The player's party (here consisting of Maya, Katsuya, Ulala, and Baofu) fights enemy demons in turn-based battles.

Reception of the game in Japan and the West has generally been positive, with reviewers appreciating improvements over Innocent Sin, the plot, the gameplay systems, and the improved localization compared to the original Persona. The game's theme song, 'Change Your Way', was written by English singer-songwriter Elisha La'Verne based on the game's premise. The second game began development after Innocent Sin was completed, and while it reused most of the assets from Innocent Sin, the gameplay and Rumor system were improved upon. The original producer (Kouji Okada), character designer (Kazuma Kaneko) and composers (Toshiko Tasaki, Kenichi Tsuchiya and Masaki Kurokawa) returned alongside Satomi.

Halfway through the production of Innocent Sin, writer Tadashi Satomi felt that a fresh point of view was needed in addition to Tatsuya, laying the groundwork for Eternal Punishment. The gameplay features turn-based battle gameplay, where characters use their Personas in battle against demons, and a separate Rumor system, where rumors spread around the city can influence events in the characters' favor, either bad or good. During her investigations, she and others who join her gain the ability to summon Personas, personified aspects of their personalities. Taking place a few months after Innocent Sin, the game follows reporter Maya Amano as she investigates the Joker Curse, a malign phenomenon where people's wishes and rumors are coming true and causing chaos. In response to this, the PlayStation version was released on PlayStation Network in 2013.Įternal Punishment takes place in the fictional Japanese city of Sumaru, and is a direct sequel to Persona 2: Innocent Sin. This version, released in Japan in 2012, did not receive an overseas release. The game was later remade by Atlus for the PlayStation Portable. It was originally published in 2000 by Atlus in Japan and North America for the PlayStation. The kanji of Kiyotada Sumaru's last name is otherwise written differently as '澄丸'.Persona 2: Eternal Punishment is a role-playing video game developed by Atlus, and chronologically the third installment in the Persona series, a subseries of the Megami Tensei franchise.

The kanji name of the city can be loosely translated 'pearl-leisure-jade'.

This leads to a common mistake by Japanese players to interpret the character with the similar kanji, '間'.

The character '閒' in the name of the city is not a common Japanese kanji.

'Sumaru' is altered from 'Subaru' (すばる, 昴), the Japanese name for the Pleiades (Seven Sisters) star cluster, a plot device heavily employed in the story.

The names of both Aoba and Konan wards come straight from this city as well.

Sumaru City is modeled after Yokohama.

Sumaru City in Persona 2: Eternal Punishment.

The name was taken from an in-game historical figure known as Kiyotada Sumaru, a feudal warlord who once ruled the city during the Period Of The Warring States. In Innocent Sin, the player can access 5 total wards as the story progresses, with 1 added later in Eternal Punishment. It's a fictional Japanese seaside city, with over 1.28 million people. Sumaru City (kanji: 珠閒瑠市) is the main setting to the Persona 2 duology. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Please follow one of the disambiguation links above or search to find the page you were looking for if it is not listed. This article is a disambiguation page for Sumaru City

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