Persona 4 Golden review

Persona 4 Golden

A coming of age story that sets the protagonist and his friends on a journey kickstarted by a chain of serial murders.

Artwork from Persona 4 Golden, which is now on PC.

Most roleplaying games span continents, planets, even galaxies. Persona 4 Golden – the first of Atlus’s celebrated RPGs to make a belated landfall on PC – is set almost entirely inside a single town. It’s not even a very memorable town: neither a wistful Chosen One Village nor a bustling world hub, but a wilting suburb done up in Google Map shades of tarmac and drizzle, full of collapsing businesses, bitter old people and bored children.

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