Persona - Did You Know Gaming? Feat. Boku No Eruption

[Music] [Applause] did you know persona 2 eternal punishment is actually the third persona game persona 2 innocent sin is the second persona game and originally didn't release in the West concerns arose in an American audience wouldn't understand all of innocent sins contextual references to Japanese culture more controversially many of the games symbolic allusions were thought to be too offensive for Westerners this includes the use of swastikas Nazis and even Adolf Hitler Atlas ultimately decided against localize in the game marketing manager of Atlas USA JL Salamanca told Game Informer the team's reasons for not localizing innocents in I think it pretty much boiled down to resources and manpower since development was well underway on persona 2 eternal punishment having to go back to persona 2 innocents in localization probably wasn't factored into the dev team schedule so we pretty much had to let it go though it wasn't for the lack of bitching and moaning by the US staff eventually a remake of innocent sin made its way to the PSP in 2011 Hitler was renamed Fuhrer and sported dark sunglasses this was done with both Western and Japanese releases as the Japanese rating board has a rule preventing the depiction of real people it speculated that Hitler's appearance was also changed in preparation of an international release curiously the PSP remake of persona 2 eternal punishment was never released overseas despite the fact that it released internationally on the PlayStation these weren't the only games subject to localization changes the infamous port of the first persona game revelations persona on the ps1 was heavily reworked almost all Japanese cultural references were cut currency was changed from the end to dollars and the town's name was changed from Makka get Joe to lunar Ville furthermore the difficulty of the game was toned down with lower enemy encounter rates and increased experience per encounter but due to the localization team not increasing the amount of money dropped per battle the player would be faced with a money shortage all characters were renamed with several of them having their appearance altered most notably the character Misawa Inaba changed race and was renamed mark over the course of the series development several characters were changed persona 3 Fuuka went through a radical with her early designs being carried over to the character Chihiro persona force kanji also went through design changes originally having smarter clothes and dark hair art director chigan nori so Gemma wanted to try mixing music and retro designs something akin to rockabilly fashion this stayed with kanji throughout the design process Naoto went through a more drastic change starting as a bit shown in male who could be mistaken for a girl this was eventually changed yet the ambiguity of nato's gender remained the persona franchise contains a few hidden secrets if you use a cheat device in persona 3 members of the cast will audibly chastise the player these are accessible in game but some content was cut completely in persona 4 there's unused text from the beginning of the game that directly asks the player to avoid spoiling critical moments from the story stating even if you have any clues about the criminals identity please keep them to yourself your clues or theories may deprive others of the fun of discovering the story for themselves besides the truth you find may not be the real truth there's also copious amounts of cut content across the series and the data for persona 3 portable there's an unused cutscene where the player can romance Jun paint the scene was planned to be accessible by using the female protagonist option similarly persona 4 contains files that suggests have removed romance option cut voice lines from Yosuke reveal him saying I like you don't go and even I never knew I had such heat inside the equivalent cut dialogue in Japanese particularly i like you' translates to ona - this phrase is used with romantic affection suggesting that Yosuke was planned to be a romantic partner at some point during the game's development persona three's battle system was also slightly different during development there were no battle transitions enemies just popped up into the world and a battle ensued Chrono Trigger style in addition to this Ken was originally going to use darts as a weapon instead of Spears like in the final game persona contains small nods to other games in the Shin Megami Tensei series in persona 3 there's a fictional MMORPG called innocents in online playing it will merit you the social link of hermit with a character named Maya Maya is the name of one of the main characters in persona to innocence sin as well as the protagonist in the follow-up game persona 2 eternal punishment the protagonist also has the screen name Tatsuya referencing the protagonist of innocents in kanji social link in persona 4 has a reference to persona three's son social linked with a canary kamiki in persona 3 Inari writes a story about a pink alligator and a bird in persona 4 kanji will make a pink stuffed alligator during a social link in reference to the book the town in persona 4 Inaba also serves as many references firstly it can be directly connected to a character from the original persona masa Inaba but a more notable connection relates to a demon who is the mainstay of the Shin Megami Tensei series the Hara veena but although ena bow was modeled after a town near Mount Fuji a common misconception is that Inaba is a play on the word Anaka meaning the countryside the legitimacy of the choice can be cited from chigan ori so jima who states no we didn't pun Inaba from me naka ena bug comes from a story in Japanese myth a white rabbit and Inaba the hare was a rabbit God who fooled various sharks into being used as a bridge to travel from the island of okie to cape Quetta importantly he exclaims how he fooled the Sharks for his own gains and upon the last shark he is attacked this may be foreshadowing to a particular arc involving the mysterious murders throughout the story the persona franchise also references other media persona 4 has a book named witch detective which is described as a plotting Li written romantic comedy about a girl on her first day of school in a new town vampires are involved the content of this book was almost physically painful for you to read the summary is a reference to Stephenie Meyer's Twilight novels also in persona for around January you're able to harvest bugs from the snow in your garden when you interact with your pail to do so someone will chime in saying hold on their sensei it's dangerous to go alone take me referencing The Legend of Zelda a similar reference can be found much later after unlocking the heaven dungeon if you try to return to the void quest dungeon ghost cable-stayed our princess is in another castle dude referencing toads infamous message to Mario in Super Mario Brothers the boss of this dungeon is also a reference to 3d Dot Game Heroes another Atlas title in development at the time persona 4 arena was the first of two PlayStation 3 games to be region-locked the other being a karaoke game called joy sound drive while developing arena developer Arc System Works push to have more non playable characters in the roster at one point producer Toshi Michi mori contacted Atlas if they could develop REO taro Dojima as a playable character they even went as far to request his six-year-old daughter Nanako this request was denied with Mori stating they said like hell no why did you even think that before you go we'd like you to vote on what you would like to see covered in the future a video on Chrono Trigger or a video on the Mario RPGs you can also vote by leaving a comment below and don't forget to subscribe for more facts in trivia and yo it's Austin from the channel boku no eruption and I have a video on my channel on the top 5 things that I want on persona 5 so check that out if you'd like if not will come check out some other stuff and I'll see you around

