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Persona 4 Arena Ultimax's English Tutorials, Margaret Video, Unboxing Streamed

Game publisher Atlus USA began streaming four English tutorial videos for its upcoming 2D fighting game Persona 4 Arena Ultimax on Thursday. The trailers introduce players to game mechanics such as basic controls narrated by Teddie, basic moves narrated by Rise Kujikawa, new systems narrated by Fuuka Yamagishi, and advance techniques narrated by Mitsuru Kirijo.

A new video for Margaret also debuted on Friday, along with an unboxing video:

Margaret will be available as paid DLC (along with formerly free Marie and Adachi) on October 7 for US$4.99. Other DLC include:

• Complete P4A Story -- $9.99
• Glasses Packs -- $1.99 each, or $5.99 full set
• Additional Colors -- $1.99 each, or $5.99 full set
• Navigator Voices -- $2.99 each, various set prices. Yosuke, Teddie, Aigis, Nanako, Mitsuru, Adachi, and Fuuka will be available Sept. 30, rest of the cast available on Oct. 7.

Persona 4 Arena Ultimax, the PlayStation 3 port of an arcade game, shipped in Japan on August 28. Atlus will ship the game in North America on September 30. First copies will come with a code to download an extra scenario set for the game. Tōru Adachi and Marie from Persona 4 will appear as playable DLC characters.

The story takes place only a few days after the events of Persona 4 Arena, when the town of Inaba is clouded in a shroud of red fog in which time is warped and people disappear. Inaba has almost become like the world inside the television. To add to it all, the members of the Persona 4 team find Mitsuru and Akihiko being crucified on the Midnight Channel. In front of the Inaba students appear Yukari and Junpei, members of the Shadow Worker unit who have come to the rural town in order to save their upperclassmen.

Atlus released the first Persona 4 Arena (Persona 4: The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena) game for Japan in 2012 on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 consoles, and Atlus USA released the game in North America less than two weeks later.