Persona Coming to PSP This Fall

02/24/2009 Written by Adam Wolfe

Written by Adam

After all the great PSP news today what else could there possibly be? Well, there is word today that the remake of the PS1 Persona will be hitting your PSP sometime this fall.

Atlus will be handling this remake, and from all the changes mentioned this will definitely be more of a remake then a port. Here is a list of all the updates they will be making:

New animated movies done by studio Kamikaze Douga.
Rearranged soundtrack done by Shin Megami Tensei composer Shoji Meguro. Yumi Kawamura who sang in Persona 3 will do vocal tracks for Persona.
Supports 16:9 widescreen mode with a new user interface.
Additional dungeon floors have been added to the Sebek Chapter (main story) and Snow Queen Chapter. Watch out for new elements and tricky gimmicks.
Rebalanced gameplay with a tweaked encounter rate.
Considered to be more “user friendly” since players can pick the level of difficulty.
Battle loading times are 2/3rds faster compared to the original. During enemy encounters animations can be skipped. Sounds similar to Persona 2: Eternal Punishment.
Extra save points are added as well as a quick save feature.
A revised city map with a top down view and highlighted landmarks. The original Persona had a simple 3D over world map similar to Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne.

There is no word yet on whether or not this will be coming to Europe, but keep on checking back for more details.

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Rictor says:
02/24/2009 at 8:26 PM
ummmm…I’m excited and all (that it’s actually coming to the US) but umm…. Can’t I just download PSone games from the PSN. Seriously, Sony. You’ve already put way better PSone games on the Japanese PSN, and we just keep getting shafted with these UMD PSone ports.
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MakaiOokami says:
02/25/2009 at 3:38 AM
That’s not Sony’s call. They can only help or bribe companies to do it. They can’t do it themselves unless they own the title and rights to said game.
Plus even though there is a demand for it, the few games they inject don’t get enough sales to be profitable so companies decided not to waste resources on it.
Remember any PS1 game has to work on PSP and PS3.
Plus for an American release title the company that bought the distrobution rights still have them so Sony would have to split the money with them and everything. It all just becomes horribly convoluted and stuff.
Me personally I want to buy upgraded PSP versions of games with better graphics, tweaking, soundtrack remixes, etc… for these kinds of games, then hook them up to my HD t.v. and play them that way via a cable. That’s me though.
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