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While IвЂ™m not keen on the Dancing games, IвЂ™m glad to see ATLUS invested in improving them. Both titles just recently came out in Japan and are slated for an early 2019 release worldwide. ItвЂ™s not like thereвЂ™s much else they could have done, rhythm games are simplistic at their core. Notes still fly outward, meaning the Vita version is still the optimal version. ATLUS started development on Persona 3 Dancing Moon Night and Persona 5 Dancing Star Night following the sales Dancing All Night, and here we are a couple of years later.ДЄTLUS has done some things to improve upon the base 4 set, such as removing the story mode entirely to simply focus on the music and gameplay instead (probably for the best, considering how nicely 3В and 5вЂ™s stories ended).

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This is all fine and manageable on the tiny Vita screen but can be a living hell on a TV if youвЂ™re playing the PlayStation 4 version. Most rhythm games have you following a trail of notes but Dancing instead has them project outward, so you can watch the characters dance about during the song while playing. The other problem is that the game is optimized for the Vita. It did nothing reallyвЂ¦except waste your time if you wanted to unlock all the songs. It was basically 10 hours of nonsense that didnвЂ™t explore any of the old characters or make any of the ones it introduced interesting.

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Dancing totes a rather lengthy story mode to it, which reflects a lot of the later anime trope-like decisions the series had. So, having a selection of good music wasnвЂ™t an issue, the problems came from everywhere else. Persona games, and just ATLUS games in general, have unique soundtracks. ItвЂ™s very unlikely that this title hadnвЂ™t been in development, or at least planning, prior to all of this.Дancing All Night ended up being a somewhat decent rhythm game, depending on who you ask. The gameвЂ™s announcement came In November of 2013, a few months after Index fell apart and the eventual SEGA buyout. This also included the coming year after their bankruptcy with Persona 4: Dancing All Night. Persona 4 might as well have been an annual franchise under Index Holdings, as there was well over enough games, anime, and spin-offs to have something different out each year. SEGA swooped in and bought most of Index Holdings before performing corporate surgery to retain ATLUS and its foreign branches, leading to the happy and healthy developer and publisher we have today.

ATLUS was merged with Index by this point so the company going under would mean that what remained of ATLUS would go under as well. This eventually led to the arrest of IndexвЂ™s chairman and company president for falsifying stock reports. They were forced to file for bankruptcy in 2013 following a fraud investigation. IndexвЂ™s ownership of ATLUS lasted around 7 years. Persona 3 tested the waters with two Japan-only mobile games before eventually riding back in on the wave of popularity 4 had after its anime debut. Index Corp was all about maximizing profits, and modern Persona was one of their biggest cash cows.

Hell, Index even owned a French football team at one point. It used the latter to develop and market B-grade Japanese horror films to an international audience.

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Outside of ATLUS they also acquired the animation studio Madhouse and the long past its prime Japanese Movie studio Nikketsu.

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Index started out as a mobile software developer, but вЂњentertainment conglomerateвЂќ might be a better term for them since they expanded into just about everything. But how exactly did we go from a game that explores the concept of self-identity and morality to little girls dancing to super market theme music? Well, a lot of it has to do with who was running ATLUS at the time.ДЄTLUS was a subsidiary of Index Corporation in 2008, the year that Persona 4 came out. Each new creation brought Persona 4 farther and farther away from its youth-culture commentary and more into the realm of generic high school/fantasy tropes that are popular in anime. Over the course of a decade since the original gameвЂ™s release there has been a remake on the Vita, a fighting game with two different iterations, two different anime adaptations, a movie based on the anime, several manga and novel adaptations, and finally a rhythm game with an added story mode to it. The original RPG was great when it released back in 2009, but everything thatвЂ™s come out since has felt like a slow grind in the wrong direction. I always felt like Persona 4 was a title that overstayed its welcome.