Persona 4 Golden

Persona 4 Golden
Developer(s)	Atlus
Publisher(s)	Atlus Limited Run Games (HD physical)
Genre	RPG
Platform(s)	PlayStation Vita Steam PlayStation 4 Nintendo Switch Xbox One Xbox Series X/S
Release	PlayStation Vita Japan June 14, 2012 February 5, 2015 PS Vita Best Edition United States of America November 20, 2012 Australia February 21, 2013 Europe February 22, 2013 South Korea August 24, 2012 Steam WWWorldwide June 13, 2020 PS4, NSW, XONE, XBSX WWWorldwide January 19, 2023

Persona 4 Golden is an enhanced edition of the 2008 role-playing game Persona 4, the fifth entry in the Persona series. The "Golden" in the title comes from the three hour long period known as golden time in Japanese broadcasting and is meant to evoke the image of a late night TV program being moved to a timeslot within golden time to attract new viewers. It was developed and published by Atlus for the PlayStation Vita and released on June 14, 2012 in Japan, and subsequently on November 20 in North America that same year. In South Korea, the game released on August 24, 2012. In Australia and Europe, the game released on February 21 and 22 in 2013, respectively. On February 5, 2015, it was re-released in Japan with a price reduced PS Vita Best edition. On June 13, 2020, Persona 4 Golden was re-released worldwide for Steam. Three years later, on January 19, 2023, the game saw another worldwide release for the PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.

Blurb

Japanese

“マヨナカテレビ”って知ってる?田舎町で起こった連続殺人事件と、時を同じくして流れる奇妙な噂。 ふとしたきっかけで「心の力」ペルソナ能力に目覚めた主人公。 事件の解決に乗り出した、少年少女たちの冒険が始まる!

"Mayonaka terebi" tte shitteru? Inakamachi de okotta renzoku satsujin jiken to, toki wo onajiku shite nagareru kimyōna uwasa. Futoshita kikkake de kokoro no chikara Perusona nōryoku ni mezameta shujinkō. Jiken no kaiketsu ni noridashita, shōnenshōjotachi no bōken ga hajimaru!

この町に発生した連続殺人事件をきっかけに、主人公とその友人たちが成長してゆく物語が始まります。

Kono machi ni hassei shita renzoku satsujin jiken wo kikkake ni, shujinkō to sono yūjintachi ga seichō shite yuku monogatari ga hajimarimasu.

午前0時、マヨナカテレビに誰かが映る。 "マヨナカテレビ"って知ってる？雨の夜に消えたテレビの画面を見つめていると、運命の相手が見えるんだって。 田舎町で起こった連続殺人事件と、時を同じくして流れる奇妙な噂。そして、未来を閉ざすかのように町を覆う原因不明の霧。 主人公と仲間たちは、正体不明の殺人犯の謎を追ううちに異世界への扉を開いてしまうことになる。 その扉の鍵とは、心の力… もう一人の自分。“ペルソナ”─。

Gozen reiji, mayonaka terebi ni dareka ga utsuru. "Mayonaka terebi" tte shitteru? Ame no yoru ni kieta terebi no gamen wo mitsumete iru to, unmei no aite ga mierundatte. Inakamachi de okotta renzoku satsujin jiken to, toki wo onajiku shite nagareru kimyōna uwasa. Soshite, mirai wo tozasu ka no yō ni machi wo ōu gen'in fumei no kiri. Shujinkō to nakamatachi wa, shōtai fumei no satsujinhan no nazo wo ou uchi ni isekai he no tobira wo aite shimau koto ni naru. Sono tobira no kagi to wa, kokoro no chikara... mōhitori no jibun. "Perusona"─.

English

A rumor is going around school that by looking at a TV screen at midnight on a rainy night, the face of your soul mate will be revealed. But a grisly chain of murders seem to be connected to the rumor, and you must gather a team strong enough to brave the bizarre world inside the TV to solve this mystery!

Inaba—a quiet town in rural Japan sets the scene for budding adolescence in 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. Explore meeting kindred spirits, feelings of belonging, and even confronting the darker sides of one’s self.

They say your soulmate will appear if you stare into a television set on a rainy night… This strange rumor slowly spreads through the rural town of Inaba, the protagonist’s new home, just as a chain of mysterious murders begin. As the protagonist and his teammates chase after the truth, they find themselves opening the door to another world.

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Gameplay Changes

The gameplay of Persona 4 Golden maintains the same gameplay loop as Persona 4, but with new and expanded activities to choose from, and new story events that depict the protagonist and his friend's lives.

Narrative

• New story scenes and animated cutscenes
• The month of January and part of February are now playable and include snowy weather, a new overworld bgm, and midwinter outfits
• New epilogue that takes place months after the true ending
• New bad ending if the player refuses to name the culprit
• New character: Marie. Her involvement depends on the player interacting with her through her Social Link.

