Persona 4 Ideal

After failing to identify the true source of the distortions in the TV world, our Protagonist reluctantly boards the train that will take him back to Tokyo…only to wake up in the Velvet Room with a chance to go back and do it all again. Will he save Mayumi Yamano and Saki Konishi from their fates? Will he unravel the true mystery of what’s been happening in Inaba? Or will he meet with one of the many unfortunate Bad Ends? It’s all up to you!

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Just a quick update, this project is pretty much dead. I'll be leaving the blog up and people can still download it and play it, but I don't know why anybody would at this point!

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uh hello! i just recently played the demo for this game and i really liked it and uh yeah i was just wondering if you were actually going to continue this? either way thanks a lot for making the demo i enjoyed getting most of the endings on it! thanks again!

There has always been a plan to continue, but I haven't really had the time to do it, and when I do have the time I either don't have the motivation or I have other projects I have to work on instead. Maybe one day!

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Hello! There are 2 of the bad endings that I'm struggling to get. The 14th one (Orobus in Saki's shadow fight w/ no SLP w/ Yosuke,) & the 16th one (Saki Mitama in Saki's shadow fight w/ no SLP w/ Yukiko). The problem is that every time I try, I keep getting the wrong bad endings 13th and 15th, I was wondering what I need to do to get them. I would like to mention that the demo is amazing, done very well, & I'm looking forward to updates & the full game! Thank you so much for your help & time!

I’ll take a look at the code and try to see if I can figure out what’s happening. Thank you so much for playing, even though there hasn’t been an update in over a year ^^;

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Huh hi ! So I just played the demo, and I wanted to say that IT WAS GREAT ! My gut tells me the project is probably dead, which is fine if it is, but I at least wanted to say that I really loved what you did ! You did a great job !

I’m actually working on it during my coronavirus downtime! Look forward to an update soon(?) hopefully!

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Hey, just wanted to stop by and ask are you still working on this by any chance? Whatever the answer is, are you working on anything else? Cos this is pretty good and I'd love to continue seeing your work.

I am still working on it, actually! Last year I lost a bunch of data in a hard drive crash, including a lot of the files for this game, but I’ve been slowly rebuilding and working on it. I can’t say for sure when I’ll be able to post a new update, though!

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I updated around this time last year, and unfortunately I won’t be able to post another update this time. I changed computers and unfortunately a lot of the data I had for the upcoming update didn’t make the transfer, and I haven’t felt up to redoing all of the content. I’m still working on it, but it’s going to be a while. Thanks to everyone that’s stuck around so far!

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hi i really really love this game so far♥ the premise is already so fucking cool (i wish new game+ was like this) and all the added parts feel so canon, and the look and the feel of the game is already so amazing! also the added in yosuke parts are so precious,, i love him so much!~♥ i really hope you decide to continue making this!♥ ♥ ♥

I’m definitely still working on it, don’t worry!

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One year later, and P4 Ideal returns! Thank you to everyone that stuck around, and welcome to any new people. Here’s what’s new in version 1.1:

Fixed all the bugs (that I know of)

Corrected grammar and spelling mistakes

Some graphical improvements (date/time/weather are in more screens, the Shadows are 50% more menacing, etc.)

Made it so that you can choose your Protagonist’s name

Added one new bad ending

Added two more days of gameplay, up to the end of the 17th

Shadow Chie!

200% more bear puns!

More chances to flirt with Yosuke!

Sayoko shows up!

There’s now a walkthrough/guide!

...and more!

You can download it from here. If you find any typos, bugs or errors, or just want to give us some feedback or constructive criticism, you can send us an ask. And remember, this is only the very beginning of the game - more will be added in the future! Make sure to follow this tumblr for updates!

WARNING: If you played an earlier version of this game, you CANNOT use your old save files or you’ll get a ton of errors. This is due mostly to being able to choose your Protagonist’s name. Start a new game, and don’t load your old files. You can save over your old save slots easily enough, or you can delete your old save files from your appdata. The location should be something like:

C:\Users\yourname\AppData\Roaming\RenPy\backups\persona4ideal

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This game has not been abandoned!

