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Aha! Is This Our Chance (to Find Out How to Play Persona 4 Arena)?

You feel your relationship with Persona 4 Arena is going to become closer soon.

May. 1 2012

Posted by: Jeff

In This Episode:

Persona 4 Arena

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@Meatsim said:

Teddie sounded like Professor Genki at first so I am guessing he is voiced by Yuri Lowenthal now.

Was trying to figure out why new teddie reminded me of SR3.

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@soundlug said:

@metalsnakezero: The Answer was like a Aegis Fan Fiction, if you were not related to her, you were flanderized or all your Character Development thrown away

the music in the answer was good! The animation was really good, and japanese folk really like arena so feel free to check out the animation.

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I'd actually think I'd put money that it's Sam Riegel, not Yuri Lowenthal doing Teddie.

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Woops who could have imagined having a stable of about 6 voice actors would hurt down the line? Nice going, Atlus.

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Screw you Teddy...

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After this I believe we'll need a P4 HD on PSN..

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@mutha3 said:

Is this really Lowenthall, though? This voice kind of reminds me of Krillin from the old DBZ dubs.

I actually think it sounds like Sam Riegel, who was in Persona 4 as some minor characters (I think it was Saki's brother). And it sounds like he's trying to copy the original performance, which rarely works out. Hope they do a better job with Chie, let alone any recasts needed for the Vita remake. It'd be a shame if an inferior dub muddies that version's status as the best version.

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...yeah I think I'm gonna play it with the japanese voice pack.

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@Animasta: I checked out some episodes, I tough they were really bad and the director doesn't give me confidence (I disliked Angel Beats!) and the fact they wanted to show all the social links was also a deal breaker (I want to replay the game and check out the ones that I miss)

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Yeah, toss Chie all around.

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@soundlug said:

@Animasta: I checked out some episodes, I tough they were really bad and the director doesn't give me confidence (I disliked Angel Beats!) and the fact they wanted to show all the social links was also a deal breaker (I want to replay the game and check out the ones that I miss)

which ones? the first couple weren't great but it does pick up by Yukiko's shadow.

At the very least watch the King's game episode

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What does popularity lead to?

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@Abendlaender said:

What does popularity lead to?

An Awakened State?

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I was just about to complain about Arc Systems fighters...

But fuck man, grown-up Akihiko looks sick. I can't wait.

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Teddie is weird. It's an okay impression, but it feels pretty uncanny. Did Rise's voice change too? It's a lot more plesant to listen to than I recall. Maybe it's just the new recording.

The controls look really simply with only 4 buttons, though I wish you pulled of supers in the Skullgirls way of just pressing say 2 punch buttons in stead of one when performing a hadoken.

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My body is ready.

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Press A+B to Galactic Punt!

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@soundlug said:

@Animasta: I checked out some episodes, I tough they were really bad and the director doesn't give me confidence (I disliked Angel Beats!) and the fact they wanted to show all the social links was also a deal breaker (I want to replay the game and check out the ones that I miss)

It gets a lot better around half-way through. The pacing doesn't go at the breakneck pace of the first couple of episodes, Yu really starts stealing the show as an awesome protagonist and the anime in general loses the weird schizophrenic problem it had with keeping a consistent tone. It could have handled some things better, sure, but if you're a fan of the game I still definitely recommend you check it out.
 
As for the S-links: don't worry about it. They don't go too far in-depth with them at all and they(wisely) chose to rewrite them to fit the show with exception of Ai/Kou.
 
@Redhotchilimist: 
Rise is still the same! She just sounds a lil' more mellowed out.
 
Here is the real Teddie's voice for reference(30 seconds in) :
    
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Fuck Yeah TEDDY!

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Tomorrow is the big tournament guys! Lets go save Chie tonight!

"You spent the day changing the difficulty level"

ARGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Sweet sweet Persona music ... *melts*

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Me playing on Very Easy to get the story and hoping the final boss isn't cheap as it looks.

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WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS FAKE TEDDIE, SHIT?! Who would want that voice talking about hot studs!? NOT ME!

