Persona 4: The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena

Ichipoo · March 15, 2012, 10:42am

No Mitsuru, Naoto, or Chie theme yet. What did I do to deserve this suffering lol.

Dragard · March 15, 2012, 11:00am

Mitsuru is in this game. I’m going to play the hell out of it lol. Haven’t played Persona 4 yet though.

b1argh · March 16, 2012, 2:29am

So, uh. . . best theme yet for sure IMO:
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maziodyne · March 16, 2012, 4:04pm

high-level footage of my new main in action.

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I CANNOT wait for this game. his theme is pretty dope, too.

zeech · March 16, 2012, 4:19pm

I assume japan has had enough time to figure stuff out by now. So it seems that this game has much shorter and straightforward combos compared to other ASW games. This is a good thing!

Ryuga · March 16, 2012, 6:19pm

Yeah, Akihiko’s theme’s my fave char theme, tied with Naoto’s. But, gotta go with Mass Destruction(Persona 3 char mirror.)

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This Mitsuru player in particularly’s been tearing everyone a new hole(there’s more of him/her on Jourdal’s channel.)
Everyone in this game so far looks strangely strong.

b1argh · March 17, 2012, 11:59am

DOUBLE MUSIC (all the way, across the sky, >_>)
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Mitsuru’s theme is awesome, Chie’s. . . is probably the worst of them, though it’s still alright.

Kavitee · March 17, 2012, 9:53pm

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Not liking like Chie and Teddie’s themes? Thats a paddlin

Ichipoo · March 17, 2012, 10:01pm

Naoto’s theeeeeeeeeeeeeme~ :lovin:

dotsdfe · March 17, 2012, 10:06pm

I love all of the themes (Yukiko’s is the best IMO), but Chie’s is ehhh. It’s not bad, but it doesn’t seem to really fit into a fighting game IMO.

Ryuga · March 18, 2012, 2:51pm

Chie’s grew on me, starts off kinda cheesy, but gets much better as it goes along. Teddie’s and Yosuke’s are sick though.

More videos. If you plan to pick up Akihiko, you should definitely watch the first link. Second link is a Game41 tournament, people getting smashed left and right too lol. Yu’s looking proper nasty.

Players are beginning to use their Persona to set up oki/lockdown freqently to make up for the lack of untechable knockdowns(?)

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Ichipoo · March 18, 2012, 6:28pm

Care to tell us which part(s) speficially in the videos please? I’m curious to see how it looks because it has a Jojo feel to it.

And really? People don’t like Chie’s theme? It may not be my most favorite theme but it certainly is catchy. :lovin:

PozerWolf · March 18, 2012, 6:44pm

PEE 4 YOUUUUUU!!

So wait, watching videos, I notice there’s some kind of strange anime song that plays randomly during battles.
I thought it was the mirror match song, but it seems… random…?

Ryuga · March 18, 2012, 6:46pm

Sure thing.

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Here’s one example at 1:35. The Yu players rinse this out later on and once they’ve got the opponent blocking, they go to town. And in the Akihiko vs Kanji fights, the Kanji player 99% of the time summons his Persona and strikes lightning on the opponent’s wake-up to keep them in place.

Don’t know anything about the game in the slightest lol, but I’m wondering if they could just simply evasive roll out, but I assume they’d have already tried out something like that and it didn’t work out for them.

Not sure how tight Yu’s ones are, since it looks like there are gaps inbetween. But I suppose Yu’s got a number of ways to make you think about pressing buttons(staggered strings, throws overheads and whatnot.) Making assumptions here, but that’s kinda what it looks like.

Was it on during the classroom stage? If so, that’s Yu’s theme. If not, I dunno what it is lol, I didn’t notice.

Ichipoo · March 18, 2012, 6:57pm

If I didn’t know any better, it looked like to me he purposely gave up his chance to typically go for a combo but he instead chose to go for more pressure, which is great, I sometimes play like that with Noel in CSEX.

And lol @ Dai-chan for practically fishing for AAs by using the same normal over and over whenever he had Yukiko in the air.

Ryuga · March 18, 2012, 7:23pm

Lol, yeah, Yu with dem normals. Mitsuru’s seems to have dumb buttons too. Reading Jiyuna’s twitter about Persona’s interesting and funny at the same time, bare hate towards Chie lol: https://twitter.com/#!/jiyunaJP

And a stream archive for Persona?(http://www.ustream.tv/channel/naka-joy-stream)

PozerWolf · March 18, 2012, 7:32pm

The theme has played with several characters already.
Normally, when watching matches, when it was mirror match I notice the theme.
Then I notice in one of the vids you posted with the boxer dude vs the main character, and it played that anime song.
I’m guessing it just completely random when it plays, but it just so happened the mirror matches I did view played that song.

Ichipoo · March 18, 2012, 8:48pm

Holy crap, combo > 1 More > Gold Burst? > More combo, so sexy. :lovin:

Ryuga · March 18, 2012, 9:09pm

Ah, yeah, Yu has a remix of that song as his own theme. That confused me for a while too lol. You’d think they’d have a more different theme for mirrors, but nope.

Currently watching Jiyuna’s stream commentary archives here: http://www.twitch.tv/jiyuna/b/312030214

Always good to get more insight from people playing the game, you guys might be interested too!

7thFonon · March 19, 2012, 1:48am

Was wonderining how some of the general mechanics work in this game (if anyone here knows)… Like can you get reset by laying on the ground? Or will you remain invincible until you’re completely standing up like most FG’s? Also wondering if grabs can be performed whenever (hitstun / blockstun / neutral), or if the opponent must be in a neutral state in order to be grabbed?