Persona 4 Golden

 PC
User Score
8.9

Generally favorable reviews- based on 1064 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 960 out of 1064
  2. Mixed: 45 out of 1064
  3. Negative: 59 out of 1064

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  1. Dubeau
    Jul 11, 2020
    7
    Persona 4 is a good game but with some annoying aspects. The story is amazing. I like the emotional small stories. Even the side quests are interesting. There is no exploration per say. The thing work with a school calendar and rely on creating social links. So, the day by day stuff is quite boring. You get a lot of the same in terms of events. You are limited to 5-6 areas, and 5-6Persona 4 is a good game but with some annoying aspects. The story is amazing. I like the emotional small stories. Even the side quests are interesting. There is no exploration per say. The thing work with a school calendar and rely on creating social links. So, the day by day stuff is quite boring. You get a lot of the same in terms of events. You are limited to 5-6 areas, and 5-6 dungeons. The fighting is entertaining and generally solid. I wasn't impress on the weapons and armor upgrades. It rely a lot of a single store system and a subpar redeem items. One of which, the item exchange, was completely useless. It took 40 hours to complete. I give it 75%. Great story, some good system but it also hides some boring aspects.… Expand
  2. srx
    May 2, 2021
    5
    Game was pretty good. I loved the gameplay, and the characters and story were fine, though not super outstanding or memorable. But god damn this port SUCKS. Crashes every hour makes me constantly lose progress on dungeons; i crashed during the final boss battle so I technically didn't "finish" the game because I ragequit right after and just watched the ending on youtube. -2 stars just forGame was pretty good. I loved the gameplay, and the characters and story were fine, though not super outstanding or memorable. But god damn this port SUCKS. Crashes every hour makes me constantly lose progress on dungeons; i crashed during the final boss battle so I technically didn't "finish" the game because I ragequit right after and just watched the ending on youtube. -2 stars just for the god awful port.… Expand
  3. CharlePL
    Aug 17, 2020
    5
    Archaic and repetitive but if you are a connoisseur of JRPGs you would probably find it fun.
  4. aditya1101
    Apr 29, 2021
    7
    This game does so many things wrong and yet it was still such an enthralling and entertaining experience for me. The pacing is awful, there's way too much grinding, some of the characters are way too horny (to the point where that becomes the primary facet of their personality), and there's just generally a lot of points in the game where I thought "Wow, I don't like the way they did X."This game does so many things wrong and yet it was still such an enthralling and entertaining experience for me. The pacing is awful, there's way too much grinding, some of the characters are way too horny (to the point where that becomes the primary facet of their personality), and there's just generally a lot of points in the game where I thought "Wow, I don't like the way they did X." But at the end of the day, this is still an extremely compelling video game experience that has so many interesting ideas, so many balls-to-the-wall ridiculous or unexpected moments, and enough charm that I thoroughly enjoyed my experience with the game. It's definitely too long (just like Persona 5) but I imagine that's probably due in large part to the extra Golden content. I'm not really sure what to make of this game - I feel like if I try to think about this like a video game critic I would give this a 4/10 but if I tried to rate its entertainment value and how much I enjoyed the experience of playing it, I'd easily give it a 9/10.… Expand
  5. RealNova
    Apr 13, 2021
    6
    This is one long game, it will take you more than 100h to finish it and even more if you want to play the newgame+. For such a long game it would need a very trilling gameplay to never bore the player unfortunatly that is true only for the first 10h or little more of the game, after than a endless uninteresting fase of vn slice of life start (there was even at the beggining but the moreThis is one long game, it will take you more than 100h to finish it and even more if you want to play the newgame+. For such a long game it would need a very trilling gameplay to never bore the player unfortunatly that is true only for the first 10h or little more of the game, after than a endless uninteresting fase of vn slice of life start (there was even at the beggining but the more you get of it the more it gets annoying), there are just to many social links which takes forever to complete and only 2 or 3 are interesting, and they follow the same structure more or the same with a lot of cheese dialogue, the game also give you the illusion of choice since 80% of times your dialogue choice wont even change the way you get answered to. But this game as another gameplay half other than the vn part which is the real rpg and let me tell you it would be really good if every dungeons wouldnt be just a reskin of the previous one, but they are. There is NOTHING in dungeon except chests and enemies (which you can easily avoid all the times and which looks all the same), just some flat hallways. Even if I like the card sistem at the end of each battle I don't understand why use it for chating personas, they chose to not make the enemies the persona you are gonna catch unlike other Persona games.
