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 Announcement Trailer Gameplay Trailer So, here we are... a Persona musou game. None of us are really all that surprised though, are we? After Persona 4 was milked to high heaven, it only makes sense that they'd go even wilder for P5. Really, I'm just waiting for the kart racer. Anyway, Persona 5 Strikers (originally known as Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers in Japan) is a new musou game brought to you by the folks at Omega Force and P-Studio. It was actually released a full year earlier in Japan, but the localization took forever to even get formally announced, probably for the obvious reason! The game takes a lot of the form and style of Persona 5 and interprets them into musou mechanics, and reviews are pretty positive thus far. It's worth noting that this game is a straight-up sequel to Persona 5, and thus you're probably gonna be lost if you just jump in and try to play it without knowing the story. Also worth noting: this game was developed concurrently with Persona 5 Royal, so it doesn't do anything at all to account for that game's new characters and story beats. Sorry, but you're not playing as Kasumi. Instead, enjoy a fun new adventure with all your favorite Phantom Thieves (and Morgana)! There's even a couple of new additions to the team! It's also coming out on Switch and Steam, which is nice even if it's not the Persona 5 you'd likely prefer on those platforms! The game comes out on February 23rd (or the 19th if you buy the Digital Deluxe edition for early access). Helpful Gameplay Tips!
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Feb 18, 2021 04:24
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Getting my switch copy and a day off from work to play for a bit. It’s gonna be my reward for fixing some things around the house in the morning before the store opens.
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Feb 18, 2021 04:58
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We hate the cops.
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Feb 18, 2021 05:06
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gonna be getting this on steam, hope it runs well
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Feb 18, 2021 05:45
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Who's got two thumbs and is gonna pay extra for a digital deluxe thing that has no content I care for but unlocks in like fourteen hours? this guy i swear this is some sorta SEGA tactic for spinoffs of huge "niche" games or something. Judgment was the exact same deal.
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Feb 18, 2021 16:17
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MorningMoon posted:i swear this is some sorta SEGA tactic for spinoffs of huge "niche" games or something. Judgment was the exact same deal. They know drat well they're the only ones dealing our drug of choice and that we'll pay ten bucks to get our hit early.
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Feb 18, 2021 17:20
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I tried to get my early fix but Sony doesn’t allow refunds so I’ve gotta wait like everyone else.
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Feb 18, 2021 18:36
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Game is fully loaded. In 10 hours ill control the joker, flick off his parents and move back to tokyo with his real family dammit. Then like 44 hours of filler. Or something like that.
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Feb 18, 2021 20:07
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TheLoser posted:We hate the cops. I've got bad news about one of the party members in this game
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Feb 18, 2021 21:09
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Blockhouse posted:I've got bad news about one of the party members in this game It's fine, Haru dunks him into oblivion
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Feb 18, 2021 21:12
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Arist posted:It's fine, Haru dunks him into oblivion It doesn’t count when the one percenter does it.
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Feb 18, 2021 21:16
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Arist posted:So, here we are... a Persona musou game. None of us are really all that surprised though, are we? After Persona 4 was milked to high heaven, it only makes sense that they'd go even wilder for P5. Really, I'm just waiting for the kart racer. Really looking forward to this but I do hope they milk Persona 5 a bit more. I know ArcSys is busy with Guilty Gear Strive right now but they made the excellent Persona 4 Arena games and I've been hoping that we see a Persona 5 Arena at some point. I think this might be wishful thinking at this point since by the time they manage to complete development and release the game it may be too late. Then again Persona 6 is obviously a long way off so who knows? That's what I'd love to see and I suspect Strikers is likely a result of ArcSys being too busy right now to have made a Persona Arena game. The reviews I've seen have all been great however, so I'm excited to play this and I like the premise for the story.
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Feb 18, 2021 23:41
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If I tapped out of Persona 5 just before the Hawaii trip, how lost would I be?
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Feb 19, 2021 03:26
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Unlucky7 posted:If I tapped out of Persona 5 just before the Hawaii trip, how lost would I be? Based on what I've heard, extremely.
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Feb 19, 2021 03:34
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Fojar38 posted:Based on what I've heard, extremely. To be honest, P5 is a good game, if sort of tiring. And I do have Royal, so I could get back into that one of these days ish, at least to complete the base game plot.
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Feb 19, 2021 04:13
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Unlucky7 posted:To be honest, P5 is a good game, if sort of tiring. And I do have Royal, so I could get back into that one of these days ish, at least to complete the base game plot. Royal is absolutely worth finishing. Base P5's endgame is really good but Royal's endgame is on another level storywise.
