![]() The biggest new addition is Kasumi Yoshizawa. Taking on these fights won’t result in a game over if you lose, and they exist primarily as additional challenges. Of course, if you still want super-hard battles, there’s new optional bosses in the forms of the protagonists from Persona 3 and Persona 4. They also make the game a touch easier, which is no bad thing given that the original is one of the harder JRPGs out there, mainlining a longstanding tradition in the Shin Megami Tensei franchise. With these changes alone, battles become much more dynamic and fun. This is coupled with a new damage bonus and, if you successfully chain all four party members, the final member gets a free spell cast. ![]() Baton passes no longer require a specific social link level to activate and they can be chained across all four battle party members. Not only that, but gun damage has been improved a lot, making it a viable option in most fights.Īlongside this, the Baton Pass system has also been changed. This means guns can actually be used in fights rather than reserved for specific moments, and it dramatically improves the pace of battle. The huge new change is that ammunition now resets after every battle, rather than after every session in a dungeon. The battle system is where the biggest refinements to the game come in. This makes it easier to do social link grinding, and a P5R playthrough should see many more opportunities to raise social links as well as increase those pesky skill levels. For example, it’s now possible to do activities on almost all nights, and Morgana no longer shuts you down when you try to leave your room at LeBlanc as much. While I personally don’t think the added content is worth re-buying the game for, I definitely think P5R is the definitive Persona 5 experience, and this is the version of the game you should buy if you don’t own the original at all.Ī lot of the changes centre around improving the quality of life for our heroes, especially Joker. It’s only available as a full-price new game, and not a paid upgrade like, say, Final Fantasy XV Royal Edition. If you own the original P5, then P5R is a hard sell. ![]() This is both P5R’s biggest asset and its biggest flaw. You’ll still be playing the majority of the game as the original Persona 5, story-wise. Persona 5 Royal Edition (P5R) is fundamentally the same game as Persona 5, just with some tweaks and changes to the battle system, a new party member, and a third semester that takes the game beyond the end of the original story and into a second year. How many other games can you think of where people have cosplayed the battle menu? This is no surprise, as Persona 3 and Persona 4 were both PS2 games and the series effectively skipped an entire generation (though Persona 5 did launch on PS3, a rarity for a 2017 game), allowing the art and design team to fully embrace a cel-shaded anime aesthetic, along with the amazing visual presentation. ![]() What really makes it stand out over the previous games in the series is that it leans much harder into the anime side of things. ![]() Persona 5 not only upped the ante on style, but it added a lot more substance, turning out to be a 100-ish hour JRPG about the day-to-day lives of a group of teenagers as they battle a supernatural force that’s slowly corrupting their society. From Persona 3 onwards especially, the series has melded day-to-day school life with strong supernatural themes and incredibly stylish presentation and mechanics. There’s an argument to be made that, when it comes to style over substance, it was hard to beat a Persona title. ![]()
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