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Perfect World Games has announced that their upcoming free-to-play mobile game, in collaboration with Atlus, Persona 5: The Phantom X, will be released in China on April 12, 2024. There is currently no word on whether this title will officially greet Western audiences.

Persona 5: The Phantom X is being developed by Perfect World Games, the same developers behind Tower of Fantasy. There is no word on a global release for this title, but considering the scale of the Persona series in recent years, we’ll likely see it appear overseas at some point; it’s just a matter of when. The title features brand-new characters, though it seems familiar faces will return. Plus, the new characters also have Phantom Thief attire, so the roots of Persona 5 have been retained.

Persona 5: The Phantom X will feature new music by Lyn and it has achieved over two million pre-registrations, with new artwork shared by Shigenori Soejima.

Persona 5: The Phantom X Launching In China April 2024 - Noisy Pixel

Perfect World Games has announced that their upcoming free-to-play game, in collaboration with Atlus, Persona 5: The Phantom X, will be released in China on April 12, 2024.

noisypixel.net

 

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They've also released a new key visual with this occasion:

 

[Puscifer]

I mean I'm liking the waifu shit to some extent but here I thought they couldn't milk a property more than P4 and every 6 months Atlus continues to prove me wrong. Bravo!

 

[HerjansEagleFeeder]

So how do they make money off of this?

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

So how do they make money off of this?

It's a gacha game so they make money from people pulling for new Phantoms, Personas, costumes, etc.

 

[Doom85]

They've also released a new key visual with this occasion:

These are actual good character designs that could have been used for Persona 6. I don’t have anything against all gacha games (Honkai Star Rail has been one of the best JRPGs of the last few years), but this feels like a waste.

I’m certainly now glad a friend of mine has never played Persona. Owls are easily her favorite animal, if she found out a game series she enjoyed could have had its next main entry use an owl as the animal party member but instead they did this, she’d be all:

 

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Forgot to mention that they've also released a new PV

 

[Hrk69]

 

[bbeach123]

The graphics look better than P3 reload despite being on mobile , china so good at making mobile-game-graphics .

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

The graphics look better than P3 reload despite being on mobile , china so good at making mobile-game-graphics .

Yeah, they've put a lot of resources into P5X and it shows (at least production value wise).

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

By the way, P5X should be getting a global release as well, at least that's what Midori claimed a few weeks back and I tend to believe her since she has a very good track record with SEGA/Atlus leaks.

 

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Persona 5 the Phantom X reaches 8 million pre-registrations and announces additional rewards for the CN open beta.