Review: Persona Dancing: Endless Night Collection (PlayStation Vita)

Test your rhythm gameplay skills with the ultimate Persona Dancing bundle! Includes: Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight, Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight, & Persona 4: Dancing All Night!

Pros:

• Anime graphics.
• Two games- Separate downloads. Persona 3-3639MB Dl size and Persona 5-3767MB Dl size.
• Rhythm action gameplay.
• Platinum trophy, Well two as its one for each game.
• Optional tutorials.
• Cross-save support.
• Auto advance cutscenes setting.
• Two modes: Story mode and Free dance.
• The story mode is the main mode of the game set across 8 main chapters with a bonus one unlocked.
• Free dance allows you to pick any unlocked song and off you go.
• Collection- View unlocked items.
• Japanese/English voice options.
• Config- Settings, volumes, online on/off, auto skip etc.
• Three difficulties- Easy, Normal and hard.
• Can watch replays.
• Controls- Face buttons or touchscreen.
• HUD shows song progress, score and any combo you have going.
• Can set your character up before playing, Costume, shoes, hats etc.
• Unlock new social events which give more story.
• Tons of replayability.
• Choose decisions/questions in the story dialogue.
• Your favorite Persona characters all make an appearance along with a few older ones.
• autosaves.
• 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 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 feels to it all.
• Really enjoyable and accessible gameplay.
• Best played with headphones.

Cons:

• No touchscreen support in the menu.
• There is a lot of story to take in.
• Difficulty spikes.
• Really hard to pause mid-game.
• Differs very little to the previous game.
• A lot to learn at first especially in regards to the scoring and bonus scoring.
• Non Persona fans may not like all the music on offer.