Pre-Order Update - Persona PSP - Remake - 4/30/09

Release Date: 4/27/2009
UPC: 4984995900438
Genre: RPG
Company: Atlus
Version: Japan
-from wikipedia-
Persona, is a exclusive remake for the PlayStation Portable of Revelations: Persona which is the first in a series of role-playing games for PlayStation consoles – one of several spin-off series within developer Atlus's Megami Tensei franchise. The story is set in contemporary times, with high school teenagers serving as the heroes of the game. Armed with weapons and imbued with magical beings known as Personae, they band together to repel demons that are invading their city.

• Persona's gameplay will be very similar to the original, Revelations: Persona, with only a few exceptions.
• Like the games in the Megami Tensei series, battles in Persona need not always be about fighting. Instead, the player has the option to "Contact" the demons they encounter in an attempt to communicate with them. However, certain enemies (usually bosses and human-type enemies) cannot be contacted no matter how much the player might try. Each playable character has a set of different Contact commands, which will affect the selected demon in one of four ways: Joy, Anger, Fear or Interest. There are occasional questions posed by the demon, and the chosen answer will also have an effect on its mood. By making a demon interested three or four times in a row, they will offer the player their "Spell Card". These Cards can be used in the mystical Velvet Room to summon new Persona.
• Battles are also from a third-person view. Each party member is confined to a space on a grid, which dictates the range of their attacks and where they can move during their turn. Ranged weapons can travel over many 'squares' to hit an enemy, while melee attacks are confined to one square. Enemy demons are positioned in front and rear lines on the grid; When the front line is defeated, the rear line advances to take their place.
• Unlike the original, Revelations: Persona, Persona will stay as true to the original Japanese Version as possible with localization of Persona to be completely redone from scratch.[5] However it is unknown if the names of the characters will be converted to their previous North American localization names or if they retain their Japanese ones.

Differences from Original

• A different name, Persona is now branded without the title "Megami Ibunroku" in Japan.
• A new opening which includes an entirely new opening song which was unveiled by Atlus before the game's launch.
• All the original FMVs will be remade by Kamikaze Douga, and there will be many brand new FMVs as well to enhance the storytelling.
• Shoji Meguro, who will also be serving as the game's director will be arranging all the original BGM and the vocal tracks will feature Yumi Kawamura, the vocalist for the Persona 3 tracks.
• The interface has been fully revamped to take advantage of the full widescreen view for the benefit of all users.
• Both the original scenario and the Snow Queen scenario will contain additional dungeon floors not found in the original. The new dungeon elements will also contain tricky puzzles and extra content for the player to unravel.
• The game has been fully rebalanced to enhance the playing experience from the original version. The encounter rate and dungeon designs have been tweaked as well. There will also be multiple difficulty settings to more player choice.
• Battle animations can now be skipped entirely, and the battle load times have been decreased to 2/3 the time of the original game.
• There will be many more save points available throughout the game, and for portable fans the game will also feature a quicksave feature.
• A new pre-rendered aerial view town map similar to the later Persona franchises will replace the original real-time 3D town map. There is no more random encounter when traveling in the town as well.