PERSONA 4 U

Tons of system technicals shown off here:

Four buttons, layed out in a square:
AC
BD

A - Weak attack
B - Strong attack
C - Persona attack
D - Persona Rush

Lifebar, you get the idea.
SP gauge, used for EX attacks and supers.
The gauge below your lifebar is the Persona gauge. If you drain it, you enter PERSONA BREAK and you can't use your Persona or burst.

S ATTACK: Mash the A button for easy combos! Something about being able to cancel it for 50 meter into a big flashy finisher.
BURST: ACD. Gold bursts are available. Something called "One More Burst," "the moment you hit, you can really beat the fuck out of your foe"
R Action: B+D. An invincible move. Drains from the HP gauge briefly; will recover over a short time.
Beatdown Rush: pound AB after hit, then C or D. Pound AB for an overhead attack, then hit C or D for a followup. C is a launcher, D knocks opponent to the side (wallrush?)
Awakening: Activates at low life. Increases defense, Awakening moves become available (SDMs?) SP gauge max goes up to 150SP, and you gain 50SP for free.

Persona Break: When your Persona's out, damage to it or you decreases the Persona gauge. (Jojo's?)

Other misc functions:
P Combo: Gatling strings (A->B->C).
Sweep: Down + A + B
Quick Escape: A + C. "Moves to dodge attack."
Mini-jump: Down + A + C (hop?)
Air Turn: A + C in midair. You turn. IN THE AIR.
Throw: C + D. Unblockable (duh) and can be done in the air. Break with C+D.
Ukemi: Push a button while falling/hitting the ground.
Guard Cancel Attack: Forward + A + B while guarding. Costs 50SP. Has some invincible frames.
One More! Cancel: A+B+C. 50SP. Roman cancel.
Super Cancel: "Buffer certain supers during a special move: cancel into super, costs HP"

Persona 4 Fighting Game

Wow they're really going in!
Might be kusoge but godamn I'll play it anyway!

Persona 4 anime incoming

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By the way the reason it's 100% is because their little countdown site: Mayonaka TV, fucked up for certain JP cellphone users and displayed an announcement.

Persona 4 lulz

hiimdaisy's awesome Persona 4 comic, hopefully more installments are planned!
Warning, massive spoilers, but if you've read hiimdaisy's other stuff you know what you're getting into.

Persona 4 USA

Bought it to support Atlus blah blah blah you know the drill.
Rest of you go buy it and then wait for the undub.

Margarets

Came in the mail today.
Forgot to post this scan before but whatever.

FUCK YOUR CANON

[13:28] <Rithli> siblade
[13:28] <Rithli> p4 main's manga name is seta soujiro lmao

And with that said, let the stupid Kenshin jokes begin.

Also, scans from the Official Design Works.
Let's get this out of the way first:

OLD RISE who was initially a WOMEN'S GANG LEADER (sukeba)


Rise after they decided she was an idol


Final Rise


Maybe if they had made her tsundere it could have saved her. のヮの
No seriously, give me back my gang leader Rise Atlus.

Upperclass man Kanji:

FONZ? IS THAT YOU?

Kuma might have had a girl inside instead?:


Naoto WAS a guy originally:


Female Naoto in men's shirt :3


Yukiko seems to have had a short hair Aegis phase:


Chie seems to have been settled on fairly quickly, having only a short stint with shoujo manga Persona 3 girl's hair:


NANAKOS:

Persona 4 Post-Impressions

So I took down the final true boss and beat the game.
Impressions.

First things first, the ability to control all your teammates instantly made the game 10x more enjoyable.
Instead of your fucking dipshit teammates doing the wrong moves over and over it's now entirely your fault if you choose the wrong thing to do.
In battle the focus of the game has shifted away from MC hacks.
You can no longer equip all weapons in the game.
Because of the free heals in P3, running Tartarus generally became the MC one more turning every single encounter while his teammates had no turns.
Boss fights generally became the MC healing everyone and hoping they wouldn't screw up.

