Producer Kazuhisa Wada has shared new information about Persona 4: Dancing All Night by answering fan questions on the official website. It’s in Japanese, but Siliconera has translated the Q&A for English readers.
Regarding the game’s release, the game will released both in physical and digital copies as well as music and costume DLC. There are no plans for a demo on the PlayStation Store but one may show up at events.
Persona 4: Dancing All Night’s story takes place shortly after the end of Persona 4 Golden. Nanako is supposed to play a big role, but while she can dance she won’t be doing any fighting. Curiously, a fan asked if Hanako Ohtani will be dancing, but Wada answered no.
To play the game you must time your button presses to notes that will move from the middle of the screen to one of six areas. Type of notes will require either a simple button press or a longer hold. Touch controls were mentioned, but it’s not clear if there are just part of the control scheme or if the game can be played entirely using this method. Wada said a tutorial video will be revealed to help explain the gameplay. The game’s difficulty settings are: Easy, Normal, Hard, and All Night. The difficulty is quite flexible, Wada explained you can make the game even easier on story mode or those looking for a challenge can unlock rewards for full-combo scores on songs. Outside story mode, players can earn new songs by playing “Free Dance” and view character models in some kind of gallery mode. Wada mentioned that each each character will have many costumes to wear and you can see the effort put into each one this way.
Persona 4: Dancing All Night releases in Japan on June 25th and is tentatively set to release in 2015 for North America. The game will only be available for the Playstation Vita, but the Q&A mentioned the game will be compatible with the Playstation TV.