#Persona 5 royal new character series

Whereas the original dialogue had them accosting a mortified Ryuji, '>playing up to a homophobic stereotype of predatory gay men preying on highschoolers in a seedy part of town, the context of this scene has changed entirely.įor starters, ‘Scruffy Romantic’ and ‘Beefy Trendsetter’ actually have names, Angel and Julian (or Julie), and the comedy of the scene is now played more at Ryuji’s expense rather than them.

One of the biggest localization changes is from the two gay characters you first encounter when you visit Shinjuku for the first time. This is incidentally set according to your PS4’s language settings rather than an option you toggle in the game’s config screen.

#Persona 5 royal new character series

It should be noted that I’ve been playing Persona 5 Royal with Japanese audio (dual audio is available by default this time whereas you had to download free DLC in the first game at launch) so I’ve also noticed when characters utter that frequently used phrase “仕方がない / Shikata ga nai”, it’s not simply translated literally as “it can’t be helped”.Įven better news for European audiences is that Persona 5 Royal is the first title in the series to support French, Italian, German and Spanish text and subtitles. Just check out the below excerpt from Morgana early on in the game, originally translated as “It means they’re holding nothing back and are serious to kill us”. But with Persona 5 Royal, it seems the localization team at Atlus USA have had the time to give the original translation another pass, even re-recording voice lines where necessary. The original Persona 5 had some glaring and stilted localization issues, no doubt as a result of a rush to translate the dialogue-heavy game in time for the Western release just six months later.