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		<title>Awesome Persona 3 Portable PV, news and more</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sentinel011</dc:creator>
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With Persona 3 Portable (henceforth known as P3P) release 3-4 days back, here&#8217;s a blog entry with hilarious translation of the game&#8217;s promotional video. 
Click on the picture for the site link! 
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<p>With Persona 3 Portable (henceforth known as P3P) release 3-4 days back, here&#8217;s a blog entry with hilarious translation of the game&#8217;s promotional video. </p>
<p>Click on the picture for the site link! </p>
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		<title>Persona 3 Portable – Creator’s Blog Part 5 (Susukida Mumon)</title>
		<link>http://bonkurasu.animeblogger.net/2009/10/persona-3-portable-%e2%80%93-creator%e2%80%99s-blog-part-5-susukida-mumon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:32:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ume</dc:creator>
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Part 5 of Famitsu&#8217;s P3P Creator&#8217;s Blog series. This entry features Susukida, who designed the event scenarios in P3.
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Hi.
Susukida, in charge of the direction of Persona 3 Portable here. 
Till now, I have been working alongside Hashino and Soejima in Persona 3 and 4, designing event scenes, adding bits here and there to pace the [...]]]></description>
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<p>Part 5 of Famitsu&#8217;s P3P Creator&#8217;s Blog series. This entry features Susukida, who designed the event scenarios in P3.</p>
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<p>Hi.</p>
<p>Susukida, in charge of the direction of Persona 3 Portable here. </p>
<p>Till now, I have been working alongside Hashino and Soejima in Persona 3 and 4, designing event scenes, adding bits here and there to pace the story, but this time I will be working with the game system director Kido on the system layout and graphic design!</p>
<p><span id="more-3863"></span></p>
<p>And here, I will talk about an aspect of Persona 3 Portable which has significantly changed the gameplay, the event scenes. </p>
<p>I believe there are readers who have seen magazine coverages and visited the home page, but in this port of Persona 3, the daily map (Aside from the dungeon, in town and in school) and events will be taking place as 2D character based scenarios. This is to improve the loading speeds and make gameplay a more efficient experience. </p>
<p>In events, character portraits will be displayed to the left and right of the screen, and conversations will take place between these two characters. There will be more variations and expressions in character portraits than those in the PS2 version. </p>
<p><a href="http://bonkurasu.animeblogger.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/s111_JTNH4KA3O85DtF5GV7yOwEEoQv4P9Eph.jpg"><img src="http://bonkurasu.animeblogger.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/s111_JTNH4KA3O85DtF5GV7yOwEEoQv4P9Eph.jpg" alt="s111_JTNH4KA3O85DtF5GV7yOwEEoQv4P9Eph" title="s111_JTNH4KA3O85DtF5GV7yOwEEoQv4P9Eph" width="399" height="226" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3866" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://bonkurasu.animeblogger.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/s112_lUy8HRj262ABN36n55q3FKdpQTlOBBMv.jpg"><img src="http://bonkurasu.animeblogger.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/s112_lUy8HRj262ABN36n55q3FKdpQTlOBBMv.jpg" alt="s112_lUy8HRj262ABN36n55q3FKdpQTlOBBMv" title="s112_lUy8HRj262ABN36n55q3FKdpQTlOBBMv" width="399" height="226" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3867" /></a></p>
<p>Also, it is possible to fast-forward (Skip) scenarios. In your second playthrough, you can skip scenarios you have already read. </p>
<p>In the day map, focus has been placed on the speed at which movement can be made.<br />
If we kept to the same movement system as the PS2 version, where one had to walk about the map, loading speeds will be slower and movement will be sluggish. </p>
<p>That is where we changed the day map backgrounds to 2D, and you move your characters over this 2D map&#8230; Which greatly shortens the load time and is better suited for portable-console gameplay.</p>
<p>In addition, the well-received shortcut button in Persona 4 is implemented, and makes movement more convenient and enjoyable.</p>
<p>To make it even faster, I would recommend  a &#8220;Data Install&#8221;. Upon selection of the &#8220;Data Install&#8221; option on the title screen, a part of the game data will be installed on the memory stick.<br />
Elements such as events and the day map and other aspects can be loaded without placing stress on the console, so please do try it out!<br />
(The data install option is not needed on the 「PSP-GO」, so please do look out.)</p>
<p>Now that I&#8217;ve covered quite a few of the changes, I will introduce some of the new character accessories/equipment and omake screen captures. </p>
<p><a href="http://bonkurasu.animeblogger.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/s113_XMoMRILQ6s3121qQd1WlkKS9klyx5S7r.jpg"><img src="http://bonkurasu.animeblogger.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/s113_XMoMRILQ6s3121qQd1WlkKS9klyx5S7r.jpg" alt="s113_XMoMRILQ6s3121qQd1WlkKS9klyx5S7r" title="s113_XMoMRILQ6s3121qQd1WlkKS9klyx5S7r" width="400" height="400" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3871" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://bonkurasu.animeblogger.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/s114_MOh9V5hxCi822LF8xa4W2tvFAzT2Yv7u.jpg"><img src="http://bonkurasu.animeblogger.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/s114_MOh9V5hxCi822LF8xa4W2tvFAzT2Yv7u.jpg" alt="s114_MOh9V5hxCi822LF8xa4W2tvFAzT2Yv7u" title="s114_MOh9V5hxCi822LF8xa4W2tvFAzT2Yv7u" width="400" height="400" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3872" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://bonkurasu.animeblogger.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/s115_aUspAmAT2WVXOX4Wmu3e7dIVqMsg25vw.jpg"><img src="http://bonkurasu.animeblogger.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/s115_aUspAmAT2WVXOX4Wmu3e7dIVqMsg25vw.jpg" alt="s115_aUspAmAT2WVXOX4Wmu3e7dIVqMsg25vw" title="s115_aUspAmAT2WVXOX4Wmu3e7dIVqMsg25vw" width="400" height="400" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3870" /></a></p>
<p>It&#8217;s less than a month to the release date.<br />
We can finally deliver a new Persona 3 experience to everyone!<br />
On behalf of the staff, we&#8217;ve put a lot of effort into creating this, so we have confidence in it!<br />
On 11/1, please enjoy a new one-year!<br />
Thank you for your support!</p>
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		<title>Persona 3 Portable – Creator’s Blog Part 4 (Hashino Katsura)</title>
		<link>http://bonkurasu.animeblogger.net/2009/10/persona-3-portable-%e2%80%93-creator%e2%80%99s-blog-part-4-hashino-katsura/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 07:19:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ume</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part 4 of Famitsu&#8217;s P3P Creator&#8217;s Blog translations. They probably say it all the time because it&#8217;s their job, but have you preordered your copy yet? (lol)

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Hi, Hashino here. 
