Much like Persona 3 and 5 dancing, its a very mediocre rythm game gameplay wise, but unlike those 2 the presentation, content , soundtrack and spectacle this time came together for something joyful overall.

Ill admit while i liked the story, the visual novel format had me consuming it mostly 2nd hand, but even there you can find stand out moments. Meanwhile the drip feeding of songs on Free Dance is pretty terrible, wich is a case of the games value getting a bit in the way.

Its a good rythm game to jump into, it can get you hyped at times but there are much better games from the genre than can engage you for more.

¿Qué es Persona 4?
Persona 4 es buen rollo, es ese sitio al que siempre puedes volver para pasarlo bien, despreocuparte y recordar buenos momentos.
Por tanto, Persona 4 Bailes es un paso (je) natural en su desarrollo. ¡Y tremendo cumbión! Todos tus temas favoritos, al estilo de juego de los Project Diva, con remezclas bien perronas y agradables para vivirlo a saco.
Un juegazo que me da todo lo que yo necesito.
En historia, te dan a entender que ocurre después de los eventos del P4 Peleas, pero aporta poco a la trama, sólo necesitas saber que tus pjs favoritos vuelven a salvar el mundo, esta vez con el espíritu del ritmo racatanga en sus venas.

Only good persona game for me. Just the soundtrack. The only best part for me in persona. (I guess there is a story too but idc about persona's writing)

It's a rythym game where you need to perfect your timing, but nicely added dancing animations and fun remixed songs adds to the enjoyment as well

Except the de de de mouse remix of shadow world. It's so bad that I lost the ability to hear. It's so bad that I just removed an 2 stars for it... It's so bad that... you know what, hear it yourself. Here it is https://youtu.be/FSv-IYM7otQ?feature=shared

But rest of the remixes are nice. So yeah, it's a nice enough game to play couple of musics, get energized and then continue your life.

I can't talk about rest of the games in the collection tho, because I haven't tried their remixes that much(p3 and p5)

Four years...
It took me four years...
But I have it

No matter how many times it's been said in the past, Persona 4: Dancing All Night may just be one of the strangest decisions Atlus has ever made. To take their critically acclaimed murder mystery and turn it into a rhythm game, complete with professional dancers, tons of different artists providing remixes for old songs, and, uh... Hatsune Miku. And to somehow make it good?

I won't speak on the Story Mode since, again, it's been four years, and I remember none of it, so the most I can do is talk about everything else.
The music is the best out of the Dancing series, giving spotlight to even some of the more obscure Persona songs that you don't tend to see talked about, like the opening to Persona 4 Arena (the first one), and even extending some other songs with new lyrics. I'm not gonna try and act like I understand the deeper meaning behind "yeah, flooded apple pie, left out 'til somebody cries" but I still think it's nice to hear more from one of my favorite soundtracks ever.
Gameplay is surprisingly reasonable, though there are some charts that can be a little wonky. The hitsounds are satisfying when timed right, and the controls are smooth enough to feel fun. I'll add, though, I played the entirety of the game by scratching with the analog sticks instead of L1/R1, I just can't see how those two buttons feel comfortable with everything else. I'd maybe understand it if it were L2/R2, but sadly that just isn't an option. I find my fingers to be a little too close together on the former.

I feel like I'm repeating myself, but I can't stress enough just how weird it is that this worked so well. Even weirder how the other 2 dancing games that came after fucking sucked LMAO
Proud to finally have my FC on every song in the game, 9/10.

I picked up this game thinking it would be similar to the other persona dancing titles, light on story, high on fun and good music.

And, this game has all that in spades. Arguably more so than the games that follow it. The gameplay is fun, the remixes are genuine improvements over the originals, which is something I feel 3 and 5 (especially 5) dancing lacked.

But, to my surprise, this game ALSO has a very in depth and genuinely compelling story mode ❓ Yeah, persona 4 DANCING has a campaign. It’s pretty meaty too, it took me about 20 hours to finish it all.

As for the stuff I didn’t care so much for, only one thing really comes to mind. The story mode is permanently locked at “normal” or “easy” difficulty, and you’re unable to adjust the note speed or modify the difficulty in any way. I’m sure newcomers to this genre wouldn’t mind, and maybe if I did the story mode first I also wouldn’t have minded as much. But the whiplash going from hard difficulty with max note speed to snail’s pace tracks on normal made it difficult to enjoy the gameplay, to be honest. Furthermore, being that I played the PS4 version I found the timing windows on the notes to be difficult to adjust to. I suspect this is because the game was originally on vita, so the increase in resolution distorted them slightly. Either way, these are minor problems in the grand scheme of things.

As far as persona spin-offs go, this trumps 3 and 5 dancing easily, but I think it has much less to offer than something like Persona 5 Strikers or the Persona Q duology. Even so, it’s a great standalone game and was much better than I expected. The gameplay is exciting and highly replayable, the campaign is engaging and even has some of the mystery elements that made the original game so great. I (surprisingly) would highly recommend this game to any fans of Persona 4. 3.5/5