LogFAQs > #961991208

3.5/10

I am significantly less forgiving of a story that wants to present itself in a linear, non-fighting game arcade ladder "haha okay but what if" fashion. To its credit, the continuation of the Labrys story is solid and makes sense, and (P4 spoilers... I think? Is it spoilers given this game relies on the spoiler being out in the open?) Adachi is generally written pretty well. But Sho is an incredibly flat villain who fails to do anything from the P4A cliffhanger, it's clear that they have no idea what to do with the P4 cast as a whole, the entire P4 side of the story is an absolute slog of bad fan fiction comedy (y'know, slightly more than usual), and while the P3 cast generally is better off... they're also usually the P3 cast. Outside of Junpei and Aigis, they kind of just deal with their theme and work in their self-enclosed game; what they do is a lot more interesting than who they are.

In P4A, there's at least moments where each character gets to be cool or amusing in a given story; vignettes will do that. P4U takes those moments away in exchange for pacing and focusing more deeply on a story that's even more disconnected from the casts than P4A's was. It's definitely my least favorite interpretation of Persona spinoff schlock; they're all fluffy fan fiction, but there's usually a bunch of highs to get past the basic anime writing. P4U is just constant, numbing mediocrity and infuriation and then sometimes Labrys and Adachi do something or they remember "hey, Naoto/Aigis is competent, let's give them a scene or whatever".

... wow that's more than I intended to write on that lol.