Persona 4 Arena Ultimax: Out in NA, It's Time You Burn That Dread

[#HBC | ZoZo]

Elizabeth being in is pretty cool. I like how she was chosen over some of the other P3 characters.

*still waiting for Xonar's avatar to change to a fat Shinobu*

I still love like her.
Forever.

She's thin in the manga. She is thin in my heart.

Hell, this episode allowed me to make a submap called "Loli" in my Shinobu map!

The source for P3 MC is that Atlus has a VERY OBVIOUS placeholder for another Main Character on the source code of their site.

 

[#HBC | ZoZo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=R7NFLEYG-bA

Labrys palettes + instakill

 

[Lythium]

Those colours.

You can tell it's an Arc game.

 

[Rutger]

Labrys vs.Teddie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DInTtYWsPt0

She looks fun. I think I'm going to need to learn some bnb for every character, it's hard not to want to play all of them. Everyone's moveset consisting of only 236/214's might be a godsend.

 

[Lythium]

Except Mitsuru's.

But seriously, everyone in this game looks cool.

 

[Rutger]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0MGNVjPrU0

Labrys combos already.


I forgot about the auto combos, I just need to mash 5A with the characters I don't play. Even something I didn't quite care for can be beneficial to me. :3

 

[Jam Stunna]

Holy cow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UgHbf513_4&feature=g-all-u&context=G23debb9FAAAAAAAAAAA

 

[Minato]

Holy cow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UgHbf513_4&feature=g-all-u&context=G23debb9FAAAAAAAAAAA

Well... I know I'm gonna be scared of getting FC'ed by Chie now.

 

[asianaussie]

welp

inb4 'balancing' and chie becomes low tier

and then someone in japan wins a national with her anyway

 

[Rutger]

Chie's damage is scary, no wonder they are calling her top tier right now.


Labrys' theme, this is what you get when you play her, the other one was a boss theme.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGfjGZLHq7M

Very cheerful, I like it more than Chie's.

 

[#HBC | ZoZo]

Most characters look good tbh.

Aigis has a great keepaway and once she hits a combo she gets 50% + a GOOD reset. Her defense is camping, but once you're in you have a good chance.
Chie has sick damage but not too many mixups imo. Good mobility and reasonable defenses.
Yosuke's damage is lacking but goddamn does that guy have mixups on the reset. He's can be defensive also.
Yu looks like a solid all round character. Nothing special, except his range.
Talking about range, dat ****ing Mitsuru. She has some great mid range options, and reasonable options out of that. Her reversal is cool, her persona attacks help her with long range and her overall range is good. She just doesn't really excel and haven't had much damage optimization.
Naoto has great hazardous + projectile keepaway. Plus the death counter is actually really useful in some matchups.

Don't know **** about Labrys/Kenji/Yukiko though.

 

[Smooth Criminal]

You forgot to mention that most of Mitsuru's normals and specials appear safe on block, which means she has a really good poking/footsie game.

Smooth Criminal

 

[Lythium]

I was kinda interested in Yukiko when they first announced the game, but I've yet to see anyone do anything interesting with her. Every Yukiko player plays exactly the same, down to the same pressure strings and everything.

 

[Smooth Criminal]

I was kinda interested in Yukiko when they first announced the game, but I've yet to see anyone do anything interesting with her. Every Yukiko player plays exactly the same, down to the same pressure strings and everything.

I noticed that with Mitsuru, too. Nobody uses her Persona. Like, at all.

Smooth Criminal

 

[#HBC | ZoZo]

A shame.
I've been looking at Yukiko and Mitsuru. If they don't work I'll try gunning for a defensive Yosuke and see how that works out hehe

 

[Minato]

Elizabeth footage http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm17380384

It's a Nico vid, so if you don't have an account, I guess you can use mmcafe or whatever.

 

[Lythium]

Elizabeth looking cool. :3c

I wanna try her.

 

[Rutger]

Boss Elizabeth looks like she is worthy of being an Atlus boss.

Could still be more BS, but switching her max SP when low on health for max health is a nice touch.

