Persona 4: Dancing All Night is awful

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Holy shit, the story is terrible. The rhythm portion is so-so (when I actually get to play it in story mode). Does it get any better? Should I just skip the story?
 
I love Persona 4 and Arena, even for the story mode in that, but even by P4 standards the story is absolute nonsense in DAN.
 
The story is dumb, but inoffensive. The actual gameplay is pretty bad though, the button prompts almost seem random at times and barely ever match up to the rhythm of the songs.
 
I thought it was better than the arenas and q. I liked how Dojima and Nanako actually played a part in the story. Enjoyed the mystery and the how the kids helped the other singers face themselves since their development finished in p4.

You don't need to play story, you can just do free battle I think.
 
Yeah the story of any of the Persona spinoffs are hot garbage. It really makes me wonder why they always have to insist it's all canon. I could never really get into the style of gameplay either, a lot of the time the rhythms just felt off.
 
The story is better than the other P4 spin-offs, but it isn't great.

I very much enjoyed the rhythm portion of the game, though it was too easy. Superbeat Xonic came shortly after, though, which solved that problem.
 
Wii Tank said:
Yeah the story of any of the Persona spinoffs are hot garbage. It really makes me wonder why they always have to insist it's all canon. I could never really get into the style of gameplay either, a lot of the time the rhythms just felt off.
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They say it's canon so that people buy them to get caught up.

Also, from what I've read, the engine can't handle any notes more precise than an eighth note, which makes the charts iffy.
 
Wii Tank said:
Yeah the story of any of the Persona spinoffs are hot garbage. It really makes me wonder why they always have to insist it's all canon. I could never really get into the style of gameplay either, a lot of the time the rhythms just felt off.
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I thought that Persona Q was pretty alright from what I played of it, I never finished it though.
 
I was pretty disappointed in it.

I did like some of the music and had fun with it for a bit, but chasing higher difficulties was not enjoyable in the least.
 
It really is kind of bad. I was surprised by the mostly positive reception when I played it a few months later. If the story sucked and the rhythm stuff was good, I could see, but even that's not very good, especially in a year that had a few other good vita music games.

It does have some nice visual flair and fan service I guess. Though making notes yellow when the signature color of the game that is frequently in backgrounds yellow was kind of a baffling choice in general.
 
I wouldn't necessarily call it awful but, after the fighting games, I expected complete garbage from the story and was in it mostly for the rhythm gameplay. Turned out to be a surprisingly okay story and the gameplay was a huge disappointment. It's just not a very good rhythm game, unfortunately.

I really wonder what the hell happened with this game and why Dingo left the project...
 
The story may be nonsense but persona kinda is nonsense story wise following P2 (and even P1 was hard for me to take seriously, though it might be because of the awful localization, I still cared like for all persona games).

But WTF did they do to the characters here, they've been reduced to shells of their former selves, when "sequels" should do everything in their power to naturally advance their development. Subject matter that should not be poked fun at and was taken seriously in P4 wasn't here. The characters lack internal conflict as is central to narrative and especially central to the core concept of Persona.
 
I'm slightly worried that P5 will have a terrible story if it comes to be that P3 and P4 were flukes with DAN and Arena being their current storytelling prowess.
 
Neoleo2143 said:
The story may be nonsense but persona kinda is nonsense story wise following P2 (and even P1 was hard for me to take seriously, I still cared like for all persona games, though it might be because of the awful localization).

But WTF did they do to the characters here, they've been reduced to shells of their former selves, when "sequels" should do everything in their power to naturally advance their development. Subject matter that should not be poked fun at and was taken seriously in P4 wasn't here. The characters lack internal conflict as is central to narrative and especially central to the core concept of Persona.
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Persona spinoffs are rampant with Flanderization. Here are your characters

Yu: Sw@gmaster extreme
Chie: lol steak!!!1
Akihiko: protein
Mitsuru: (random French)
 
It was uncanny to see the P4 acting as if they were downgraded, with worse writers and in some cases, worse voice acting. Makes you appreciate the original game honestly.

Though I'd be lying if Naoto didn't win some points for me for this game though. It is fun how she just owns the whole dancing thing with her own style.
 
Jonnax said:
I'm slightly worried that P5 will have a terrible story if it comes to be that P3 and P4 were flukes with DAN and Arena being their current storytelling prowess.
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I doubt that personally, because it's mainline persona, not a spin off. Atlus will (and likely has) gone through the script with a digital comb to keep the reputation. Where I worry, is what comes afterward. Because the spin-offs make me appreciate P4 less because they are canonical sequels with arguably regressive development.
 
I loove Persona 4, but Dancing All Night's gameplay didn't do it for me. Wasn't expecting much story-wise from the get-go.

Much preferred Superbeat Xonic's gameplay.
 
Really enjoyed my time with it actually and I'm pretty bad at rhythm games. I was playing the Japanese version tho, so I didn't pick up everything. One thing I didn't quite understand is how they reverted back to their old styles.

Game is really pretty to look to.
 
