Persona 4: Dancing All Night is a rhythm game for the PlayStation Vita developed by Atlus and Dingo. The game is compatible with the console version of the Vita, the PlayStation TV. It features remixes of the soundtrack and dancing characters from Persona 4. Some of the contributing remixing artists include Akira Yamaoka, Norihiko Hibino, Daisuke Asakura, and Towa Tei.
Plot
The story takes place half a year after the Inaba serial murder case was solved, the epilogue of Golden, and months after Rise Kujikawa's return to the world of entertainment, meaning it is set in 2012.
As rumors begin spreading that "at midnight, if you see a strange video playing on a certain site, you are transported to the 'other side' and will never wake up again," the members of the idol group Kanamin Kitchen, which includes Rise's underclassman, Kanami Mashita, are disappearing.
While the Investigation Team are conducting their own investigations, Ryotaro and Nanako Dojima come in order to see the "Love Meets Bonds" Festival event at which the protagonist and his friends were supposed to appear. Upon realizing that the protagonist has gone missing, the two of them begin searching for him and thus end up meeting Kanami, who is in distress due to the disappearance of her idol group´s members and decide to aid her in the investigations regarding the whereabouts of her group members.
While the Investigation Team is forced to continue dancing on the Midnight Stage, Kanami, Dojima, and Nanako form a team in the real world in order to solve the mystery on their own. Just to what solution will each of the teams come in the end? In addition to the mystery, four members of Kanamin Kitchen must be rescued as well.
Gameplay
In the game, players engage in a "dance battle" with the Shadows in the mysterious world of the "Mayonaka Stage." There will be four difficulties -- Easy, Normal, Hard, and an unlockable All Night. In story mode, it will be possible to make things even easier. Clearing a song will cause the Investigation Team's Personas to appear and clear away the Shadows.
Modifiers also exist to make the game easier or harder, and affect your final score and Persona $ reward accordingly.
All characters in the game have multiple costumes, which can be purchased with currency earned for clearing songs. Additional DLC costumes, tracks, accessories, characters and song backgrounds are planned.
In Free Dance mode, the player can pick any character and their costumes, but not the song, as each track is tied to a specific character. Support characters, who provide unique choreographies for the main character, can also be chosen. There are also a number of songs which are exclusive to Free Dance mode, including all the DLC tracks.
Later it was revealed in Persona Stalker Club Episode 16, not only can the characters customizable with DENON headphones, but the characters can be customized with "Shadow" eyes to make the characters appear as their "Shadow Selves".
DLC wigs and colored contacts can also be purchased for the characters.
Characters
- Main article: List of Persona 4: Dancing All Night Characters
- Yu Narukami
- Rise Kujikawa
- Kanami Mashita
- Yosuke Hanamura
- Kanji Tatsumi
- Chie Satonaka
- Naoto Shirogane
- Yukiko Amagi
- Teddie / Human Teddie
- Nanako Dojima
- Margaret
Additional Character Dates
- Marie (DLC Character/Free Dance Only): July 30, 2015
- Tohru Adachi (DLC Character/Free Dance Only): August 6, 2015
- Hatsune Miku (DLC Character/Free Dance Only): August 27, 2015
Tracklist
- “Specialist” (“Never More” ver.) Featuring Yu Narukami
- “Time To Make History” Featuring Yu Narukami
- “Your Affection” (“Never More” ver.) Featuring Yosuke Hanamura
- “Heartbeat, Heartbreak” (“Never More” ver.) Featuring Yukiko Amagi
- “Pursuing My True Self” (Atlus Kozuka Remix) Featuring Chie Satonaka
- “Backside of the TV” (Lotus Juice Remix) Featuring Yosuke Hanamura
- “Snowflakes” (Narasaki Remix) Featuring Yukiko Amagi
- “Signs of Love” (TK Remix) Featuring Yu Narukami
- “Best Friends” Featuring Kanji Tatsumi
- “Like a Dream Come True” (“Never More” ver.) Featuring Teddie
- “Signs of Love” (“Never More” ver.) Featuring Naoto Shirogane
- “Time To Make History” (Akira Yamaoka Remix) Featuring Kanji Tatsumi
- “Heaven” (Norihiko Hibino Remix) Featuring Naoto Shirogane
- “Now I Know” (Yu Miyake Remix) Featuring Rise Kujikawa
