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 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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