In the English P3, Persona 2 is an MMO. In the Japanese, it's SMT 1 as the MMO. I think Devil Summoner Raidou is a tokusatsu series in P3-4 though. Still, I didn't like that touch :z

It's been awhile since I've played Persona 4, but if I remember correctly, the shadow selves are acknowledged as personality flaws. The characters acknowledge that they and their shadows are two sides of the same coin, but they don't actively pursue their shadow's desires. Chie doesn't want to dominate Yukiko,…

That'd be really cool! I'd love to see a city the size of P1-P2's rendered in P3-P4 style.

Humm. It's not like you can date Yosuke, and Kanji is all but paired up with Naoto by the end, restoring the 'normality' that is his heterosexuality.

P2 was almost cyberpunk in places. This doesn't give the same sorta vibe. But a metropolis is fine by me!

Persona 2 Innocent Sin and Eternal Punishment swap the roles of protagonist and supporting love interest between the two games. IS has you play as male Tatsuya with female Maya as the love interest, EP has you play as Maya with Tatsuya as the love interest. It's neat.

WELP!

(soejima yes, but no, not from p5 as far as i know).

Most of the stories are self contained. The two Persona 2 games are connected, but they can be played separately without losing *too* much. P1-P2 take place in the same continuity, but I think P3-P4 are in a different universe?

This would be wonderful but I don't have faith in Atlus to actually follow through with it. I reckon the most we'll get is suggestive comments here and there to appease yaoi fans without breaking status quo :(

Ys 5's soundtrack had a few standout tracks, but on the whole was pretty lacklustre.

Looks great, but I'm kinda sad to see all the new Ys games follow Ys Seven formula. It was a good game, but party-battles and loot-gathering isn't why I play Ys.

I get ya. I've seen some video game zines that include large screenshots etc, but they're photocopied and sold for a couple of bucks. I think as long as you're not asking for large sums of money up front like this guy, it's probably not that big an issue.

If he was making a print zine and selling it at zine fests or independent bookshops, he'd probably get away with it. But once you start attempting to crowdfund 27k gbp, it's a whole different story.

Nice idea on paper, but the reality is that this isn't entirely kosher.

There's always this bastion of reality

I'm fairly certain Sa Zi Ri was composed by Shinobu Ogawa and Nobuhito Koise. If so, they also did the soundtracks for the PC versions of Exile/XZR and the Valis series.

Sugoiiii! I thought my friend and I were the only western people who played this one. I miss Telenet so much. Such an amazingly bizarre back-catalogue. Thanks for this.

I think one thing that's worth examining is *why* there are so many violent video games that feature strip clubs in which you are allowed you to kill sex workers.

And people wonder why games aren't widely recognized as a valid art form.

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