so here's an interesting thing about Persona 4
Did you know Yosuke was originally intended to be a romantic option for the player?
There’s already a fair amount of romantically charged dialogue in his Social Links that wasn’t removed - his Rank 5 scene where he’s in the protagonist’s room asking where he keeps his dirty magazines definitely comes to mind, for example:
Yosuke: So, you ever invited a girl in here?
> “I haven’t.”
Yosuke: Haha, maybe you’re more of a man’s man than I thought.
> Yosuke seems happy…
As does his Rank 8 scene where the player has the option to hug him on the riverbank if they’ve chosen certain dialogue in the Rank 7 scene. The hugging is notable because it’s a Japanese game - in the States it isn’t a big deal to hug your friends, regardless of gender. In Japan, hugging someone when you’re a dude is a much more intimate gesture, and not something you’d really do to your male best friend. (I was always mad about why no one hugged the player goodbye before his train leaves at the end of the game, but this is why.)
But! There are a few interesting unused audio files that are still in the game itself of cut dialogue from Yosuke’s Rank 10 scene that make things pretty clear, as well as some other stuff from the game.
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It would be helpful to hear those reversed social link lines about Yosuke by Yukiko. I’m a lil sceptical that they dubbed un-used dialogue, feel like P4 would attract like impressionists to do silly youtube videos and this might be a good Yosuke, and can’t quite trust the Japanese soundbytes because anime voice actors make CDs with dating-sim-like lines like a lot.
These audio files are genuine, and taken directly from the data on the Persona 4 disc itself, as is the Japanese audio file. Because Atlus is a huge company that is able to put a lot of money into their releases outside of Japan, Persona 4 was being localized for an English release directly alongside Japanese development. There is unused dubbed dialogue for almost every party member’s Social Links, not just Yosuke’s. The reversed Social Link lines have no voice over because the reversal mechanic was scrapped earlier into development.
I put a lot of work into writing this up for people, and the users who actually went in and extracted the data from their discs did even more work! Please don’t insult everyone else by claiming this is fake. That would be way more work than I’m willing to put in for something like this
