play station official magazine

092

INFO

FORMATPS4

(REVIEWED),

PS VITA, PS VR

ETAOUT NOW

PUBATLUS

DEVP-STUDIO

PERSONA DANCING:

ENDLESS NIGHT

COLLECTION

Dance your heart out, steal others

A

ny Persona fan will tell you one thing

• the JRPG series has great music.
  And not just your standard orchestral
  fantasy fare. The games are set in a
  (relatively) real world, and revolve around teens
  dealing with problems (who also can summon
  demons to fight battles), so their music ranges
  from hip hop and rap to jazz and funky beats.

It’s a natural fit for a rhythm game, then – and

Persona Dancing: Endless Night Collection is

packed full of fab tunes. It includes two brand-

new games – Persona 3: Dancing In Moonlight

and Persona 5, Dancing In Starlight – and brings

PS Vita’s Persona 4: Dancing All Night to PS4.

Each is filled with music from the relevant game

alongside fresh remixes and tons of fan-pleasing

extras. (Though the music and rhythm gameplay

is more than solid enough on its own.)

NIGHT FEVER

For the most part you play through song after

song and have a blast listening to the music.

Button prompts come from the centre of the

screen, then move outwards,

where you have to tap to

the beat once they reach

the outside circle. The main

prompts are 8 , 4 , and 2 on

the D-pad, and w, e, and

q. Their positions on the

controller mimic that circular

radius, so following them on

beat feels very intuitive.

To shake things up there are

special notes: Unison Notes

require you to tap one button

on the left and one on the

right side at once; for Hold

Notes you need (obviously) to

hold that button; and Double

Set the note speed you’re

comfortable with, and tap

away as prompts come

in thick and fast or with

plenty of warning.

Notes, new to P3 and P5, are

two regular notes in quick

succession. Between the notes

are Scratches – big circles that

award points if you hit them,

but don’t affect your combo

if you miss, adding a risk/

reward to whether you think

you know the song well enough

to fit them in. Some of these

are marked as Fever, and will

build to give you an extra score

boost at certain points in the

song, where if you’re doing

well enough a back-up dancer

will join your main character

on stage. By default these are

MASQUERADE BALL

“THERE’S PLENTY OF ROOM

TO TWEAK SETTINGS AND

PLAY THE GAMES YOUR WAY.”

@MrOscarTK