Persona 5 Royal Censorship Discussion

[Alligator]

It seems that the release of P5R on PC is now inevitable and in preparation for that, I've decided to start this thread to figure out how much of that game has been censored by Atlus' localization team. This should help those of us who haven't played Royal to decide if the game is worth our money or not.
I'm sure most of us already know that the scenes with the two gays characters hitting on Ryuji were censored, but I would like to find out if there are more "problematic" scenes that were altered. I've heard that the Valentine's Day scenes were censored as well, but don't know much details about that.
So I ask anyone who played both P5 and P5R, or P5R in both Japanese and English, and noticed any censorship, changes to dialogue to make it less "offensive", to please post your observations here.

[Cruna]

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Who cares? They are at best very minor changes in a 100 hour game. And if those changes make the game more welcoming to a larger audience than they are good changes.

well thing is , cancel culture usually does the exact opposite. ruin things for a large audience for the appeal of a small minority. Just saying...

Creative freedom should be protected at any cost, even if some losers who are eager to find something to be offended about voice their concerns every step of the way.

[< Flixce1r >]

Censor it or not
The game sell really well not because of fan-service but the Story/gameplay itself
Nobody actually care about minor change like that

[Kukuth]

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You're implying here that LGBT people aren't also normal people. Just because it isn't offensive to you or 'normal people' doesn't mean that it isn't offensive at all. The game didn't lose anything by changing a line or two to make something slightly less offensive. Nobody forced them to do it either, so it isn't even censorship anyway. I still had loads of fun in the 119 hours it took me to finish it. I'm sure you would too.

No, by 'normal' people I mean people who aren't ResetEra members, who aren't professional victims, who aren't constantly trying to find something to be offended by. The difference between me and the ResetEra bullies is that I can take a joke. And I support creative freedom, I don't demand that everything that I don't like needs to be changed and censored. I don't doxx and harass developers that I don't like, or because they made a joke that I could take personally.

well apparently you cant take the creative freedom of them to change the translation...

[Alligator]

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No, by 'normal' people I mean people who aren't ResetEra members, who aren't professional victims, who aren't constantly trying to find something to be offended by. The difference between me and the ResetEra bullies is that I can take a joke. And I support creative freedom, I don't demand that everything that I don't like needs to be changed and censored. I don't doxx and harass developers that I don't like, or because they made a joke that I could take personally.

well apparently you cant take the creative freedom of them to change the translation...

I give you award for the dumbest attempt to excuse censorship in this thread so far.

[๖ۣۜQTEila]

"Inevitable" P5 is inevitable, seeing as this is a direct sequel to base P5, having been confirmed by Atlus, much rather have the true prequel than the spinoff sequel and its fanfiction writing.. Hope they put in P5 over royal, prefer writing over gameplay. Especially an intrusive redhead that is misplaced in the entire game.

[ValentB]

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"Inevitable" P5 is inevitable, seeing as this is a direct sequel to base P5, having been confirmed by Atlus, much rather have the true prequel than the spinoff sequel and its fanfiction writing.. Hope they put in P5 over royal, prefer writing over gameplay. Especially an intrusive redhead that is misplaced in the entire game.

They will port Royal, not now redundant base P5, and you can't do anything about it.

[fender178]

When I was playing P5R during my 1st and only playthrough (for right now) I didn't even notice they took out the scene with Ryuji and the two gay guys because I was busy comparing and contrasting what new scenes were added.

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"Inevitable" P5 is inevitable, seeing as this is a direct sequel to base P5, having been confirmed by Atlus, much rather have the true prequel than the spinoff sequel and its fanfiction writing.. Hope they put in P5 over royal, prefer writing over gameplay. Especially an intrusive redhead that is misplaced in the entire game.

No they will only port Royal because I don't think Atlus wants to get into hot water again from the same group of people who complained about the censored clip again who complained about it the first time.

[mega_bahamut86]

I wonder if modders could change the dialogue back.

[Alligator]

What I'm still wondering about is if there's someone who played Royal in Japanese and English and who could confirm if the new scenes were translated faithfully.

[Bogan]

Why is the release of Persona 5 Royal inevitable? Atlus have been asses in the past and only released Persona 4 on pc

[Princess Pilfer]

"I support creative freedom but if the developer/s actually exercise creative freedom to make changes to anything I throw a temper tantrum. *Especially* if they make any changes that might make the game more welcoming to anybody who isn't me!"


(Fun fact, btw, the guy who kept pushing the anti-lgbt stuff in Persona became such a problem they kicked him off the Persona team)

[Alligator]

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Why is the release of Persona 5 Royal inevitable? Atlus have been asses in the past and only released Persona 4 on pc

Because P4G sold very well on Steam and now they also released Strikers here. Why wouldn't they also release Royal, which I'd say has the highest potential of all these titles to make a lot of profit? Royal would also definitely boost sales for Strikers, since many people are waiting to buy Strikers after they've played Royal on PC.

[dannyj147]

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Why is the release of Persona 5 Royal inevitable? Atlus have been asses in the past and only released Persona 4 on pc

Because P4G sold very well on Steam and now they also released Strikers here. Why wouldn't they also release Royal, which I'd say has the highest potential of all these titles to make a lot of profit? Royal would also definitely boost sales for Strikers, since many people are waiting to buy Strikers after they've played Royal on PC.

They didn't release Catherine Full Body on PC.

[Bogan]

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Why is the release of Persona 5 Royal inevitable? Atlus have been asses in the past and only released Persona 4 on pc

Because P4G sold very well on Steam and now they also released Strikers here. Why wouldn't they also release Royal, which I'd say has the highest potential of all these titles to make a lot of profit? Royal would also definitely boost sales for Strikers, since many people are waiting to buy Strikers after they've played Royal on PC.

Yeah sorry bud but I doubt they're releasing Persona 5 anytime soon since if they were we would've heard something about it cause it will have been a year at the end of this month since Royal's release.

[Alligator]

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Because P4G sold very well on Steam and now they also released Strikers here. Why wouldn't they also release Royal, which I'd say has the highest potential of all these titles to make a lot of profit? Royal would also definitely boost sales for Strikers, since many people are waiting to buy Strikers after they've played Royal on PC.

Yeah sorry bud but I doubt they're releasing Persona 5 anytime soon since if they were we would've heard something about it cause it will have been a year at the end of this month since Royal's release.

They could have a 1 year exclusivity deal with Sony that prevents them from making the announcement.