Igor helps you if you make it to the last dungeon, which is home to some of the toughest fights you’ll have in this game online or offline! This mode is not only brilliantly done in the way it mimics Persona 3 upwards with its social links and other nods such as navigators, but it also adds even more playtime and presents players with unique ways to tackle fights within the game. This allows stuff like status effects with your attacks, regenerating health, and other traditional RPG goodness. You also have the ability to level up your “Social Link” with your navigator, which unlocks more skills for them and yourself. You go through these and with every fight you’ll level up, which increases your stats such as damage taken/given out, faster meter build, you get the idea. That said, it’s not in the traditional sense, as these are just arcade ladders but with themes. Throughout, you have several dungeons to tackle. This navigator will offer various skills throughout and is made up of playable and non-playable characters, which means you can take Nanako on the adventure with you and have a great day at your Junes. In this mode, you’ll be picking a character and a navigator who will act as your inactive partner throughout. The Golden Arena mode is one big daddy of a mode where Arc System Works really leaned into the RPG/fighting game fusion in a big way. It all culminates in a boss fight at the end with a tougher than usual “boss character”. You have a score attack where you aim to get the highest score by finishing matches quickly, hitting the big moves, and taking as little damage as possible.Īrcade mode, as previously mentioned, is your standard ladder affair where you throw down against the cast in a run of standard fights with the normal rule set. Alongside the hefty story content, there are also several modes in the game to keep your Persona fighting itch well scratched. In terms of game modes available on Persona 4 Arena Ultimax, you’ll not be left running arcade over and over again should you be more of a single player. It’s perfect for those who would rather spend more time fighting than reading or listening, which is the opposite of the main story modes. This plays out with in-game conversation scenes, usually at the start of the arcade ladder, midway through, and at the end. It helps that the characters are well written and familiar to legacy players, and the scenario, while leaning into the whole “fighting tournament” scenario, really could be “Persona 4-2.”Īlongside all of this, there are also rather condensed versions of events that play out through the games’ Arcade Mode, which also adds a little more time to the story. Whereas I’m not a huge fan of the visual novel/fighting game hybrid which seems to be the staple of the anime fighting game genre, the story here is fantastic. Naturally, there is a true ending to discover as well, which is tied to story completion.
The story is split into 2 “paths”, though the “P3” path requires you to play a bit of the “P4” path to unlock it. There’s lots of dialogue and fantastic art accompanied by those familiar voice actors you spent over 100 hours with during Persona 4 Golden. Even more so, if you have never played Persona 4 Arena, more content is certainly nothing to sniff at!Īs mentioned, the story is presented in a visual novel style. What this all means is that you easily have over 10 hours of story, just oozing with more lore and time with everyone’s favorite best friend, Chie.
Alongside the two substantial visual novel stories covering both the Persona 3 and 4 crew, they have also included the entire story of Arena 1! It’s safe to say that if you haven’t played the latter, spoilers are rife here.įortunately, if you missed out on the first Arena game, then Arc and Atlus have you covered. Persona 4 Arena Ultimax follows on from the story laid out in Persona 4 Arena, which also followed on from Persona 4 Golden. This brings us to the final stage with Persona 4 Arena Ultimax. Along with that comes more story, continuing the narrative built up in Persona 4 Arena. It adds extra characters, moves, and balance changes. It fuses elements of Persona 4 with traditional 1 vs 1 fighting games.įollowing that success, the teams once again came together for a sequel to the game. Persona 4 Arena was developed by Arc System Works and overseen by key staff from the main game.
Spawning many spin-offs, it wouldn’t be long until Yu Narukami and his harem tried their hands in the fighting game arena. Persona has become a little bit of a household name since Atlus released the enhanced port of Persona 4 Golden onto the PSVita. Grab your tarot card or evoker, strengthen your social links, and have a great day at your Junes. Anime, JRPG, and fighting game fans can rejoice.
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