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Personally I'm holding out to see if they mess up the music (I saw a video with a version of Your Affection which was absolutely atrocious, they turned the breezy J-pop song into a techno track, and I'm hoping that is not going to be the summer town music cause I can't stand it). The P4 soundtrack is really good (the singer's ability to pronounce English aside), and if they screw that up it's probably gonna be a no from me. The other major concern I have is whether they rewrite story beats for culture war reasons (Kanji and Naoto are likely victims there), which I doubt they will do but is always a possibility in this day and age.
I think there is some rewriting for modern western cw reasons going on. That's the rumor. It's gonna suck.
The soundtracks have always been great. But I happen to think that turning the engrish into correct english would actually worsen the whole thing and homogenize it while taking some of the focus away from pure melody/vibe (which they (used to) excel at) and onto words. They made some completely new tracks for the P3 remake. They weren't bad at all, but they clearly broke with the old style.
When P5 came out, some American players were complaining about a lack of "localization". I think that if Atlus keeps adapting the series to the Western market, they'll ruin it. My suspicion is that we've already seen the best of the creative genius behind the series and it's downhill from here even though P6 (coming in a year or so) will probably make a lot of money for them.
With the new "darker theme" they supposedly have gone for with P6, and given how almost the same ground has been covered 3 times now, this would have been a good time to create a university age game.
Man... I just found out last night that there is a P4R version of Heartbreak, Heartbreak that people have pulled off their promo stream. It's so awful compared to the original. No idea what the heck Atlus is doing rewriting music to have a completely different feel. I think I might pass on this one, or at most try it out on game pass. The music in P4 is top tier, and what this remake is doing to it is a crime.
RIP "heartbeak, hearbake, you make me goomba" or whatever the hell it was. Gibberish ftw. With rewritten, intelligible lyrics sung by a Westerner I'm forced to pay attention to how bad they are.
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