Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
That and the fights which are one round only are not very hard in story mode. Im playing on the dual shock currently till the joystick arrives. Works just fine on the pad.
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Persona 4: Arena |OT| Midnight's Just Around The Corner
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That and the fights which are one round only are not very hard in story mode. Im playing on the dual shock currently till the joystick arrives. Works just fine on the pad.
Yup. There's pretty much no reason to play vanilla P3 with FES and Portable out.
SolarKnight
Member
Yeah, it makes regular P3 obsolete.
DR2K
Banned
FES > P3P > Persona 3 Vanilla.
Ultimadrago
Member
"FEStival", I've heard.
Domstercool
Member
Festival I think.
Fes adds a lot more to the base game. The original is pretty barebones without fes.
Chrono Helix
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Some quick impressions:
When you start the game, it starts with the 'this program has been brought to you by these sponsors' sort of message you typically see in anime. Was wondering why they'd do this, but I guess it goes with the television theme of the game?
It's been said before, but needs to be repeated: the menu presentation is SLICK.
So far I've encountered the following tunes as main menu music: Heartbeat Heartbreak, Signs of Love, the P3 dorm music. I can't remember what's the name of the tune used for instant kills. One of the P4 boss tunes?
I spent about 5 minutes with each character trying out their moves. Most of them seem to have fairly small movelists compared to GG and BB. There doesn't seem to be a lot of command attacks either. I was pretty surprised by how long it takes for heavy persona attacks to recover. It'll take some time for me to get used to being locked out of nearly half my attacks while my persona is recovering from its attack animation. (I must admit I wasn't testing things very extensively.)
Random thoughts on the characters (except Chie, cos she didn't really leave a deep impression on me)
Yu: Seems pretty easy to use, but his heavy persona attacks are really slow.
Yousuke: Don't like his theme.
Yukiko: I don't like her laugh when casting Maragi in Japanese. Pretty small moveset.
Elizabeth: Quite a fun character. Thanatos is badass. Can inflict a wide variety of status effects too. Pretty slow run.
Naoto: I thought I wouldn't be interested in her playstyle when watching the preview videos, but shooting people feels pretty good lol. Persona attacks come out nice and quick.
Mitsuru: Very small moveset. Don't like using charge characters. Mahabufudyne reminds me a little of one of Vergil's (UMvC3) summoned sword formations.
Akihiko: His persona seems very important to him, especially the jumping attack. Haven't figured out how his tornado count thingy works.
Teddie: He shares some similarities with Faust, who was my main in GG.
Aigis: Seems very difficult to use. 120 ammo can disappear pretty fast, and when not in Orgia mode she's missing out on a bunch of moves. Heavy persona attack has it shield her, maybe her gameplan revolves around that?
Labrys: Her persona (Arachne) has very pretty attacks. Hate her Japanese voice.
Shadow Labrys: Apparently her persona is always active, and always attacks independently of her. Her heavy persona attack makes it lift an arm to shield her, looks very useful. Much prefer her voice to regular Labrys.
I can't decide who I want to play.
When you start the game, it starts with the 'this program has been brought to you by these sponsors' sort of message you typically see in anime. Was wondering why they'd do this, but I guess it goes with the television theme of the game?
It's been said before, but needs to be repeated: the menu presentation is SLICK.
So far I've encountered the following tunes as main menu music: Heartbeat Heartbreak, Signs of Love, the P3 dorm music. I can't remember what's the name of the tune used for instant kills. One of the P4 boss tunes?
I spent about 5 minutes with each character trying out their moves. Most of them seem to have fairly small movelists compared to GG and BB. There doesn't seem to be a lot of command attacks either. I was pretty surprised by how long it takes for heavy persona attacks to recover. It'll take some time for me to get used to being locked out of nearly half my attacks while my persona is recovering from its attack animation. (I must admit I wasn't testing things very extensively.)
Random thoughts on the characters (except Chie, cos she didn't really leave a deep impression on me)
Yu: Seems pretty easy to use, but his heavy persona attacks are really slow.
Yousuke: Don't like his theme.
Yukiko: I don't like her laugh when casting Maragi in Japanese. Pretty small moveset.
Elizabeth: Quite a fun character. Thanatos is badass. Can inflict a wide variety of status effects too. Pretty slow run.