- “Shadow World” Featuring Kanami Mashita
- “Junes Theme” (Vocal Version) Featuring Nanako Dojima
- “Shadow World” (Atlus Kozuka Remix) Featuring Nanako Dojima
- “Best Friends” (Banvox Remix) Featuring Chie Satonaka
- “Pursuing My True Self” (Shinichi Osawa Remix) Featuring Teddie
- “Maze of Life” Featuring Yu Narukami
- “Heartbeat, Heartbreak” (Towa Tei Remix) Featuring Nanako Dojima
- “Your Affection” (Daisuke Asakura Remix) Featuring Kanami Mashita
- “Dance!” Featuring Yu Narukami
- “Pursuing My True Self” Featuring Rise Kujikawa
- “Reach Out To The Truth” (Dancing on Persona Stage) Featuring everyone except Nanako Dojima
- "Calystegia" P4DAN Ending Credit
- “Electronica In Velvet Room” Featuring Margaret
DLC Songs
- “Never More” P4G Credits version
- “Shadow World” (De De Mouse Shadow Swing Remix)
- “Reach Out To The Truth” Music Live 2013 version
- “Break Out Of...” Featuring by Marie
- "Fog" (ATLUS Konishi Remix) Featuring Tohru Adachi
- “True Story” (ATLUS Kozuka Remix) Featuring Rise Kujikawa
- "Heaven" (ATOLS Remix) Performed and Featuring Hatsune Miku
- “sky's the limit” TV version (part of Persona 4 the Animation set A)
- “Beauty of Destiny” TV version (part of Persona 4 the Animation set A)
- “key plus words” TV version (part of Persona 4 the Animation set B)
- “Detective in Love” Loveline theme (part of Persona 4 the Animation set B)
- “Next Chance to Move On” TV version (part of P4G anime set)
- “Dazzling Smile” TV version (part of P4G anime set)
Downloadable Content
Item | Free/Paid | JP Release Date | NA Release Date |
---|---|---|---|
Costumes | |||
General Teddie costume | Free | June 25, 2015 | September 29, 2015 |
P-color Selection Set | Paid | ||
Gekkoukan High uniforms (Crazy Value Pack) | |||
P4G Summer Vacation Outfits. Based on the outfits from the Golden Epilogue (Crazy Value Pack) | |||
P4G Midwinter Yasogami High School Uniform set | Free | July 2, 2015 | October 6, 2015 |
Cross-dressing + Kanji Seaweed set | Paid | ||
P4G Midwinter Plain Clothes set | Free | July 9, 2015 | |
Women's Swimsuit Set | Paid | September 29, 2015 | |
P4G Ski set | Free | July 16, 2015 | October 20, 2015 |
Nanako Costume set | Paid | ||
Original Stage Costumes set | September 29, 2015 | ||
Naoto Female High School Uniform set | |||
Phoenix Ranger Featherman Costumes | Paid | July 23, 2015 | October 27, 2015 |
P-Color Selection 2 | Free until August 19 | August 12, 2015 | October 13, 2015 |
Lawson Original Costume | Paid | September 24, 2015 | September 29, 2015 |
Songs | |||
"Never More" Golden Version | Free | with purchase of Crazy Value Pack | |
"Shadow World (DE DE MOUSE shadow swing mix)" | Free | June 25, 2015 | September 29, 2015 |
"Reach Out To The Truth (PERSONA MUSIC FES 2013)" | |||
"Never More" | Paid | ||
"Persona 4 the Animation set A" | Paid | July 2, 2015 | October 6, 2015 |
"Persona 4 the Animation set B" | Paid | July 9, 2015 | October 13, 2015 |
P4G anime set | Paid | July 16, 2015 | October 20, 2015 |
"True Story (ATLUS Kozuka Remix)" | Paid | July 23, 2015 | September 29, 2015 |
"Break Out Of..." | Paid | July 30, 2015 | October 6, 2015 |
"Fog" (ATLUS Konishi Remix) | Paid | August 6, 2015 | October 13, 2015 |
"Heaven" (ATOLS Remix) | Paid | August 27, 2015 | October 20, 2015 |
Accessories | |||
Stylish Glasses Set | Paid | July 2, 2015 | October 6, 2015 |
Colored Contacts Set | Paid | July 9, 2015 | October 13, 2015 |
Feather Mask Set | Free | July 16, 2015 | October 20, 2015 |
Dyed Wig set | Paid | July 23, 2015 | October 27, 2015 |
ETC | |||
Vid "Tripshots: Sign of Love (TK Love)" | Paid | n/a | October 27, 2015 |
Vid "Masataka P: SNOWFLAKES (NARASAKI Remix)" | |||
Vid "Saine: Backside of the TV (Lotus Juice Remix)" | |||
Vid "Gyudon: Shadow World (shadow swing world)" | |||
Vid "Wakamura P: Your Affection (Daisuke Asakura Remix) | |||
Vid "Tsuyoshi Yamaya:Heartbreak, Heartbreak (TOWA TEI Remix) | |||
Vid "edu.: Pursuing My True Self (Shinichi Osawa Remix) | |||
Vid "TOHRU_MITSUHASHI; Best Friends (Banvox Remix) | |||
Vid "Ilcheesell: Shadow World (ATLUS Kozuka Remix) | |||
Vid "Mie no Hito: NOW I KNOW (Yuu Miyake Remix) | |||
Vid "yama_ko: Heaven (Norihiko Hibino Remix) | |||
Vid "Hoshima: Time to Make History (AKIRA YAMAOKA Remix) |
Gallery
Boxart |
---|
DLC Costumes |
---|
Screenshots |
---|
Rise, as she appears in-game.
