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It may be using the same basic gameplay but there’s enough new stuff sitting on the top here for the game to feel like a new one. The outstanding voice cast is back, bringing these characters to life. I spent a great deal of time with the first game playing through the story mode, because it was genuinely enjoyable, and I did that again here. Or maybe you are our esteemed editor-in-chief Matt and you noticed that Rise is a combatant now ( ‘cmon, it’s not like I’m the only one! – ed.).įor fans of the first game, the best news is that the story mode offers a load of new content. It could be that like me, you find the Persona characters fascinating and the idea of spending more time with them in any way, shape or form is appealing (and somehow this developer actually does somehow create interesting stories in fighting games – again consider BlazBlue). Maybe you just enjoy fast-paced fighting games, and couldn’t care who the characters were, so long as the core mechanics were quality. Perhaps you were a fan of the original game, and just want to see the universe expanded upon even further. There are all kinds of hooks that will get people into this game.
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Persona 4 Arena Ultimax takes that base formula and iterates on it, adding some more characters and content worth exploring. However, the fighting experts behind the likes of BlazBlue managed to create a stylish fighter that made good use of its colourful characters to offer something that remained odd, but was a lot of fun. Fighting games are not exactly known for having narratives to rival Shakespeare. Why is this weird? Because Persona 4 is renowned for being a work of narrative genius. It took a JRPG that was more than a little beloved, and injected its characters into a 2D fighting game. Persona 4 Arena was a title that weirded out all the franchise fans at first, to be blunt.