Naoto: I thought I wouldn't be interested in her playstyle when watching the preview videos, but shooting people feels pretty good lol. Persona attacks come out nice and quick.
Mitsuru: Very small moveset. Don't like using charge characters. Mahabufudyne reminds me a little of one of Vergil's (UMvC3) summoned sword formations.
Akihiko: His persona seems very important to him, especially the jumping attack. Haven't figured out how his tornado count thingy works.
Teddie: He shares some similarities with Faust, who was my main in GG.
Aigis: Seems very difficult to use. 120 ammo can disappear pretty fast, and when not in Orgia mode she's missing out on a bunch of moves. Heavy persona attack has it shield her, maybe her gameplan revolves around that?
Labrys: Her persona (Arachne) has very pretty attacks. Hate her Japanese voice.
Shadow Labrys: Apparently her persona is always active, and always attacks independently of her. Her heavy persona attack makes it lift an arm to shield her, looks very useful. Much prefer her voice to regular Labrys.
I can't decide who I want to play.
Yes, they do reference The Answer. I won't say how, but you absolutely want to play it for Aigis's story.
Yikes... it's roughly 3 dollars for each color/glasses pack (not too bad, but seriously should be a dollar) and 10 bucks each for all of them.
I agree the glasses should be an unlockable, considering how essential they are to the P4 universe.
SolarKnight
Member
Not even just because of that, arent they avaiiable from the beginning in the arcade? :/
buddha0991
Member
Well, Aigis is The Fool now, thats a big The Answer reference, also the P3 MC isn't around anymore...
The DLC glasses aren't the same as the standard glasses, I thought?
SolarKnight
Member
They arent? If thats the case nvm then. Still, what difference do they have?
...If the joke glasses are DLC theyre totally bought though.
Supermanisdead
Member
buddha0991
Member
Battle Announcer of course.
Pretty sure the DLC glasses are new things. Someone with the game correct me if I'm wrong.
replaced by shadow labrys
I only watched a couple of videos of P4A because I have not beaten P4 yet (waiting for Golden, fuck) and I was like "OH YEAH, RISE-SAMA TIME"... then I saw the OP.
Such a bad decision! She's my favorite!
Oh well... I guess I can spare some love to Yukiko.
Rise-chan DLC please
SolarKnight
Member
IIRC its for before fighting Shabrys in arcade at least.
When you jump in the TVs in Persona 4, the world is blanketed in fog and those glasses let you see through it.
SolarKnight
Member
Fuck your Kanji avatar is bad ass. Love the trimming on the sides too nice touch. Is there a Yosuke version of that available?
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
As others said its just cosmetic.
Its odd that the glasses dont appear at all in the story and highly unfortunate. Since as others have mentioned its a big part of the story. (Thankfully also done before the whole hipster craze went down)
Supermanisdead
Member
tbh, i hate rise. but i'd prefer her over teddie. can't believe this game is full of p4 scrubs.
PartTimeWarrior
Banned
I shall be picking this game up, add me to the list please
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Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
replaced by shadow labrys
Can be considered Spoilers.
Who actually is an important part of the story.
NinajHeartless
Member
Took a day off work for this game(US release)
Also because there are locals at an arcade like ~40m away that I never get to go to because of work, so I'll get to go to those too!
Maybe they'll have a P4A release tourney or something
Actually have a similar situation going on in NJ.
Eight on the Break is going to be running biweekly tournaments for P4A so I'm going to start making the 40 min drive out there for some hot Persona action!
Also good afternoon P4A-GAF!
That's my biggest issue with their challenges. Show me around the ropes with small moves with Noel, then throw me into some uber long combo that requires you to scroll through the menu to see all of it the first time.
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
Im going INSANE trying to pull off some of the labrys stuff using just the PS3 pad... My stick better show up tomorrow.
GhostRidah
Member
Is it weird im so hyped for the game even though I never played a Persona game? Hell I never even play "anime" games that much but man I cant wait for this.
Chrono Helix
Member
I suddenly realised I don't think this game uses dragon punch motions. Which pleases me, because I tend to screw them up when I'm on the right side of the screen.
That bad, eh? Is that a unique situation for Labrys, or do all the characters suffer from that? I don't really have the money to buy a stick right now.
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