P4's change of making SP precious and no free healing or teleports changed this.
The scarcity of SP and the fact there were no teleports meant the MC could not happily blow through all his SP one more turning entire encounters.
In addition, to counteract the fact you can now control your entire party, P4 threw mixed enemy teams at you a LOT.
This happened rarely in P3.
These enemy teams weren't just randomly grouped either, they would have abilities that helped each other.
For example a group of four reflect physical beetles and a single mage that could cast mass berserk on your party, thus having you kill yourself.
Using your teammates to their fullest effect was required to get through a dungeon in halfway decent shape.
The difficulty felt greatly improved/increased, I did not feel it was a P3 FES hard mode "bullshit difficulty" but rather a "real difficulty."
They gave you quite a lot of options to avoid bullshit OHKOs from light/death/random critical hits.

In terms of characters...
Hm this is a hard one.
In Persona 3, I didn't really have a clear favorite, and eventually came to like them all.
Except for Ken.
Poor Ken hahaha.

In Persona 4, there was a clear favorite from the get-go, so while I was completely veering toward that one character I probably have given the others less thought.
That character for me was Yukiko.
Yamato Nadesico except with a lot of quirks and a mean streak along with great deadpan lines.
I admit because I was too busy fawning over her I probably don't appreciate the others as much as I could have.
I do find Yousuke awesome though, better than Junpei.
Chie is a great character, but a lot of it lies in her chemistry with Yousuke and Yukiko, not exactly in herself.
I find Kanji personally hilarious from his initial shadow self to his ability to make stuffed animals.
Rise is...:V She's ok when she talks normally, but the second she becomes happy or in battle you get that high-pitched Kugumiya Rie whine that completely annoys me.
Naoto is...a wasted oppurtunity, I feel.
Quite an interesting backstory and such but you get her so late in the game, and unlike say your earlier characters who do show some personality change she remains the same.
One could argue that's what her commu is for but meh.

Story is a lot smaller in scale I feel, but I think that reflects the focus this time around on Japanese mythology/Shintoism/country backwater (lol).
I'm still trying to figure out why the criminal acted the way he did though...to the point of even going back over the scenes with a dictionary.
Like was it just ennui?
Really?
Come on here...
Maybe you can argue some philosophical bullshit angle like path of Zen or something, I don't know.

Persona 4 OST

It's out.
Find it at your usual place <3

Persona 4 - I love this game.

The way the Ou-sama game works is sort of like a Japanese truth or dare deal.
You basically draw straws or what not, the red straw becomes the king.
Everyone else gets hidden numbers.
Then you basically say, "Number 4, hug number 2," or something to that effect.

In this case, drunken Yukiko and Rise call out the four "orders" before the drawing commences.

PERSONA FUCKING FOUR

FUCK YEAH PERSONA SHADES

I'll go into more depth once the battle video uploads but generally here are the changes so far:
Game seems generally harder.
You can fully control your teammates (thank fucking god)
No more kiting, which was essential in hard mode FES, drag a monster far enough from it's starting point and it will teleport back instead of turning around with its back wide open.
Backstabs are infinitely harder, monsters have eyes in the back of their head it seems and WILL ! mark even if you approach directly from behind.
The purple foes have a wide arc of turn meaning you can miss the initial stab and get enemy advantaged yourself.
Guarding reduces damage and also PREVENTS YOU FROM BEING DOWNED if you are hit in weakness.
There seem to be a lot of ways to cover your weakness, second boss used a spell that changed her weakness of wind into half damage, then she'd pop off with zionga or what not, one more turn because I forgot to defend with Yosukie, and then status effect +30 damage him or so.
Also, shuffle has changed to some weird spinny atom type deal.

Persona 4 Trailers

Elizabeth really grew out her ha...wait Elizabeth got replaced?
It's Margaret now?
Triccccccks!

Also, lol commu with your little sister obviously not related by blood.
And I already see the ojousama character (blackhair headband girl)