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INTEREST: Persona 5 Royal's Western Release Changes Gay Characters' Depiction

This is one of the few times, I'm alright with a change being made. I honestly hated that scene in the game. If anything I think Persona 4 was a step in the right direction, with Kanji and Naoto.

It's nice they're changing it, but hopefully the Persona series in general moves away from gags like this.

Doubt it. These guys had to fight tooth and nail to even be allowed to change the dialog for the western version. The Japanese side loves this style of comedy and won't be changing it anytime soon I imagine. These jokes are always funny and I'm glad they're still allowed to do them.

I'm glad they're still allowed to do them.

Thank god, to be honest. But changes in localization are only one thing, I think it would be more meaningful if Atlus stopped making these awkward, cringe jokes in the first place.

I'm against this. Don't rewrite the scene, let the entire world know Atlus, its writers and artists are all homophobic piece of shits instead. Or remove it. Going halfway is terrible.

Atlus, its writers and artists are all homophobic piece of shits

Disappointing, but not surprising as we see more and more examples of stuff like this. All the more reason to encourage other people to learn Japanese. It's very useful and something all anime fans should try to do. It opens up so many new worlds to you if you don't have to rely on translations, whether official or unofficial.

Mr. Dent wrote:

Thank god, to be honest. But changes in localization are only one thing, I think it would be more meaningful if Atlus stopped making these awkward, cringe jokes in the first place.

Don't be mistaken. Atlus themselves do not care one bit, or at least the Persona developers don't. They're not the ones trying to make amends for anything. This is entirely on the western localizers trying to change things to appease western critics. As someone who imported and played The Royal last year, this version features far more content that westerners are going to find objectionable, I guarantee it. For example, if people took issue with how the game handled the sexualization of characters like Anne, they're going to explode when they see the new stuff they added in such as spoiler[ the new fanservice scenes with Cognitive Shiho.in Kamoshida's Palace]

I never understood the point of censorship, especially in this day and age when information is so easily accessible and you can't hide anything from being public knowledge. I mean, if it's to appease the ESRB and get a game on store shelves that's one thing and I understand the logic behind it. But in cases like this you know the scene in question is about two men trying to sexually assault Ryuji no matter what the English version ends up saying. The fact there's articles on this everywhere is going to make sure everyone knows that scene is about two men sexually assault Ryuji. There's zero possibility of people not knowing the truth of the scene at this stage, so if you still buy this game you're purposely putting money in the pockets of the people who wrote those jokes you dislike so they can go on to make more games with more content you dislike so it just seems odd, if not hypocritical. I'm genuinely curious what people who are in favor of these changes think.