Social Links

• New Social Links: Aeon and Jester
• Added new evening hangouts in the Central Shopping District that allow the player to gain Social Link points with school friends
• After summer, party members can be invited on scooter rides where they can learn a new skill or re-learn an old skill
• Fortunes can be drawn at Tatsuhime Shrine starting at rank 1 of the Hermit Social Link (down from rank 10)
• The Justice and Hierophant Social Links can now be maxed out in January/February if the player is unable to complete them by November

Real World and Daily Life

• Added new Books
• Reading during bad weather gives bonus Social Stats
• The protagonist can now go explore Inaba at night time, either by sneaking out when Dojima is not home or signing up for a part-time job that occurs at night
• Tanaka's Amazing Commodities now airs three days per week
• Shiroku Store turns into Shiroku Pub at night where the protagonist can work part-time and trade jewels for equipment
  • Items previously obtained by trading fish can now be obtained at Shiroku Pub
• An Artisan Apprentice appears at Yasogami High School and can trade old weapons for new weapons
• New locations: Okina (previously unplayable) and Shichiri Beach
• Failing while Cooking no longer makes fishing bait
• Fishing has been overhauled:
  • Unlocking fishing has changed and is no longer a numbered quest
  • Fish bait has been replaced by insects which can be caught at Tatsuhime Shrine without passing time
  • The fishing mini-game has changed
  • New fish and joke weapons can be fished up at Shichiri Beach
• School class and exam questions have been changed
• Added Gardening at the Dojima Residence and a new NPC who sells seeds
• Added new quests related to the new features and areas

TV World and Battles

• New dungeon: Hollow Forest
• New All-Out Attack portraits have been added and old portraits are now used for Follow-Up Attacks
• If Shadows are alive after an All-Out Attack, there is a chance for two party members to do a special combo attack
• After unlocking Scooters, party members who are not in the active party might ask to do a Follow-Up
• Rise can join in during All-Out Attacks and increase how much damage they do
• Added 3rd Personas for all party members with a unique skill for each of them
• Party members skills have been adjusted
• EXP to level has been reduced
• Shuffle Time mechanics have been simplified
• Skill Cards have been added
• New Personas of the Aeon and Jester Arcanas
• When fusing Personas, the player can now select which skills to inherit
• The Reaper can now be fought on the player's first play through
• Shadow Mitsuo's battle music has changed to a chiptune remix of "I'll Face Myself" called "Revelations: Mitsuo"
• Clothing items have been added that affect how characters look in the TV World dungeons and in battle

Game Functionality

• Added the TV Listing with bonus content
• Added in network functionality:
  • Voice lets the player see what other players did on that calendar day
  • SOS helps with HP and SP regen in dungeons
• Two new difficulty levels: Very Easy and Very Hard
• New Game+ now carries over data like what equipment has been unlocked at Daidara Metalworks
• Starting with the player's first New Game+, they can change the difficulty at any time from the menu, and also further customize damage taken, damage done, EXP gain, Yen drops, and retries

Difficulty Modes

Mode	Damage done by Shadows	Damage done to Shadows	EXP gained	Money gained	Dungeon Retries?
Very Easy	x0.50	x2.0	x3.0	x5.0	Allowed
Easy	x0.50	x2.0	x1.0	x1.0	Allowed
Normal	x1.0	x1.0	x1.0	x1.0	Allowed
Hard	x1.6	x0.8	x1.0	x1.0	Allowed
Very Hard	x1.6	x0.8	x0.4	x0.4	Not allowed

Development

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• Very Easy Mode was added so that new players who were introduced to Persona 4 through Persona 4 The Animation could play despite not being familiar with RPGs while Very Hard was added for veteran players.
• Costume ideas included a Shadow version for each character that would turn their eyes yellow and police officer uniforms. The developers felt that neither was particularly interesting and both concepts were scrapped.
• One of the scrapped ideas for the TV Listing was a program called "Complicated Inabas" where Aigis and Mitsuru Kirijo would be shown visiting Inaba and complaining about how little there is to do. This was a parody of the TV Tokyo show "Complicated Summers 2" where two comedians from the group called Summers and a TV Tokyo host would visit small areas and interview the locals. Though a lot of time was spent on it, the program was ultimately dropped because it was not very fun.
• Katsura Hashino wrote the new June story event, "Operation Up Close and Personal", where the protagonist, Yosuke, and Kanji try to pick up girls in Okina.

Version Differences

2012 English Version

• Did not include Japanese audio.
• Channel 5 was removed from the TV Listing and channels 6-9 were renumbered so they became 5-8.

2020 Steam Version

• TV Listing:
  • Similar to the English version, channel 5 was removed entirely from all languages and channels 6-9 were renumbered so they became 5-8.
  • The programs on channels 1 and 8 were removed and they now say "Broadcast has ended".
• Added dual audio support.
• Added Korean and Traditional Chinese language options for the game's UI.
• References to the real world products Ototo and Potelong were changed to Suisui Snack and Furaimo Potato. The Japanese audio lines where the names are spoken were also removed and these lines no longer have voice acting.

2023 Remastered

• The protagonist's name defaults to Yu Narukami when changing languages.
• Added more language options for the game's UI (French, Italian, Spanish, German, and Simplified Chinese).
• The option to change difficulty at any time and customize the difficulty is now available from the start instead of New Game+.
• Added the Social Link Album to rewatch previously unlocked rank up cutscenes.
• Added the ability to make Quick Saves from any location in the game without using the butterfly save point.

Nomenclature

Names in Other Languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	ペルソナ4 ザ・ゴールデン	Persona 4 The Golden
Simplified Chinese	女神异闻录４ 黄金版	Alternate Goddess Tale 4 Gold Version
Traditional Chinese	女神異聞錄４ 黃金版	Alternate Goddess Tale 4 Gold Version
Korean	페르소나4 더 골든	Persona 4 The Golden

Gallery

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External Links

• Old Website (Japanese)
• New Website (Japanese)