It's definitely the most underrated fighting game. That much is certain.

Poor lordknight, he used mitsuru against aegis and that alone is a little difficult considering mitsuru is so charge oriented.

Damn, whenever I watch fighting games -makes me want me and go play fighting games! My first fighting game was street fighter 1st" good times and great tournament played by persona 4 arena

It's a shame people hate on this game just because it has such a strong Japaneses look about it, because it really is one of the best fighters around and a lot of fun to play.

I love these announcers Guys who actually understand fighting games God job IGN

Always great music from Persona :)

Matches like these just make me go on the edge of my seat!

A button check is when the competitors make sure that their controllers are working and to make sure that their button configurations are correct before starting since people like using different buttons then the default settings.

That was brutal...clear difference in handling of characters.

Wish this would have been a bit closer because this game makes for some intense, exciting, dramatic battles. The best final this year will probably go to KOF again

Persona 4 Arena's graphic style is awesome.

Over the weekend there was a HUGE event called EVO2013 which is the biggest fighting game event each year, IGN uploaded the finals to youtube.. Just saying for people who are confused :)

Damn, poor LordKnight. Never played the persona series, but i I feel for ya man.

When I got this game I never thought it would become a legit fighting game

darn, i need to get back to playing P4A now ...summer school, damn you for taking my time away

Aigis is terrifying. Still learning her, but after seeing this I now know what she's capable of. Only wish more Yosuke players would be up there though, as he's my main.

Aaah I am so buying this game next week! I loved playing Persona! Can't wait to finally play this game!

THE KING OF FIGHTER IS!

damn strait yume is just one of the amazing. and all the characters are capable of that

Yume looked like he was on a completely different level.

Well, yeah. That's why I said that. In the FGC when you say someone/something is free you mean that they where really easy too beat, almost effortless. LordKnight was free.

And Skullgirls, never forget!

I knew it!BTW Atlus are the guys that make Shin Megami Tensei right if so thats a dream team of developers.

the amount of pressure you need to keep up block stuns like that is difficult to maintain. And you are heavily rewarded for it.

What he's referring to is both north and south america, which together is called the Americas. wikipedia(dot)org/wiki/Americas

Aigis is not cheap character because you can over-heat and run out of bullets, so that keeps you from spamming the gattling gun.

BananaKan actually beat Yume in one of LevelUpLive's streams, it was a match in a $1,000 a night hotel during or shortly after EVO- a mini P4A tourney held. Not sure if you could find it anywhere, in the LevelUpLive twitch archives or not, but it was a pretty fun tourney to watch of Team America vs Team Japan.

It's considered the best character in the game, but even the lowest of tiers (Kanji) can rock in this game. The game it's really balanced to be honest.

Lordknight kicked ass in his first 2 finals matches, Yume kinda struggled at the start but during his 2nd match he just got in the zone and never got out of it when this happend. One thing I wonder about pro Persona players, why do they rarely use all out attacks?

Yep, that's why they are the high tiers xD I only have problems with Aigis, Chie and Yu, because they force you to block and... man, you need amazing reactions or good guesses xD Then you have Akihiko, who has godlike damage output, but doesn't have enough tools to shine by his own, it's all about the player reads.

well you could argue that he was talking about north america as a whole... since japan is so good it pretty much is japan vs. the world

Pretty much, yeah. Smash Bros is fast as hell and often extremely technical in a kind of situational way, so you can't really just use the same combos throughout obviously. Makes it interesting and a little more forgiving (sometimes XD)

a lot, since hundreds of people enter EVO tournament. first place nets you about 55%, which is thousands of dollars alone.

Yume played LordKnight like a fiddle, read him at almost every single turn...

Is persona 4 arena worth getting?

The west really only shows dominance in are the ones that don't have japanese arcade counterparts or the ones that didn't have an arcade release at all.

OWNED!!!

"Yume does not care" ....Freaking honey badger.

This is not a showoff tournament my friend.

you sir deserves a medal for not saying 1st

There was not a single automatic combo performed in this match. Sure, every character has the short "mash one button to a combo", but it's used very rarely if at all unless you're a complete beginner at fighting games. The combos in this game are fairly advanced and require pretty fast button pressing to perform. Get your facts straight.

Wow. It's true what they say about America. It really is the land of the free.

