THE FUSE

Persona 4 Revival is bringing a nearly 20-year-old game back into the spotlight, and that means not only that it’s bringing a great RPG about the power of friendship and accepting yourself for who you are to modern platforms, but that it’s got to contend with the ways in which the game failed to live up to that idea. Yosuke, one of the party members in the game, is pretty notorious for his homophobia, berating characters like Kanji, whose distorted shadow doppelgänger appeared as a promiscuous gay bath house patron, and even mocking protagonist Yu Narukami if the player so much as gestures at femininity or being attracted to men. However, it sounds like developer Atlus might be ironing out some of those wrinkles in the remake.