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Kaan Serin

Persona 4 Revival replaced the original RPG's English voice cast after Atlus struggled to get everyone back: "Let's start over"

Persona 4 Revival screenshot shows the protagonist and Yosuke high-fiving for a baton pass.

While Persona 4 Revival is sticking to the original game pretty closely, developer Atlus has decided to make one fairly big change to the classic by replacing its entire English voice cast. Why? Series producer Kazuhisa Wada tells us it was kind of an all-or-nothing situation.

"The original game was originally recorded for the English cast, specifically, a long, long time ago," Wada tells GamesRadar+ in an interview from Gamescom 2026, per a translator. A decade-plus gap means some of the OG actors "are no longer in the industry" at all, while some of them are now popular enough that it's "really hard to lock down" their schedules.

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