Persona 5 Royal is coming to the West. But if you are hyped for the new version you might want to know that there are few changes. One of them involves Ryuji and his issue with gay men trying to win him over. This is how it goes.
“In an interview with GameSpot’s Michael Higham, Sega and Atlus senior project manager and localization expert Yu Namba announced that the English-language release of Persona 5 Royal will include a dialogue change between Ryūji and two gay NPCs.
In the original release of Persona 5, character Ryuji Sakamoto and the main character encounter two gay men in Shinjuku. One is named “Scruffy Romantic” and he evaluates Ryuji’s appearance as “85 out of 100.” His cohort is “Beefy Trendsetter” who tells Ryuji he is the “the naughty troll of Shinjuku” and plans to “eat him up.” Ryuji becomes distressed and asks the player for help. The two NPCs continue to flirt with Ryuji despite his objections. If the player chooses not to help Ryuji, he yells while apparently being taken away by the two men to “party.”
Namba stated in the interview that the localization team felt awkward about the scene and decided to see if they could do something about it for the release of Persona 5 Royal. Namba described the characters’ original depiction as “more like predatory” and the change in Royal reframes the situation so the NPC characters are “very strong enthusiasts for something they are doing.”
Namba explained that the change was no easy feat.
“On our end, it took a lot of effort consulting not just the production department, but talking with our marketing, and how they would feel about it if we changed how things were in Persona 5 to this new way–what would the public reception be, what the company would think, whether it would be okay if we do make the change,” Namba said. “Ultimately for Royal, we did go with it and I think we’re pretty happy with what it is. It’s not a significant change, but I think there’s enough of a change that people who weren’t comfortable going through that part in Persona 5 would feel better this time around.”
Now the question here is will that help people out in the way they think or cause more problem.
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