New Battle Mechanics in Persona 5 Strikers A brand new Bond Skill system to increase things such as battle stats, Persona Fusion, cooking, etc.,.Persona Fusion is no longer based on social levels,.A brand new open exploration and fighting system,.Since there is a very linear story in Persona 5 Strikers, the calendar is no longer used as a way to calculate progress and how many days you have left to complete a mission,.There are no more social links or confidants,.Persona 5 Strikers still has features that Persona fans are used to-such as the calendar, Persona fusion, and dungeon crawling, but there are so many things it’s missing from the Persona series that makes the experience really weird for those who have played these games before: I would say getting to the end of the story was my biggest motivation for finishing this game. In Persona 5 Strikers, you’ll find yourself reading some dialogue, doing an investigation to get into a jail, then jumping in and out of jail after jail, multiple times in a day (literally-you can leave and go back in on the same day for a full-heal without penalties), beating the boss and moving on to the next thing…did I mention you can clear a jail in one day? After the first jail, I started to get a little bored, but the story kept me going, so there’s that. The responses and reactions don’t have any negative impact anymore, and I found myself not caring all that much about how I responded to my teammates when they asked me a question, unlike Persona 5, where almost every response mattered significantly as it counted towards your relationship with that character.Īdditionally, the beauty of the Persona series (to me anyway) was the multiple different ways I could choose to spend my time-with friends or battling in dungeons to level up my skills and create powerful Personas to assist me in combat-spending time with everyone outside of combat went hand in hand with my effectives in combat and being able to juggle my time between the two was incredibly challenging but also fun and rewarding.Īll of that has been removed in this game, and it really brings to light just how much time you spent doing all of those extracurricular activities and planning your time in the previous Persona games. You don’t spend your days considering if you should go to Momentos, or spend time at your part-time job to increase your Knowledge stat, or building social links with the multitude of teammates and NPCs in the game-in fact, not much thought goes into your daily routine at all, and I found myself craving that the most. In Persona 5 Strikers, you hop in your little minivan that you borrow from Sojiro, and bounce around from one city to the next, stopping along the way to take care of any Jails you come across. EMMA is a little different than the metaverse navigator that only the Phantom Thieves had access to in Persona 5 this time, you can simply uninstall it from your phone, but if a normal human were to put in a jail passcode and enter a jail, once they’re desires are stolen from the Shadows, they are brainwashed and unable to uninstall the application, making it very dangerous on a much larger scale. This time around, Palace rulers (now known as “Jails”) are stealing Desires of citizens through a downloadable phone application called “EMMA”, a new, powerful virtual assistant created by a company called Madicce, that can search databases, conduct navigation, manage your schedule, and even talk out logic problems with you. Persona 5 Vibes: A Brief Overviewīy typing in a passcode and adding one of these Palace rulers as a friend in the application, you will be sucked into the Jail, and your desires will be stolen from you-which will make you incredibly loopy and weird in the real world-sounds pretty familiar to what happened to the affected citizens in Persona 5, right? And for the most part it is. And similarly to the beginning of Persona 5, you view a scene of Joker pulling off a super big heist, but the familiarity stops there. Upon first loading the game, the familiar animations hit you in the face, and the Phantom Thief team dashes through the screen in all of their glory. The Phantom Thieves are back in Persona 5 Strikers to once again save the hearts and souls of millions-but if what you’re expecting is a familiar sequel, think again.
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