In the end, I think Soejima did a great job.
Atlus, hurry up and localize this!
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Then I might play as her. But with all the socializing and romancing, I feel like it'd be kind of weird to play Persona as a girl.
Also, it'd be pretty hot.
For example, Yoko swaps places with Kazushi, so you ultimately date Kazushi and befriend Yoko.
It's not without its holes, but seems like a sensible use of already implemented game play without causing an enormous amount of effort to create all new content.
I'm still going to first day pre-order this sucker the moment it's localized.
I've always believed that Atlus abandoned a female protagonist line in part because they couldn't figure out how to not make her look like a total slut. I'm curious as to how they've remedied that conundrum.
I'll play it original style only.
+ I can date Mitsuru as Minato.
I wanna play as a girl. I think the streamlined system would be better for me too.
Other than that, images and info are all awesomesauce.