Channel: DidYouKnowGaming?

Views: 1,602,688

Rating: 4.9321089 out of 5

Keywords: Did You Know Gaming? (Blog), persona, persona facts, persona easter eggs, persona 1, persona 4, Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4 (Video Game), persona 3, Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 (Video Game), persona 2, persona 5, persona ost, persona music, persona q, Role-playing Video Game (Media Genre), Shin Megami Tensei (Video Game), Shin Megami Tensei: Persona (Video Game Series), best rpgs, best jrpgs, top rpgs, top jrpgs, dykgaming, dykg, persona series explained

Id: BNveuWwfJN8

Length: 7min 18sec (438 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 23 2015

Reddit Comments

[u/ValiantNarwhal]

I dunno, this video wasn't that good for someone who is pretty familiar with the series, but I also think its a good way of getting people interested in the series, which can't hurt.

[u/_Final_Phoenix_]

It for more obscure as it went on. Definitely didn't know how Inaba got its name, I was still thinking it was that pun this video deconfirmed. Thankfully nothing cringy like " PERSONA IS A SPINOFF OF SMT".

If I didn't already spend so much time on the smt wiki, I'd have learned more... But people tend not to spend hours on game wikis anyway

[u/smtsj]

discord is now bull e in comments

[u/ScipioF]

Not making Dojima playable was a grave mistake Atlus.

[u/Darkpoulay]

Most of the facts were already widely known, but don't forget that it's not really aimed towards us, but mostly all of the people interested in video games. Overall the video was okay.

[u/[deleted]]

Still better than Adam "persona 4 is hard, even on beginner" Sessler

[u/DMthePerson]

I was expecting to hear RJC's intro with that clip of velvet room music in the beginning.

[u/salenth]

I did not know there was recorded dialogue chastising cheaters. So I learned something

[u/Cumstack]

So much crust it hurts... Okay you know what here's a good fact.

Did you know? Yukino Mayuzumi from persona 1 shares many similarities to former actress Junko Mihara. However according to lead artist Kaneko she was actually based of the Japanese model Ryo.

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