Persona 4’s daily activities are just as much fun as monster hunting is, because they give you an opportunity to really get to know your surroundings and deepen your relationships with other characters. The disparity between leading a normal life during the day and becoming a superhero at night is at the heart of a lot of anime (and their Western counterparts) but here, teens get to have the adventures. When not exploring this weird place, you've got to engage in normal daily life-go to school, meet friends, read or take a part-time job. In Persona 4, you're the new kid in town, to make things more complicated, you discover a strange parallel TV world where the dark parts of the human psyche roam free. The Persona series is both a deep dive into the human mind and a capital A anime, where high schoolers develop supernatural powers to save people from certain death.

It also has the feel of a shonen anime-those anime that let their characters solve a lot of problems via fast-paced, acrobatic combat. That’s part of its charm, and while it wants to be compared with the Souls games, it’s a lot more approachable, as well as being stylistically different to Dark Souls' quiet, dark atmosphere. Here, the world has fallen prey to vampire-like monsters that can emit a deadly miasma, and you are among a group of young, stylish and superpowered people trying to get the monster population under control using massive weapons.Īs is so often the case with anime games, this is a very simple description of all the unusual things that happen in Code Vein, most of which don’t make sense. From never before seen monster designs to teenagers wielding magic, Japanese games have leaned fully into the idea that more is sometimes more, and Souls-like Code Vein is a great example of that. Anime and anime games are popular for combat with lots of flair.

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