One week you get a sort-of big release like Kingdom Hearts. The next you get exactly one game whose audience can be described as a niche of an already niche audience.

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Coming This Week

Tuesday August 7, 2012

Persona 4 Arena (Xbox 360, PS3)

Let’s make a Venn diagram shall we? Draw a large circle representing gamers. Now make a much smaller circle inside to represent Japanese Role Playing Game fans who have played and liked Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4. That right there represents your potential market for Persona 4 Arena, which mashes characters from Persona 4 and its predecessor Persona 3 in what is undoubtedly a hardcore 2D fighting game. I say hardcore because its developer, Arc System Works, is renowned for incredibly deep and very hardcore 2D fighting games (see the BlazBlue and Guilty Gear series), and the screenshots and various video tutorials for this game has not shown it to be anything else. I’m certain that fans of Persona 4 will be intrigued by Arena, but they should probably just wait for the enhanced version, Persona 4 Golden to come out on the Vita later this year if all they want is to get their demon fusion fix for the year.

 

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