It’s not the subsequent mainline entry within the sequence, however Atlus did introduced a brand new Persona recreation at the moment. It’s known as Persona 5: The Phantom X, and it’s a derivative that’s launching on each cellular and PC on June twenty sixth.
Because the title implies, The Phantom X is about in the identical universe as 2017’s Persona 5, and can characteristic a brand new major character main a brand new band of Phantom Thieves. This story takes place in “a mysterious Tokyo the place wishes have been misplaced.” The construction of The Phantom X sounds so much like conventional Persona, as gamers will expertise regular highschool life through the day, earlier than heading off to discover dungeons at night time. There’s additionally turn-based fight and a “synergy system” the place gamers can type shut ties with NPCs within the recreation.
There are additionally multiplayer parts, together with guilds which permit “gamers to work together with each other in-game.” From the sounds of it, The Phantom X is an try to mix the single-player RPGs the franchise is thought for with live-service cellular video games designed to maintain gamers coming again. It’s onerous to say proper now how effectively these two sides will gel collectively; it’s additionally not clear in the intervening time if the sport shall be free-to-play. Hopefully it nonetheless has curry.
Given it’s been practically a decade since Persona 5 launched, Atlus releasing one other spinoff will seemingly be a disappointment to some followers anticipating any signal of life from Persona 6 (a minimum of Metaphor: ReFantazio turned out effectively). Then once more, The Phantom X a minimum of seems to be the half, and is perhaps a great way to fill within the time earlier than the subsequent main launch.
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