Yu Narukami's design
A cutscene featuring Yu and Rise.
Yu Narukami performing a dance battle with his Persona, Izanagi.
Rise and Kanami performing a dance battle together.
Teddie as he appears in-game
Yosuke's design
Chie's design
Kanji's design
Yukiko's design
Naoto's design
Nanako as she appears in-game
Margaret appears in-game
Teddie's human form design
|
DENON x Persona 4: Dancing All Night Collaboration |
---|
DENON x Persona 4 Dancing All Night Collaboration
P4D × DENON collaboration headphone AH-GC20 P4D Special Edition
Yu wearing Wireless Noise Cancelling Over Ear Headphone AH-GC20
Rise wearing Portable headphone AH-MM200WT
Yosuke wearing High quality On Ear Headphone AH-MM300
Chie wearing Reference Quality Over Ear Headphone AH-MM400
|
Trailer |
---|
Trivia
- This is the first rhythm game in the Persona series. It is also first Persona game to featured popular VOCALOID. Hatsune Miku.
- Persona 4: Dancing All Night shares similarities and traits from two popular SEGA rhythm games, Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA and MaiMai:
- Difficulty levels in P4DAN are taken from Project DIVA but the colors are from arcade series. However, extreme difficulty in Project DIVA has been renamed All Night;
- The gameplay screen is based off the Maimai series;
- Tanaka's super shop also works the same way as that in the Project DIVA console series, where players earn money by clearing a song. In Project DIVA, the money is called DIVA points.
- The current Project DIVA game, Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA X later inherited P4DAN traits and gameplay.
- The Investigation Team's costumes almost all come from Persona 4 Golden; the only Golden costumes missing are Teddie's epilogue costume, all of Human Teddie's costumes except casual and drag, Festival Jubei (for Naoto), Yukata, Cheer Squad set (for everyone but Chie and Yukiko), Agent outfit, and Bath Towels (for males).
- Rise's High-Cut Armor and Christmas costumes appear to be very different from the ones shown in one of Persona 4 The Golden Animation's costume themes.
- Data for an unused Velvet Room outfit was discovered by a fan. It bears a resemblance to an outfit featured in the second promotional video for Persona 5. Presumably, it was meant to be an alternate costume for Nanako.
External Links
Persona 4: Dancing All Night
| |
---|---|
Characters | |
Playable | Rise Kujikawa - Yu Narukami - Kanami Mashita - Yosuke Hanamura - Chie Satonaka - Kanji Tatsumi - Teddie - Yukiko Amagi - Naoto Shirogane - Nanako Dojima - Margaret - Marie - Tohru Adachi - Hatsune Miku |
Non-playable | Protagonist - Ryotaro Dojima - Minoru Inoue - Sumomo Ujima - Tomoe Sayama - Tamami Uesugi - Nozomi Nakahara - Kyoka Ochimizu - Dance Instructor - Yuko Osada - Mikuratana-no-Kami - President Tanaka |
Locations | |
Other | Velvet Room - Yomotsu Hirasaka - Takura Productions - Inaba - Midnight Channel |
Midnight Stage | Kujikawa Rise (Stage) - Circus Tent - Sultry Lounge - Doll House - Romantic Castle - Mechanical Castle - Event Space - Mikuratana-no-Kami's Realm |
Music | |
Albums | Persona 4: Dancing All Night Original Soundtrack |
Songs | Dance! - Calystegia |
Archive | |
Terminology | Persona - Persona User - Shadow - Kanamin Kitchen - LMB Festival - Shadow Self - Investigation Team - Apathy Syndrome |
Lists | Trophies |