I mus admit that the enhanced version of Persona 5 is very well done

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I am playing through Royal version now after taking a plunge rebuying it. I didnt like the idea of buying same game twice; or so I thought. But the Royal edition is really packed with new content; moreso then I thought it would be. It is so much better now. It even made mementos more fun to explore due to some new stuff.

Give me Persona 6 already.

Edit: sorry for typo in thread title.
 
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I haven't been able to play through Royal yet, it's stuck in my backlog and I just checked it out briefly when it came out, before turning back to what I was finishing up.

That being said, I'm glad it's selling so well and reviewed magnificently. P5 is one of my top games of the gen so I need to hurry up and put serious time into Royal
 
Lawrence 'Chunk' Cohen said:
I haven't been able to play through Royal yet, it's stuck in my backlog and I just checked it out briefly when it came out, before turning back to what I was finishing up.

That being said, I'm glad it's selling so well and reviewed magnificently. P5 is one of my top games of the gen so I need to hurry up and put serious time into Royal
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I was on the fence, but damn it is really worth another playthrough. The new stuff is great.
 
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SantaC2 said:
I am playing through Royal version now after taking a plunge rebuying it. I didnt like the idea of buying same game twice; or so I thought. But the Royal edition is really packed with new content; moreso then I thought it would do. It is so much better now. It even made mementos more fun to explore due to some new stuff.

Give me Persona 6 already.

Edit: sorry for typo in thread title.
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Well I spent my time with the original, doing all the mementos and stuff, and eventually finishing it, but by the end I felt it really dragged and felt too identical to P4 and P3. Story was disappointing for me.

What's changed in Royal OP? I ended up selling my game but kept my "Take your Heart" edition without the game :messenger_tears_of_joy:
 
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Royal at first may seem as buying the same game twice, but I can assure it's not. Yes, it has the same structure and mainly the same story, but there are a lot of additions that make it worth every dime: lots of tweaks in combat, palaces are redesigned, new areas, a new palace, new mementos, new music (I BELIEEEEVE) and a new ending.

I'd say it adds something like 30h, more than our usual low effort AAA game.

It's great
 
Kamehameha said:
Well I spent my time with the original, doing all the mementos and stuff, and eventually finishing it, but by the end I felt it really dragged and felt too identical to P4 and P3. Story was disappointing for me.

What's changed in Royal OP? I ended up selling my game but kept my "Take your Heart" edition without the game :messenger_tears_of_joy:
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Lots of quality changes. New social links, reworked palaces, new palace, new minigames, new stats updates, new city areas to explore, longer calender, new story elements, new battle mechanics etc.
 
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Yes Persona 5 Royal was pretty damn good.
SantaC2 said:
Give me Persona 6 already.
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I'm sorry but before any of that, Atlus needs to give me SMTV. If Persona 6 get announced before I see proper gameplay from SMTV then I will legitimately get angry.
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Does Morgana still force you to go to sleep after going to a Palace or Mementos? This is a huge waste of precious time in vanilla P5.

I'm glad that Royal players are enjoying it, but 30 hours of new content on top of 90+ hours sounds like overkill for me. The original is incredibly long. I still applaud the effort that went into Royal.

As for Persona 6, I don't think we'll see anything about it before 2022-23. Since it'll be a PS5 title, development is gonna take a long time.
Danjin44 said:
Yes Persona 5 Royal was pretty damn good.

I'm sorry but before any of that, Atlus needs to give me SMTV. If Persona 6 get announced before I see proper gameplay from SMTV then I will legitimately get angry.
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Isn't SMT V handled by a different team? Persona 6 should be at best in the early conceptual stages now, so I don't think it will outspeed SMT V.
 
Khalid M. said:
Isn't SMT V handled by a different team? Persona 6 should be at best in the early conceptual stages now, so I don't think it will outspeed SMT V.
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They are but I like Atlus to put more resource helping out SMTV team so they have something to show us, I'm desperate here.
 
