The reason for this is simple, you play through sets of 5 1-round battles, fighting a boss character in the 5th one, as part of an ongoing gauntlet that scales in difficulty, and each victory awards you experience points.Įvery 5 you clear is a checkpoint along the path, with each difficulty setting scaling up from 100 to 200, 400, and eventually infinite at the highest setting, as well as an event course, where during a limited time you can clear it for a unique skill to add to your character. In many ways, this makes the game shine for the Persona and general RPG fans that don’t play fighting games as often.
On top of the obligatory story, arcade, and versus features, P4AU packs in other content, the most notable of which is the Golden Arena mode. But if you get hit, you’ll accumulate “outs”, and after 3, you’ll have to restart your counter to try and get your boost. One example is Junpei Iori from Persona 3, who has a baseball scorecard above his SP gauge, where if you hit the enemy enough times you’ll load the bases and score a run, boosting your damage. But many characters feature specific abilities in a battle that you must manage, and this can prove distracting and difficult for newcomers.
Characters like Sho, Yu, Yosuke, Rise, Marie, Chie, and Teddie can be picked up and played rather quickly. Combined with their shadow variants, there are 37 characters you can play as.Įach character accommodates playstyles for gamers of varying levels of experience, and ultimately not all are fully approachable for brand new P4AU players. These characters are brought to vibrant life on the battlefield, such as the cartoonish Teddie’s wacky attacks or Rise Kujikawa, previously only a support character, joining the battlefield and slapping the enemy around. The entire cast features unique personalities befitting a Persona game, with their interactions in Story Mode being enjoyable, even reacting to their aptly-given nicknames as you might expect they would. Depending on who you play as you’ll have a certain number of times this can happen before you’re temporarily unable to use them.Īs previously mentioned, this game largely uses characters featured in Persona 3 and 4 but also features original characters like Arena’s Labrys and newcomer antagonist Sho and his alternate personality, Minazuki. When using your persona to attack, they are vulnerable to strikes from the opponent, and if hit, it can negate the attack. You can fight with weak or strong attacks from your character, and in all but one case, they have a persona who gets the same two types of attacks. Whether you’re an experienced player or a newcomer to this sort of game, its controls, and even special moves are rather easy to execute, prioritizing action above all else. The best part is, in place of having to push 2 buttons or more for attacks, the controller uses its additional buttons to make these moves easier to execute. The developers did not endeavor to rename the buttons as they appear in the commands list (clearly an arcade pad layout) but the pause menu’s button settings option allows you to see which buttons stand in for which. While the game is designed with its arcade roots proudly on display, it plays satisfyingly well on other consoles, as any of the modern hardware is easily able to handle this game. What follows is a ‘Game of Death’-like gauntlet wherein the protagonists must confront their shadows and ascend the tower to save their loved ones and the world. The game’s cast spots a mysterious tower in the distance, appearing somehow over Yasogami High School, and they must fight through intricate shadow replicas of themselves and their allies and solve the mystery behind the bizarre occurrence. The entire area is blending in with locations and landmarks from Persona 3, mixing the worlds rendered in both games.
Inaba, the town in which the game takes place, is covered in a red fog, and the Investigation Team members remark on how similar this feels, to being inside the Midnight Channel. But this relative peace ends quickly, with ads showing for a new “P-1 Climax” event, with footage of captured Shadow Operatives being mounted on crosses, a one-hour warning of the world’s impending doom, and a blackout. The P-1 Grand Prix has ended after the events of Arena, which was a tournament inside the parallel realm known as the Midnight Channel, and the Investigation Team is bonding during Golden Week. P4AU, which directly follows its predecessor Arena, takes place 3 months after the events of Persona 4.
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