Inaba isn't the kind of place you go for spectacle, though it's a good backdrop for a funeral. The bareness of the porting suits the setting's naffness, however – it's appropriate that these environments feel out of date, like they've had the dust blown off them by an unscrupulous vendor. This is one of those ports where the resolution hike strips the original assets of charm, roughening the edges of the cardboard grass and exposing the gaps between tiles on the map screen (the gorgeous anime portraits in dialogue come off rather better). The remaster doesn't exactly add to Inaba's appeal, as Katharine has already written. It's not even a very memorable town: neither a wistful Chosen One Village nor a bustling world hub, but a wilting suburb done up in Google Map shades of tarmac and drizzle, full of collapsing businesses, bitter old people and bored children. Persona 4 Golden – the first of Atlus's celebrated RPGs to make a belated landfall on PC - is set almost entirely inside a single town. Most roleplaying games span continents, planets, even galaxies. A JRPG classic newly brought to PC, with all its peculiar magic intact in spite, and sometimes because of, the bareness of its port.
