Persona 4
Persona 4 is a role-playing video game developed and published by Atlus for Sony's PlayStation 2, and chronologically the fifth installment in the "Persona" series, itself a part of the larger "Megami Tensei" franchise. The game was released in Japan in July 2008, North America in December 2008, and Europe in March 2009. "Persona 4" takes place in a fictional Japanese countryside and is indirectly related to earlier "Persona" games. The player-named protagonist is a high-school student who moved into the countryside from the city for a year. During his year-long stay, he becomes involved in investigating mysterious murders while harnessing the power of summoning Persona. The game features a weather forecast system with events happening on foggy days to replace the moon phase system implemented in the previous games.
Giant Bomb
The Endurance Run was a daily video feature in which Caravella and Gerstmann played the PlayStation 2 role-playing game "Persona 4" in real time, with their own commentary over the video. The idea for the "Endurance Run" stemmed from Gerstmann and Caravella's own interest in playing "Persona 4", a game they were both curious about but didn't have time to play. In 2010 Gerstmann, Caravella, Davis and Shoemaker split into teams and concurrently played through the Xbox 360 budget action-adventure game "Deadly Premonition". After the show ended, "Deadly Premonition" creator Hidetaka "SWERY" Suehiro visited Giant Bomb in 2011 and 2013. Speaking at sister-site Tested.com's 2011 24-hour charity podcast in aid of Child's Play, Davis and Klepek revealed themselves as the players of the 3rd Endurance Run, playing the Super Nintendo Entertainment System release of "Chrono Trigger". The feature went on hiatus for four years until the PAX West event in September 2016, where Caravella, Navarro and Ryckert announced they would be reviving the Endurance Run feature, playing through the Sega Dreamcast title "Shenmue".