Game #1170: Persona 4 Arena Ultimax(Switch)

  Oh, so the Switch gets Arena but still not porting Persona 5?!

 Well, I stand by what I said about Persona 4 Arena Ultimax way back when, so I'll focus on this game as a port more than on it as, well, a game.

 For starters, just like ArkSys has been doing lately, much to my chagrin, even though this game had a worldwide release, even though it was fully localized... the physical release is Japanese only. You can't even change the spoken language to English. On the bright side, now you don't need to go through the painfully derivative and uninteresting story mode, plus, you can navigate the menus without knowing Japanese. On the flipside, well, it's not fully localized so you won't understand most of the written text if you don't know Japanse. 

 Something special about this game is that it contains the final Arcade-only update, which b quite a bit how Shadow versions of each character worked. This will probably only matter to those that play the game at a competitive level, however.

 This port includes all the DLC, which means the three DLC characters are here, no download required, which is pretty cool, and you get 31 colors per character, once again, pretty nice. This also means that I finally got to see the Glasses/Megane DLC in action and.... I can't believe ArkSys and Atlus had the gall to charge for it. Most glasses are barely noticeable on most characters, which makes it yet another testament to just how greedy both ArkSys and Atlus got back in the PS3 era.... and they still are, considering their garbage DLC practices.

 The game was... it's fine, I like it for the most part, but having two attack buttons and two persona attack buttons always made the combat feel a bit limited to me. This game also originated the forced auto-combo mechanic, something that pretty much every other modern 2-D fighting copied. I hate it. Something I disliked about this version is that the game keeps running on Suspended, so be sure to PAUSE the game before suspending it. 

 Persona 4 Arena Ultimax is alright. It's a decent fighting game, but far from ArkSys' best. I do appreciate the existence of this port, as now it's possible to own the entire game in physical form. But yeah, it's alright... but you can also get Dragon Ball FighterZ, Guilty Gear and Blazblue ChronoPhantasma on Switch which are much better ArkSys fighters, not to mention, games like Under the Night In-Birth or even Street Fighter 3.

 7.0