 

[Jam Stunna]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71ys5zXzVBY&feature=g-all-u&context=G23debb9FAAAAAAAAAAA#t=0m42s

Looks like Chie doesn't have a monopoly on crazy damage

 

[Lythium]

She looks really slow though.

 

[Rutger]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyVBMh4AbtY

More Boss Elizabeth, looking lovely.

Naoto Fatal KO's without skull counter?
Diarahan?

And is that Battle for Everyone's Soul?

 

[Minato]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyVBMh4AbtYAnd is that Battle for Everyone's Soul?

That sure makes me pleased.

Can't wait to see playable Elizabeth later. It sure is hard picking a main now after seeing the cast so far.

 

[Jam Stunna]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmAZl0Ndo9k&feature=g-all-u&context=G23debb9FAAAAAAAAAAA

I'd feel bad about the ending if it were anyone but Naoto.

 

[Lythium]

What's wrong with Naoto?

 

[Rutger]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4LVQYVonKo

Elizabeth moves and combos.

Still has the instant kills(with a long delay) and SP up? Very interesting.
instant kills apparently disappear when hit though.


Elizabeth's extra colors, Relius and Dizzy are her reference colors.

 

[Jam Stunna]

Here's a couple of matches with some good Elizabeth play

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJn_oh-P2Ms&feature=g-all-u&context=G20d413dFAAAAAAAAdAA

 

[Lythium]

Pfft, look at that ridiculous passive meter gain. Looks like some of her specials cost meter though? Hmm.

 

[Rutger]

Well, didn't expect this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WXAyL6ix7A

Also, Shadow Labrys!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwL7p7FlLDM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBS9sYZHIsE

 

[Crusayer]

So can anyone explain to me what Yukiko's charge does? I saw one match where she charged up to like level 7 but it didn't really do anything.

 

[Jam Stunna]

This first match makes Aigis look awesome as hell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXkwf8n1Xto&feature=g-all-u&context=G23debb9FAAAAAAAAAAA

 

[Jam Stunna]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2RzHJ-HkQ8&feature=g-all-u&context=G2fc0597FAAAAAAAABAA#t=4m50s

Wow

 

[Rutger]

Fear makes every hit a fatal counter, but damn.


Well, I'm not going to double post just yet so...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smdcXb92A7I

Akihiko infinite blockstring, Kanji 100% combo, and Chie 1HKO.

All pretty silly. :3
Akihiko is apparently pretty bad though, so I guess it's okay for him to have for now.


Also, August 2nd release date for Japan and they get a preorder OST.
Please don't let us down Atlus. :3

 

[Crusayer]

I hope the balance patch won't DESTROY the top tiers like every BB game lol.

 

[Minato]

I hope Akihiko gets some more tools after the update.

 

[Rutger]

BB balancing has been good outside of CS1 Rachel. The top tiers have not really become unusable, they just lost their absurd stuff.

Mitsuru and Chie will get hit hard probably, but they kind of need the nerfs. As long as they keep the characters out of CS1 Tsubaki and Rachel level then I'm fine with what they do. :/

I trust Arcsys with balancing for the most part.

 

[Lythium]

S Tier: Chie
A Tier: Yosuke, Yu, Mitsuru
B Tier: Aigis, Akihiko, Teddie, Naoto, Kanji, Yukiko, Elizabeth, Labrys

As of 4/12. Shadow Labrys wasn't out when the list was released.

 

[Crusayer]

Is B tier in order? It seems a little congested.

 

[Lythium]

Apparently, there's no order within the tiers themselves.

So, you could say that Yu, Yosuke, and Mitsuru are all on relatively equal footing. Same with B tier.

 

[Rutger]

http://shoryuken.com/2012/04/26/persona-4-the-ultimate-in-mayonaka-arena-update-details-released/

Changelog!

The update isn't out yet, but that's what we are getting. Doesn't look that bad, not really a lot of big changes, but at least Chie loses her FC 5B. :3

Here's a couple story mode teasers as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc_zF8vBIjI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poZW3hdoALs

 

[Crusayer]

Did mitsuru just get buffed

WHY?

Yukiko didn't get that many changes either. Was hoping for some kind of damage boost `-`.