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Persona 5 royal review9/5/2023 ![]() ![]() The other main new addition is the Thieves Den. A bit of advice though, make sure you concentrate on Dr Maruki, Kasumi and Akechi’s social links, otherwise you won’t get the Third Semester, and in a game this long, you wouldn’t want to play it all again (at least not straight away). But then that’s a minor quibble when the story it tells is so, so good. The bulk of the new story arc is tagged on at the end and definitely feels a lot more like a “Christmas Special” (it is set around that time of year actually). With Golden, the new character of Marie’s arc was perfectly slotted into the story in a way that if this is your first time playing, you’d struggle to pick out anything that feels added or new. If there’s one negative I can think of, it’s that the new story content isn’t as fed into the main narrative quite as naturally as in Persona 4: Golden. Including the other new social link, Akechi. It’s important you build up these relationships if you want to activate special skills that you gain when fighting in the Metaverse. The social links being the time you spend hanging out with your friends between palace investigations. ![]() Both social links are integral to unlocking the Third Semester, which is where the largest bulk of new content is found. Both are equally as fleshed out, with Kasumi not able to achieve her best in the gymnastics arena and Dr Maruki almost being obsessed with completing his research papers. Kasumi is a fellow student and elite gymnast, Dr Maruki is your school’s guidance councillor who has an interest in the cognitive psience, meaning he has an interest in what you and your team are doing to change hearts. Both play an important part in proceedings. That’s probably a little flippant, the gameplay is fantastic, I’m just eager to get onto what new things you can find in Royal.įirstly we have the new characters of Kasumi and Dr Maruki. The battles themselves though play out more or less the same, you have multiple persona’s at your disposal, enemies can have a specific weakness, standard turn based combat ensues. For instance, your ammo for your gun now replenishes after every individual battle as opposed to when you leave and entre the Palace. And I mean, over 80 hours more.įrom a gameplay perspective, what you get is more or less the same as with Vanilla Persona 5, albeit with a few tweaks to make the experience better. That’s the basic premise, but there’s so much more. In 5 this other world is called the Metaverse and it’s where our colourful cast of characters are able to enter the Palace’s of people, change their hearts and basically make them confess to the crimes they’ve committed. Like previous games in the series, Persona 5 is a JRPG set in high school where a bunch of students get powers and are able to traverse an alternate world, fighting shadows and saving their friends. And now I’m finally ready to gush about it.įirst of all, the setup. Playing a few hours here and there, I wanted to slowly process every new detail, new character and new story element. You could say I was savouring the experience. Many months have passed since it’s launch. So naturally when the updated version of Persona 5 came out (with 4 it was “Golden”, this time it’s known as “Royal”) I quickly snapped it up. I have the animes on blu-ray, an art book and most recently I have the Joker Amiibo sitting atop my shelf. ![]() If you know me, you know I love my Persona.
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