One of the few Japanese games localized for Western audiences that seems to have been localized correctly is Persona 5 from Atlus. The game has been receiving a lot of positive criticism from most real gamers and a lot of great feedback for bringing the experience to the West without perverting it with ideological nonsense or American localizers attempting to subvert the game with their own personal politics. Well, Kotaku wasn’t too happy about that, and they tried to stir up some hate-bait and controversy by creating needless drama over the game’s localization.
Since its release in 2016, the "Persona 5" series has won numerous game awards around the world and received enthusiastic support from everyone, with cumulative sales of over 10 million units worldwide.
In the world of video games, there’s no genre quite as notoriously difficult to get into as the Turn-Based RPG. Lets review a few RPGs you can play if you’ve tried the biggest and best in turn-based combat and never found it appealing.
Sea of stars while seeming pretty good so far doesn't belong in the top rpg discussion. There's way better ones. I'd tell them to play star ocean 2. One of the best non turn based rpgs ever. It has everything.
And if the list is limited to just turn-based RPGs, I can think of better ones to add to this list. You have the Dragon Quest series, the Trails series…Persona 5 Royale is on the list but why limit it to just that one? P3 and P4 were great as well.
The Legend of Dragoon, Legend of Legaia, or the Shadow Hearts games has decent enjoyable turn based combat system.
The Persona 5 sub-series has surpassed 9 million copies worldwide and now contributes to over 50% of the series' total sales.
Would be plus+1 more if they'd settle the fk down and stop re releasing it. I'm waiting on the definitive one over here
It's ok, I bought 4 to your zero, they don't need your pity purchase. Every version was definitive and has their own perks.
This is a great article, stuff like Nintendo Treehouse 'Americanizing' Japanese games is terrible. I'm not American so I don't know how well received things like this are there but for me I really appreciate Persona 5 and it's straight up translation, nothing gets changed or bastardised for the Western audience other than the voices and the text. I really hate when people change the developers and artists original vision because they believe either a) Western audiences will be offended by it (completely stupid) or b) Western audiences won't understand it.
The people buying Persona 5 are weebs and people that like Japanese games, there is no need to get rid of the 'Japanese-ness' of any game to cater to a Western audience, the 'Japanese-ness' is the main factor many buy these types of games.
Also, doesn't need to be said but, Kotaku needs to die.
Kotaku is such a garbage site. IIRC the person who wrote that article was the same person who defended all the memes and shit like that in FE: Fates too. Some people are too stupid to be allowed to express themselves publicly.
What doesn't Kotaku get flak for? They will sit there and trash everything for clicks or makeup completely nonsensical and baseless rumors about games being canceled if they don't receive an update every week. Not to mention all their crying because they get blacklisted by developers and publishers for leaking information all the time.
Ugh....kotaku was a good gaming site years ago. It has gone to utter shit except for a couple of writers on the staff who, frankly, could do better.
as they should.