The release date of Persona 3 Portable is drawing near
Getting into the Top 30 Most Anticipated new game releases on Weekly Famitsu has been something greater [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Part 4 of Famitsu&#8217;s P3P Creator&#8217;s Blog translations. They probably say it all the time because it&#8217;s their job, but have you preordered your copy yet? (lol)</p>
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<p>Hi, Hashino here. </p>
<p>The release date of Persona 3 Portable is drawing near</p>
<p>Getting into the Top 30 Most Anticipated new game releases on Weekly Famitsu has been something greater than what we had expected.</p>
<p>The readers may have had a chance to experience the game at the Tokyo Game Show last week, too.</p>
<p>How was it?<br />
<span id="more-3849"></span><br />
Right now, on the Persona 3 Portable home page, we&#8217;ve been receiving many messages of encouragement and questions. We might have a chance to answer those on the main page, so please do keep them coming!</p>
<p>(At Tokyo Game Show, Persona 4 managed to bag the Japan Game Awards 2009 &#8220;Excellent Game Award&#8221;!! Many thanks to all the fans and visitors for their encouragement. As a production representative, we thank you!)</p>
<p><a href="http://bonkurasu.animeblogger.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/s111_YZIZ953S37FEeS1PGqnxwv3drHSlK2cJ.jpg"><img src="http://bonkurasu.animeblogger.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/s111_YZIZ953S37FEeS1PGqnxwv3drHSlK2cJ.jpg" alt="s111_YZIZ953S37FEeS1PGqnxwv3drHSlK2cJ" title="s111_YZIZ953S37FEeS1PGqnxwv3drHSlK2cJ" width="200" height="250" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3850" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://bonkurasu.animeblogger.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/s112_jYQKf6tEoh9D97C4c3DGyYQ16lev9b6l.jpg"><img src="http://bonkurasu.animeblogger.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/s112_jYQKf6tEoh9D97C4c3DGyYQ16lev9b6l.jpg" alt="s112_jYQKf6tEoh9D97C4c3DGyYQ16lev9b6l" title="s112_jYQKf6tEoh9D97C4c3DGyYQ16lev9b6l" width="200" height="160" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3851" /></a></p>
<p><em>Kuma is thankful too!</em></p>
<p>In Persona 3 Portable, some of the developments in Persona 4 have been implemented as a system improvement. Also, to make the portable version easier to play on the move, there have been some changes to the old system. We aim to set a new standard in portable RPGs in developing the game. </p>
<p>Game content will be introduced in various other places, so this entry will focus on the load speeds of scenes in the game.</p>
<p>&#8230;That being said, the video from the previous entry featured a PSP-GO, and so the load speeds were not UMD based, and was faster&#8230; That should be something to look forward to, but I think that there were some who were wondering &#8220;What would the load speeds be like with a normal UMD?&#8221;.</p>
<p>The scenes have been made for fast loading even on an UMD.<br />
The team has developed it for portable play, so actions can be completed faster and more efficiently than on the PS2 system.<br />
During tests, truth be told, there wasn&#8217;t much confidence in this part of the development, but with the staff&#8217;s hard work, there should be quite a significant improvement.</p>
<p>(Videos of gameplay can be viewed at the original post here)</p>
<p>…How is it?</p>
<p>Also, we have a function to install data on the console itself.<br />
Using this, loading and reading speeds should be greatly shortened. </p>
<p>The fastests speeds will be on the full-install on the PSP-GO, but even on the UMD,  players should be able to get decent loading speeds. </p>
<p>(This was taken on a development console, but the gameplay should feel something like this. The cache wasn&#8217;t used in gameplay. Load speeds vary on several factors, so please just use this as a rough gauge.)</p>
<p>Now, for the next entries, the two directors will bring you more detailed information about the game straight from the development office. </p>
<p>Since they spent a lot of effort on creating this game, I&#8217;m sure they have many interesting things to share!</p>
<p>(If its only about how much they&#8217;ve suffered, I&#8217;m sorry ^^;)</p>
<p> Please look forward to it!</p>
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		<title>Persona 3 Portable – Creator’s Blog Part 3 (Meguro Shoji)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:38:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ume</dc:creator>
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An update of translations of the entries on the Famitsu Persona 3 Portable Creator&#8217;s blog. Meguro Shoji probably needs no introduction, and I&#8217;m really looking forward to the new tracks. 
