#Persona 4 arena ultimax pc steam series#
The stakes are Ultimate, the tension is Maximum, the fight is… the ULTIMAX! Experience the latest entry into the beloved Persona 4 series with a thrilling fighting twist. Watch the Persona 4 Arena Ultimax Charity Sho-down broadcast live tomorrow, March 18, at 10pm CET on the ATLUS West Twitch channel. The arena is set, and challengers are ready to rumble for over $20k in donations across 8 charitable causes, chosen by the invitational competitors. This bundle will be available with a limited time discount, and fans who already own Persona 4 Golden on Steam will unlock the same discount off Persona 4 Arena Ultimax when completing their Midnight Channel Collection!Ī Midnight Channel Collection – Deluxe Edition is also available which includes Persona 4 Arena Ultimax and Persona 4 Golden – Digital Deluxe Edition with the same limited time discounts. Steam features a Midnight Channel Collection, which includes both Persona 4 Arena Ultimax and Persona 4 Golden™. But hey, at least it has rollback netcode now.Purchase Persona 4 Arena Ultimax from digital retailers now:Ĭomplete your Midnight Channel Collection on Steam Today It will find some fans, but it doesn’t look likely to pick up many outsiders. As a fighting game, it doesn’t seem that compelling either, and asks for heavy investment in a story that’s relatively light on gameplay. It should be aimed at Persona fans, but the steep learning curve and lack of fan service elements lean away from that idea. Ultimately, Persona 4 Arena Ultimax doesn’t seem to quite know who it’s for. You can set these fights to ‘auto’ so the computer fights itself, but the breakneck speed at which both characters move then only highlights your own ineptitude at the game. It’s a fighting game, so that can’t be too large a complaint, but the random way in which it tosses you into fights disrupts whatever flow the narrative has created. Occasionally, after bouts of 45 minutes statically watching still characters talk at you, you’ll be thrown into a fight. P4AU makes you the passenger in the story, until it doesn’t. It’s not even as if it plays out like a movie, since there’s no action, just screen after screen of text akin to other spin-offs like Dancing All Night.
It has voice acting, which is something, but it doesn’t particularly sell the story to you the way we know Persona can. The narrative is offered up in a succession of segmented cutscenes, and by ‘cutscenes’ I mean ‘2D figures read out text on the screen’. It’s less that the nature of the story is weird (if anything it feels a tad undercooked, but serviceable), and more the presentation of it. Since the only serious demographic here is Persona 4 fans, more could be done in the name of fan service.Īs for the actual story, the only word I have to describe it is ‘weird’, and not in the usual, strangely compelling Persona sense. There is a touch of complacency on show - we get 30 different variants of each fighter and Persona, but they’re all just palette swaps instead of new outfits. It has that major advantage over other, similar fighting games in that we’re bringing the love of the characters into the game, so they don’t really need to work for it. The roster is fantastic and each of the characters come loaded with the personality of the base games. Maybe you’re not here for the fighting though. I’m not completely useless, but I don’t think P4AU is suited to my skill set. While I don’t play competitively, I have played through most major modern fighters and can beat the game comfortably while holding my own online. I can’t speak to whether P4AU will become a big hit in the esports scene, but as far as fighting games go, it feels as if it has too steep a curve. Footsie is something you play under the table with your 1950s sweetheart at a box social, and if you play your cards right you might wake up in a BnB afterwards. Yes, P4Golden has been re-released on PC since then, and it’s not like P5 has been neglected with the arrival of Royal and Strikers, but it’s difficult to know who exactly P4AU is for, other than people who liked it the first time. After Persona 5 took the series to a new stratosphere of popularity, it seems like a strange call to head back to Persona 4 once more. There is no single place to start if you want to get into Persona, but it's safe to say Persona 4 Arena Ultimax is almost certainly not it.
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