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'''''Persona 4 Arena''''' ('''''Persona 4: The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena '''''in Japan) is a 2D fighting game by ''[[Arc System Works]]'' , developed under the supervision of ''[[Atlus Co., Ltd.|Atlus]]''' Team Persona. It is a direct sequel to ''[[Persona 4]]'' directed by Katsura Hashino and scored by [[Shoji Meguro]]. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fumihiko_Tachiki Fumihiko Tachiki] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Seitz Patrick Seitz ] act as the voice of the announcer.
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'''''Persona 4 Arena''''' ('''''Persona 4: The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena '''''in Japan) is a 2D fighting game by ''[[Arc System Works]]'' , developed under the supervision of ''[[Atlus Co., Ltd.|Atlus]]''' Team Persona. It is a direct sequel to both ''[[Persona 3]]'' and ''[[Persona 4]],'' directed by Katsura Hashino and scored by [[Shoji Meguro]]. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fumihiko_Tachiki Fumihiko Tachiki] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Seitz Patrick Seitz ] act as the voice of the announcer.
== Release Dates ==
== Release Dates ==
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== Plot ==
== Plot ==
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At the start of Golden Week, Yu Narukami returns to Yasoinaba and reunites with Dojima, Nanako and his friends. But soon Chie hears a rumor that the Midnight Channel is airing again and tells Yosuke and Yukiko. The three of them and Yu (coincidentally) see it. At the same time, Rise, Kanji and Teddie go missing and Naoto is busy on a mission. The following day, they head into the TV world and find themselves stuck in a tournament held at their high school where they must fight each other to advance, but during the tournament they see a mysterious girl who claims to be their student council president as well as three Persona users they've never seen before.
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The story starts 2 weeks after the events of ''Persona 4'' and roughly 2 years after ''Persona 3 FES: The Answer.'' the At the start of Golden Week, Yu Narukami returns to Yasoinaba and reunites with Dojima, Nanako and his friends. But soon Chie hears a rumor that the Midnight Channel is airing again and tells Yosuke and Yukiko. The three of them and Yu (coincidentally) see it. At the same time, Rise, Kanji and Teddie go missing and Naoto is busy on a mission. The following day, they head into the TV world and find themselves stuck in a tournament held at their high school where they must fight each other to advance, but during the tournament they see a mysterious girl who claims to be their student council president as well as three Persona users they've never seen before.
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Mitsuru is now head of a secret spec ops squad known as Shadow Operatives working with the government consisting of herself and some of her old SEES colleagues. On a mission to escort top secret cargo, the airplane she's on is hijacked. Aigis manages to take down all the hijackers on her own but one of the cargo is stolen: the 5 generation anti-shadow humanoid weapon, Labrys. They track her down to Yasoinaba and enter the TV world, joined by Akihiko who shows up to help after Aigis picks up readings from inside. Naoto is hired by public safety to spy on the Kirijo group and Shadow Operatives. She follows them into the TV.
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Mitsuru is now head of a secret spec ops squad known as Shadow Operatives working with the government consisting of herself and some of her old SEES colleagues. On a mission to escort top secret cargo, the airplane she's on is hijacked. Aigis manages to take down all the hijackers on her own but one of the cargo is stolen: the 5 generation anti-shadow humanoid weapon, Labrys. They track her down to Yasoinaba and enter the TV world, joined by Akihiko, having just arrived from South America, who shows up to help after Aigis picks up readings from inside. Naoto is hired by public safety to spy on the Kirijo group and Shadow Operatives. She follows them into the TV.
As Elizabeth continues on her journey, she stops by at the gate of death to defeat Erebus, who comes back about once a year (she picks it up with one hand, throws it through a portal to the moon, then kills it in one hit with Thanatos). She heads over to the TV world when she feels all the Persona users gathering there hoping some of them would allow her to find a way to defeat Erebus for good so that she could save the boy who became the seal to protect humanity.
As Elizabeth continues on her journey, she stops by at the gate of death to defeat Erebus, who comes back about once a year (she picks it up with one hand, throws it through a portal to the moon, then kills it in one hit with Thanatos). She heads over to the TV world when she feels all the Persona users gathering there hoping some of them would allow her to find a way to defeat Erebus for good so that she could save the boy who became the seal to protect humanity.
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As the persona users get to the Anouncement room where Rise is being locked up, they discover Labrys and soon learn about her as her shadow reveals her true self.
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As the Persona users get to the Anouncement room where Rise is being locked up, they discover Labrys and soon learn about her as her shadow reveals her true self.
Labrys was created in 1999 at the Kirijo Ergonomics lab and most of her development was done through forcing her to fight other models of her series. She grew close to one of her sisters, #024, but was forced to destroy her too. She eventually escaped the lab, dealing a lot of damage to it in the process, but was recaptured and sealed away. After vanishing from Mitsuru's plane, she was tossed into the TV world and her Shadow self created the tournament to let other people feel what she felt.
