Persona 5 Royal: Steelbook Launch Edition for PlayStation 4

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Beyond those obvious additions, Atlus made a lot of minor tweaks to the wider game, which make its moment-to-moment gameplay more enjoyable. Certain plot-important scenes that were previously silent now feature full voice acting; Confidants now call you after hangouts, helping you raise their rank faster; and Morgana no longer shouts at you to go straight to bed all the time. You may not always be able to go out at night, but you’ll always have the option of watching TV, studying, reading a book, building tools, or brewing coffee on nights when you’re too tired to leave the house, giving you so much more time to raise your stats. I can’t tell you how happy I was at not being constantly told to go to sleep when I just wanted to go downstairs and make coffee. These little changes all make the world of Royal a little less stilted, and a little more alive, which helps the pace of the game feel a lot smoother. In addition to all these flashy details, Royal polishes the base game. The most obvious distinction is that Atlus improved the graphics by pulling from 2018's P5 Dancing for character models. Visuals can now be displayed in 4K. Royal also features alterations to memorable NPCs in the game. Lala Escargot, the sultry bartender, is now fully voiced. Bosses fights have been tweaked for greater cohesion with the story. The showdown with the gym teacher, Kamoshida, now includes a few new cohorts like Mishima and Shiho, both victims of his sleazy actions. The fight against the corrupt painter Madarame is completely different, placing a greater emphasis on elemental weaknesses. Every single boss has received at least one slight alteration to make fighting them a more enjoyable bout. Returning players might notice that Palace layouts have been tweaked slightly to accommodate Royal’s new grappling hook. It feels less impactful than many other improvements; using it for traversal feels almost unnecessary. But some grappling hook points can lead to hidden rooms with Will Seeds, a completely new item in Royal. Each individual one you collect will restore some SP to help you get through the dungeon in a single sitting, and collecting all three allows you to gain a powerful in-game item. Finding these seeds is just the right level of optional challenge to dungeon exploration. Each dungeon’s final seed is guarded by a super tough enemy that I would argue is at times more challenging to defeat than the dungeon boss. Persona 5, the hit 2016 JRPG about a team of disaffected teens who use their supernatural abilities to change the hearts of evildoers, is getting a major update. Persona 5 Royal, a re-released version of the game with new mechanics, new characters, and new locations to explore. Originally available only in Japan, Persona 5 Royal is getting a worldwide release on March 31.

You’ll have to replay a lot of content, but the new story beats, characters, and gameplay changes are worth the time. If you’ve never played Persona 5, and the idea of a lengthy JRPG about making friends, making evil adults admit their crimes, and fighting monsters sounds cool, this is the definitive way to experience the game. Dextero echoed our own review with a perfect score of 10/10, calling it one of the best JRPGs of the decade: Atlus West is making all DLC from the base game available for free for Persona 5 Royal players. The DLC for Persona 5 includes the following sets and DLC:There’s one other story point that I feel can’t be ignored. Before the release of Royal, Atlus made a big deal online about the fact that the English localization team was planning to update a controversial scene from the original game. The localizers did change it, but their changes really didn’t go far enough, and the scene is still not great. Personas now each come with an innate trait in Royal, a special ability that can range from ice moves costing less SP to an immunity to physical hits. These traits are able to be passed on through persona fusion, offering an extra layer of customization depth as you work out how to get a useful ability onto the correct resulting persona. While I initially didn’t pay much attention to these traits, by the late game I was spending time fusing persona explicitly to try and get a set trait onto a specific high-level creature. The only truly terrible aspect of dungeon exploration — inexplicably bad in the original game, and not much improved in Royal — is negotiation conversations when trying to convince new Personas to join your team. They’re still bizarrely written; each question Personas ask just doesn’t match the dialogue options I’m given to respond with. It’s bafflingly stilted writing in an otherwise brilliantly written game.

Takuto, on the other hand, is dropped relatively seamlessly into the existing narrative. After the events of the game’s first dungeon, in which a teacher is unmasked as having been abusing students, Takuto is brought in to provide much-needed mental health support to you and your classmates. While your visits to the new counselor are optional, and left for you to fit into your busy schedule, your other party members will visit him of their own accord throughout the game, providing nice glimpses of insight into the mental health struggles of a group of teens trying to change the world. Gameplay is mostly split into two interconnected halves, your normal life and your life in the Metaverse, and much of the appeal of Persona 5 comes from how you balance the various activities across both halves. Most of this comes from the constant pressure you’re placed under, as the narrative mostly progresses via various ‘arcs’ where you have to steal the treasure from a character’s Palace by a looming deadline or it’s game over. Usually, you have about two in-game weeks to pull off the heist, and what you do with your time on the individual days that lead up to the deadline is entirely up to you. As with Persona 5, Persona 5 Royal has some Personas available as paid DLC. The ones released for Persona 5 Royal in Japan include late-game Personas from Persona 4, Persona 3, and even one designed exclusively for Persona 5 Royal. The Personas were sold separately in Japan but this bundle likely includes the new Personas. The Western Persona 5 Royal Persona Bundle includes the following:

In short: yes. Persona 5 Royal feels like a new game. If you’re not convinced, here’s a handy breakdown of all the non-spoiler additions and alterations made in the 2020 upgrade. Persona 5 Royal adds more than 20 hours of new gameplay Phantom Thieves Art Prints - a Set of 5”x7” glossy prints of various Persona 5 Royal characters made to be displayed in the frame. There are three digital editions for Persona 5 Royal. The Persona 5 Royal standard edition includes Persona 5 Royal. The Persona 5 Royal Deluxe Edition includues the game and the Persona 5 Royal Kasumi Costume Bundle. The Persona 5 Royal Ultimate Edition includes the following: You couldn’t go wrong with Persona 5 Royal on any platform. The game itself laid down the gauntlet, actually. Persona 5 Royal’s theme song, Colors Flying High, ends with the phrase “green or blue, red or white, you can’t lose with your colors flying high.” And so it is. Whether you play it on Xbox or PlayStation, Switch or PC, Persona 5 Royal is an utter masterpiece, and you’re in for one of the best games ever made no matter how you choose to play it." Note that as of now, pricing is only available for the North American release. Pricing details for Europe, India, and more will be added here when available. Persona 5 Royal Kasumi Costume Bundle DLC details

Whilst we will do everything we can to meet the delivery times above, there may be factors outside of our control and we cannot guarantee delivery within this time frame. Regardless, it's worth a little look — it might just steal your heart, after all. The 1 More Edition comes with multiple little goodies, including a treasure chest to store everything in. Image: Atlus Now that Sega and Atlus have started to bring the previously-PlayStation exclusive series’s main entries to all platforms this week, the question immediately became how the Switch would handle a game previously exclusive to the PlayStation 4. And after several months of student life and stylish fighting, Persona 5 Royal holds up perfectly in its portable form." Finally, Vooks awarded the game a 9/10 and highlighted the gameplay and presentation, but stated that the game is "too damn long" (we respectfully disagree):

Jose, a new NPC only found in Mementos, is studying humans, and wants you to bring him flowers and stamps to help his research. Image: Atlus/sega via Polygon Be aware of some problematic plot elements that are not totally fixed. But the game is stylish, full of things to do, and still one of the most interesting JRPGs of this console generation. A Will Seed, a new item available in Persona 5 Royal’s Palaces. Finding one will boost your characters’ SP. Image: Atlus/Sega If that wasn’t enough, every character portrait has been redrawn, providing more flexible faces. Characters now feel far more fleshed out.