Atlus has recently confirmed that the highly anticipated Persona 5, one of the upcoming AAA titles, is still very much on to make some big bang before 2015 ends.
This news that could definitely put fans who are looking out for Persona 5 release at some ease surfaced via NeoGAF forums where an Atlus PR has confirmed that the next main entry to Persona franchise is coming this year, Design & Trend reports.
In a thread at the said forum site intended to a in-depth interview regarding Persona localization, the company representative is quoted saying:
"Pretty much this. Also, this interview was done back during E3 - first day, I think. Still on track for 2015."
Additionally, Atlus senior manager Yu Namba shared some details on developing Persona 5 as well as the challenges that the dev team has to get through in terms of Persona 5 plot and its characters including delicate elements found in the game.
In a reported interview with Siliconera, Atlus executive stated that the game welcomes the idea of including gay characters that becomes a part he referred to 'character development'. Fans can recall that in the predecessor title, Persona 4, one of the characters, Kanji, had dealt with his sexual identity issues and sought public's acceptance of being homosexual.
"I can't speak for the game's reception in Japan since I don't have a direct line of feedback to that audience. However, looking past the story of 'Persona 4,' Kanji's choice of words, actions, and you know, him leaning toward the player's direction... they focus on character development.
Let's say in 'Persona Q,' you know Teddie jokes about Kanji a whole lot, but at the same time, Kanji related to Ken from 'Persona 3,' showing a big brother side of him. It's not just making fun of him in that regard, there's more there that makes the character deeper. I think that that's a great thing that the development team at Atlus has done with the existing characters."
Namba has also talked localization plans to inject Japanese culture to North American players into Persona 5 and mentioned of the difficulties such as the slow process of English translation of the game soundtrack called, 'True Story'.
"The task was twofold: first of all, we needed to have the lyrics that worked with the moving lip flap, and then we had to work with a voice actress to actually sing the song. It was tough, I spent a lot of time working on that, but I was very content with the end product."
Persona 5 is developed by P Studios and published by Atlus set for release as an exclusive title for PS4, PS3 and PS Vita consoles before end of 2015.
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