7/11/2023 0 Comments Persona 4 arena ultimax box art![]() That isn’t to say it doesn’t look out-there or audacious, because it most certainly does. If Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 impresses with the “kitchen sink” approach to visual design, Ultimax’s brand of art direction and color theory is more akin to feng shui. No other fighting game commits this completely to its own fiction, or weaves such a convincingly consistent world.Įven if you don’t get all the references, the eye-popping color palette and strangely macabre art-direction are a one-two punch that gives every fight real character. Characters use Persona-appropriate spells like Ziodyne and Sukukaja, important locales like Junes are used as backdrops, and victory quotes make clever callbacks to the original’s story. There’s even an option to have the computer do the fighting for you, so people who just want to experience the story can do so.Įven outside of story mode though, Ultimax fully leverages the unique personality of Persona 4. It’s more like a graphic novel with a few fights sprinkled in. Just be warned: if you’re just here for the fighting, story mode will test your patience with seemingly interminable stretches without any actual gameplay. That’s no small feat, especially for a fighting game. The result is a story that’s equally well-written and entertaining as anything from Persona 4. Developer Arc System Works collaborated tightly with Atlus to create a ton of story content using the same voice actors, and presentational elements as the source material. ![]() It picks up where the events of Persona 4 Arena left off, which itself was a direct extension of the story told in Persona 4. The meaty story mode benefits the most from the direct connection with Persona 4.
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