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Feb 19, 2021 05:22
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Persona 5 Arena's best reason to exist is to contrive whatever new excuse the P4 cast uses to keep their school uniforms on.
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Feb 19, 2021 05:29
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Fojar38 posted:Royal is absolutely worth finishing. Base P5's endgame is really good but Royal's endgame is on another level storywise. I'm a total mark that will eventually get to it, but will either wait for it to be ten bucks and nothing else I'm interested in coming any time soon, or 20-30 bucks on the Switch so I can do most of the original content while in bed. *phantom thief voice* im in MorningMoon fucked around with this message at 06:04 on Feb 19, 2021 |
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Feb 19, 2021 05:46
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McTimmy posted:Persona 5 Arena's best reason to exist is to contrive whatever new excuse the P4 cast uses to keep their school uniforms on. It's gonna be time travel, you know it's true
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Feb 19, 2021 07:01
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ngl while I love Junpei Iori as a part of P3, seeing what he's up to at age 30 sounds extremely depressing so maybe let's just stop bringing back old casts and do P5A fresh
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Feb 19, 2021 07:40
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I'd have never guessed that the persona 1 cast would end up being more normal and we'll adjusted as adults then the P3 cast but I guess that's how the dice fell.
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Feb 19, 2021 08:22
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It is so nice to be back in the P5 world, wow. Just feels amazing.
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Feb 19, 2021 08:28
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Welp, I hosed up. I accidentally purchased the standard edition first, then the deluxe edition. As a result, not only am I down $60, I'm probably going to be unable to play the game on my Switch until it releases next Tuesday. 
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Feb 19, 2021 09:21
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I sort of wonder if Atlus is going to avoid showing the Persona 4 and 5 casts as adults specifically because, with those games' protagonists still around, it becomes hard to show their future lives without potentially alienating players who identified with their versions of the protagonists. Anime adaptations and spin-offs that have them still as teenagers are one thing--they're going to be mostly the same people you remember, romances are just sort of danced around or teased, that kind of thing. But showing 20-something Persona 4 characters would require them to commit to a specific version of Yu Narukami as an adult with a specific life path that probably won't match with what players envision their P4 Protagonist would've grown up to be. The same goes for the Persona 5 cast, but any hypothetical game taking place at a time when they're adults is probably a lot farther off. I guess it'd be mostly uncontroversial to show grown-up Joker running Leblanc in a future game or something. The Persona Q and Dancing games are clearly happy to screw around with time, though, so having a Persona 5 Arena where the P3 and P4 casts are exactly as they are in P4A would be entirely within the realm of possibility.
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Feb 19, 2021 15:23
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I'm definitely in. My only dilemma is switch or steam.
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Feb 19, 2021 15:56
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Harrow posted:I sort of wonder if Atlus is going to avoid showing the Persona 4 and 5 casts as adults specifically because, with those games' protagonists still around, it becomes hard to show their future lives without potentially alienating players who identified with their versions of the protagonists. Anime adaptations and spin-offs that have them still as teenagers are one thing--they're going to be mostly the same people you remember, romances are just sort of danced around or teased, that kind of thing. But showing 20-something Persona 4 characters would require them to commit to a specific version of Yu Narukami as an adult with a specific life path that probably won't match with what players envision their P4 Protagonist would've grown up to be. To be fair the Arena games have already shown they're willing to age up old characters, though I guess P3 has it a bit easier due to its whole situation. I'd say they could just avoid including the protagonists in games featuring future versions of the characters, but I dunno how much people would be into that...
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Feb 19, 2021 16:16
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Infinity Gaia posted:To be fair the Arena games have already shown they're willing to age up old characters, though I guess P3 has it a bit easier due to its whole situation. I'd say they could just avoid including the protagonists in games featuring future versions of the characters, but I dunno how much people would be into that... Yeah, Persona 3's got a unique situation in that (I realize it's an old game but spoiler) with the protagonist dead, there aren't many personal player narratives to step on. The P3 cast are living their lives without the protagonist no matter what, so Atlus can write them however they want. This is really just speculation on my part, though. I can't remember where but I think I read that Atlus doesn't really want to flesh out Persona protagonists as their own characters like what they did with Yu Narukami anymore, which is why Joker remains a silent character in Dancing and Strikers and has much fewer lines/less personality in the Persona 5 anime. I wish they would, though, because they made Narukami a really entertaining character.
