

I would like to surpass this tall hurdle with everyone who joins us in this recruitment. However, exceeding 5 will be difficult with the current staff. Now, we will have to create a 6 which exceeds 5. When we created Persona 4, there was pressure that it had to exceed Persona 3. "Thanks to the large amount of support we received for Persona 5, we have gotten a sense of accomplishment. In one posting (via GamingBolt), Atlus executive and former director Naoto Hiraoka wrote about the need to exceed fans' expectations after Persona 5 inspired ubiquitous praises. Back in 2017, Atlus went on a hiring spree and took the space on some job postings to talk about Persona 6. With that in mind, it's extraordinary (if not surprising) that Atlus plans on expanding the Persona universe with a sequel even bigger than Persona 5. Compare that to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild at 49 hours, and The Witcher 3 at 51 hours. In a poll of 1,500 players, it was revealed that on average, it takes gamers 97 hours just to beat the main campaign (via How Long to Beat). Persona 5 Strikers comes out on February 23 for PlayStation 4, Switch, and PC.Persona 5 is already a massive game.
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But if you want to call it a spinoff, it’s the best one that the Persona series has offered yet. I’m not sure if you should call Persona 5 Strikers a spinoff or a sequel. If you liked Persona 5, you’re still going to have a great time. You’re still rocking out to an amazing soundtrack (which includes a nice collection of new songs and remixed tunes from Persona 5). That felt like a good length for an action role-playing game, and it makes sense that the experience would be a bit shorter without the calendar events that can fill out a normal Persona game (you aren’t studying for tests or picking up after-school jobs).īut you’re still collecting Personas and fusing them to make new ones. I’m not going to complain about that, though. Strikers took me a bit over 30 hours to complete. Persona 5 may take you about 100 hours to beat. You aren’t forging relationships with your characters or eating beef bowls to increase your personality stats. Now, Strikers isn’t exactly on the same scope as a full-blown Persona game. It just has a different combat system, but even that takes its queues from Persona 5. It looks and sounds just like its predecessor. Persona 5 Strikers does not feel like Dynasty Warriors. It’s when the marriage of Persona 5 with real-time action feels its strongest. Success depends on your capability to dodge attacks, exploit weaknesses, and keeping you party healthy. In fact, the boss fights are the best battles, and these usually just have you fighting one giant enemy. Strikers throws enough enemies at you to keep things interesting, but the action doesn’t feel cluttered. I always find it hard to focus on much aside from spamming combos when I’m fighting those giant Dynasty Warriors armies. Taking down a couple dozen enemies at once is more than you may be used to in a typical JRPG, but it’s rare that you fight massive hordes like you would in Dynasty Warriors. While Dynasty Warriors puts players into large, open maps with armies of enemies available for the pummeling, fights in Persona 5 Strikers are smaller.


You need to be careful about committing yourself to long combos that can leave you open to attack, and you also want to spend some time casting spells between the beatdowns. The fighting is fast-paced, but you’re not spamming buttons. And just like with Persona 5, you’ll be switching between characters and Personas often to take advantage of their strengths when the situation calls for them. Joker, the main character, has access to multiple Personas, meaning he can use more abilities than the others. Makoto can can string together fast combos (and ride a motorcycle through enemies, which is just great). Haru uses an axe, making her attacks slower but strong. You still have to take advantage of enemy weaknesses if you want to win battles without too much hassle. Instead, the fighting works much as it does in other Persona games. I was worried that Persona 5 Strikers would be a basic hack-‘n’-slash.
