*unholy gasp*
Sword kid. Who are you. Am I going to love you? Oh hell probably I love all of the characters in this fucking series ;__;
PERSONA 4 ARENA2 IS ARCADE-ONLY, NO PLANS FOR CONSOLE OR US PORT
Persona 3 characters Junpei Iori and Yukari Takeba are joining the Persona 4 Arenaroster in a new version of the 2D fighter — at least, they are in Japan’s arcades. According to Famitsu, a new version of P4A brings a new Normal/Shadow Types to the fighting system as well. When using the Shadow Type, an offensive-heavy style, players can use Shadow Rage to repeatedly use SP Skills as well as connect combos that previously wouldn’t be possible.
Normal Type brings new combo moves to the traditional P4A characters, who have new Skills and attacks. For a hardcore breakdown of how the new system changes affectPersona 4 Arena’s apparent upcoming re-release, check out the full breakdown, as translated by Shoryuken, below.
The updated version of Persona 4 Arena is not currently planned for a release in the US, an Atlus representative tells IGN, and is an “arcade-only update.”
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Not currently, but that doesn’t mean that it won’t happen. Maybe they want to tie it in with P5 somehow first, or add to the story, or maybe make it so there’s more cutscenes in the story (god yes please), or maybe more time has passed, or maybe they want to add more characters (Dojima, Nanako, Ken, Margaret, Marie, Koromaru – if MvC 3 can have Amateratsu from Okami this is possible. Or maybe even some social links outside the group that’d be kinda cool). I think P4A did well enough to warrant a home release, right?
So I’ve been trying to get something in a Dreamspinner Anthology for a while. Last year, nothing made it, but this year I saw that they were doing a sports anthology. I thought, “I’m gonna write about video games,” because… I’m a geek.
And holy shit it worked.
So I’m reposting this because it comes out in a month and my video game short story will be in it! It’s a tale of gay romance, video game stereotypes and the people who happily turn them upside down. It’s got all sorts of fun video game references, because video gaming is a sport, right? You can either get the entire anthology, or buy the stories individually in June. Mine is called “Press START to Play.”
Below is a story description and a small snippet where I make mention of
my obsessiona game series I like ^^Description: Lukis Singleton’s once-popular sports column is fading fast, thanks to the terrible track record of the local football team. In an attempt to save the column, Lukis’s editor, John, decides that he needs to go in a different direction. Video games are all the rage these days, so John insists that sending Lukis to a huge video-game tournament in Los Angeles will shake up his current readers and bring in new ones. Lukis isn’t thrilled about reporting of games with impossible powers or gamers who still live in Mon’s basement, but then he meets a tempting flaw in the game stereotypes of unwashed man-children. Aaron Sanders is a gorgeous breath of fresh air at the tournament who takes Lukis’s less-than-stellar view of gamers and turns it on its head, leaving Lukis to wonder if if might be worth being Aaron’s player two.
Snippet:
Lukis wonders, as he watches the intro video, why high school students are even allowed to fight with swords and strange monsters that they can summon. Don’t they have parents? And since when can bears talk, fight, and smoke cigars? Was that a robot just now? With an axe?
“Told ya it was completely different,” Aaron says, picking some kid who uses a gun and has some sort of fly as a monster friend.
It’s still exciting to watch, he thinks. Aaron’s character is fighting against some tall, buff guy who uses a folding chair as a weapon, it makes no sense at all; who brings a chair to a gunfight?
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Yes I made a kannao reference in something I’m getting published. I realize I have a problem. No I do not wish to seek help thanks though.
In which my OTP makes an appearance in my original writing. Yeah.