The problem for me with persona 5 was the dungeons dragged on so any more would put me off the royal version as I'm still yet to get myself through the vanilla version. A game can be to long. Saying that I loved persona 4 on vita, probably my fave game on it.
 
SantaC2 said:
Lots of quality changes. New social links, reworked palaces, new palace, new minigames, new stats updates, new city areas to explore, longer calender, new story elements, new battle mechanics etc.
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You think it's good enough for someone who already put something like 100+ hours on the original in 2017?
 
Xan-Stylo said:
The problem for me with persona 5 was the dungeons dragged on so any more would put me off the royal version as I'm still yet to get myself through the vanilla version. A game can be to long. Saying that I loved persona 4 on vita, probably my fave game on it.
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I could be because Persona 4 Golden was in handheld so it was easier for you put time in to the game.

Kamehameha said:
You think it's good enough for someone who already put something like 100+ hours on the original in 2017?
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If you never like Persona 5 to begin with, Royal is not gonna change your mind but someone like me who really enjoyed original P5 and put 100+ hours in to the game, it was well damn worth it.

Watch this and decide for yourself.
 
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Danjin44 said:
They are but I like Atlus to put more resource helping out SMTV team so they have something to show us, I'm desperate here.
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So am I, though I'm worried about the writing. The current team lacks a strong writer, something that many RPG developers sorely need these days. I'm playing IV Apocalypse and the story is questionable in many aspects.
 
I'm sure it's a wonderful game. I am interested, but I finished P5 just last year, spending nearly 200 hours for multi-runs for platinum, so the memory is still fresh and got a lot of other games to play at the moment. I am definitely more interested in the future stories on P5S - heard very little about the game though, or how well it sold or whatnot.

Will check it out probably on PS5 or whatnot in few years - perhaps when Atlus announces P6 in a couple of years, I will maybe run thru P3 FE (never played), P4 Golden (only played once, but not to platinum level), and P5R.
 
Danjin44 said:
I could be because Persona 4 Golden was in handheld so it was easier for you put time in to the game.


If you never like Persona 5 to begin with, Royal is not gonna change your mind but someone like me who really enjoyed original P5 and put 100+ hours in to the game, it was well damn worth it.

Watch this and decide for yourself.
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Honestly, this is the main barrier I have to the game. I just cannot monopolise the TV or spend as long concentraing on one activity as I need to with these type of games anymore.

The only realistic way I'm playing this is via a Switch port, otherwise it's just not doable.
 
They really make a lot of wonderful additions and I do think highly of the game but they shattered the difficulty balance unfortunately. You have way too much power at your fingertips. I dropped the vanilla version because I didn't like the localization (I got over myself) but I remember the challenge being pretty good on hard difficulty.

There are many things that are too powerful but one to watch out for is if you download the free DLC legacy bundle to get the costumes and music, you're also stuck with overpowered DLC personas. Even if you take care to avoid using them you can still fuse them by mistake if you aren't careful or get stuck with them in a fusion accident and have to reload.

If you don't like challenging SMT combat this might be the best persona game, but otherwise I'd advise people who normally play on normal to play on hard and people who normally play on hard to play on merciless to try and mitigate balance problems a bit.

It is a great game with amazing new content... I guess I just expect sooooo much from the persona series, so when the localization and the difficulty both have problems it really gets to me.
 
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Danjin44 said:
Yes Persona 5 Royal was pretty damn good.

I'm sorry but before any of that, Atlus needs to give me SMTV. If Persona 6 get announced before I see proper gameplay from SMTV then I will legitimately get angry.
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2 different teams/studios dude, P-Studios does as the name sugests Persona, and another different studio/team does SMT.

And there's of course Studio-Zero with the Re:Fantasy project headed by none other than Katsura Hashino himself.

SMT will take as long as P5 took from the teaser until the actual release, AKA 4-5 years, so 2021 Japan - 2022 the west at the earliest.
 
