The Persona series – also known in Japan as Shin Megami Tensei – is a well-established JRPG franchise that has gone from strength to strength in Western markets with the release of Persona 4 Golden on the Vita achieving rave reviews. Admittedly an acquired taste, the story revolves around a group of Japanese high school students drawn into a bizarre alternate world through the Midnight Channel – an urban legend made real. Rumour has it that watching the channel on a rainy night will reveal your true love at the stroke of midnight. In Persona 4 Golden it doesn’t reveal your ideal partner; instead it reveals unlucky victims soon to be murdered. Relationships are forged, battles are fought and countless hours whittled away in a truly great JRPG and anticipation was high for a sequel. It was a surprise then to see the familiar elements of Persona transformed into a fighter from the developers of BlazBlue.
It's hard to imagine a time before Persona spin-offs, but Persona 4 Arena marked the turning point from a humble RPG series to something greater.
Persona 4 has been an incredibly popular series for Atlus over the years. After its initial release on the PlayStation 2 in 2008, it has received a remake, multiple sequels, and various adaptations. Out of all of the ways that fans imagined their favorite characters interacting on screen, seeing them beat the life bars out of each other probably wasn’t what they had in mind. Today, we’ll be taking a closer look at one of the most interesting genre crossovers of the early 2010s, Persona 4 Arena.
Atlus’ Persona series has exploded in popularity. This means there are not only mainline installments, but also ports, updated releases, reimaginings and spin-offs. There are all interesting games that do cool things with elements from the series, but it is also a series where you probably shouldn’t go and begin with the very first game. Fortunately, it isn’t difficult to find a good starting point.
Frome what I remember, the PSP version of Persona 3 added the ability to command your teammates in battle? There was something different/better about battle for the PSP one. I remember noticing because I played 4, started 3 on PSP, then started over when i got the ps2 version.
I would def recommend playing either 3 or 4 before 5. the menus and the colors and fonts and everything in 5 was just SO MUCH to get used to. I felt like it was a comic book and an episode of JoJo at once. Amazing game, though lol
