Rise is an odd character and feels more like a support character rather than somebody who should be fighting (makes sense considering her role in Persona 4) as she has several moves she can put on herself such as barriers which push opponents back when she blocks or reflects projectiles when they come in contact. Adachi seemed to specialize in sticking the fear status on his opponents and utilizing the extra damage to his advantage in addition to his dashes, but overall felt clunky to me as I tried to get used to him. Adachi is unsurprisingly a little weird and mirrors the main character in certain ways unsurprisingly. More of the Persona 4 cast joins the team as well. Koro comes at a cost though as he occupies Ken’s heavy persona button so his persona tools are themselves much more limited. Ken and Koro are a sort of tag team duo, Ken pokes with long range attacks and he can have Koro attack with several attacks like low attacks or flips in the air. Her persona’s wind attacks also increase the damage of her ranged attacks and cause the projectiles to change the angles that they travel at if the arrows pass through the wind spells. Yukari is 100% zoner, she fires arrows in multiple directions including some higher priority arrows which just eat through other projectiles.

Whenever he combos he puts a batter on base and his special attacks cause home runs assuming you hit with the sweet spot of the bat and his entire goal is to score ten runs to trigger a powerup which makes him pretty beastly.

Other than that its Persona 4 Arena with a fresh coat of paint which isn’t bad.įirst let’s cover the Persona 3 characters who are joining the roster. Junpei is based entirely around baseball complete with him having a miniature baseball diamond above his meter bar. More stages and more of the storyline are thrown at us as well and we get a new mechanic which helps to add depth to the game. Thankfully, the new characters and the added Shadow Frenzy mechanic add some depth to the roster and each bring some flavor to spice things up. Junpei, Yukari, Ken and Koro (they fight as a combo), Adachi, Marie, Rise, Sho Minazuki, Sho Minazuki without his persona, and Margaret who was not out at release.

So whats different in Persona 4 Arena Ultimax then that sets it apart from its predecessor and earns its $60 price tag? Well, we get 9 new characters. Needless to say, I’m an idiot for losing track of time and that I grabbed a copy of Persona 4 Arena Ultimax and gave it a whirl to see what was going on. Then I looked on Wikipedia and was floored to find out the last one came out two years ago. The first thing that came to mind when I saw a new Persona 4 fighting game was coming out was me thinking that it was really soon and that the previous one had just come out.

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