On to the translation of his first entry!
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Hi, This is Meguro, in charge of the music of Persona 3 Portable
It&#8217;s been a month since the [...]]]></description>
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<p>An update of translations of the entries on the Famitsu Persona 3 Portable Creator&#8217;s blog. Meguro Shoji probably needs no introduction, and I&#8217;m really looking forward to the new tracks. </p>
<p>On to the translation of his first entry!</p>
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<p>Hi, This is Meguro, in charge of the music of Persona 3 Portable</p>
<p>It&#8217;s been a month since the announcement of Persona 3 Portable, and some game screencaps have been released, so I&#8217;ll continue with an update on the music side. </p>
<p>If you choose the female main character in Persona 3 Portable, there is a selection of music tracks just for her route</p>
<p><span id="more-3844"></span></p>
<p>There probably aren&#8217;t as many songs as you would expect&#8230; The music will be changed for the town, school, battles, etc. </p>
<p>Of course, if you select the male main character you will hear the Persona 3 BGM as it originally was, and even on the female main character&#8217;s path, if there aren&#8217;t any new tracks the music will be the same as the PS2 version, and this would have been so. </p>
<p>Now, on the new tracks created for the female main character, the sound direction will maintain the atmosphere of Persona 3 while adding a little feminine vibe to it, so I tried composing with a soft and melodious mood to the music.  </p>
<p>There will be vocal tracks too, and for this, a new vocalist Fujita Mayumi has been put in charge of these tracks.</p>
<p>The Persona Series has been blessed with great vocalists, and Fujita-san was perfect for the female main character&#8217;s BGM with her beautiful voice. </p>
<p>Also, during the battle scenes, Lotus Juice (A Japanese person), who contributed his rapping to the PS2 version, will be collaborating with Fujita-san!</p>
<p>And the opening theme (A game&#8217;s signature) for the female character&#8217;s route will be done by Kita Shuuhei.  </p>
<p>That&#8217;s right, Kita-san who sang the OP for the Persona Trinity Soul anime. </p>
<p>To match the female main character&#8217;s story, the direction of the music is different from the PS2 opening 『Burn My Dread』</p>
<p>The song is entitled  『Soul Phrase』</p>
<p><a href="http://bonkurasu.animeblogger.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/s111_VQIY985272rQthWZelpnmvME26G46ZsD.jpg"><img src="http://bonkurasu.animeblogger.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/s111_VQIY985272rQthWZelpnmvME26G46ZsD.jpg" alt="s111_VQIY985272rQthWZelpnmvME26G46ZsD" title="s111_VQIY985272rQthWZelpnmvME26G46ZsD" width="300" height="225" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3845" /></a></p>
<p>The day after the publication of this blog entry will mark the opening of Persona Music Live 2009. </p>
<p>It was held at Akasaka Blitz last year but this year it will be at Wel City Tokyo, which is also known as that Kouseinenkin Kaikan.</p>
<p>We somehow managed to arrange for the use of this awesome hall for the concert, but thanks to this, ticket sales were brisk.</p>
<p>This is also thanks to all Persona fans. </p>
<p>Kawamura Yumi-san, Lotus Juice-san (A Japanese person), Hirata Shihoco-san, Kita Shuuhei-san and Fujita Mayumi-san will be performing, and there will be songs from Persona 3 Portable as well.</p>
<p>Kita Shuuhei-san might sing the new opening 『Soul Phrase』!?</p>
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		<title>[Live Report] Persona Music Live 09 &#8211; Velvet Room in Wel City Tokyo</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 03:50:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ume</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ume here, writing from Shinjuku. This post will be terribly delayed because the internet doesn&#8217;t work at the hotel I&#8217;m staying in, but in any case I&#8217;ll be typing this report while everything is still fresh in my head.

It&#8217;s the Golden Ticket!

Pictures and concert impressions after the jump!


Starting off with the goods. 

