In a commendable move, publisher Atlus is releasing a video series on how to play its upcoming fighting game, Persona 4 Arena. This new title is a bold departure from Persona’s traditional role-playing roots, but the gameplay looks pretty exciting.
It's hard to imagine a time before Persona spin-offs, but Persona 4 Arena marked the turning point from a humble RPG series to something greater.
Persona 4 has been an incredibly popular series for Atlus over the years. After its initial release on the PlayStation 2 in 2008, it has received a remake, multiple sequels, and various adaptations. Out of all of the ways that fans imagined their favorite characters interacting on screen, seeing them beat the life bars out of each other probably wasn’t what they had in mind. Today, we’ll be taking a closer look at one of the most interesting genre crossovers of the early 2010s, Persona 4 Arena.
Atlus’ Persona series has exploded in popularity. This means there are not only mainline installments, but also ports, updated releases, reimaginings and spin-offs. There are all interesting games that do cool things with elements from the series, but it is also a series where you probably shouldn’t go and begin with the very first game. Fortunately, it isn’t difficult to find a good starting point.
Frome what I remember, the PSP version of Persona 3 added the ability to command your teammates in battle? There was something different/better about battle for the PSP one. I remember noticing because I played 4, started 3 on PSP, then started over when i got the ps2 version.
I would def recommend playing either 3 or 4 before 5. the menus and the colors and fonts and everything in 5 was just SO MUCH to get used to. I felt like it was a comic book and an episode of JoJo at once. Amazing game, though lol
A fighting game by Ark System... That's all I need to know in order to buy it lol!
I am gonna beat people up with Kanji's folding chair for like ever and ever and ever.
Aksys is making this so it's a good reason to avoid it. Blazblue flopped and I'm sure this will too. I would want to have another Guilty Gear but at the same time they'll probably screw it up by shoehorning in lame Blazblue characters and adjusting the mechanics so much that it wouldn't feel like a Guilty Gear game anymore.
It looks like it's going to be fun and I know I may be asking too much but I really hope they slip in Tatsuya Suou, Lisa Silverman, Hito Shura, Serph or Raidou Kuzonoha as unlockables or at the very least as boss characters. I know Persona 3 and 4 may have catapulted the Shin Megami Tensei series to somewhat of a household name however Kazuma Kaneko's characters beforehand deserves to be properly recognized in my opinion.