Persona 5, a title many JRPG fans are familiar with, took the gaming world by storm when it first launched back in 2016 and 2017. Now with the Western launch of its re-release, Persona 5 Royal, on the horizon, how is this new version looking to stack up? So far so good, as I discovered playing
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Atlus and Koei Tecmo published a video interview with Koei co-founder Kou Shibusawa chatting about the Persona series and Persona 5 Scramble. He was supposedly interviewed by Morgana, who infiltrated Koei Tecmo’s headquarters. This is very similar to the video interview with Masahiro Sakurai we translated back when Joker was announced in Super Smash Bros.
Atlus and Koei Tecmo published the third and last full length-trailer for Persona 5 Scramble The Phantom Strikers before the game’s Japanese launch. This third trailer shows a lot, including new bosses, comedic event scenes and serious story developments. You might want to skip it if you wish to know as least as possible on
Atlus announced the final trailer for Persona 5 Scramble before its Japanese release on February 20 will be revealed on February 14. The trailer will be live on YouTube at 18:00 JST (Click here for time conversions). A short gameplay sequence has also been shared by Atlus on the official Persona Twitter, featuring Zenkichi and
We’re only a few days away from the Japanese release of Persona 5 Scramble the Phantom Strikers on PS4 and Switch. Seeing this, the game’s promotion is kicking in high gear in Japan, with the game’s trailers and opening anime sequence being shown on giant screens. Amid the hype, our peers at Dengeki Online compiled
Atlus and Koei Tecmo published a new Persona 5 Scramble trailer focusing on Zenkichi Hasegawa, codename Wolf, the newest member of the Phantom Thieves. The trailer shows Zenkichi’s persona awakening, and his first meeting with the Phantom Thieves, at Leblanc. We’ll get plenty of comical situations in the game, with Zenkichi first seeing the band
Persona 5–which was first released September 2016 in Japan and April 2017 worldwide–made me a fan of the series and is a personal favorite game of mine. How could it not be a favorite after investing over 120 hours into it? And now with less than two months away, Persona 5 Royal will be released
Atlus published a new video featuring Navi/Futaba of the Phantom Thieves explaining “in three minutes” Persona 5 Scramble The Phantom Strikers and why we should be hyped about it. As you imagine the video is pretty funny. And as I imagine, most of the people who clicked on this article don’t know Japanese, so here’s
Atlus and Koei Tecmo revealed new details on Persona 5 Scramble through this week’s Famitsu magazine, detailing how New Game Plus works. What’s interesting here is how Persona 5 Scramble has a special condition required to unlock New Game Plus mode, where you’ll keep your level, items, equipment, and more. To unlock it, besides clearing
Atlus has released the final Morgana Travel Guide video, revealing new details on Persona 5 Scramble. We were introduced to Kyoto and Osaka. And we most notably learned that a Persona 5 Scramble demo will launch on February 6 on the Japanese Nintendo Eshop and the Japanese PlayStation Store. The game’s official site was updated with
This week’s Dengeki Live stream featured some new PS4 gameplay for Persona 5 Scramble The Phantom Strikers. While Atlus Producer Daisuke Kanada was present on stream and shared some comments, as far as I could tell, nothing particularly big was revealed. The one thing he mentioned we didn’t know yet is how you can go
Atlus and Koei Tecmo revealed the opening anime sequence for Persona 5 Scramble The Phantom Strikers. The opening is pretty action-oriented overall, compared to Persona 5 or Persona 5 Royal‘s openings, to show off and keep advertising how Atlus officially claims Persona 5 Scramble is the first-ever action RPG Persona game. Persona 5 Scramble‘s opening theme
Atlus and Koei Tecmo released a brand new Morgana Travel Guide video for Persona 5 Scramble the Phantom Strikers, this time introducing Okinawa and many new game systems. The official site was updated with new screenshots as well. During this part of the story, the Phantom Thieves will be staying at a resort in an
Atlus and Koei Tecmo published the second full-length trailer for Persona 5 Scramble The Phantom Strikers. As always with these kinds of Japanese games trailers, it’s full of out-of-context one-liners, but here’s a summary of the trailer with everything we learned anyway. Note that this article contains spoilers, as Persona 5 Scramble is a sequel
With the first Persona 5 The Stage closing out its initial run, a new teaser trailer reveals that the popular stage play will be making its return starting in October 2020 in both in Yokohama and Osaka: Actor Yoshihide Sasaki (playing the role of Goro Akechi) previously discussed performing in the smaller scope of his
