New stages showed up as well, and it’ll be interesting to see how it all ties into the story. A lot of classic Persona battle music was added as well, such as The Fog, Burn My Dread –Last Battle-, several shadow themes, and more. The English voices for returning characters and even for the new additions, Minazuki and Sho, sounded great. The cast has been rebalanced, new moves have been added, and new system mechanics makes for a fresh experience. Updated from Arena 1’s Yellow to Ultimax’s blue, the game looks and feels different.
The user interface for the game looks fantastic. Junpei’s odd but fun baseball mechanic is truly a blast to play, having you focus on scoring runs to power Junpei up, while Yukari’s arrow and flip mechanics has her using a lot of zoning to keep the opponent out and take some punishment trying to catch her. Sho is still as cool as ever, using dodges and teleports to confuse and frustrate his opponent, while his persona wielding counterpart Minazuki uses the persona Tsukiyomi to attack and harass the opponent no matter where they are. Instead of his C and D buttons being used for his persona, they were used to control Koromaru separate, allowing for some nice pressure. Coupled with tandem attacks from Koromaru, he was a nice addition to the cast, adding a new dimension to the game. Now a middle schooler, Ken shows up with his spear and some very far reaching attacks. Ken comes with his companion Koromaru, the cute Shiba Inu from Persona 3. Although she was an NPC in Persona 4 Arena 1 and support in the Persona 4 RPG, it was interesting to see her take up her microphone to dish out a beat down. Rise was an interesting character they used her mic stand to attack, throw out musical notes, and burst them. New characters Rise and Ken Amada were in this build and playable for those who wanted to try them out. The current console build includes some new features not in the arcades. Atlus is doing an incredible job bringing it over and supporting it in the States. Having gotten in some matches before in the arcade when I visited Japan and a few at Anime Expo, I was very pleased with the feel of the game. Thankfully they took time to bring us the latest build of their upcoming fighting game Persona 4 Ultimax to Anime Expo. With Persona Q, Persona 4 Ultimax (or Persona 4 Arena 2) out and Persona 5 coming soon in Japan, Atlus has been busy.
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