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

There’s a lot of fucking shit wrong with this game dude 😭. There were like 5 or 6 times I wanted to close the game and give it a 0/5 not even exaggerating. But as a complete package, as much as I actually hate myself for feeling this way it’s pretty damn good 😭 Story is compelling, characters are great, and the OST is also. The negatives are pretty big tho, some really weird stuff (not gonna list it here but if you know you know ☠️) and the gameplay is kinda clunky. But as a whole, I genuinely enjoyed this game way more than I thought i would. 2.5/5.

10/10 Wow. After playing Danganronpa 1 and 2 I actually thought they couldn’t top themselves, especially after hearing how polarizing this game was to most of the community. But somehow, some way, this game makes 1 and 2 look bad by comparison. It’s actually that good.

For a long time, Persona 5 has been my favorite game of all time. I honestly didn’t think it was possible for any game to take that spot, but Danganronpa V3 absolutely has. There has never been a game in this series, or in gaming in general where I have cared about the characters as much as I did in this game. The story is amazing, the cases are amazing, and the characters are phenomenal. While the ending is a point of contention for most people, I don’t think it’s anywhere near as bad as people make it out to be. In fact, I think the ending is incredible.

Game is an absolute 10/10, any flaws it has don’t even matter in the grand scheme of things because the experience as a whole is perfect.

The ending itself is gonna stick with me for a while I can tell, the message is very special and more than most games I’ve played it’s taught me something important about life.

Anyways yeah final thoughts, unforgettable experience and one of my top 3 games of all time. 10/10.