We’ve had Persona 5, we’ve had Persona 5 Royale, we’ve had Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight and in addition Persona 5 Strikers. That’s a lot of Persona 5, however Sega and Atlus determine we will deal with much more, as a result of one other spinoff has simply been introduced, this one referred to as Persona: Phantom of the Night time.
As Persona Central have translated, this one—with a shortened identify of P5X—is a cell sport being launched by Chinese language firm Excellent World Video games. Earlier than you go switching off at that like I virtually did, although, simply…have a look at this trailer:
And this one, which options some gameplay:
I believe these clips look cool as hell. And the little owl! And everybody’s character designs! They’re good (long-time sequence designer Shigenori Soejima labored on the principle character and owl sidekick, which might clarify that). This footage clearly appears to be like cool as hell as a result of it appears to be like identical to the Persona 5 we performed on consoles/PC, right down to the combo of exploration/classwork and turn-based fight, nevertheless it doesn’t actually appear to indicate what sort of gacha, microtransaction or cost methods are going to be in place, which after all may very well be an absolute dealbreaker. Guess we’ll need to see how that every one works when the sport’s first public take a look at takes place on March 29.
You play a highschool pupil whose mother and father are “travelling overseas”, leaving you residence alone to juggle going to highschool through the day and preventing demons by night time, the trailer suggesting the story goes to observe a really related path as the principle sport, simply with a contemporary group of children, teammates and doable social hyperlinks (although Joker and crew do make an look based mostly on a screenshot from the official web site).
If you wish to see some extra of the superb character design work, you’ll be able to try the sport’s official web site (although you’ll must translate it because it’s all in Chinese language).