Due in Japan on November 1st, alongside the release of the PSPgo, is Persona 3 Portable, a port of the acclaimed PlayStation 2 Atlus RPG. One of the major new details about the game, we’re happy to report, is that you can now choose the main character’s sex.

At the beginning of the game, you select which effeminate gender you’d like to be, which influences several things in the game; from the appearance of your starting persona, Orpheus, to the attendant in the Velvet Room, who will be male if you choose to play female. Nothing has come out yet regarding changes made to the social links system, so we’re unsure if choosing to play a female will automatically make you a lesbian. We always figured Mitsuru swung that way anyhow.

Other added content includes a new travel system which will allow you to move between classrooms in the school, among other places, by simply selecting them in a menu. There are two new difficulties, Beginner and Maniac, and you will now be able to control the actions of your party members directly, like you can in Persona 4, as opposed to the vague Tactics system used in the original Persona 3. Thank God, maybe now Mitsuru will do something other than cast Tentarafoo… like actually being helpful.

No word yet on if there will be a US release, let alone when, though it seems rather likely.

[Via: 1up.com. Photo courtesy NeoGAF]