    Yet I have to admit the combat is one of the best I ever played in a turn based game, it's so satisfing to hit an enemy weakness or to smash them when they are down, it was the element of the game with conviced me of not quitting the game.
    After the first 3 bosses (or 4, depend watch you count) dungeons and bosses became so easy it's actualy impossible to die, you have so many ways to regain HP, SP and to withstand death hits that you really are gonna have to try hard to die (I played in hard difficulty), and that is a shame because the only reason why the first 3 bosses are hard is because you don't have many abilities yet which is of course less fun, so right when it start to get really fun with all the abilities the is no more challenge.
    The plot is an investigatio which turn to something else toward the end, it's good and intriguing but I think for such a plot there was not need for so many hours and in the first finale fase (the one you initialy think is the finale) it became so uninteresting that I was close to quit the game, but for the true ending it reconnect everything and it all makes sense, so all considered.
    The soundtrack did impress me, I found the same 3 ost way to abuse in ever VN part, the best ost is the battle one but is always the same and you will get bored of it in more than 100h, but I have to praise the ost of the end boss, so many and so exiciting.
    Going about the true ending, I can only say it's great, the ost are amazing, the boss looks intimidating and the aftermath is very sweet, I think the ending save the game.
    I know it's a old game and I know I use expect modern standards to value it but I can only give a vote to the enjoyment I got and it wasnt much.
    Only play it if you really like slice of life visual novels because that is what you are gonna get for half of the game, the rest is between good and great if we exclude the dungeons.    … Expand
  6. ErfXIII
    Jul 6, 2020
    7
    This Is a very good game buy it. but persona 3 is the best one.
    there is no good way to play persona 3 right now!!
    so Atlus? Where... is... Persona 3... ?!
  7. quizhan
    Jun 22, 2020
    7
    Persona 4 Golden is one of the best JRPGs of all time. Like this game every much.
  8. dylanbufanda
    Sep 12, 2020
    6
    When I watched the trailer it said this game had a 93 on metacritic however it actually has a 88 instead of a 93, I am pissed off at this fake marketing. However I appreciated the tasteful nudity in the game for story reasons. 5/10
  9. NateDalton06
    Apr 26, 2023
    7
    My first experience with the persona series, I failed to play it well, failed at getting the true ending and struggled a lot with the combat. Still loved it though and Am going to play it again now that I know what I am doing.
  10. IntellectDevour
    Aug 18, 2023
    6
    This game is so damn charming, but it takes forever to get started. With a little more player choice and agency, they could really make it into something incredible. The intro is great until you realize that your only halfway through it and there's 2 hours of cutscenes left before you can actually play the game. Still has one of my favorite worlds and Soundtracks.

Awards & Rankings

15
#15 Best PC Game of 2020
23
#23 Most Discussed PC Game of 2020

Critic Reviews

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Metascore
87

Generally favorable reviews - based on 29 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 25 out of 29
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 29
  3. Negative: 0 out of 29
  1. Siliconera
    Sep 15, 2020
    90
    It’s a strong showing that is genuinely fun to return to, even if I think certain characters’ stories deserved better representation and development. I’m glad a whole new audience will get to visit Inaba.
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  2. Game World Navigator Magazine
    Sep 3, 2020
    80
    By the end of the game, Inaba will feel like home to you. [Issue#247, p.50]
  3. RPGamer
    Jul 14, 2020
    90
    Persona 4 Golden was largely considered one of the PlayStation Vita’s must-play titles and for good reason. Inaba’s small-town feel, the fantastic cast, incredibly personable dialogue, excellent audio, and strong gameplay combine to make the game a superb all-around experience. Though there are no distinct advantages of playing this version over the Vita one, its release on PC should be rightfully celebrated for giving a whole new set of RPGamers the chance to play a game that resonates just as strongly now as it first did.
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