When you're not tapping your foot to its funky battle music, you're staring at big, visual novel-style text boxes and character portraits. The character models still look every bit as gorgeous as they did in 2012, only now they're in lovely 4K. With the police at a loss, it's up to you and your friends to try and solve these murders taking place around your hometown and catch the killer. There's a serial killer on the loose on Persona 4 Golden, you see, and he seems to be luring his victims to a parallel universe called the Midnight Channel that *checks notes* exists inside your TV. During the day, you go to school with your mates to boost your stats and strengthen your bonds with those around you, while at night you go and hit those aforementioned dungeons to try and rescue people who have gone missing around the town. In case you're unfamiliar with the Persona series, this is a JRPG series that's part dungeon crawler, part social sim. Manage cookie settingsįortunately, it gets the big things right. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. The PC version brings with it some welcome additions, such as support for higher resolutions and a 16:9 aspect ratio, but others such as its uncapped frame rate are more problematic.

This is a pretty basic port of the PlayStation Vita version from 2012, which itself is a port of the 2008 PS2 original, and it looks and feels every bit like it was made eight years ago.

This is a series I've been busting to play on PC for absolutely yonks, and I've been putting the PC port of Persona 4 Golden through its paces to see how it holds up.īefore we get too excited, though, I do have to be a bit of a party pooper.

Announced just moments ago at the PC Gaming Show as part of this year's notE3 celebrations, this is the first time a Persona game has been released on something that doesn't have the word PlayStation written on it, which is pretty darn exciting if you ask me.

Persona 4 Golden has finally been summoned onto PC.

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