Afrocious said:
I don't acknowledge P4 games after vanilla
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Yup.

If you want to play Arena or Ultimax, never touch the story.
If you want to play Dancing All Night, steer clear from the story.
If you want to play Persona Q, skip all the story.
If you want to play Golden, skip all the new shit.

They're just trying their best to make people hate P3 and 4 at this point. :V

Just listen to the new mixes of Snowflakes and Heaven.
 
I enjoyed it quite a bit actually. The story wasn't the greatest I'll give you and dragged on a bit but it hit all the typical persons notes. The gameplay I found enjoyable and fun but I really love the music, although I agree some of the remixes were meh.

I finished story mode and plan to go back and get the platium.
 
Worth it for the goat remix of
Reach Out to the Truth
for the final boss.

so so good

Jonnax said:
I'm slightly worried that P5 will have a terrible story if it comes to be that P3 and P4 were flukes with DAN and Arena being their current storytelling prowess.
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The spinoffs aren't written by Hashino and the main team (correct this if it's wrong Flux). You have nothing to worry about at all.
 
I...what is this thread?

Are you all deaf? This is a rythm game. With music from Persona 4. As long as this game doesn't activaly try to stab you, this is the best damn rythm game there ever was or will be.
 
I thought the story was better than the other persona spin offs. The flanderization didn't seem nearly as bad either as the other games.
Granted, the story isn't great, but it does the job and felt pretty Persona 4-ish to me.
 
Neoleo2143 said:
The story may be nonsense but persona kinda is nonsense story wise following P2 (and even P1 was hard for me to take seriously, though it might be because of the awful localization, I still cared like for all persona games).

But WTF did they do to the characters here, they've been reduced to shells of their former selves, when "sequels" should do everything in their power to naturally advance their development. Subject matter that should not be poked fun at and was taken seriously in P4 wasn't here. The characters lack internal conflict as is central to narrative and especially central to the core concept of Persona.
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Eh, they're not really shells in this game. Seems like a natural continuation of what they went through in p4.

You do get some development. Kanji, Naoto and Rise want to step away from the shadows of the upperclassmen. And they treat the idols inner demons pretty seriously, well as serious as you can in a rhythm game.
 
TimmiT said:
I thought that Persona Q was pretty alright from what I played of it, I never finished it though.
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Overall, the game was too long. Should've ended after 3.5 dungeons. The
entirety of Clock Tower was pure torture.

Story-wise, the main story was meh, but I liked the stroll mini stories and interactions between characters, even if all the characters were one note.
 
EvilKatarn said:
Yup.

If you want to play Arena or Ultimax, never touch the story.
If you want to play Dancing All Night, steer clear from the story.
If you want to play Persona Q, skip all the story.
If you want to play Golden, skip all the new shit.

They're just trying their best to make people hate P3 and 4 at this point. :V

Just listen to the new mixes of Snowflakes and Heaven.
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Indeed. I liked Arena as a fighting game but I the story was stupid and, while I know it doesn't harm vanilla, it does kinda take away from how P4 ended and overall story.

I played a little of golden, but the fan service couldn't keep me in. Also didn't feel like getting all the persona again.
 
I LOVED P4:DAN!! Really got into the songs and gameplay and totally platnumed it.

I totally did end up just holding triangle to fast forward through the dialog though. lol! Story was totally awful. ( honestly I didn't think P4:A was very good either though )
 
It manages to have a worse story than Ultimax and the gameplay is kinda mediocre but the remixes are so good I ended up buying this:

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The story definitely isn't great, I'd be more willing to look past that if the gameplay was better, I'm a rhythm game fiend and I love to play them excessively but this one really didn't work for me at all... mostly cause of how busted the clearing system is on the higher levels when missing one or two notes can totally ruin any chance you have to clear the song.

I still love the music and the animations though. And I did platinum it but after that I haven't touched it.
 
Jonnax said:
I'm slightly worried that P5 will have a terrible story if it comes to be that P3 and P4 were flukes with DAN and Arena being their current storytelling prowess.
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It won't. Hashino and his crew have craft and talent and very little dull pander stuff squeaks in keeping the quality and comedy high.

Blobbers said:
Overall, the game was too long. Should've ended after 3.5 dungeons. The
entirety of Clock Tower was pure torture.

Story-wise, the main story was meh, but I liked the stroll mini stories and interactions between characters, even if all the characters were one note.
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I liked the ending where
the last characters thru the door commented on this very topic.
 
I'm genuinely surprised they didn't get more backlash for the gay caricature. I think mine was the only review that mentioned it.

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As a rhythm game, it's okay. Fairly innovative, but by and large way too easy, and lacking in content(and good music).

The story is the worst kind of nonsensical.
 
the story was bad and repetitive, the voice acting was mostly awful (props to the elizabeth VA) and making you play every song in the story mode on easy was painful.

Story mode aside, I'm glad I grabbed the plat on this. It only took a day or two and it was fun. The rhythm game itself isn't bad and there are some great dance animations.
 
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