There are two [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ume here, writing from Shinjuku. This post will be terribly delayed because the internet doesn&#8217;t work at the hotel I&#8217;m staying in, but in any case I&#8217;ll be typing this report while everything is still fresh in my head.</p>
<p><img src="http://bonkurasu.animeblogger.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/P1060767-Custom.JPG" alt="P1060767 (Custom)" title="P1060767 (Custom)" width="500" height="375" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3510" /></p>
<p><em>It&#8217;s the Golden Ticket!</em></p>
<p><img src="http://bonkurasu.animeblogger.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/P1060774-.JPG" alt="P1060774" title="P1060774" width="500" height="372" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3507" /></p>
<p>Pictures and concert impressions after the jump!</p>
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<p><img src="http://bonkurasu.animeblogger.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/P1060769-Custom.JPG" alt="P1060769 (Custom)" title="P1060769 (Custom)" width="500" height="375" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3512" /><br />
Starting off with the goods. </p>
<p><img src="http://bonkurasu.animeblogger.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/P1060933-Custom.JPG" alt="P1060933 (Custom)" title="P1060933 (Custom)" width="500" height="375" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3515" /></p>
<p>There are two modes on the light stick, it either glows or flashes at intervals. </p>
<p><img src="http://bonkurasu.animeblogger.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/P1060930-Custom.JPG" alt="P1060930 (Custom)" title="P1060930 (Custom)" width="500" height="375" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3513" /></p>
<p><img src="http://bonkurasu.animeblogger.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/P1060931-Custom.JPG" alt="P1060931 (Custom)" title="P1060931 (Custom)" width="500" height="375" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3514" /><br />
Shirts and deco-stickers. The design on the tote-bag is the same as the one on the shirt.</p>
<p><img src="http://bonkurasu.animeblogger.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/P1060937-Custom.JPG" alt="P1060937 (Custom)" title="P1060937 (Custom)" width="500" height="375" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3517" /></p>
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<p>P3P and P4 spreads in the concert booklet</p>
<p><b>Concert impressions</b></p>
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<p>I reached Wel City Tokyo (near East Shinjuku) 1 hour early before seating started. The merchandise booth apparently opened at 1.00pm but I reckoned they would have enough stock anyway, and so I missed out on<a href="http://www.aniplex.co.jp/persona-live/goods/img/goods08.jpg"> phone strap goodness</a>. But I managed to get everything else, with extra copies of some. </p>
<p>There was a seperate booth next to the concert merch tables from Animate, and they were selling CDs and DVDs from the Persona series. I had the stuff I wanted so I didn&#8217;t bother getting anything, but apparently they were giving out clear prints of the Persona Music Live art with every purchase. I considered going back to get it after the live but I put up my wota-barrier against temptation and skipped it.</p>
<p><img src="http://bonkurasu.animeblogger.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/image-upload-25-763323-Custom-500x375.jpg" alt="image-upload-25-763323 (Custom)" title="image-upload-25-763323 (Custom)" width="500" height="375" class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3518" /></p>
<p>Seating queues started a little before 5.15pm outside the venue. Seating started at 6pm, and the concert was slated to start at 7pm. Being a typical Singaporean I was one of the first in line for the seating queue, though it made no difference as seats were already assigned on the ticket. At least I didn&#8217;t have to squeeze my way in.</p>
<p><img src="http://bonkurasu.animeblogger.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/image-upload-30-798903-2-375x375.jpg" alt="image-upload-30-798903 2" title="image-upload-30-798903 2" width="375" height="375" class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3520" /></p>
<p>Sneaked a picture as I was walking in. It&#8217;s the Velvet Room! They were playing School Days (From the Persona PSP remake OST) and other pieces from the OST during the time allocated to seating.</p>
<p>People started streaming in at 6.25pm. By then, there were people seated on either side of me, and the ones on my immediate left and right were both playing Pokemon for DS. There were several DSes out too throughout the audience. Maybe they&#8217;re all playing Pokemon?</p>
<p>At 6.45pm there was the sound of guitars and stuff being tested. An announcement was also made reminding the audience to switch off their mobile phones, and to remain at their seat for the length of the performance. Someone who sounded oddly like Kawamura Yumi squealed into the mic, causing many people to jump and/or look up from their DS screens. </p>
<p>7.00pm came by after a very long wait, and the lights went off. A oddly familiar voice cackles and welcomes you to the Velvet Room (gokigenyou, etc). Igor? No way, and Kuma appears on screen! Kuma had all of us. There was a lot of laughter from the audience as he continued his Igor impersonation. </p>
<p>Elizabeth appears on the screen projection, and promptly removes Kuma-the-intruder with a healthy dose of Megidolaon. Margeret appears too, along with Igor. The real Igor again welcomes you to the Velvet Room. Aigis joines in the conversation (de arimasu!), and the usual humor ensues. Igor then mentions a second guest, and wondered where the second guest may be, while Elizabeth realises that she megidoloan&#8217;ed an innocent. </p>
<p>The introduction video ends, and Heartful Cry plays, along with a compilation of cutscenes from the various Persona games and adaptations. Kawamura Yumi then starts off as MC, and got everyone to stand up in front of their seat. Cue crazy lightstick swinging time! A wave of blue (The Persona Music Live lightstick) rose. She sang Dream of Butterfly, which was very good. In fact, it was so well-practiced, the effect was almost the same as the CD recording. <a href="http://6109.jp/personalive/?blog=31677">What they said on the Persona Music Live blog was true after all!</a> She then finished with P3 BGM, Want to Be Close and When the Moon&#8217;s Reaching out Stars, which was beyond awesome. </p>
<p>After all that high-tension Kawamura Yumi, Hirata Shihoco made her appearance. I went wild, of course, because I am nao a Shihoco convert, and broke out a bright pink lightstick which was way brighter than I expected it to be. She went through a medley of P4 BGM, from Pursuing My True Self (Which was very, very good live) Your Affection, Signs of Love to Heartbeat, Heartbreak, all of which I raved through with lightstick power. </p>
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<p><em>My lightstick power.</em></p>
<p>After her part ended, there was a short silence, and then a familiar song could be heard. The opening chime to Jika-net Tanaka! But this time, we got to watch Tanaka strutting his stuff on TV. On the projection video, for the first time, our favourite TV promoter can be heard. Yes, Tanaka was voiced, and he was advertising the concert goods for sale. Kuma, having been megadolaon&#8217;ed and kicked out of the Velvet Room, joins Tanaka (Living in a television, anyone?) in promoting the goods. </p>