I'm in the same boat. I put in over 200 hours into the original but double dipped and bought P5 Royal. It feels like a fresh experience.
 
I'll have to get this eventually, I haven't touched P5, so it'll all be a new experience for me.

Danjin44 said:
Yes Persona 5 Royal was pretty damn good.

I'm sorry but before any of that, Atlus needs to give me SMTV. If Persona 6 get announced before I see proper gameplay from SMTV then I will legitimately get angry.
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Or port P3P to the PS4 already, and Persona 4 Golden if it's not already there.

Infact, port the PSP versions of Persona and Persona 2 IS/EP(we never got EP on the psp)
 
Max_Po said:
is this a good beginner J-RPG ? or should I play Final Fantasy 7 Remake... ?
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I think both are very accessible, but are pretty different. FF7R is an action RPG, Persona 5 is a turn based RPG with dungeons.

One thing I will definitely say is even though you may think it's a good idea to jump in on the easiest difficulty if it's your first JRPG just don't. It actually breaks the game to a point where one of the big systems becomes impossible because you basically 1 shot everything in sight. After beating P5 twice, I was like oh well I just wanna see the new stuff with Royal, and had to restart after the first dungeon because it was just broken.
 
Yep rereleases are really not my thing but the game feels like a truly definitive version which is unusual to see nowadays.

P5 is one of the best games this gen and P5R is probably the very best if you like dating sim / anime stuff.
 
I am playing through the Royal version right now. The game is really great but 4 Golden is still my favorite Persona game. The soundtrack to five is bonkers though.
 
I really wish I had known it was coming so I could have waited. I enjoyed P5, but it dragged so much that I have a bittersweet memory of it.

It sounds like playing only the Royal version would have left a more positive impression.
 
InterMusketeer said:
The vanilla game is already incredibly long. Royal might be fun to revisit in a few years, but right now is too soon for me.
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Grinchy said:
I really wish I had known it was coming so I could have waited. I enjoyed P5, but it dragged so much that I have a bittersweet memory of it.

It sounds like playing only the Royal version would have left a more positive impression.
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Yeah, aside from my complaints about the difficulty being busted I would add this. P5R is great and I think people should Play P5R even if they've played P5 Vanilla, but don't play them close together. The story is so long winded and it gets even longer, you need a couple of years to forget it a little bit before diving in again imo.
 
hououinkyouma00 said:
I think both are very accessible, but are pretty different. FF7R is an action RPG, Persona 5 is a turn based RPG with dungeons.

One thing I will definitely say is even though you may think it's a good idea to jump in on the easiest difficulty if it's your first JRPG just don't. It actually breaks the game to a point where one of the big systems becomes impossible because you basically 1 shot everything in sight. After beating P5 twice, I was like oh well I just wanna see the new stuff with Royal, and had to restart after the first dungeon because it was just broken.
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I haven't played before. What difficultly would you recommend for a first timer?
 
It's pretty cool. For all its stylings (at which it's absolutely fantastic) and QOL improvements, the experience is weaker than Persona 4 Golden imo. I'm kinda even on the fence comparing it to P3 FES, but just the technical improvements on moment-to-moment gameplay probably push P5 over it. I might be giving too much credit to the payoff in P3 which left a good taste in my mouth to allot of the nothing between its beginning and end. P5 just has too much crap in it though. Too many text messages, too much time spent in class, too many people stopping you on the train platform, and a little too much stupid crap that I can't get into without a deep dive.
 
I got every trophy in OG P5 except the one where you have to get all the voice lines driving around mementos. I am fairly on the fence on picking up P5R since I put so much into the original. Maybe after a price dip?
 
Question for those of you that have played both versions, is it even worth it to buy the original? Not sure I want to drop $60 on Royal right now.
 
SpiceRacz said:
Question for those of you that have played both versions, is it even worth it to buy the original? Not sure I want to drop $60 on Royal right now.
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Mhmm, that depends on if you like the changes in Royal. Watch the video I posted about the new content in Royal and see if care about the new features.
 
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