Persona 4 - New Import, Split Shipment

Garish yellow is the color theme for Atlus' latest MegaTen adjunct. The game introduction features a jazzy hook, yellow numbers, and backgrounds that are painted stark yellow. The hue that colors everything in the parallel dimension featured in Persona 4 is also... yellow.

As the story goes, an unnamed high school student moves to rural Japan to live with relatives while attending school. It's a quiet town but when bodies start turning up, the placid atmosphere is disrupted. A classmate named Chie Satonaka tells hero of the Midnight TV where inclement weather causes static and yellow-tinged images to appear on television. Once the clock strikes midnight, the tv becomes a portal which leads into a netherworld where shadowy creatures with masked faces dwell. Could the murders be somehow linked to the monsters?

Soejima Shigenori returns to provide character designs and art direction while Shogi Meguro serves up the music. The visuals of the game are crisp are the battle sequences are almost artistic. Endearing scenes in the game include one where the students sit around eating hunks of watermelon.