Capsule Review: Persona 4 Arena
A 2D fighting game with a story mode that intersperses visual novel scenes starring the casts of Persona 3 and Persona 4 with a few new characters added in. The fighting game seems competent enough, but if you’re looking for more story with the Persona characters, you’re likely to be disappointed. Many characters are derailed, their individual arcs tend to be rehashes of their arcs from the mainline games, and you have to watch each one go through the same painfully-slow gradual understanding of their situation. Don’t bother with this unless you’re interested in it as a fighting game.
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