#Persona 5 scramble series

The inside of the Phantom Thieves’ new hideout, an RV that they use to traverse all of Japan Protagonist Joker returns to Tokyo for the summer holidays, only for him and the other Phantom Thieves to get embroiled in a conspiracy making use of cognitive pscience, which sends them on a journey across all of Japan. P5S is a spinoff and direct sequel to Persona 5, taking place during the summer immediately after the conclusion of P5. It is, however, the series’ first attempt at an action RPG, and like with how the development of the fighting games was done in collaboration with a studio with expertise in working on the genre, the development of P5S was done with Omega Force (ω-Force) of Koei Tecmo Games, best known for their work on the Dynasty Warriors games. P5S is not the Persona series’ first attempt at other genres: The Persona Q games were an Etrian Odyssey style first-person dungeon crawler, Persona 4 Arena was a fighting game developed by Arc System Works of Guilty Gear and Blazblue fame, and there were no fewer than three rhythm games released as well. Also see: Shin Megami Tensei V – Details On Development Status Revealed It is thus unsurprising that the franchise’s first foray into a new genre with Persona 5 Strikers (P5S) would draw a lot of attention.

#Persona 5 scramble series

Release date: 20 February 2020 (JP, Switch/PS4), (Asia, Switch/PS4), (WW, Switch/PS4/PC)Ītlus’ Persona games hardly needs any introductions by this point: Ever since Persona 3 became a runaway hit, the series has become more and more famous, to the point that it is now one of the biggest RPG franchises at over 11 million copies sold as of 2019, eclipsing its progenitor series Megami Tensei. Title (JP): Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers (ペルソナ5 スクランブルザファントムストライカーズ)ĭeveloper: Omega Force (Koei Tecmo Games), Atlus