When does persona 5 strikers come out series#
You use points from that to unlock different abilities for battle, but it’s kind of superfluous and mostly feels like it was included out of obligation to series tropes. For Strikers, the system is completely simplified to be a meter that fills based on you leveling up and in accordance to certain story events. During the main Persona titles, you’ll build up social bonds with your friends and other characters that strengthen your personas in battle.
Where things start to differ is with regards to the Bond system and even your character abilities.
It’s a nice touch, but with so few clues to actually find, it comes off more like paying lip service instead of actually integrating interesting mechanics from before. For a few of the dungeons, you’ll need to peruse the city you’re in and find clues about what is going on. There are even the investigation bits from Persona 5 in play, though hugely pared back. As I said, this is more RPG than hack-n-slash, which is something I wasn’t exactly prepared for. At its heart, the battles can feel like Dynasty Warriors, but there’s much more thought required to plan out the best team composition. It would be pointless to take Ryuji, who specializes in electricity, into a dungeon where all of the enemies are strong against electricity. Much like a regular RPG, you should be concerning yourself with balancing your characters for maximum efficiency. Then there is how your party factors into battles. It definitely has a summer vibe to it, which fits in nicely with the setup as a summer vacation.
Shibuya is where the journey starts, but you’ll have traveled the entire country by the time the end credits roll. You also have honest to god hub areas, which take the form of small sections of different cities in Japan. There’s not as much depth with the Arcana system, but you’ll still be collecting, upgrading, and fusing your personas together to make new ones. Since collecting different personas was a main feature of the series, Strikers pretty much wholesale rips that system from its inspiration. While the battles have been shifted away from turn-based affairs into a real-time action RPG style, everything else feels like it belongs to the mainline series. Those fearing a braindead experience where you can button mash to victory will be absolutely floored by how closely Strikers feels to the main Persona games. As I said in the intro, I’m honestly shocked that this title was developed by Omega Force. I know Persona 5 features similar themes, but Strikers is more concerned with gameplay…though you’ll have to wade through a ton of story to get to it.īefore I get back to complaining, let’s go over the aspects I did enjoy when playing through Strikers. My main familiarity with the series comes from Persona 4 Golden where I was treated to an interesting plot that got to the roots of its heroes’ struggles. Having not played Persona 5 myself, I really don’t know why I should care about anyone. There are certainly religious connotations and some sociopolitical reflection with the main plot, but this is as surface level as could be when it comes to the characters. If you fell in love with Persona 5 because of its deeply personal stories and introspective themes, Strikers has absolutely none of that. It’s all mostly exposition to set you up on a new adventure, which sadly follows through for the entire game. Quickly, though, they realize something is wrong with a new mobile app called “EMMA” that is showing signs of repeating a trend they saw the year prior. He reunites with all of his friends, meaning the “Phantom Thieves of Hearts” can get one last hurrah together before the new school year begins. Reeling it back a little, after battling for roughly four minutes, the game shifts to the present where the main protagonist (who players can rename at their leisure) returns to Shibuya to spend the summer on vacation. Shadows, personas, magic attacks, all-out attacks, weaknesses: it’s not taxing to figure out, but it’s surprising how little onboarding Strikers gives you when starting out. In an effort to not waste veteran players’ time with reintroducing a cast they should all be familiar with, Strikers begins en media res and expects the player to know what these strange concepts are. What you may find more helpful is having played a Persona title in the past, because Strikers features nearly all of the same mechanics as the main series. In another odd move, there’s barely any references to the past apart from some passing mentions of “last year being crazy.” While far from a side story, you won’t need much prior knowledge of the events of the original game before diving into Strikers.
Curiously, it does not follow on from the narrative of Personal 5 Royal, meaning you won’t any references to Kasumi Yoshizawa or the extended plot from that iteration. The main plot of Persona 5 Strikers picks up roughly six months after the events of Persona 5.
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