According to a leak of the upcoming issue of Famitsu magazine, developer Atlus has confirmed that the studio is hard at work on Shin Megami Tensei V and their new IP currently known as Project Re Fantasy. The statement was made through New Year cards from numerous Japanese game developers in which Atlus said: “Both Shin Megami Tensei
Gacha Thursday featured Atlus and Koei Tecmo’s Persona 5 Scramble The Phantom Strikers on its latest stream, revealing new gameplay and details. Atlus Producer Kaneda was present and revealed new details on the game. You can watch the gameplay sequence at this linked timestamp on Periscope. The stream is still ongoing and we’ll add a
Atlus is still regularly releasing new trailers for Persona 5 Scramble The Phantom Strikers, the action RPG developed by Omega Force, coming to PS4 and Switch. We have one trailer focusing on Haru, another one focusing on Makoto, and a lot of new gameplay footage. The first trailer we have focuses on Haru Okumura aka
Atlus, Koei Tecmo, and Morgana held on December 17 the third Morgana stream for Persona 5 Scramble The Phantom Strikers. Morgana most notably explained how the Velvet Room works in Persona 5 Scramble. Beware before reading any further that seeing the game is a sequel to the original Persona 5, we have some spoilers in the
Atlus published yet anther trailer for Persona 5 Scramble, this time the star is Yusuke Kitagawa, codename Fox. In the suave voice of Tomokazu Sugita, Yusuke introduces himself and mentions how he’d like to use the Phantom Thieves’ roadtrip to pursue his art. Sadly for Yusuke, none of the other members are in agreement and
Persona 5 Royal will be crossing over with Another Eden: The Cat Beyond Time and Space in a brand new collaboration event. Another Eden is a mobile game about a boy named Aldo and his sister Feinne. One day the Beast King appears and seeks to use Feinne’s dormant abilities to erase humans from the
Atlus and Sega announced via the official Japanese Twitter account of the Persona series that Persona 5 now sold over 3.2 copies worldwide. The article on Persona Channel written for the occasion also reveals that Persona 5 Royal sold over 400,000 copies in Japan, and that the Persona series as a whole is now at
So Atlus USA is teasing a news update for the western release of Persona 5 Royal. The teaser was shared via Twitter. And a countdown started on the game’s western official site. The countdown ends on December 3 and we’ll probably get a new English trailer and a release date. And this date might be
Atlus published today a 30-minutes long making-of video showing Persona series character designer Shigenori Soejima drawing artwork for Persona 5 Royal. The artwork shows Joker and the new character, Kasumi Yoshizawa, together in their Phantom Thieves outfits. Atlus published this artwork to celebrate the release of the game in Japan. A short version of this
Sony’s cloud-based game subscription service PS Now already features tons of games, and more are added every month. November specifically is interesting as Google Stadia, which may be PS Now’s biggest competitor yet, is coming out. In response, some heavy hitters are coming to PS Now this month, namely Atlus’ Persona 5. As you probably
Atlus U.S.A. has announced Persona 5 DLC for Catherine: Full Body that’ll make Joker a playable character in its Babel and Coliseum modes. He won’t be heading out alone either–he’ll be accompanied by commentary from the Phantom Thieves and music from the ever-infectious Persona 5 soundtrack as he climbs. This news comes out of the
Atlus launched another new gameplay video for Persona 5 Royal, showcasing new character Kasumi Yoshizawa. We get to see multiple parts of the school-life events featuring Kasumi, her all-out attack finisher and some more cute scenes with her. The first scene is Kasumi saying she’ll definitely payback Joker for all the times he’s helped her.
Persona 5 is arguably the best JRPG in a long, long time. Heck, it is one of the best games (in general) this generation and one of my personal favorites as well. The developer of the series, Atlus, is known for consistently making great games: whether it be Persona, Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE or Catherine, Atlus knows how to
Atlus keeps the Persona 5 Royal short gameplay videos coming on its official Twitter. Today we’ve got a new video showing Joker, Morgana, and Ryuji going to the Kichijoji Downtown Area for the first time. 【 #P5R 10/31発売！】P5Rでは新しく行ける場所も増えてるぜ！特に吉祥寺では怪盗団のみんなとダーツやビリヤードなんかも楽しめるみたいだ！わくわくするな！ #ペルソナ５https://t.co/x3vyNLnFwS pic.twitter.com/XUhgjPuL6w — モルガナ_ペルソナ広報 (@p_kouhou) May 27, 2019 Here’s a quick translation: Morgana: Wow, so this is what
Japan’s Mega Hobby Expo is in full swing, and with it, we’ve got loads of new pictures showing upcoming figures from Persona 5. Some of which were previously announced, and we’re now seeing them for the first time or in full color, while others are still in the works. You can check out the full gallery of