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Persona 2: Innocent Sin Translation at 98%

I was shocked to check the Persona 2: Innocent Sin translation blog yesterday and find that the progress of the project jumped from 90.5% to 98%.
This is a happy day indeed for Western gamers. The end is in sight, and we owe it all to Gemini. If you plan on downloading the ROM [...]

Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure Coming to Nintendo DS

Nippon Ichi Software has announced to the gaming world that they will be releasing Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure (マール王国の人形姫 天使が奏でる愛のうた) for the Nintendo DS in Japan on August 7th. The game was first released in 1998 for the Playstation game console, and then again (in Japan only) as a special edition a year later.

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Shin Megami Tensei Persona 2: Innocent Sin Translation on the Way

As many die-hard Atlus fans know all to well, Persona 2: Innocent Sin will most likely never be making its way to the West. In Japan Persona 2: Innocent Sin was released prior to Persona 2: Eternal Punishment, and while the stories were different, they still had many cohesive elements which created one great [...]

Shin Megami Tensei: Persona Be Your True Mind Manga

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I guess the first Persona game is old news these days, but I was still excited to find the complete 7 volume manga set at Book Off for 500 yen (around 5 dollars). The art is quite good for being an afterthought spawned from [...]

Revelations: Persona Coming to the PSP in English

Some sources out there are indicating that Revelations: Persona will be coming out for PSP. No clear date is given yet, or any details whatsoever, only word that Atlus is releasing a title for the PSP called “Persona”. I have already written an entry concerning the game’s localization for the Playstation. Hopefully, [...]

Know Your Video Game History: Persona

Persona 3’s immense success has convinced Atlus to release it in it’s entirety in America. This means no changes were made to any major elements of the game.  The Persona series however, has not always been treated so kindly during the transition from Japanese to English:
Revelations: Persona (女神異聞録ペルソナ)
Whoever was in charge of the localization of [...]