2/18/2024 0 Comments Persona 5 strikersThings have changed in the past few months - with the senior girls, Haru and Makoto, now in college and the socially anxious Futaba actually attending school - but the Phantom Thieves reunite as if no time has passed. Set six months after the ending of Persona 5 ( Royal doesn’t exist in this timeline, it seems), Joker and Morgana the cat are back in Shibuya to visit the Phantom Thieves. Much of Persona 5 Strikers takes place outside the Metaverse, wandering the streets like in Persona 5 Image: Atlus/Omega Force/P StudioĪfter dropping out of the Metaverse and into the real world, I found a Persona game waiting for me. Despite what its opening moments showed me, Persona 5 Strikers maintains far more of its source DNA than expected. Strikers looked and sounded like Persona, much in the way that Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity looks and sounds like The Legend of Zelda, but any hope I had of a true Persona 5 follow-up left me during that big battle.īut I should not have judged Persona 5 Strikers so quickly. This is a Musou game from Omega Force, developer of the Dynasty Warriors franchise - hack-and-slash action games in which players kill legions of enemies in giant real-time battles. This was when I first thought I understood Persona 5 Strikers, as I played through the first chapter of the game as part of a preview. With a single hit of the square button, I slash my knife through the crowd, and they all shatter into nothingness. No, these Shadows are booking it towards me - a crowd of Bicorns, Pixies, and Jack-o’-Lanterns. The UI crackles with Persona’s usual flair, but the Shadows are not patiently waiting for me to take my turn, as I’ve grown accustomed to in 300+ hours of Persona 5 and Persona 5 Royal. But instead of getting hauled off to an interrogation, setting up Persona 5’s frame narrative, Joker stands his ground in Strikers, draws his knife, and summons his Persona. Shadows surround and outnumber Joker, again, harkening back to Joker’s capture at the start of Persona 5. Joker and his enemy fall into a crowd of Shadows below, on the Metaverse version of the crowded streets of Shibuya. When Joker encounters a Shadow, he dives off the roof and rips off its face mask, exposing its true self. He’s in the Metaverse, a mirror dimension in the world of Persona where humans’ true desires are made manifest. Joker, the game’s protagonist, nimbly jumps across a building in Persona 5 Strikers’ first cutscene. Persona 5 Strikers opens with a thief on the run, just like Persona 5.
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