<p>Tanaka: Yo♪ro♪shi♪ku<br />
Kuma: Yo♪ro♪shi&#8230;. Kuma!</p>
<p>Kuma&#8217;s awkardness was amazingly funny. </p>
<p>Lotus Juice then came in with Mass Destruction. Rapping is always upbeat and got the crowd grooving again. When it was his turn to MC, he asked how many people had gone to one of his sessions before, and then dove into Burn My Dread -Last Battle-. Kita Shuuhei, vocalist for the Persona Trinity Soul OP, then sang the P3P opening. He introduced Mayu Fujita, and she took the stage, and proceeded to sing a track from P3P. </p>
<p>This track from P3P is your usual electronic fare from Meguro, and seems like the sort of song which will grow on you after a while. </p>
<p>The video ended, and Shihoco stepped out again, and sang Heaven, followed by Never More, and this is my personal high point of the concert because I am a fan :3. </p>
<p>Kawamura Yumi returned and sang the Persona (PSP) ED, Voice. In her MC, she let out a little spoiler here and there, saying that there would be an encore, and if we asked for it, it would be a long one. Cheers from the audience. Voice ended, and the stage lights dimmed, and then mad clapping started. Calls for encore from different parts of the audience started. I sat down, finished all the water I had brought in one gulp, and joined in the encore clapping.</p>
<p>Another video started playing on the projector. It was from P3P, and had the female main character dying from a fatal attack. Continue? was shown, to laughs from the audience, and then a countdown (Like in arcade games) was shown, from 120 seconds. Lightstick revivial! The counter occasionally changed to ENCORE, which was a nice touch. The countdown started at 10. I shouted along with everyone else, and the atmosphere was amazing. At zero, we got our encore!</p>
<p>Kawamura Yumi sang the blues version of Burn My Dread. I broke out a bright green lightstick this time (It was actually more yellow than green), and sang through all the way from that to Kita Shuuhei&#8217;s Breakin&#8217; Through. I hardly liked the song when I heard it on the anime, but the live version is just aural pleasure. Lotus&#8217;s Deep Breath Deep Breath was equally wonderful, and the choreography! There were people in front who were following the dance sequence with their lightsticks and I did the same, because it looked like a lot of fun.</p>
<p>The most amazing thing about the encore was the Kimi no Kioku duet between Kawamura Yumi and Hirata Shihoko. Their vocal combination was heavenly to hear. Before they went into the duet, Kawamura was talking to Shihoco and randomly asking &#8216;So, whats your ideal type?&#8217; in between sentences, causing Shihoco to go &#8216;Eeeeeh&#8217; in the cutest way you can imagine possible and tried to avoid the topic. Kawamura also teased Meguro as she recounted how they were first recording the vocal tracks for P3 and when they suggested a live performance, Meguro was all &#8216;No way, I can&#8217;t do it, it won&#8217;t happen&#8217;, and today they were playing to a full-house. Also, Kawamura remarked that since they had three times the audience compared to last year&#8217;s live, they should do a ten hour live next year. Cheers from the audience, which was met by a &#8216;That was definitely a lie!&#8217; remark from Kawamura.</p>
<p>Kawamura then invited all the performers from the live, and they introduced the dancers/new singers, and took a bow while thanking the audience. Meguro thanked everyone again, and the lights dimmed as they left the stage.</p>
<p>But it was all too sudden and the crowd was obviously not satisfied yet, and cheers for a second encore started.</p>
<p><b>MOU IKKAI!!</b></p>
<p>And we were granted this wish. Another video was projected, and showed the residents of the Velvet room, along with both visitors, as they talked about how they enjoyed the live. Kuma then commented that while it looked like everything was over, everyone was still here and cheering. Elizabeth then deftly cut in and stated that it was everyone being able to read the atmosphere well. </p>
<p>And when the video ended, we were met with a loading screen (The spinning card on bottom right). Another bit of humor which was greatly appreciated by the audience.</p>
<p>School days played, and was met with a lot of cheering, but then it cut off abruptly and switched to an even better song. The on-screen game video was of the player turning to the corner of the street to the pharmacy&#8230;</p>
<p>Can you say, Satomi Tadashi Pharmacy? </p>
<p>Kita Shuuhei appeared on stage, with a doctor&#8217;s coat, followed by Hirata Shihoco, dressed in a nurse uniform (I fangirled, srsly). They started singing the infamous pharmacy song, making for the second epic duet of the night. </p>
<p>On the second verse, the lyrics were projected over the accompanying video, karaoke-style. Shihoko then asked the audience to sing along. </p>
<p>Doku de itai yo DIS♪POI♪SON.</p>
<p>It was great fun! They left the stage, and Meguro took their place. His MC started off with him recounting how he asked the concert manager how long his MC should be, and the concert manager told him it could be as long as he wanted to (Cheers from the audience, which was laughed at by Meguro as he told them to keep listening till the end), and when he got home and told his wife his plan, his wife bluntly told him not to push it (LOL). </p>
<p>Meguro then played The Battle for Everyone’s Souls. Screechy guitars!</p>
<p>He ended off by thanking all fans of the Persona series, and asked for the support of everyone in future games, and concerts as well. That concluded the live, and we were again shown a video of the velvet room. By this point, Kuma had a rather coarse voice (From mad cheering in the live? I understand!). He then tried to ask Margeret out for an after-party, and was once again megidolaon&#8217;ed by Elizabeth. Margeret then thanked the audience, and Igor praised them. He concluded with his usual(gokigenyou!), and the screen went dark.</p>
<p>Applause was, however, interrupted by a follow-up cutscene, where Theodore was unveiled. Cue roar of approval from the female members of the audience (Along with some of the male members, but I&#8217;m pretty sure I can recognise a wave of squealing when I hear one). Theodore&#8217;s speech and manner is very Margeret-like. Igor states that he has high expectations of him, and Theodore acknowledges it with an &#8216;Understood (Kashikomarimashita), and was met with another chorus of squealing. </p>
<p>Then the concert ended there, the house lights were brought back on and there was an announcement that the concert was officially over for today. That made an one hour encore.</p>
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<p>Everyone then started taking memorial photos of the Persona Music Live event notice outside, at the lobby. </p>
<p>This is the first concert I&#8217;ve ever got to hear a band perform live, and I&#8217;d go again, if the tickets weren&#8217;t such a trouble to obtain. But really, I could die happy now. </p>
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		<title>Persona 3 Portable &#8211; Creator’s Blog Part 2 (Soejima Shigenori)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 02:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ume</dc:creator>
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The Persona 3 Portable Creator&#8217;s blog was updated yesterday, so here&#8217;s the translation of part 2. Soejima&#8217;s writing this time, so expect art! :D

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Hi.