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Feb 19, 2021 16:24
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Also, speaking of the game the thread is about, boy it sure is Persona 5-2 in all but name, huh? I didn't expect it to be so much more Persona than Musou but I kinda dig it. I am kind of annoyed that it has a Normal mode that's too easy and a Hard mode that's too hard though.
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Feb 19, 2021 16:39
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So before I start his game I want to check but is there anything missable or anything you will need a guide for? I assume there isn't a social link equivalent but I just want to make sure.
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Feb 19, 2021 16:39
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There are no social links and there's no time management aspect. I don't know for sure if there's anything missable but I don't think so.
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Feb 19, 2021 16:44
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So far gameplay wise the biggest issues for me is that the direction you push on the d-pad to swap characters is always changing, which means that you always have to look to make sure you know how to switch to the character you want.
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Feb 19, 2021 18:22
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I'm finding this pretty rough at points. Like, a fight will seem to be going fine and then within the space of 20 seconds my entire team will be dead and I'll have to slowly whittle down a big enemy as the last person. They seem quite bad at dodging attacks and spunk all their SP very quickly. I'm still early on though and have barely played any musou games so it's very possible I'm doing something wrong in the combat as well of course.
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Feb 19, 2021 18:53
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How's the performance on switch? I'd prefer it to PC just from a convenience standpoint, but I also picked up Age of Calamity a month ago and it's... rough. The Switch just clearly doesn't have the processing power to show that many enemies even while docked, and it chugs down to frankly unacceptable framerates way too often. If P5S is similar then I'll probably just deal with playing it on PC.
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Feb 19, 2021 18:58
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thebardyspoon posted:I'm finding this pretty rough at points. Like, a fight will seem to be going fine and then within the space of 20 seconds my entire team will be dead and I'll have to slowly whittle down a big enemy as the last person. They seem quite bad at dodging attacks and spunk all their SP very quickly. I'm still early on though and have barely played any musou games so it's very possible I'm doing something wrong in the combat as well of course. It's surprisingly like Persona 5 where if you are in control of a fight it's super smooth but the moment something starts going wrong everything gets hosed up real fast. My personal complaint with the game so far is that there is no downside to leaving the dungeon at checkpoints, which recovers you full HP and SP... So why the gently caress do I have to sit through two loadscreens and several menu transitions instead of just recovering my HP/SP at checkpoints? I guess enemies respawn, but it could just be a menu option in that case.
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Feb 19, 2021 19:07
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Is it weird that I kinda respect this not even trying to make sense for people new to the series? Also for anyone thinking “Well I like musou games but not JRPGs so maybe I can get into this without playing Persona 5” definitely not. Three scenes no context now you’re in the metaverse plot’s started lets f’ing go!
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Feb 19, 2021 20:31
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The opening half hour feels like the game going "aw, you missed us? We missed you!  "
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Feb 19, 2021 21:15
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Yeah so an update on my last post. I'm now at the first proper boss and she is absolutely pushing my poo poo right in, I got her down to half health on my second attempt and then she promptly wiped out my entire team with her sweeping dashy move. The next 3 attempts she killed 2 AI team members in the first minute of the fight cause they didn't bother dodging an attack and on the last one I just gave up for the night. Anyone able to give any tips? I'm not terrible at games, when I'm controlling a character I'm dodging nearly all of her attacks but like, my team spends alot of their SP on the buffs when I apparently really just need pure healing and the shield breaker elemental spells and then eventually they get hit, go down and I lose their passive attacks that do the elemental damage, at that point it feels like a bit of a slog. Doesn't seem like there's any squad behaviour options either. For the amount of work knocking her shields out, the damage with the all out attack as a reward feels not worthwhile. I didn't have much trouble with the miniboss right before this so felt like this would be alright. I guess I could go level a bit, might just give more of my team expensive, somewhat useless moves though (I assume they will be more useful when I have more SP to throw around tbf). Edit: Clearly complaining on the internet worked, went back in and it was still tooth and nail but I got her down. thebardyspoon fucked around with this message at 01:57 on Feb 20, 2021 |
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Feb 19, 2021 21:17
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Really early spoiler for the first level I guess but didn't this series already do a big Alice in Wonderland level back in Q? Somebody at Atlas must be really into that book.
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Feb 19, 2021 22:50
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I mean it's been a whole thing with the entire series since like... SMT1? I never played the MTs so maybe even before that. Alice IS an iconic demon afterall. Japan really loving loves Alice in Wonderland.
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Feb 19, 2021 22:55
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about 3 hours and enjoying this alot. i just defeated a huge wave of dudes by repeatedly running them over with skateboards.
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