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@AlKusanagi The english voices are fine. I don't see the point in preventing yourself from understanding what they're saying. Unless you know Japanese.
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There's some interesting systems in this game. iplaywinner and shoryuken have a bunch of footage of Japanese pros playing if anyone's interested in seeing this game looks at a high level.

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@soundlug I gave up on The Answer pretty quickly. Didn't find it fun at all.
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@mutha3: Is not Yu to me, mind you. Is Sam Flynn, other times known as Charlie Tanaku

And that is another thing, I really like my Persona Games as Mass Effect esque posible regarding Canon and relationship with teammates. I dislike a little the Canon Names

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Good to see that so far Charlie isn't talking. But Teddie sounds really off and Rise sounds kind of off too.

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Ugh, why did I promise Ghoul that I would play this with him?

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I'm guessing they didn't get the actual voice actors in this early to record lines for the trailer, you guys. No need to freak out yet. But if that's Teddie's final voice.... ouch. They have a Japanese voice option, right? Rise seemed fine.

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@MasturbatingestBear said:

Good to see that so far Charlie isn't talking. But Teddie sounds really off and Rise sounds kind of off too.

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@edeo: I speak Japanese and after going through the recent Persona 4 anime, I'm now comfortable with those voices which are all in the Japanese version, whereas not all of the English voice cast is back for this one.

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I'd rather have Atlas putting out a sequel to Persona 4 (maybe something weird happening a year later) with the same characters or another game similar in mechanics to P4 but with new characters. For Atlus to put out a pure fighting game in any franchise just seems strange to me & not the best style of game for them to go.

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@Crushed: Those moving lips still freak me the fuck out.
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@fox01313 said:

I'd rather have Atlas putting out a sequel to Persona 4 (maybe something weird happening a year later) with the same characters or another game similar in mechanics to P4 but with new characters. For Atlus to put out a pure fighting game in any franchise just seems strange to me & not the best style of game for them to go.

It's being developed by Arc System Works, not Atlus.

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Keep pressing the A button, SENPAI!

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@Crushed said:

@fox01313 said:

I'd rather have Atlas putting out a sequel to Persona 4 (maybe something weird happening a year later) with the same characters or another game similar in mechanics to P4 but with new characters. For Atlus to put out a pure fighting game in any franchise just seems strange to me & not the best style of game for them to go.

It's being developed by Arc System Works, not Atlus.

Co-developed, actually. The Persona team is handling the story, the music and supervising the visuals. Probably among other things.
 
Also, Atlus ultimately made the decision to produce this thing. Which is crazy. I think that's what the guy was getting at.
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@Crushed said:

@fox01313 said:

I'd rather have Atlas putting out a sequel to Persona 4 (maybe something weird happening a year later) with the same characters or another game similar in mechanics to P4 but with new characters. For Atlus to put out a pure fighting game in any franchise just seems strange to me & not the best style of game for them to go.

It's being developed by Arc System Works, not Atlus.

ANd Persona 5 is in development so chill.

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@Crushed: Charlie looks like a serial killer with that minimal movement in his character portrait, the voice doesn't help.

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11 seconds in, and I hear "WELCOME TO PERSONA 4 ARENA" in the most obnoxious, squeaky, bad anime voice ever.

At 12 seconds, I turned the video off.

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Hopefully the tank is a secret character...

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@Crushed said:

@MasturbatingestBear said:

Good to see that so far Charlie isn't talking. But Teddie sounds really off and Rise sounds kind of off too.

OK cool let me just flag this post...

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I. Am. So. De-ter-mined!

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Why is Teddie's voice annoying as hell in this trailer? I get that you couldn't get the same voice actor but it's not even close. I wonder if they will get Troy Baker to do Kanji or is he too big time for that now

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They gotta get the original Teddie VA back.

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I do not like the art. Something seems weird about their proportions compared to what they looked like in the original games. Not a fan.

Also, that god damn Teddie voice...

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Get hype?

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@ZeForgotten said:

Wait. Did Yosuke become Teddie?!

Seriously thought it was Yosuke at first being especially annoying.

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Not Teddie... oh man... bah, it's only a fighting game.

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I'm just hoping this doesn't turn out to be like KoF. Not a big fan of that series.