PERSONA 4 ARENA ULTIMAX PLATFORMS SERIES

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From here, your character’s persona learns new abilities and you increase their stats as you see fit. This new release even throws in the DLC from the original Ultimax, telling the story from Adachi’s perspective. So what about the RPG aspect of the franchise, I hear you ask? There’s a tower attack mode where you level up a given character as you win. It’s basically exactly what you would picture if you said “Persona, but as a fighting game”.

Getting onto combat, it’s got everything you’d expect: weak and strong attacks weak and strong persona attacks combos, throws and the kitchen sink. There’s a tutorial mode if you want to learn the ropes, but it’s one of those frustrating 70-step tutorials which covers the very basics of walking for the first 5 levels. And if the idea of Teddie-ously clicking through the story (and its shameless bear-related puns) is offputting, you’ll be pleased to know the arcade mode is available from the start.Įach character feels well balanced and unique, though I certainly performed better with some than others. Outside of the story, Ultimax is a solid fighting game - it looks, feels and sounds great, with the entirety voiced by the original voice actors. It’s a shame because the story is genuinely interesting, and the fact that that the storytelling is split between the Persona 4 protagonists, with each character narrating a different chapter as you play (well, watch) the game is a nice touch. I say ‘almost’ because while this works for the most part, I tried this with the last boss and watches as I got my ass categorically handed to me. If you don’t want to fight, you can (almost) always just put the game on auto-fight mode and leave the controller on the table. Once every 15 minutes or so, you’ll be thrown into a 1v1 fight to advance the story, which is a little jarring.

So far, so interesting, right? Storytelling is always a strong point for the franchise, which is why it’s such a shame that the story here is all graphic novel with the occasional cutscene. Persona 4 Arena Ultimax takes place the very next day, and takes the idea one step further by asking what world-ending catastrophe would happen if the Midnight Channel and Dark Hour collided? The Persona 3 protagonists are captured and crucified, and their new buddies are sucked back into the fight to save them - but this time, there is a twist: the baddies from Arena and Persona 4 are both back… A tournament ensues and everyone becomes friends. These two games happen in the same world, and the characters discover each other in Persona 4 Arena in a fighting tournament held within the Midnight Channel - the protagonists of Persona 3 having gone to Inaba to track one of their Anti-Shadow weapons that has gone AWOL.

PERSONA 4 ARENA ULTIMAX PLATFORMS SERIES

Persona 4 investigates a series of murders in the town of Inaba, where another bunch of students discover the murders are committed in a dimension inside the TV, called the Midnight Channel. A quick recap of the story so far: Persona 3 sees a group students in the town of Iwatodai who fight monsters that appear during the ‘Dark Hour’ - a mysterious time after midnight that most people are completely unaware of.

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