She has powerful SP attacks, but her HP is the lowest in the game.DVS BSTrD said:
So she is fairly balanced.
Persona 4 Arena Review
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So she is fairly balanced.
oh...wow cool. How does it compare to other Persona stories ( I don't even know if this is a fair question..). Have you played P3 or P4?edgecult said:The story is pretty good. (I'm still working through my 2nd character run now.) It's got a running story for every character in the game showing their point of view from each time they cross with another along the way and seems like it's leading to something bigger in the end. (someone sorta spoiled the ending of the over arching plot for me but I wont do the same for ya.) Suffice to say it's a solid persona story line.antipunt said:Very nice. Sounds much better than I even thought it could be. And a story mode too? 30 hours. Holy crap what is this?!
One tiny fear: is the story good.
Persona games are usually awesome b/c of its story/character development. With the fighting-game tie in the multiple characters that you can choose from, I wonder if the story will feel cheap/light/unauthentic
Be keeping my eye on this one though
It's not really all that unusual for a story based game to have a continuation in a sort of spin-off fighter, although I guess it's not exactly common either. Melty Blood originally had a story mode which continued on where Tsukihime left off, although it was extremely short compared to the actual VN, and they got rid of it entirely in later versions.
I have indeed played them both and actually am watching the p4 anime as well. (and replaying 3 on portable F-protag story) Over all it's interesting though if you played the 4th game some of the exposition in the beginning will drag on a touch. (Kinda covers what happened with the 4th game without going into to much detail so people can go back for it later if they want to get up to speed) It would depend on what you mean by compare. Overall it's a good quality story played like a visual novel esc deal with fighting matches to break up the various interactions. -shrug- the quality and character dev is there and really I can't say to much on exactly what makes it half as awesome as it is without spoiling.antipunt said:oh...wow cool. How does it compare to other Persona stories ( I don't even know if this is a fair question..). Have you played P3 or P4?edgecult said:The story is pretty good. (I'm still working through my 2nd character run now.) It's got a running story for every character in the game showing their point of view from each time they cross with another along the way and seems like it's leading to something bigger in the end. (someone sorta spoiled the ending of the over arching plot for me but I wont do the same for ya.) Suffice to say it's a solid persona story line.antipunt said:Very nice. Sounds much better than I even thought it could be. And a story mode too? 30 hours. Holy crap what is this?!
One tiny fear: is the story good.
Persona games are usually awesome b/c of its story/character development. With the fighting-game tie in the multiple characters that you can choose from, I wonder if the story will feel cheap/light/unauthentic
Be keeping my eye on this one though
According to Dustloop the "top tier" characters are Aigis and Mitsuru currently. Elizabeth is actually rather low.neonsword13-ops said:
Anyway, just finished the entire story mode. I actually that while the narrative was interesting, it also runs into the problem of a LOT of characters' stories being very similar at times to the point of having literally the exact same scenes only with the central character being changed. However, the game ends with a BUNCH of mysteries, obviously signalling stuff that will happen in Persona 5 which intrigues me. I actually hope ASW comes back to this to update the game with more characters from the Persona series, like maybe seeing Koromaru or Ken.
The allusion to Nyarlathotep being back and the P4 crew heading to Port City just screams sequel. But will it be Arena 2 or Persona 5?
The game is rather solid so far. I found myself laughing out loud several times, and lo and behold, it has multiple endings for the characters.
Mahorfeus said:
Hopefully the next Arena game, I don't want a bunch of old characters in Persona 5.
You probably don't know this, but Arena's been out in Japanese arcades since March. So all of the characters have already been set into some pretty accurate tiers.yunabomb said:
And apparently Naoto is a bottom tier character.
Ha.
I'll show the fools that made that list how powerful Naoto can really be.
Like, ya know.. once I practice some more. And more. And more.
No PC release happening I'm afraid. Something which the developers themselves confirmed on multiple occasions. I asked myself and got that response too.SupahGamuh said:I can haz PC release?.
I think I'm getting a PS3 just for this game, there's just no love for PC gaming with fighting games
Except Capcom maybe (I'm still waiting for UMvC3), but not from other developers/publishers, like Atlus/ArcSys.
Also, no point in waiting for a UMvC3 PC release because that is also not happening. Ever.
Besides the fact that the license for the Marvel stuff has expired for that project, again the developers have said that there's no chance of a PC release. (nothing more is coming to the consoles either)
The best you can hope for from other companies are Japanese Indy fighters that appear now and again. Even ArcSys neglect the PC with only the odd release (a version of BB - back in the day a couple of versions of GG but again none kept up to date) and again often the "support" is more than lacklustre.
The only other fighter coming to PC in the future worth mentioning is Skull Girls, if I haven't forgotten any others.
But yeah, it's tragic that you can mostly only get Capcom's fighters on PC and even then they are gimped and neglected and bar the performance boost (which is really nice, not going to lie) it's always more advisable to get the console releases if you want to be "serious" about the game and play online. (and then people like Capcom will say how sales on PC aren't really viable... really? You sell us badly supported, late and neglected versions and you wonder why they don't sell? Get someone with a p.h.d so we can figure that one out!)
I would have loved a P4A version for PC because the game looks genuinely fun but there's no point pining since it won't happen.
This. Naoto has AMAZING potential , but she won'T be easy to play at first, honestly, i give it about a year before anyone discover her true potential . But while thats happening i'll enjoy being Elezibeth.neonsword13-ops said:You probably don't know this, but Arena's been out in Japanese arcades since March. So all of the characters have already been set into some pretty accurate tiers.yunabomb said:
And apparently Naoto is a bottom tier character.
Ha.
I'll show the fools that made that list how powerful Naoto can really be.
Like, ya know.. once I practice some more. And more. And more.
I need to grab this game as soon as I can...
Also, can I please not be the only one who laughed at "The Imperious Queen of Executions" for Mitsuru...?
Also, can I please not be the only one who laughed at "The Imperious Queen of Executions" for Mitsuru...?
Pretty solid. The game can be really hard too which is awesome. Score attack has to be one of the funniest things to watch. I did the tutorial and then went straight to score attack and lost after getting like two hits in. Though after I trained for a bit I was able to beat it. It isn't TOO hard but its very challenging.