Tuesday evening while doing some light internet surfing I stumbled upon a tweet from one of the staff writers at www.rpgamer.com mentioning a game called "Persona 4 Arena". From the context, it seemed that said individual had been playing it. This took me by extreme surprise as I had not heard of the game, and I am a HUGE fan of the Persona series - so much so in fact that like many others I consider Persona 3 to be the greatest video game of the past decade.
A quick trip to Wikipedia and I found that this game existed, had been released in Japan a week ago, and had been released in North America that day. I truly have no idea how I managed to be completely oblivious to its existence, but I picked it up at my local Best Buy the next day.
I'm not a big fan of fighting games in general - I enjoy a little Street Fighter 2 Turbo against friends now and then, but mastery of entries of the genre (see: Nanonoko) has never been an interest of mine. Regardless, the game has been exceptional, and better, it contains a story mode with ~20 or so hours of gameplay, the vast majority of which is in a graphic novel style (I guess you might not consider that "gameplay", but I digress). Without spoiling much, the plot brings together some of the cast of Persona 3 with the entire cast of Persona 4, adds a new character, and sets up the story of what I can only assume will be Persona 5.
Best surprise video game ever.
1 comment:
Damn you and your Cammy
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