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Primal Force was an awesome move, but I'm not sure if that tackle charge is the right move to represent it. Oh well.

That was part of my point.

Does it really matter if it's not widely public knowledge? I know we care because we're obsessive about these things, but this will be much more public once it hits arcades anyway. For any of us outside of Japan does it really matter if we know any of this now rather than later?

Well it is the loketest, which they seem to be especially not keen about releasing, presumably because it's not final.

Well I think there's plenty about Persona 4: Arena that doesn't exactly scream all audiences. An anime fighter featuring Japanese high school students is at least as niche as baseball.

I know very little about baseball, so I wouldn't say all of that is immediately intuitive, but it should be cake to figure out compared to the tons of far more complicated things you have to learn in a fighter.

Standing B, crouching B, standing C, crouching C. 789 456 123 5 is neutral, 2 is down, etc.

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You could probably hit them with Ziodyne while they're trying to attack.

Yeah, hard to say. It seems like it has enough charge time that you could react to it once you learn the timing though. Now if there's like an EX version with different timing or something you could make it a bit more unpredictable.

I haven't seen it yet, but it sounds like an easy Persona break.

Why would they both have to be shadow? There are plenty of characters that aren't evenly matched. As long as they're not broken that would be a pretty stupid restriction. Did we? I just want him to be good.

So she really is basically straight up Hawkeye then. I don't see why not. There's nothing that has happened that couldn't be wrapped up now, or would need a 100+ hour RPG to do it.

I'm hoping this game will wrap up all those plot threads so P5 can start fresh.

I'm not saying it's the worst fanfic ever written, but it is pretty fanfic-y subject matter. Ignoring romance pairings, obviously.

Now that they've introduced that storyline they need to wrap it up, but I hope Atlus has enough integrity to not end that with his revival. I know Arena is basically just a big fanfic, but that's pretty much the king of Persona fanfic material. They don't seem as broken as Unlimited, but it's too soon to say whether they're balanced. I get the feeling Arc wants them to be though.

The shadow forms aren't quite the same as doubling the cast. Sure, they have their own unique gimmicks that need balancing, but since they share so much with their original it should be significantly easier to balance than a full character. The balance is never going to be perfect anyway. The best we can hope for is to have the outliers move inward so there isn't such a large gap.

P4A definitely has mix-ups, they're just not all high/low mix-ups, which I don't see as a problem.

I much much prefer fighting Chie's to fighting Mitsuru's.

Honestly, I doubt anything outside of Japan is going to have any affect on what they decide to do. Atlus Japan and Arcsys will do whatever they think will work best for Japan. The rest of us are an afterthought.

Anybody have tips for fighting Mitsuru? I really hate fighting this damn woman. I have more fun getting bodied by Elizabeth. (At least with Liz I know if manage to get in I can finish things quickly, and she doesn't beat everything I do just by poking me...) I'm beginning to realize I just don't know how to approach this matchup at all honestly. More often than not, when I do win it feels more like luck than skill.

That's kind of funny. I've always assumed the BB community was fairly well considered, since I've never heard much distaste for it compared to the Street Fighter and Marvel (especially Marvel) community.

Looks like Aigis is in that SE card game with Yu.

...Jump behind her. Unless she's in the corner, then I'm pretty sure all you can do is time your jump right.

The connection ratings can be very misleading though. I've had lots of zero bar matches that run fine after letting the intro play, and higher ratings lag. You can't really know if it will be bad until you play the person.