This is Soejima, handling the character design of Persona 3 Portable.

And it is finally announced, P3P, Persona 3 Portable!
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<p><a href="http://www.famitsu.com/blog/p3p/1227155_2045.html">The Persona 3 Portable Creator&#8217;s blog was updated yesterday</a>, so here&#8217;s the translation of part 2. Soejima&#8217;s writing this time, so expect art! :D</p>
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<p>Hi.</p>
<p>This is Soejima, handling the character design of Persona 3 Portable.</p>
<p><img src="http://bonkurasu.animeblogger.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/s111_orpoavqovsd5rx9ssh9q7ua1souix7ug.jpg" alt="s111_orpoavqovsd5rx9ssh9q7ua1souix7ug" title="s111_orpoavqovsd5rx9ssh9q7ua1souix7ug" width="274" height="458" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3383" /></p>
<p>And it is finally announced, P3P, Persona 3 Portable!<br />
To present the world of Persona 3 with plenty of new elements, as a developer, there are things I feel strongly about. </p>
<p>For people new to Persona 3, and for people who did play the PS2 version, do give the PSP version a try and enjoy the evolution of the system from three years before!</p>
<p>Now, P3P has many aspects worthy of mention, but as the character designer I will talk about the character design in this installment.</p>
<p>Aiming to become the best school-setting RPG, the characters that appear in Persona 3 vary from robots to dogs.<br />
It was very challenging to create and design unique characters that would hardly appear in a normal school-setting&#8230;(laughs).<br />
But thanks to this, each character has their own charm and good points, and even now, I have a special emotional attachment to each of them.</p>
<p>Speaking of characters, in this version of P3, a major new element is the female main character!</p>
<p><img src="http://bonkurasu.animeblogger.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/hkojqb9ukf11ijzu729qgp2oau1zsasz.jpg" alt="hkojqb9ukf11ijzu729qgp2oau1zsasz" title="hkojqb9ukf11ijzu729qgp2oau1zsasz" width="347" height="284" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3382" /></p>
<p>In the Persona Series, the only other time there was a female main character was in Persona 2 -Punishment-, but this is the first time you get a choice between the male main character or the female main character. </p>
<p>To decide on how the female main character would look took a very long time, and in the end the design went through 3 to 4 revisions.</p>
<p>The main character is a special existence within the game, not because the character traits are what ultimately moves the story along, but because it is like one&#8217;s other self within the game and has to be differentiated from the other characters in the story. Even if the main character looks cool, if the player cannot connect to the main character, the design fails as a main character, and this is a difficult thing to overcome.</p>
<p>The initial design for the female main character in P3p was a female version of the original main character (laughs). </p>
<p>They shared the same hair color and eyes. But after drawing that, it wasn&#8217;t what I wanted so I moved on.</p>
<p>Because it was to be a new main character, so if she was the same as the original it would be meaningless, and also mainly because I wanted to show how the impression of the same world and story development would change with a different main character.<br />
The female main character I had so much trouble coming up with can be said to be the main character, but not the heroine.<br />
If I drew the ideal girl, she would become the heroine and not the main character.<br />
That was the one point I had the most problems with, and so with the help of a female staff member I managed to finish the design of the female main character. </p>
<p>Till now, with only the male main character option, the school-life setting in P3 was only half-fulfilled, but with the female main character option, I feel that the school-life RPG P3 will finally be complete.</p>
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<p>And thats the end of Part 2. Seriously, a female version of the original? As much as it probably won&#8217;t work, I&#8217;d want to see that. Here&#8217;s hoping he puts it in the concept artbook (If they do release one).</p>
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		<title>Persona 3 Portable &#8211; Creator&#8217;s Blog Part 1 (Hashino Katsura)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:40:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ume</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a cold and a test tomorrow, but this comes first!
I&#8217;ll try to keep up as much as possible, but for now, here&#8217;s the first post from the Persona 3 Portable Creator&#8217;s Blog.
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Hi,
It may be sudden, but have you seen this week&#8217;s Famitsu?
Doesn&#8217;t it sound like shady rumor material?
