It seems like Persona 5 Strikers mig🏅ht be part of the PS+ package fဣor January, alongside Dirt 5 and Deep Rock Galactic in one of the strongest line-ups we've seen in a long while. If that's true, everyone needs to make time to play 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Persona 5 Strikers next year. Come on, it's not like anything else is coming out. I mean, aside from 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Elden Ring. And 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Pokemon Legends: Arceus. And The Witch Queen. And 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Horizon Forbidden West. And 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dying Light 2. And Sifu. Okay so a lot of things are coming out. So what? I don't care. Cancel your dinner reservations. Send your kids to bed early. Just play Persona 5 Strikers, okay?
Persona 5 Strikers is essentially a sequel to 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Persona 5, and it's a game I wrote a lot about this year. It eventually 168澳洲幸运5开奖🔴网:finished sixth on my⭕ game of the year list, and despite the rampant popularity of Persona 5, it doesn't seem to have landed in the same way. Perhaps that's because, in classic JRPG fashion, people assume that Strikers, much like Royal before it, is 168🐽澳洲幸运5开奖网:simওply another version of the base game. It's not - it's a full sequel, picking up where Persona 5 (confusingly ignoring Royal completely) left off and building an entirely new story. If that's all you were confused about, then huzzah! Be confused no more.
If, however, you knew it was a sequel all along and simply skipped it because it was a musou game, then you are not invited to my birthday party. I know musou games aren't the most popular, but this might be one of the least musou musous out there. Unless you love musous, in which case you'll find a lot of the typical musou tropes reinvented here in strange and interesting ways. Also - and here's the kicker - unlike Persona 5 vanilla, it's not 200 hours long and it doesn't turn you all into rats 150 hours in.
Persona 5 is one of my favourite games of the past decade, but 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:I'm not even sure if I like it. I wrote, for its fifth anniversary, about 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:what a masterpiece it is, and have consistently written 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:about Joker, about Ann, about Makoto, Tae, Futaba, plus 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:several pieces speculating on 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Persona 6. I love this group of characters, as 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:a collective group of friends rather than just individuals you interact with, 💧168澳洲幸运5开奖网:more than the characters in maybe any other game. The art is gorgeous. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The anime cutscenes add wonderful heart to proceedings. I'm just not sure I like playing it that much.
Not only is it way too long, the dungeons often overcommit to their own themes and make everything needlessly complicated, and the turn-based combat is frustratingly close to being perfect but lets itself down in so many ways. If Joker's health drops to zero, even if the entire party is at full health, that's a game over my dudes. You also don't get two of the best abilities until right at the end, which I appreciate is deliberate, but it also means grinding - a key part of JRPGs is mostly impossible, until it suddenly becomes extremely necessary. There's one boss who's so irritating and complex in his tactics that it's easier to play on the hardest setting possible, because that inverts the damage you can deal and absorb.
Strikers doesn't suffer from these issues. The action musou combat keeps things fresh and frenetic all the way through, switching between your party members is much simpler, and while the narrative is still a bit bonkers - come on, it's Persona - the game is far less complex on a moment to moment level, and that makes it so much better. Because it still has all the JRPG weirdness in the battles and in the phone OS who's a real person but not and who feels things but doesn't while you fight god but you don't, having the underlying story just be buds on a summer roadtrip helps us connect with the characters even more. Plus, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Haru says ACAB. What more could you want?
You probably need to have an understanding of Persona 5 before tackling Strikers - it is a sequel, after all. But once you've played P5 or P5R, as millions of you have, you need to finish the journey with Strikers. Don't let the musou stylings put you off - Persona 5 works so much better this way anyway.