While Persona 4: Arena is a fighting game, it isn’t going to slack in the story department. Arc System Works made a single player story mode one of the main highlights in BlazBlue and it sounds like Persona 4: Arena is going to be the same way.
On the official Persona blog, Kazuhisa Wada, director of Persona 4: Arena, says the story mode will be between 30 and 40 hours long. My Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4 save file has over 60 hours on it so Persona 4: Arena has a pretty sizable story component. Each character in Persona 4: Arena has their own story to follow like Kanji who is tracking down a mysterious man with a red cape and Teddie who is protecting Labrys. Persona 4: Arena will have full voice acting for its story mode and for North America you can switch between Japanese or English voiceovers.
Persona 4: Arena, Wada explains, has a bunch of different gameplay modes including lesson and training mode. For beginners, Persona 4: Arena has a barrage combo, where you can hit one button to do a preset combo.
Persona 4: Arena comes out in Japan and North America in August. Heads up a staff member on the Atlus forums says Persona 4: Arena is region locked to the Americas for both PS3 and Xbox 360. If you’re in Europe, don’t worry Zen United have the game slated for release later in 2011.
Published: Jul 2, 2012 10:00 am