Review: Persona 4: Dancing All Night (PS Vita)
Persona 4: Dancing All Night is a story-driven music game of Persona 4,
Pros:
- Slick Anime graphics.
- Music is a collection of new tracks and remastered classics from the Persona catalogue.
- Rhythm action game play.
- Two modes: Story mode and Free dance.
- Story mode is the main mode of the game set across 8 main chapters with a bonus one unlocked.
- You can control the game with touchscreen or the face buttons.
- Crazy over the top sometimes dark story that is strong as it is engaging.
- Full Platinum trophy.
- Online leaderboard support.
- Shop where you can buy new items, costumes and songs.
- Can replay levels.
- Choose decisions/questions in the story dialogue.
- Your favourite Persona characters all make an appearance along with a few older ones.
- You can fast forward or skip conversations.
- Watch dance replays.
- Change difficulty on the fly.
- Auto saves.
- Full performance breakdown including a graph all culminating in a rank.
- Many types of notes to hit. Ones where you just tap the screen in tune with the beat whilst some are hold and let go. A bonus blue circle will randomly appear and is optional but if you nail it you get bonus scores. Do enough and a fever line will appear and once again time it and trigger fever time. All scores rank up.
- Game show presentation feel to it all.
- Really enjoyable and accessible game play.
Cons:
- There is a lot of story to take in.
- Difficulty spikes.
- Huge download size. Over 4GB.
- A lot to learn at first especially in regards to the scoring and bonus scoring.