LK just lacks the amount of pressure yume puts on him...specially with aigis. The kid had no chance. What a massacre.

and here ladies and gentlemen, we have the average 'murican, thinking that just because he was born on in a first world country, he automatically became better than anyone else

Nintendo changed their minds.

Lol, this was EVO 2013, it had nothing to do with IGN, they just uploaded it.

Oh, that actually makes sense. You could've berated me like some fanboy but instead you decided to just answer me in a coherent fashion. Can't say that about everyone...

Yume just getting in dat ass O_O. That pressure was insane!

That shit looked free

Yume did such a heavy pressure. Still, nice playing, LordKnight.

Great job Yume really deserves it.

Well considering how people acted when it was almost taken off streaming, yeah I'd say it was more hyped

You were thinking of The Golden I presume?

P4A is the best fighting game ever!

If BananaKen would just of not lost. He would have a chance against Yume.

Except it is. Generally America is refered to the USA. Unless you mean the Americas which refers to the continent.

correct, it was made by the same developers/studios.

while i agree that im not a fan of the auto-combo system, a good player doesnt abuse said feature, and neither of these people are even using it. not to mention that you lose a bit of hp/damage is weaker when you use an autocombo as opposed to manually doing the combo yourself. imo bb is an easier game because combos are a lot easier to pull off than in p4u.

They're not from IGN lol, they're EVO commentators

Even though us Murricans are better than anyone, I don't think he was trying to sing our praise, just state that people usually say "America" instead of "United States of America"

summer school to me is like how the girls mess around with the guys in P4... and we all know how that went down

It's true we have people in the U.s that feel like they are better, and I can't say lot of them because I've never been out side of Nyc to tell if more people are like that. But as for sueriority complexes I have one when I'm playing video games at times I feel like a loss from lag isn't far or when I fight a blocker in dark souls or Sf4 I get pissed off but that's because I'm overly compative So I don't agree with what you say, but I feel you have a point when it's comes to this.

Yume made LordKnight look like a scrub who has never played P4A. Straight Wreckage.

I honestly don't see how you came to that conclusion.

that's what happens when things have absurdly generic names. this is here to stay...

How did this get on KZfaq??? I thought you weren't allowed to upload Rapes!

I thought they cancelled the SSB tourney because of Nintendo.. or was that just the streaming?

.....AWESOME!!! I wish I could play them

A new version would be awesome. With new characters like (***SPOILER Adachi****) ,Margaret,Junpei and koromaru

Later Nintendo allowed it to happen. I watched most of it, actually.

Lordknight shouldn't have respected Yume this much, he should of went more on the offensive instead of staying the defensive basically all the matches.

It essentially means the same thing in this case.

how rare does the button crap out during tournaments?

He didn't mean "free" in the literal sense but rather USA players give free wins.

this game is the successor to Guilty Gear and Blaz Blue. It plays almost exactly the same.

Whoa, Yume totally destroyed LordKnight. おめでとう！

Yeah, free to get our asses handed to us.

before i say this I'm going to say I'm Mexican, they call them Americans or they call themselves Americans because is called United States of America, they call the everything by a part of it is a resource in literature.

Are we gonna get some Blazeblue videos IGN???

Same devs, so the games are very similar. Although I would say that P4A is much faster, while blazblue is much more technical

Lord knight would play mitsuru

If you think this video is epic, then wait for TeamJapan vs TeamAmerica.Even more epic.

Lordknight is like the worst representative for grand finals at evo. He always fucking chokes man. lol

I ahte how the commentators are clearly rooting for LordKnight, Id rather they be inpartial

man i was rooting for lordknight in the end there

Damn, I feel bad for lordKnight

That almost sounds like Brett on Commentary.

Well, we people outside of Japan will always have Marvel I guess.

they wouldnt do it without permission

Owned

they got permission to do so, simple as that

Thanks not every game has comments as the ones of LoL cause i may have heard many godlikes

LOL JAPAN PROVING THAT P4A IS THERE GAME XD

the time you took this write this, you could have spend using google

gaaaaah im going to go buy this game right now!!!

omg this game is busy and all over the place, hard to keep up. But wow it´s beautiful

Is this made by the Blazblue guys because it looks like it.

hella hype

I guess Blazblue didn't raise enough money.

He got owned!