Just wanted to leave a quick update: No, this game hasn’t been abandoned! I am (very slowly) working on more content for it, but things have been particularly hectic IRL for me ever since July. I’m hoping to put out an update soon that fixes those bugs from version 1 and adds in Yukiko’s Castle, but I can’t give any firm time frame on that update just yet. If you’re still following, thanks for sticking around!

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If anyone is waiting on the update to fix the couple of bugs I’ve found in the game: I apologize! A lot of unexpected things happened to me all at once and I haven’t been able to work on the game as much as I’d like. A fix is coming, along with more content eventually. Thank you for your patience!

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i just finished a playthrough and i loved this game!!! and apparently i need to play it again because i KNEW there were lots of bad endings, but 20??? 20?!!? i kinda want to go back and figure out all the ways to screw up just so i can see more of this game ahahaha.... anyway i really liked this and it's such a cool concept!!

Aaaaa, thanks! One of the bad endings is broken at the moment, I’ll be fixing it soon though! And I may post a walkthrough or at least hints about how to get some of the harder to find bad endings...

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I loved it! It really freaked me out when I saw Saki Konishi on the TV and then suddenly the thunder noise, I also nearly cried when Yosuke died... I know that the most logical thing to do was to go alone but I thought I could build the friendship by bringing Yosuke and Chie and making them get their personas but that was a selfish choice indeed and it surprised me that for the game that was really a terrible choice, as in most cliché games that would have been the correct path to take.

Aaaaah thank you! Sorry you got freaked out about the thunder noise and Yosuke dying, though! I’m glad to know that my game defies cliches~

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Now that the game is out, I thought I’d show off some of the work I did! I wanted this specific scene as the background for the Shadow Mayumi fight, but Chie and Yosuke are both in the shot, and the date is wrong. But, through the magic of Photoshop, I persevered! I cropped out Chie, made the red and yellow splatters a little bigger, and did my best to photoshop Yosuke out entirely. Aside from changing the date and weather in a couple of backgrounds, this is probably the simplest edit I did for Ideal...

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Just a heads up - if you try to use Valkyrie against the second Shadow, it should lead to a bad ending but instead leads to an error. My apologies! For now, just don’t pick Valkyrie until I can get the code updated. Thanks to @angevon for finding this bug!

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Hi there! I'd really like to try the demo, but the link to download the Mac version doesn't seem to work. I'm not sure if it's just my browser being buggy or not...

The link should be this one. If it still doesn’t work, it may be because it’s uploaded to Google Drive - I’ll try uploading it somewhere else if so!

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It’s time! Persona 4 Ideal version 1 is available for download! You can get it from here. If you find any typos, bugs or errors, or just want to give us some feedback or constructive criticism, you can send us an ask. And remember, this is only the very beginning of the game - more will be added in the future! Make sure to follow this tumblr for updates!

SPOILER WARNING: If you haven’t played/watched/read Persona 4...well, this game won’t make much sense to you anyway, BUT there is a big spoiler for the identity of the True Killer at the very beginning of the game. 

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Persona 4 Ideal is a renpy fan-game/visual novel being produced by @artikgato. 

After failing to identify the true source of the distortions in the TV world and the fog that enshrouds it, our Protagonist reluctantly boards the train that will take him back to Tokyo...only to wake up in the Velvet Room with a chance to go back and do it all again. Will he save Mayumi Yamano and Saki Konishi from their grisly fates? Will he be able to forge the same Social Links? Will he unravel the true mystery of what’s been happening in Inaba? Or will he meet with one of the many unfortunate and painful Bad Ends? It’s all up to you, the player!

This game is still very early in development. Our goal is to release it in installments - the first, which is essentially the prologue, takes place over April 11th - 15th. We’ll (hopefully) be releasing it on July 10th, 2017!

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