Battle: party HP/SP portrait rail, Chie's COMMAND turn

About this game

Developer: ATLUS · Publisher: SEGA · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Cel-shaded & anime · Screen type: Battle / Tactics

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What to study

Battle in Persona 4 Golden never leaves the television frame the exploration HUD built: the same four portrait chips stay pinned to the right edge, but entering combat changes what they say, the quiet green bars grow slanted yellow figures (360/317, 462/295, 455/216, 409/407), HP over SP, priced to the point. Turn order is not a list or an arrow; the active member's portrait inflates into a yellow disc wrapped in rotating COMMAND lettering, a marquee for whose move this is, while the other three stay flat chips. And when the Persona is summoned the interface gets out of the way entirely, no menu, no banner, just Chie on her blue summoning circle in the middle of a strip-club stage whose walls run with green code. The rail is the whole HUD, and it is enough. Frame at 0:06.8 in the ReLaunch Trailer Jan 2023 (Unrated) (manual extraction; the scene-change pass caught this frame as v0_0005 at 6.76s).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

portrait-chips mechanic-callout minimal-hud

Components

Parts on screen.

Card List Portrait Vitals bar

Screen inventory

• the battle portrait rail down the right edge: four profile portraits, each trailed by slanted yellow italic HP/SP figures, 360/317 (protagonist), 462/295 (Yosuke), 455/216 (Chie), 409/407 (Yukiko), with paired green-and-yellow bars on a black slash plate under each face
• the active member's portrait is the rail's one animation: Chie's face sits in a solid yellow disc ringed by rotating orange COMMAND lettering, so whose turn it is reads from across the room
• no command list is open anywhere: at the moment of the summon the rail is the entire interface, the stage belongs to the animation
• Chie stands centre frame on a glowing blue summoning circle, the tarot card she crushed still sparking over her head
• the arena is a strip-club stage inside the TV: hazard-striped floor, a red curtain emblem at right, and walls of falling green data-stream columns

Top 3 colors

#000000 32%#081115 27%#646e68 18%

Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.

Source and credit

© ATLUS / SEGA, Persona 4 Golden screenshot: ReLaunch Trailer Jan 2023 (Unrated) (Steam), ATLUS / SEGA, shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by SEGA.

Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-24. verified 2026-10-24: frame is a manual extraction (manual-battle-6_8.png @ 6.76s) from the verified-clean curl-shim download of the ReLaunch Trailer (h264 1920x1080, 24,845,684 B, full decode-to-null exit 0, zero error bytes, zero NAL hits), inspected visually at full resolution; all four HP/SP readouts (360/317, 462/295, 455/216, 409/407), the COMMAND-ringed active portrait and the summoning circle legible; a fresh extraction at 6.76s byte-hash-matches this file exactly (MD5 7bda01935039eb9bcab741b22aa1e2b0, identical); no trailer caption, watermark or logo overlays the frame

no published policy found (checked 2026-10-24); fair-use study use, takedown honored within 48h

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