No gravure here (But of course),
This [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have a cold and a test tomorrow, but this comes first!<br />
I&#8217;ll try to keep up as much as possible, but for now, here&#8217;s the first post from the <a href="http://www.famitsu.com/blog/p3p/">Persona 3 Portable Creator&#8217;s Blog</a>.<br />
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<p>Hi,</p>
<p>It may be sudden, but have you seen this week&#8217;s Famitsu?<br />
Doesn&#8217;t it sound like shady rumor material?</p>
<p>No gravure here (But of course),<br />
This is the scoop on Persona 3, the PSP port!</p>
<p><img src="http://bonkurasu.animeblogger.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/wa6wf9nzv9b6c19df9xu8u3z1u1r5jke.jpg" alt="wa6wf9nzv9b6c19df9xu8u3z1u1r5jke" title="wa6wf9nzv9b6c19df9xu8u3z1u1r5jke" width="480" height="272" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3224" /><br />
<img src="http://bonkurasu.animeblogger.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/rlv6bxfn73tx767sx9lic82nsrvtvpf9.jpg" alt="rlv6bxfn73tx767sx9lic82nsrvtvpf9" title="rlv6bxfn73tx767sx9lic82nsrvtvpf9" width="480" height="272" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3223" /><br />
<em>Title screen images. We have a shujinkou-ko!</em><br />
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With that said, I&#8217;m Hashino of Atlus, in-charge of the development team.<br />
We&#8217;ve made SMT3~Persona 3, 4 to date with this team.<br />
Looking forward to your support.</p>
<p>From today onwards, I get to use this space to bother the other members of the development team.<br />
Updates may be irregular, but I&#8217;ll bring you the insider information(!?) on P3P<br />
For everyone who wants to play a portable version of Persona 3, please stay tuned!</p>
<p>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!</p>
<p>Even with that said, it isn&#8217;t just an ordinary port, everyone.<br />
Many, and various things are happening (Or should I say, have happened!?)</p>
<p>In P3P, as director, and along with the team who made P3 together and love P3, we put a lot of heart into this. </p>
<p>The fruit of everyone&#8217;s hard work, with content nearing completion, which would make you think &#8220;Ah, but you all really put too much enthusiasm into this!&#8221; (It&#8217;s really near completion, all that remains is the mastering!!)</p>
<p>In the hopes that this will become a classic RPG to be associated with the PSP platform,<br />
I&#8217;ll put my anticipation into this, and continue the reporting.</p>
<p><img src="http://bonkurasu.animeblogger.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/lvq4k9qmi87rz253c8f5lf9l84x2i1i8.jpg" alt="lvq4k9qmi87rz253c8f5lf9l84x2i1i8" title="lvq4k9qmi87rz253c8f5lf9l84x2i1i8" width="480" height="272" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3228" /><br />
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<p>Hm, it was a lot of work (Or rather, we&#8217;re in the midst of a whole lot of work)<br />
We thought the conversion from PS2 to PSP would be smooth, but we were so wrong&#8230;<br />
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&#8230;<br />
Plus an additional mode which was included on a whim but now takes up a huge part of the game.<br />
It&#8217;s the start of a hell and a path of no return.</p>
<p>From the director&#8217;s view, the development team&#8217;s work is nearing completion.<br />
As to how well it was made&#8230; I wonder! (Nah, I think it&#8217;s really well done.)</p>
<p>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&#8217;ll probably enjoy playing through once again.<br />
Do check the updates here from now on, too!</p>
<p>To end off, here are videos of the console (development/debug work in progress).<br />
(<a href="http://www.famitsu.com/blog/p3p/">Videos can be streamed from the blog page</a>)</p>
<p><img src="http://bonkurasu.animeblogger.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/tqc3v5m9eulgwmjc8bv8l3l8ekfh3shu.jpg" alt="tqc3v5m9eulgwmjc8bv8l3l8ekfh3shu" title="tqc3v5m9eulgwmjc8bv8l3l8ekfh3shu" width="314" height="252" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3229" /><br />
<em>Kuma is debugging too</em></p>
<p>Playing through portable P3 with ease-.<br />
Check back for news here again!</p>
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<p>The videos have some pretty funky new music, so grab your headphones!</p>
<p>I thought they would want to remake P2 for the PSP first. Probably too much trouble? </p>
<p>Preorders for P3P are open at Amazon.jp <a href="http://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/ASIN/B002M770AW/dreamisland0f-22/ref=nosim">here</a><br />
The <a href="http://p3p.atlusnet.jp/">official site</a> opens on the 24th of August.</p>
<p>Now, time to get my copy of Famitsu&#8230;</p>
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		<title>[ktkr] Persona Music Live, the DVD</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:57:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ume</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Roughly a year ago, I saw this report on Famitsu which made me stare at my screen blankly and curse loud enough for my neighbours to hear.
Today, I picked up a copy of Famitsu, and saw this.

Yes, the one night of legend, the (!) Persona Music Live, is finally coming out on DVD!
Hell yes, preorder [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Roughly a year ago, I saw <a href="http://www.famitsu.com/game/news/1217564_1124.html">this report</a> on Famitsu which made me stare at my screen blankly and curse loud enough for my neighbours to hear.</p>
<p>Today, I picked up a copy of Famitsu, and saw this.</p>
<p><img src="http://bonkurasu.animeblogger.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/dsc00411-custom.jpg" alt="dsc00411-custom" title="dsc00411-custom" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2690" /></p>
<p>Yes, the one night of legend, the (!) Persona Music Live, is finally coming out on DVD!</p>
<p>Hell yes, preorder time. More information is available at aniplex&#8217;s site <a href="http://www.aniplex.co.jp/persona-live/">here</a>.</p>
<p>Now, my life would be even more complete than before if I could attend the Famitsu-initiated <a href="http://fami-web.jp/pressstart/">PRESS START 2009 Symphony of Games</a>, but that would be impossible, so I&#8217;ll be content with what I can get. </p>
<p>(I would kill to hear 全ての人の魂の詩 played by an orchestra though.)</p>
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		<title>The Progress Diary of Director Meguro, Vol. 5</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 01:35:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ume</dc:creator>
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17 more days to Maki.  

Good Day, Meguro here. 
Today I&#8217;m writing from a certain studio in the city. The sakura are in full bloom here, has everyone had their flower-viewing sessions yet?
