Perhaps the best way to describe how infectious the cheer and simple fun in Persona Dancing: Endless Night Collection is to reflect on how it stays with you after you put it down. Hours or days later, you’ll find yourself tapping your foot to a song you played, and rather than just leaving it at that, a temptation emerges.
The Persona Dancing Endless Collection's price tag is the true shadow of this rhythm compilation. If you choose to do battle with your wallet, you'll be rewarded with a trio of rhythm games that are filled with style, remixed beats, and another chance to spend a few hours with those RPG party members you developed such deep social links within previous adventures.
A collection consisting of 3 games: Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight, Persona 4: Dancing All Night, and Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight. Highly recommend
Persona Dancing: Endless Night spotlights the interstellar soundtracks from the last three Persona entries. Payoff is limited here, since these are side stories, but strong writing and interesting concepts accentuate the rhythm experience wonderfully. This collection, and each of its individual games, is meant for anyone looking for a great rhythm game that features fantastic music.
For a not exactly popular price, Persona Dancing: Endless Night Collection offers a significant level of entertainment for lovers of the genre and the ATLUS saga. Although the gameplay is a bit simplistic, the choreographic aspect always remain at a high level. Vivisecting the package you can see some naivety too, but overall - and focused on target audience - is a well-packaged collection.
If you are interested in the dancing adventure of the Persona crews, get the collection. Not only is it cheaper, it is also the only chance for you to play the still superior Persona 4 Dancing on PS4.
There's ultimately not enough content to justify the price of either Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight or Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight, which are structurally the same game with different characters, songs and dialogues.
The inclusion of P4D in the $99 Persona Dancing: Endless Night Collection sweetens the deal somewhat, but it’s still a lot to ask for an unchanged port of P4D and two games that are sparse on substance.
It should be noted that someone is exploiting the user score. The number of negatives on all Persona games has been steadily rising by the same amount, same pace. Over 100 negatives were added to P5 overnight even though it's older. Metacritic has been alerted but apparently they don't care. Just goes to show you shouldn't place any faith in user scores (big surprise) because some children use bots and dupe accounts to sway the number.
The Persona Endless Night Collection is an idea that should have been great but has been questionably executed. I will start by saying the best part of this deal is getting three games for $100, and Persona 4:Dancing All Night is a great spin-off game, and how P3D and P5D SHOULD have been done. The first problem is the packaging, the two physical games and download code come in one case that only has a single disc slot with the two discs stacked on top of each other. For a Collectors Edition, they should have had separate slots for the two discs at the very least, the art book okay I suppose. Not good or terrible, just okay. Persona 3 and 5 Dancing feel like they were rushed compared to Persona 4 Dancing. There is no real story mode in these two games and they are both lacking in tracks compared to P4D. Both games are well animated and they brought back their original voice actors (not including P4D, which for some reason replaced Rise's voice actor. I'm guessing Laura Bailey was busy when Atlus was creating the game?) but the worst practice for all of these games is the insulting DLC. There is over $80 worth of DLC for P3D and P5D, most of which is costume packs that should have been in the game to increase the content and additional songs that are either insulting that they aren't included in the game (seriously, how are you going to make P5D and cut out Beneath the Mask?) or not worth your money because they are only the intro's of the songs (really Atlus, 0.99 for the first 30 seconds of Shadow World? Mmk). If you bought the DLC for P4D already on the Vita, I have bad news for you; It doesn't carry over. There is certainly fun to be had with this collection since you can never go wrong with the amazing soundtrack from Persona games, just make sure to skip the DLC if you decide to get it.
SummaryJam out to all your favorite Persona music with both Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight and Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight in an exclusive collector's box featuring character art by Shigenori Soejima.