ubiór-i-moda: Persona (franchise)

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Persona, previously marketed as Shin Megami Tensei: Persona outside of Japan, is a Japanese video game series and media franchise developed by Atlus and owned by Sega. Centered on a series of Japanese role-playing video games, Persona was originally conceived as a spin-off from Atlus' Megami Tensei franchise. The first entry in the series, Revelations: Persona, was released in 1996 for the PlayStation. The series has seen several more games since, with the most recent main entry being 2024's Persona 3 Reload, a remake of the 2006 game Persona 3. Persona began as a spin-off based on the positively received high school setting of Shin Megami Tensei If... (1994). Persona's core features includ…

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Revelations: Persona (also known as Megami Ibunroku Persona in Japan, sometimes with the subtitle, "Be Your True Mind") is a 1996 role-playing video game developed and published by Atlus. It is the first entry in the Persona series, itself a subseries of the Megami Tensei franchise, and the first role-playing entry in the series to be released in the West. Originally released for the PlayStation in 1996 in Japan and North America, the title was ported to Microsoft Windows in 1999. A port to the PlayStation Portable, retitled Shin Megami Tensei: Persona, was released in North America and Japan in 2009, and the following year in Europe. This port featured new cutscenes and a reworked English…

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Megami Tensei is a series of role-playing video games (RPGs) primarily developed by Atlus. It began with 1987's Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei, which is based on Aya Nishitani's novel of the same name, and has spawned a sequel and several sub-series, such as the Persona and Devil Summoner series. The original Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei games and the Shin Megami Tensei sub-series form the core of the series, while other entries are considered spin-offs. Early games have received infrequent releases outside Japan: the first title to be released in North America was 1995's Jack Bros., and the first Megami Tensei RPG released in the region was 1996's Revelations: Persona. The first…

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Persona 2: Eternal Punishment is a 2000 role-playing video game developed and published by Atlus for the PlayStation. It is a direct sequel to Persona 2: Innocent Sin and chronologically the third installment in the Persona series, a subseries of the Megami Tensei franchise. The game was later remade by Atlus for the PlayStation Portable. This version, released in Japan in 2012, did not receive an overseas release. The PlayStation version was released on PlayStation Network in 2013. Eternal Punishment takes place in the fictional Japanese city of Sumaru. Taking place a few months after Innocent Sin, the game follows magazine reporter Maya Amano as she investigates the Joker Curse, a malign…

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Megami Tensei, marketed internationally as Shin Megami Tensei (formerly Revelations), is a Japanese multi-medium franchise created by Aya Nishitani, Kouji "Cozy" Okada, Ginichiro Suzuki, and Kazunari Suzuki. Primarily developed and published by Atlus, the franchise consists of multiple subseries and covers multiple role-playing video game genres including tactical role-playing, action role-playing, and massively multiplayer online role-playing. The first two titles in the series were published by Namco (now Bandai Namco Entertainment), but have been almost always published by Atlus in Japan and North America since the release of Shin Megami Tensei. For Europe, Atlus publishes the games thro…