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Dialogue from Persona 5 was widely criticised following its Western release as many considered these characters offensively stereotypical and sexually aggressive towards Ryuji, who himself is portrayed as a high school student. According to Advincula, Persona 5 Royal was a “chance to make it right.”
These characters were “portrayed [as] more like predatory,” senior project manager Yu Namba, who worked on Persona’s localization in the west, told GameSpot. “I think the community had a very strong response to that, and you saw that, and that was definitely altered for Royal.”
“As a localization manager, I really cannot do too much about what has already made it into the game,” Namba continues. “Our team members felt a little bit of awkwardness about when working on it. And with Royal, we were determined to see if we could do something about it at least localization-wise.
“On our end, it took a lot of effort consulting not just the production department, but talking with our marketing, and how they would feel about it if we changed how things were in Persona 5 to this new way–what would the public reception be, what the company would think, whether it would be okay if we do make the change.”
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