Trivia / Persona 2

• Bad Export for You: The worldwide release of Innocent Sin for PSP massively cut down the Theater side quest; the Quest Creation feature was removed, and the official DLC quests were not localized.
• Cross-Dressing Voices: Jun in the English version, for some reason. The Japanese PS1 releases of Innocent Sin and Eternal Punishment gave him a reserved but definitely-masculine voice, while the PS1 dub of Eternal Punishment gave him a female voice actress. This is, however, completely averted in the Updated Re-release of Innocent Sin, where his current dub actor's voice matches the original much more closely.
• Dummied Out:
  • The ability to create and download new dungeons has been taken out of the English release of the Innocent Sin remake.
  • Supposedly, the player could have influenced Joker's One-Winged Angel form by spreading rumors describing the Joker as angelic or devilish. The NPCs that reference this are still in the game, and both the concept art and a sprite of the Joker's "devil" form still exist, but there's no way to influence his appearance.
  • As shown in the artbooks, Nyarlathotep was at one point supposed to have an original human form as The Black Man but for whatever reason the design never made it into the final game.
• Fan Translation:
  • Innocent Sin got one a few years prior to its Updated Re-release, and not only was Atlus aware of it, they gave it props for quality and accuracy.
  • One was complete for the PSP release of Eternal Punishment on July 26th, 2022. This is more an extensive edit of the PS1 version's official localization than a true fan translation, though the extra scenario translation is based on a Tumblr translation that was reproduced with permission.
• Network to the Rescue: Since the remake of Eternal Punishment was not going to be localized, Sony instead decided to release the original PS1 version on PSN for those who wanted to play it.
• No Export for You: The original release of Innocent Sin was never released outside of Japan, whilst Eternal Punishment was also released in America. The Innocent Sin remake for PSP was released worldwide, but the Eternal Punishment remake has not been released outside of Japan due to unspecified "unusual circumstances", making it the only Persona game never to receive a release in Europe in some capacity.
• The Other Darrin: For Maya, Dorothy Elias-Fahn replaces Lani Minella in the US for the PSP version.
• Pop-Culture Urban Legends: A (now deleted but archived) post◊ claimed that Jun was originally meant to be the protagonist of Eternal Punishment, despite this supposed information never being found in interviews or in the game's files. Sure enough, a post in 2023 has thoroughly debunked the claim.
• Troubled Production: Iwakura Productions' Fan Translation of the PSP remake of Eternal Punishment was in development for years, but development fell apart at the last hurdle due to several factors, eventually leading to it being canned after it was preempted by a similar patch that came out of nowhere in July 2022. Family deaths and the COVID-19 Pandemic ate into team members' free time, but that was surmountable. What was not surmountable was the Russian main programmer losing access to his programming tools as a result of the invasion of Ukraine, causing beta testing to stall.
• Word of Gay: A lot of this. The character designer, Kazuma Kaneko, supports the pairing of Jun and Tatsuya, and he also presents a pretty good case for them to the scenario writer in the interviews. And let's not even go into the drama CD—baby chickens are a really big deal.

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