Atlus released the first Persona game on September 20, 1996 in Japan – the series will celebrate its 25th anniversary in 2021. And it looks like Atlus and Sega have some plans in store to celebrate. Famitsu last week, and now 4Gamer on December 28, published their traditional end of the year messages from Japanese
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Katsura Hashino, producer and director of Persona since Persona 3, and Catherine, wants to show some Project Re Fantasy gameplay as soon as possible. Famitsu last week, and now 4Gamer on December 28, published their traditional end of the year messages from members of the Japanese game industry. In total, over a hundred of producers,
When clocks hit midnight, August 28 in Japan, the official Persona 5 Scramble account published a happy birthday message for Sophia. Persona 5 Scramble launched in Japan on February 20, so this is the very first time Sophia is celebrated this way. ミンナ注目！今日８月28日は『ペルソナ５ スクランブル ザ ファントム ストライカーズ』で一緒に旅する新キャラクター、ソフィアの誕生日だぜ！ ハッピーバースデー、ソフィー！ #P5S pic.twitter.com/smj7ysBlts — モルガナ_ペルソナ広報 (@p_kouhou) August 27, 2020 Morgana
Atlus, Koei Tecmo and Omega Force might be teasing a DLC sequel scenario for Persona 5 Scramble. On the official Persona series Twitter, August 25, Morgana shared two tweets that may be hinting at such: …ネコじゃねーよ — モルガナ_ペルソナ広報 (@p_kouhou) August 25, 2020 Here’s a translation of the tweets: Morgana: “Hey, are you ready? I’m sure
The Switch port of Catherine: Full Body is pretty straightforward. It’s the same updated and remixed version of Atlus’ cult classic puzzle game that released last year for the PlayStation 4, but this time packed in with all of its DLC and a few minor extras exclusive (for now) to the Switch. For the most
Nintendo Switch players can start getting ready to climb. Catherine: Full Body is now up for pre-purchase on the Switch eShop, with this version of the game having all of the existing add-on content from last year’s PlayStation 4 release included, plus three extra voice options crossing over from the Persona series. All three options
Famitsu published online their sales estimate in Japan for the time period of February 17- February 23, 2020, including sales for Persona 5 Scramble. Keep in mind that these sales estimates do not take into account digital sales. Meaning people like me who digitally bought Persona 5 Scramble‘s Japanese version aren’t included in this count.
Atlus held these past weeks a survey in Japan in order to create a ranking of all the BGM in Persona 5. Shoji Meguro’s work on the game has been highly praised worldwide, so this is quite an interesting survey. The results have been published on February 19, during Persona 5 Scramble‘s launch stream. Persona
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
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
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
Atlus held on November 29 a new stream for Persona 5 Scramble, revealing new live gameplay for the game. We got to see Yusuke aka Fox in battle, some daily life exploration in Sendai, and more battle gameplay in the Shibuya Jail. You can find the gameplay videos below, courtesy of Persona Central. The stream
Atlus released this week’s Persona 5 Scramble trailer, this time focusing on Anne Takamaki, voiced by Nana Mizuki. We can hear Anne chatting about herself, how she’s a third-year and still doing modeling work. Morgana is also fawning over her and praising her for most of the trailer. The final scene in the trailer has
Atlus revealed the second Morgana VTuber video for Persona 5 Scramble. While Morgana didn’t reveal how many villas he can buy with his royalties from voicing Pikachu, he unveiled some more story concepts, new characters appearing in the game and introduced Sendai. Morgana shared more about P5S new character Zenkichi, a police investigator who contacts
Atlus is still promoting Persona 5 Scramble in Japan with one trailer per week, and this week it’s Morgana’s turn. Morgana is still the same as always, complaining about how the new character, Sophia, mistakes him for a Tanuki. Pikachu Ikue Otani does a great job voicing him as always: The interesting bits of the
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 announced we’ll be getting another live stream for Persona 5 Scramble. The live stream will happen on Abema TV, on November 29 at 11:00 JST (click here for time conversions). New gameplay was confirmed to debut on stream, along with new information. You can access the stream’s page here. However, it’s region-locked to Japan.