Tuesday, December 4, 2018

Persona’s newest Dancing games are a perfect love letter to the series

Of the many Persona spinoffs, the Dancing All Night series is, inarguably, the strangest. Persona is a lengthy role-playing game series with a heavy focus on dungeon crawling and social simulation. Its dancing games chuck all that aside in favor of rhythm-based gameplay. Why let your favorite characters save the world when you can instead watch them breakdance in a wizard hat?

Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight and Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight, released simultaneously, are two halves of the same brief story. Each is told from the side of their respective cast, but both parties have been pulled into a dance contest by their otherworldly Velvet Room attendants. There may not be any direct crossover, but they’ve been brought to compete...

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