![]() ![]() Beginners aren’t tossed right into the fire, however, as there’s a decently informative practice mode that teaches you the basics of controls. Whether you like to focus more on grapple attacks or on zoning, it seems like everybody fills a proper niche in the lineup and has their own distinct feel.Ī character’s moveset usually incorporates a mixture of light and heavy attacks, throws, grabs, and special attacks, adding up to make for a dizzying array of ways to approach a battle. Most of them also have a ‘Shadow’ version available that bumps that number even higher, all but guaranteeing that there’s a fighter for every playstyle available. There are 22 fighters to choose from here, consisting of some newcomers and the casts of both Persona 3 and 4. Luckily, the actual fighting game parts of P4AU are excellent Arc System Works certainly didn’t disappoint in delivering an approachable take on 2D fighting with a ridiculously high skill ceiling. All that fluff might be a little more forgivable in the context of an RPG where you have lots of things to do around it, but it simply doesn’t work in a fighting game. There’s probably five hours of actual plot in here, yet it will take you thirty hours to get through it. Characters will take their sweet time to talk about whatever they’re talking about - they’ll spend several minutes reflecting on where they’re about to go before they actually go there. And while the plot itself does eventually develop into something mildly interesting, it’s consistently dragged down by entirely useless scenes that just pad out the runtime. Mashing ‘A’ through half an hour of dialogue doesn’t make the quick battle at the end of that gauntlet feel exciting-it feels exhausting. This means that you’re frequently retreading the same ground again, only you’re privy to someone else’s thoughts for this scene instead.Īll of this is to say that the lack of adequate gameplay elements in the story mode makes it a true test of one’s endurance. This would be bad enough on its own, but things are exacerbated by the fact that there are multiple routes to take through the story, with each taking the perspective of a different character. Captured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked)Īfter the three minutes it takes for the fight to be over, you then get thrown back into another lengthy expository sequence and the cycle repeats. ![]() The story is exclusively delivered to you via visual novel-esque static screens where characters read their lines, sometimes for 10-15 minutes at a time, before you finally get to pick up the controller and fight in a battle. Whereas the rich narrative of a typical Persona game is frequently punctuated by dungeon runs, school trips, and social outings, there is no such content to break up the verbose monotony here. After a few members of the team go missing, the remaining members opt to step back into the world in the TV to join the competition in the hopes of finding their lost friends and getting to the bottom of what’s going on.įor a fighting game, the story here feels fine, but it suffers from some absolutely glacial pacing. Conveniently, the Midnight Channel has returned at the same time, and is now broadcasting a mysterious P-1 Grand Prix that seems to be hosted by a version of their friend Teddie. In the story mode, P4AU primarily follows the members of the Investigation Team a few months after the events of Persona 4 with the gang all getting back together in Inaba for Golden Week. In short, this is the most feature-rich version of P4AU yet, and it all comes now with the benefit of being portable. Behind the scenes, this is also including all of the ‘2.5’ content from the Japanese exclusive arcade release of P4AU, which integrated a bunch of balancing changes to make for an overall better feeling experience. This means that all the additional fighters, a staggering amount of cosmetic options for each of them, and an additional story mode have all been thrown in. Persona 4 Arena Ultimax packs in quite a lot of content, featuring the stories of both the original P4A and P4AU alongside all the DLC from across those two games. ![]() First off, let’s recap what’s all included here. ![]()
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