I went to a place called Tatsumi Kaihin Kouen (Tatsumi Seaside Park) last weekend to enjoy the blossoms. I&#8217;ve been going there [...]]]></description>
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17 more days <strike>to Maki</strike>.  </em><br />
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Good Day, Meguro here. </p>
<p>Today I&#8217;m writing from a certain studio in the city. The sakura are in full bloom here, has everyone had their flower-viewing sessions yet?</p>
<p>I went to a place called Tatsumi Kaihin Kouen (Tatsumi Seaside Park) last weekend to enjoy the blossoms. I&#8217;ve been going there for flower-viewing in the past two to three years, so it comes highly recommended.<br />
The sight of a few hundred metres of sakura trees in full bloom is a sight to behold, and yet hardly anyone goes there! It is quite a little-known flower-viewing spot in the city.</p>
<p>Moving on to Persona, we are finally three weeks away from the day it goes on sale.<br />
Have you checked the official site? It was updated yesterday. The most interesting bit about the update has to be the battle system preview.<br />
To make the game fit for portable gaming habits we had to tweak many things (including the speediness of the battle flow), but even so the battle system is the one aspect of the game we put a lot of effort into, so do go watch the previews.</p>
<p>The battle replay in the later bits of the video had skip on, isn&#8217;t it really fast? It&#8217;s easy to get addicted to the pace with skip turned on, but as a developer I would say that it&#8217;ll be nice if you limit the usage of skip to times where you are in a rush&#8230;</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a battle after all, so if you&#8217;re free, please enjoy it. </p>
<p>[Meguro Shouji]<br />
◆Director of Persona<br />
◆Sound Composer for Persona 3, Persona 3 Fes, Persona 4</p>
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		<title>The Progress Diary of Director Meguro, Vol. 4</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 11:49:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ume</dc:creator>
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Good day, Meguro here. 
Japan won at the World Baseball Classic yesterday!
Actually I had the day off yesterday and stayed at home to work on the music for a certain project, but I happened to watch the broadcast of the WBC during the afternoon and couldn&#8217;t stop!
In the end I only managed to start on [...]]]></description>
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<p>Good day, Meguro here. </p>
<p>Japan won at the World Baseball Classic yesterday!<br />
Actually I had the day off yesterday and stayed at home to work on the music for a certain project, but I happened to watch the broadcast of the WBC during the afternoon and couldn&#8217;t stop!<br />
In the end I only managed to start on work when evening came&#8230;</p>
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<p>Now then, this time round we&#8217;ll continue the discussion about the Persona PSP port, on sale 4/29. Yesterday, Takada wrote briefly about UMD load times on his column, and Growlanser and Persona started development at almost the same time, so while alternating between these two projects, the mastering was also done nearly at the same time.<br />
On that, the loading times for battles, as it was for both Growlanser and Persona, were terrible at first.<br />
In an unrevised state and had a despairingly slow load time, but begging our programmer Touyama and with the aid of many of our staff members, we finally got it to an acceptable speed.  At that time Growlanser was in the same situation too (laughs),  but even while making full use of Persona interface know-how to fix the load times quickly, Growlanser is rumored to be faster or something&#8230;</p>
<p>On that topic, I have a PSP with me right now as well as a test UMD with Persona loaded&#8230;<br />
I will now proceed to report the speeds of battle loading.<br />
The test UMD is an older version of the Persona in development so it&#8217;ll differ slightly from the version going on sale, so please understand that.</p>
<p>Now, switching on the PSP and loading a random save file&#8230; It started in the town map, and I have an analog watch in hand. Trying to go into battle now.<br />
&#8230;<br />
6 to 7 seconds?<br />
Initial load times are kind of slow, aren&#8217;t they.</p>
<p>To the next battle!<br />
&#8230;<br />
To load the map and be able to navigate took 3 seconds? The screen darkened for around 2 seconds there didn&#8217;t it? To return to the map takes 2 seconds. </p>
<p>Walking around for a bit, another battle!<br />
&#8230;<br />
Oh! It&#8217;s faster now, around two seconds?<br />
Is the PSP-2000&#8217;s cache kicking in place?</p>
<p>Going into a dungeon takes around 2 to 3 seconds to load.<br />
It feels a little faster than the town map.<br />
This changes according to the party formation and the demon selection.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s see how long a battle takes.<br />
I have confidence in this one, during the initial testing phase, the clear time of this dungeon on the PSP was compared to the PS version, and was planned to be possible to clear without getting frustrated. The time taken to clear a dungeon and the encounter rate were adjusted to meet this objective. </p>
<p>To the next save file.<br />
It&#8217;s another dungeon, the main character is level 14.<br />
The first battle had Afanc, Agathion and Ba-ga.<br />
Without putting it on auto, and individually commanding all characters, and setting it to replay-auto on the third turn, the battle took 1 minute and 10 seconds altogether. It averages around this time, according to my memory.<br />
With battle animation turned off, and skip enabled, these are the times taken per battle<br />
First battle&#8230;30 seconds<br />
Second battle&#8230;15 seconds<br />
Third battle&#8230;50 seconds<br />
Fourth battle&#8230;Managed a back-attack! 55 seconds</p>
<p>As you can see, a battle can be finished below a minute with auto-mode. </p>
<p>We&#8217;ve made it so that it can be easily played on-the-move.<br />
If you want to clear the battle before you reach the next station on the train, do put on the skip function, but don&#8217;t miss your stop!</p>
<p>[Meguro Shouji]<br />
◆Director of Persona<br />
◆Sound Composer for Persona 3, Persona 3 Fes, Persona 4</p>
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