Persona 4 Golden: The Day a Thick Fog Fell on Brooklyn

The Golden Curse Has Been Lifted! My world shook once more when Persona 4 Golden broke the Vita curse and fell into my lap on Steam on this wonderful year of our King Frost 2020. It came as a surprise at first, because the Persona fandom knows that rumors just be dropping out from the sky. We see it all the time. The people on Twitter begging for the Switch port that we (secretly) know will never happen, and those who swore up and down Kasumi was going to be a female protagonist. But, alas, they listened to one of our cries. Now I know many folks that hopped onto the fandom after Persona 5/Persona 5 Royal and to y’all I say: Welcome to The Velvet Room. The first time I ever played Persona, it was around June 2014. I just finished my freshman year in college and I haven’t owned a Playstation console since the PS1. I wanted a handheld game system to help me deal with my anxiety problems. I figured this would be the best time to buy the PS Vita since it was relatively affordable. While scrolling online for game recommendations, a friend from high school initially told me about Persona 4 Golden because of my deep appreciation for an in depth story-line. “Sure,” I thought. I’m usually kind of iffy on turn-based RPG games unless it was Pokémon. But considering how quirky it looked, I figured this was up my ally so I should give it a go. For the first ten hours it was just a game to me. It was fun watching teenagers taking initiative to solve mysteries in unconventional ways and fac…