Labrys was created in 1999 at the Kirijo Ergonomics lab and most of her development was done through forcing her to fight other models of her series. She grew close to one of her sisters, #024, but was forced to destroy her too. She eventually escaped the lab, dealing a lot of damage to it in the process, but was recaptured and sealed away. After vanishing from Mitsuru's plane, she was tossed into the TV world and her Shadow self created the tournament to let other people feel what she felt.
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The Persona users defeat Shadow Labrys and Labrys accepts her and turns her into the Persona Ariadne. As they prepare to leave, however, the true mastermind behind everything takes control of her and makes her attack everyone, but Fuuka manages to reach Yasoinaba in time and cut off his connection but he escapes. The mastermind is a human with no Persona who cannot enter the TV world, but is partnered with something not human that can shape shift and pretends to be various characters' shadows. Their objective is to weaken the Persona users mentally so that their Personas will revert to Shadows; they need to gather strong Shadows for their "Project", and reverting the Persona users' strong Personas would make exceptionally strong Shadows. Both of them escape and Mitsuru tells the persona users of Inaba to forget about everything and leave the rest of the case to them. Yu convinces everyone to "comply" with Mitsuru's order, but she easily sees through him, and regardlessly decides to let them do what they want, though Mitsuru also plans to do everything she can to keep them out of harm's way. Before they leave, Labrys meets up witih the Inaba group once more and tells them that she will leave and join with Mitsuru's group to catch the culprit so that she can protect her new friends.
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The Persona users defeat Shadow Labrys and Labrys accepts her and turns her into the Persona Ariadne. As they prepare to leave, however, the true mastermind behind everything takes control of her and makes her attack everyone, but Fuuka manages to reach Yasoinaba in time and cut off his connection but he escapes. The mastermind is a human with no Persona who cannot enter the TV world, but is partnered with something not human that can shape shift and pretends to be various characters' shadows. Their objective is to weaken the Persona users mentally so that their Personas will revert to Shadows; they need to gather strong Shadows for their "Project", and reverting the Persona users' strong Personas would make exceptionally strong Shadows. Both of them escape and Mitsuru tells the Persona users of Inaba to forget about everything and leave the rest of the case to them. Yu convinces everyone to "comply" with Mitsuru's order, but she and Aigis easily saw through his act, and they regardlessly decide to let them do what they want, though Mitsuru also plans to do everything she can to keep them out of harm's way. Before they leave, Labrys meets up witih the Inaba group once more and tells them that she will leave and join with Mitsuru's group to catch the culprit so that she can protect her new friends, while she and Aigis vow to find their "mother".
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After they leave, Yu and Yosuke tell everyone that they are reforming the Investigation Team and make plans to head to Port Island.
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After they leave, Yu and Yosuke tell everyone that they are reforming the Investigation Team and make plans to head to Port Island, and meet on the [[Moonlight Bridge]].
TO BE CONTINUED
TO BE CONTINUED
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Whenever Yu and Aigis use their alternate palettes, the palette change will also affect Izanagi-no-Okami and Palladion (who both serve as their Instant Kills). In palettes where the Persona's color scheme is different from its user's, Izanagi-no-Okami and Palladion, depend on their hosts' color theme rather than their Personas.
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Whenever Yu and Aigis use their alternate palettes, the palette change will also affect Izanagi-no-Okami and Palladion (who both serve as their Instant Kills). In palettes where the Persona's color scheme is different from its user's, Izanagi-no-Okami and Palladion depend on their hosts' color theme rather than their Personas.
General Teddie, seen in the beginning of the game and cover art, serves as the tournament's host. [[Rise]] (default), [[Aigis]], [[Mitsuru]], [[Teddie]], [[Nanako]], [[Fuuka]] and [[Yosuke]] serve as commentators. Each character can replace the default male announcer for roll call by completing their respective Arcade Modes. [[Igor]] and [[Margaret]] have several lines at the character selection screen which is stylized like the [[Velvet Room]]. Due to Arc System's business practices among other things, it was hinted that new characters and content might be added in the future as DLC. Viewing the official site's source code reveals a place holder for a "syuyaku", a possible alternate romanization of 主役 ('shuyaku'; "leading part", "leading actor") or 集約 ('shuuyaku'; "intensive", "collected", "summarized").
General Teddie, seen in the beginning of the game and cover art, serves as the tournament's host. [[Rise]] (default), [[Aigis]], [[Mitsuru]], [[Teddie]], [[Nanako]], [[Fuuka]] and [[Yosuke]] serve as commentators. Each character can replace the default male announcer for roll call by completing their respective Arcade Modes. [[Igor]] and [[Margaret]] have several lines at the character selection screen which is stylized like the [[Velvet Room]]. Due to Arc System's business practices among other things, it was hinted that new characters and content might be added in the future as DLC. Viewing the official site's source code reveals a place holder for a "syuyaku", a possible alternate romanization of 主役 ('shuyaku'; "leading part", "leading actor") or 集約 ('shuuyaku'; "intensive", "collected", "summarized").