Spoiler warning: If you haven’t completed BOTH Persona 3 FES and Persona 4, you might want to steer clear of this post. Don’t say I didn’t warn you!

Shin Megami Tensei is on the rise, but how popular is the series overseas? Atlus revealed sales figures for games released from August 2008 to July 2009 in their latest financial report.

Consumer video games is the main source of revenue for Atlus. OK, sticker machines too. Like many Japanese publishers, Atlus is also dabbling with character goods by turning Personas into plushies.

Ever dream of hugging a soft and super deformed Izanagi? Absolutely not? Well, now you can anyway!
 
Atlus has an Izanagi Pergurumi in their online store. The word mesh would be something like Per-plushie, but I think “Plushona” sounds better in English so we’ll go with that. You can get the 23 cm x 15 [...]

If you missed out on Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4 over the holidays you can pick it up for $25.98 plus shipping and handling today. These copies still include the soundtrack CD, but don’t expect the Persona 4: Visual Data pre-order bonus to be part of the package.
 
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At last Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4 is shipping to stores tomorrow. The wait may have felt like forever, but only five months passed since Persona 4 launched in Japan. This is quite an accomplishment considering Persona 4 has around one and a half times more text than Persona 3 which Atlus USA had over [...]

Square Enix Europe is “climbing the stairway to maturity”. That’s a Persona 4 joke – you’ll understand it soon – even if you’re in Europe. European gamers won’t have to wait long to play Persona 4 either. Square Enix Europe publish Persona 4 without the Shin Megami Tensei brand in “spring 2009″ according to their [...]

Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4 has random dungeons, but they aren’t like the cubicles in Persona 3. The dungeons in Persona 4 feel more like mazes since they have narrow corridors and doors to open. Each dungeon has a theme too. You see different tile sets here, not just the same twisted tower for [...]

You meet all kinds of comical teachers in Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4, but Mr. Hosoi is the most memorable. He lectures players on Japanese literature with a hand puppet sort of like early Mr. Garrison. I can’t say for sure if Mr. Hosoi was directly inspired by the South Park character, but the [...]

Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4 takes place in rural Inaba where there aren’t any coffee shops to hang out at night to raise your charm. In the evening phase you’re stuck at home since you don’t have a dog dressed with wings to take for walks and all of the dungeon exploring goes on [...]