Persona 3 Portable and Persona 4 Golden translation mess: former Sega employee claims those responsible are not accredited

As of yesterday, Persona 3 Portable and Persona 4 Golden are available on PC and current consoles (even on Game Pass), featuring a major novelty: for the first time, both games have English lyrics.

As with Persona 5 Royal, this is a delight as it makes it easier for more players to discover these wonderful role-playing games.

It’s all the credit to Sega’s localization managers, who are gradually… gradually make the Japanese company’s games more accessible in the West.. Another example is Like a Dragon: Ishin, which will have Spanish lyrics (although the voices will still be in Japanese).

The problem again is that companies don’t always credit all employees. This has already happened with The Callisto Protocol and The Last of Us series on HBO Max, so it’s a topical issue.

Katrina Leonoudakisformer Sega localization manager, has complained that the people responsible for the translations… are NOT credited in Persona 3 Portable and Persona 4 Golden..

Controversy with the translations of Persona.

The FIGS teams are responsible for translating Persona 3 Portable y Persona 4 Golden into languages ​​like Spanish, German, French and Italian… for the first time since both games were released.

It’s a titanic task, not only because of the size of the two titles, but also because it’s been a few years since they hit stores.

Katrina Leonoudakis was the main localization manager at Segauntil she decided to leave the company during the translation of Persona 3 and Persona 4.

However, before leaving Sega, sent an email to ensure that all FIGS employees were accredited. in both matches. This ultimately did not happen.

”I am absolutely outraged. I was the localization coordinator for the project until I left SEGA, in constant contact with the FIGS teams. I told the team that replaced me to credit the FIGS team. They have worked incredibly hard to locate TWO GAMES.”.

Katrina posted that on social media, citing Tamslator’s tweet reporting the notable absence from the credits of Persona 3 Portable and Persona 4 Golden.

Similarly, Katrina claims that Sega has done this before (in the Yakuza saga), and that Those responsible for the translations were paid far less than they earned.for all the hours of work put into it.

Related to this, yesterday, former Naughty Dog veteran Bruce Straley… called for the unification of the video game industry.after not being credited in HBO Max’s The Last of Us series.

Undoubtedly, a sad piece of news of which we are still waiting for an official confirmation. Persona 3 Portable and Persona 4 Golden are now available on PS4, Xbox X|S Series, Xbox One, Game Pass, Windows, Nintendo Switch and Steam.