Welcome to the Persona 4: Arena Ultimax Wiki
Developer
- Arc System Works / Atlus
Genre:
- 1-on-1 2D Fighting game
Platform:
- Arcade, Playstation 3
Release:
- Japan (Arcade): 11/28/2013
- Japan (Console): Summer 2014
- North America (Console): Fall 2014
- Europe (Console): Unknown
Persona 4: Arena Ultimax
Persona 4: Arena Ultimax is the sequel to Persona 4: Arena and takes place a few days after the events of the first game. A red fog appears in town and a new tournament appears on the Midnight Channel called the P1-Climax that shows Mitsuru, Aigis, and Akihiko getting crucified...
New Characters
In addition to all the playable characters from Persona 4: Arena, four new characters have been announced:
- Yukari Takeba is a zoning character that uses wind magic and arrows to quickly move around and fill the screen with arrows and wind.
- Junpei Iori uses his baseball bat to attack the opponent and level himself up by hitting the opponent with his bat and scoring 'points' in his baseball meter.
- Sho Minazuki fights with dual swords and without a persona. This version of Sho has 3 buttons for normal attacks and a dodge button.
- Sho Minazuki (Tsukiyomi). This version of Sho fights with a persona named Tsukiyomi, can quickly teleport behind the opponent, and has attacks that drain the opponent's health and SP.
Yukari and Junpei are originally from Persona 3, while Sho is a new character to the series.
Shadow Mode
Similar to the Slash/Bust styles of characters found the Samurai Showdown series, (almost) every character in the game has a Shadow Mode that plays slightly differently from their normal versions.
- Selectable at the character select screen, can not change between rounds.
- Elizabeth, Sho, and Shadow Labrys do not have Shadow Modes.
- Normal Labrys DOES have a Shadow Mode, so there is Normal Labrys in Shadow Mode as well as Shadow Labrys.
- Awakening and Burst replaced with Shadow Berserk Mode. Press A+C+D with 100 SP to activate.
- While in Shadow Berserk Mode, Shadow characters can cancel special attacks into special attacks for free and have unlimited SP for a limited time.
- Performing attacks that cost SP will reduce the amount of time Shadow Berserk is active.
- SP Meter carries over between rounds for Shadow Mode characters
- While Shadow Mode characters can not go into Awakening, they can perform Awakening Supers anytime for 100 SP
- Shadow Mode character's attacks do 20% less damage than their normal counterparts
- Shadow Mode characters are stated to gain SP faster than their normal counterparts.
System Changes
- Enhanced Super attacks that cost 75 SP called SB Skill Attacks
- Done by using two buttons at the same time instead of one. Similar to Skill Boost Attacks (aka: EX Attacks)
- Short Hop can be cancelled into and has less startup but...
- ... any attack performed from a short hop can be blocked both high or low.
- Characters have different numbers of Persona Cards
- For example, Akihiko has 2, while Elizabeth has 6!
- This is a double edged sword. It's harder to enter Persona Break with more cards, but Persona Break state lasts longer the more cards you have!
- Guard Cancel Roll added
- Similar to Guard Cancel Attack, this is is canceling a guard into a roll for 50 SP
- S Hold System Added
- Hold the A button to charge a meter that appears on screen.
- Depending on how long the button is held, you will get you will get an EX move, Super, or Awakening super on release
- Must be in Awakening to charge an Awakening Super
- Fatal Recovery State added
- All characters now have certain attacks (e.g. Yu's 214D) for which getting hit by any attack during their recovery is a Fatal Counter
- Auto Combos for all characters changed
- All characters have new auto combos, however Shadow Mode characters have the old auto combos from P4Arena.
- All characters rebalanced and given new attacks
- As always, characters have been tweaked for balance reasons.
- Average combo damage has been reported to be lower than the previous game.
- First attack landed gives a 10 SP bonus
- Aigis[★]
- Akihiko Sanada[★]
- Chie Satonaka[★]
- Elizabeth[★]
- Junpei Iori[★]
- Kanji Tatsumi[★]
- Ken Amada[★]
- Labrys[★]
- Margaret[★]
- Marie[★]
- Mitsuru Kirijo[★]
- Naoto Shirogane[★]
- Rise Kujikawa[★]
- Shadow Labrys[★]
- SHO Minazuki[★]
- Sho MINAZUKI[★]
- Teddie[★]
- Tohru Adachi[★]
- Yosuke Hanamura[★]
- Yu Narukami[★]
- Yukari Takeba[★]
- Yukiko Amagi[★]
Click [★] for character's full frame data