After completing a certain amount of matches, there will be a boss fight and a chance to acquire rare skills through them. This leads for a fun, intuitive and challenging experience that will keep even the most experienced fighters on their toes, and caters to those of us who tend to enjoy RPG elements in gameplay a little more. You can improve upon their stats (such as HP, SP, strength, etc.) through a point allocation system and you can unlock skills depending on your social link choice as well. After winning a match your character gains EXP and eventually levels up. Reaching back to the RPG roots of Persona 4, Golden Arena Mode allows you to pick a character and a “social link” navigator partner and actually level up your character through dungeon-style streams of battle in various difficulties. If that’s not for you, head over to Arcade Mode for some CPU or second player action, Score Attack Mode for a challenge, or alternatively, my new favourite addition, Golden Arena Mode. Arcade mode’s story style, featuring Stupei and Yuka-tan. Unfortunately veteran fighting game players may not derive as much joy out of story mode based on the automatic difficulty setting which leaves the one-round matches feeling more like teasers than actual gameplay, it’s still a welcome relief from the considerable amount of reading you’ll be doing. As a new player, you may be confused by established plot but it’s still mildly entertaining and can give you the context and character development that people often yearn so deeply for in fighting games. After reaching the 50% mark of story completion I started to realise that perhaps this wasn’t as streamlined and interactive as say, Blazblue or Guilty Gear’s story modes, but because these are characters I had already been previously invested in, getting through the story didn’t feel too much like pulling teeth.Įven if you aren’t an established Persona fan, there’s still a lot to enjoy with the story, albeit the presence of the game’s sometimes cringe-worthy humour and rocky writing may deter you. If you choose to play story mode, be prepared to sift through long scenes of narrative with little to no player involvement at all. Unfortunately, one of Persona 4 Arena Ultimax’s biggest faults is its exposition. Arc System Works even included an option to have your fighter played by a CPU so you can sit back and enjoy the plot without picking up the controller. Playing one episode unlocks another, and so on. Starting with one long expository episode to explain the events of the first game, upon completion it splits into multiple other ones, which tells the story from different perspectives based on whose episode you choose to play.
The narrative is expressed in the very familiar visual novel style of its original game, through branching character episodes. With Episode P3, you get to see the rest of the highly praised cast its respective game as peradults, including: Yukari Takeba, Junpei Iori, Ken Amada and the adorable shiba inu, Koromaru.
Persona 4’s episode unfortunately falls flat in comparison to its competing option, but both stories are told in tandem and are worth playing if you are already interested in the cast. The story mode is split into two separate ‘chapters’, Episode P4, which focuses on the cast of Persona 4, and Episode P3, which focuses on the established, and newly reintroduced characters from Persona 3. Sounds sort of familiar, doesn’t it? An example of the narrative style, as consistent through the Persona series. Soon after, a red fog begins to leak into the town, distorting it visually and allowing the cast to use their Personas in real life, and a mysterious tower appears. Following in its predecessor’s footsteps, Persona 4 Ultimax proves itself to be a capable fighting game that balances both the competence of its diverse roster and the continuity of its already well-established story and an excellent addition to any fighting game fan’s library.Īdvancing the plot from the previous game, Persona 4 Arena Ultimax returns to Inaba, Japan with the optimistic cast of the original game a week later Yu, the protagonist, tunes in to the infamous Midnight Channel, as a video depicting the already beaten P-1 Grand Prix as well as injured members of the Persona 3 cast show once more. Now it’s 2014, and the adventures of our beloved glasses-wearing prismatic teens continue with the second installment of Persona 4 Arena, titled Persona 4 Arena Ultimax. If you had told me that Persona 4 would end up with two 2D fighting games, a dungeon-crawler in the style of Etrian Odyssey and rhythm game spinoffs six years ago, I would have laughed at you.
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