$200 Persona 3 Portable edition comes with the gun

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The recent Persona 3 Portable remaster, previously only available digitally, is getting a series of physical editions, including a $200 that comes with the gun. Yes, that gun.

Limited Run Games, a boutique publisher specializing in physical disc releases for games that are otherwise only available as downloads, has just revealed its versions of Persona 3 Portable for Switch, PS4, and Xbox platforms. The $35 standard edition comes with just the game, while the $70 Grimoire Edition comes with a SteelBook case and a fancy grimoire-shaped box.

But it's the $200 SEES edition that I really want to talk about. There are a bunch of additional tchotchkes here, including a certificate of authenticity, character shadowbox, soundtrack CD, SEES armband, and a bunch of character trading cards. But the highlight is undoubtedly the light-up "1:1 Evoker replica shadowbox."

Get fully loaded with the Persona 3 Portable S.E.E.S. Edition! This mother of all collector's editions includes extra premium goods, like trading cards, a shadowbox & a light-up, 1:1 replica of the Evoker!Pre-orders launch on September 29th. Learn more: https://t.co/sygwRPynXw pic.twitter.com/3c34gGOzigSeptember 25, 2023

If you're unfamiliar with Persona 3, you might be wondering why a small box with a fake gun inside is so notable. As with the rest of the series, the powers of Persona 3's protagonists come courtesy of spirits called Personas, and their appearances are stylized in various ways depending on the theme of that particular entry in the series.

In Persona 3, characters activate their Personas by taking an Evoker - that's the gun - pointing it at their own forehead, and pulling the trigger. Yeah, that imagery raised a whole lot of eyebrows back around the