The player-named protagonist is a high-school student who moved into the countryside from the city for a year. Persona 4 takes place in a fictional Japanese countryside and is indirectly related to earlier Persona games. It was re-released as a PlayStation 2 Classic for the PlayStation 3 in April 2014. It is chronologically the fifth installment in the Persona series, itself a part of the larger Megami Tensei franchise, and was released for the PlayStation 2 in Japan in July 2008, North America in December 2008, and Europe in March 2009, as one of the final major exclusives for the system. Persona 4, also known as Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4, is a role-playing video game developed and published by Atlus.
