
The one exception is Mementos, a sprawling randomly-generated Palace which serves as the main setting for sidequests.Īn Updated Re-release, Persona 5 Royal, released for the PlayStation 4 on Octoin Japan and on Main the West. Additionally, the dungeon-crawling itself been overhauled the main Palaces are all 100% pre-made instead of being randomly generated, and feature platforming, puzzles, stealth, and traps, making them much more elaborate than previous games' dungeons.
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The Social Link system (now renamed to Confidants) has been upgraded almost every Confidant has unique perks and abilities that are unlocked as you advance them. However, a few elements from the first Persona and Persona 2 also make their return (though these elements themselves were originally conceived in the main Shin Megami Tensei series) all party members are able to use both melee weapons and firearms, and you can negotiate with enemies for Personas, money, or items. Persona 5's core gameplay is a refinement of the formula established in Persona 3 and Persona 4, with the game being evenly split between turn-based dungeon-crawling and Dating Sim-esque social simulator. With each corrupted heart taking you further and further in the depths of Mementos, you begin to wonder is it truly a never-ending maze? Is there a bottom to this pit? And if there is, what's down there? Between jobs, you and your companions journey into Mementos to halt corrupted desires before they become sinister enough to warrant their own Palace. Beneath the Palaces is "Mementos", a twisted labyrinth created from the amalgamated thoughts of the entire city. With the aid of a mysterious smartphone app and the inner-power of "Persona", you decide to use the Metaverse to strike back against the rotten society that cast you out, forming a crew of Phantom Thieves dedicated to stealing Treasure and forcibly reforming the corrupt.īut that's not all. It's not all hopeless, though as one of this world's inhabitants explains, stealing the "Treasure" that forms the heart of the Palace will erase the owner's twisted desires, forcing them to confront the horrible things they've done.
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Within this world, the most corrupt humans have subconsciously created mental fortresses called "Palaces" where their innermost vices and desires are allowed to run rampant. On your first day attending Shujin Academy, you and a fellow outcast accidentally stumble into a mysterious Mental World known as the Metaverse: a place where cognition becomes reality, and real-world locations are twisted by the thoughts of humans. You are an Ordinary High-School Student who has been falsely convicted of assault and sentenced to a year-long probation in Tokyo.
