The Bonkurasu Brigade

I have a cold and a test tomorrow, but this comes first!
I’ll try to keep up as much as possible, but for now, here’s the first post from the Persona 3 Portable Creator’s Blog.
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Hi,

It may be sudden, but have you seen this week’s Famitsu?
Doesn’t it sound like shady rumor material?

No gravure here (But of course),
This is the scoop on Persona 3, the PSP port!

Title screen images. We have a shujinkou-ko!

With that said, I’m Hashino of Atlus, in-charge of the development team.
We’ve made SMT3~Persona 3, 4 to date with this team.
Looking forward to your support.

From today onwards, I get to use this space to bother the other members of the development team.
Updates may be irregular, but I’ll bring you the insider information(!?) on P3P
For everyone who wants to play a portable version of Persona 3, please stay tuned!

On a light and energetic console like the PSP, we hope to bring the amusement of Persona 3 to a greater number of game fans. With this hope in mind, the development team of P3 and P4 are putting their all into this port!

Even with that said, it isn’t just an ordinary port, everyone.
Many, and various things are happening (Or should I say, have happened!?)

In P3P, as director, and along with the team who made P3 together and love P3, we put a lot of heart into this.

The fruit of everyone’s hard work, with content nearing completion, which would make you think “Ah, but you all really put too much enthusiasm into this!” (It’s really near completion, all that remains is the mastering!!)

In the hopes that this will become a classic RPG to be associated with the PSP platform,
I’ll put my anticipation into this, and continue the reporting.

Hm, it was a lot of work (Or rather, we’re in the midst of a whole lot of work)
We thought the conversion from PS2 to PSP would be smooth, but we were so wrong…
Keeping things the same -> but porting it to a portable console, meant we had to change some of the gameplay aspects, but to have such a large-scale change…
Plus an additional mode which was included on a whim but now takes up a huge part of the game.
It’s the start of a hell and a path of no return.

From the director’s view, the development team’s work is nearing completion.
As to how well it was made… I wonder! (Nah, I think it’s really well done.)

To players who feel like playing P3 again after a long time, and to players who have played the PS2 version before, the PSP port has content which you’ll probably enjoy playing through once again.
Do check the updates here from now on, too!

To end off, here are videos of the console (development/debug work in progress).
(Videos can be streamed from the blog page)

Kuma is debugging too

Playing through portable P3 with ease-.
Check back for news here again!

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The videos have some pretty funky new music, so grab your headphones!

I thought they would want to remake P2 for the PSP first. Probably too much trouble?

Preorders for P3P are open at Amazon.jp here
The official site opens on the 24th of August.

Now, time to get my copy of Famitsu…