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Persona 5: Scramble, English version, coming 2021 (Indonesian retailer PSEnterprise has pre-orders up for it) [Up: possible 23rd February release]
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Royal took me 126 hours and i'll admit that during the last 25 hours, I felt exhausted with it, which is funny because the end/third semester are excellent.
Still loved the game and the timing of it during quarantine couldn't have been more perfect
I'm going to ask a really silly question but since I'm a Switch owner only, I haven't and can't play Persona 5 unfortunately. I still would like to play Personal 5 Scramble however, it's a sequel. Does Scramble spoil anything from Persona 5 and if I can't play Persona 5, would you recommend the anime or should I just keep waiting and hoping that one day Persona 5 will come to other platforms?
Based on the demo, there will certainly be spoilers in Scramble.
Also, super pumped this is actually going to come out here! I was losing faith...
Does the PS4 pro "Graphics" option run at a variable 60fps? Or is it a locked 30?
If it's variable, that'd be perfect and you wouldn't really need a PS5 remaster considering it would then run at 4k/60 through bc
EDIT: It does, 1440p-2160p in Graphics mode at 60fps, so it'll presumably stick to the higher bounds more often on PS5.
If it's variable, that'd be perfect and you wouldn't really need a PS5 remaster considering it would then run at 4k/60 through bc
EDIT: It does, 1440p-2160p in Graphics mode at 60fps, so it'll presumably stick to the higher bounds more often on PS5.
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As with most anime adaptations of games, the anime is more enjoyable if you've played the game, and really isn't a comparable alternative.
Wow, I should have figured. I guess the best I could hope for is that the party is generally more likeable than they were in Persona 5.
Scramble is essentially a sequel. The story is all all right for a musou game they put a lot of effort, it's about 25/30 hrs.
Well, an announcement followed by release 2-3 months later is the best we could hope for at this point, otherwise we'd be looking at a mid-2021 release by Atlus standards.
Even with Covid, this has been a long localization. We haven't had to wait a year for SMT releases for quite a while (P3 maybe?).
Even with Covid, this has been a long localization. We haven't had to wait a year for SMT releases for quite a while (P3 maybe?).
It's a spin-off, so it doesn't have the wealth of side content P5 has and has a much more linear style of story progression, so the pacing is much tighter as you don't have to spend time waiting for deadlines to close. It's less than half the length of the original game and takes place over a shorter period of time.
I think in general it's better than P5 at developing its themes while telling an engaging story and it has a much stronger second half than the original game which I always felt got far too caught up in the big picture that it lost the emotional core that made the game investing to begin with. In some places it feels a bit like course correction for P5 with changes of hearts being reframed and a lot less of the kids rule adult drool stuff, which is helped by the new adult party member, who is great.
I really don't know how you took that to be the premise.
I really don't recommend playing Scramble without experiencing P5 first. It assumes you know and care about the characters and there's only the bare minimum explaining of stuff that a person who's played P5 will know. If you've got no way of playing P5, then I suggest at least watching a let's play or the anime, or waiting for a port.
It's 60, but for what it's worth, it was actually a constant 60 on graphics mode even on PS4 Pro. I think the two graphics modes are only really there for base PS4. The real PS5 improvement will be the load times.
That's really encouraging to hear! I will give it a shot at some point down the line because the gameplay looks fun and I hope the story ends up reinvigorating my interest in the persona franchise.
I mean, the third time they showed a group of people walking forward aimlessly staring at their phones like zombies right after I fought Big Tech it definitely seemed to be trying to make a not-subtle point.
But that's just an extreme metaphor for people mindlessly accepting answers, obviously nothing like EMMA actually exists in reality and the game knows that so I think it's strange to read that scene literally. The game definitely has some critique of our relationship with technology but I see Sophia as the game saying the existence of technology isn't the problem, it's our relationship with it and the sustitution of external answers for your own is the problem and big tech is complicit in that.
What're your impressions on the gameplay? Are you generally a musou person? Was the game as big as like a Hyrule Warriors or other Warriors games in terms of side quests and stuff to do when the game is done or was it mainly just the campaign?
The game is nowhere near as big as another Warriors game - the game is the structure of a Persona game and it substitutes small-scale Musou encounters for random JRPG encounters. There's a little more parkour through the overworlds. There are no larger "map battle" modes.
Only musou I've played is Hyrule Warriors and I thought it was alright. P5S is completely different from that; it's much closer to P5's dungeons but with musou combat and the occasional sea of enemies. There's no map control or running from enemies to prioritize others like HW had, it plays out like P5 where there are partolling enemies and you enter encounters with them, target weaknesses, and go back to exploring the dungeon. I don't think I'd recommend it to a musou fan expecting a musou. There's no adventure mode like in HW and most of the side missions are very basic (usually stuff like "go back to this dungeon and beat 20 of this enemy").
Is this picking up for someone who has never played a Persona title? I love the musou combat style per my experience with Hyrule Warriors + DQ Heroes and enjoy JRPGS, so I think the gameplay will be a good fit but am unsure how it'll be jumping in story-wise.
YESSSSS!
Pretty certain there are bound to be spoilers of Persona 5/Royal.
Pretty certain there are bound to be spoilers of Persona 5/Royal.
Hell yeah I been waiting for this to get a release date. Maybe an official announcement will take place at The Game Awards.
I wonder how much Age of Calamity had to do with this and if Switch is getting the English version.
It's literally a sequel to Persona 5. I don't think that should dissuade you from playing it, but yeah, I think it takes place a few months after the end of P5 (have sort of stayed blind to things so I'm not sure if any of the Royal stuff is a factor)
It's literally a sequel to Persona 5. I don't think that should dissuade you from playing it, but yeah, I think it takes place a few months after the end of P5 (have sort of stayed blind to things so I'm not sure if any of the Royal stuff is a factor)
Switch is getting an English version is the leaked box art is real.
Nice! Happy for the Switch only folks since they have a Joker game now
Yeah it's a direct sequel to P5 (but not Royal?)
The anime is not ideal as there are pacing and animation issues, but you would get the gist of the story and it can also pretty fun.
pretty sure Royal counts as well? Why wouldn't it. Also who says they won't add some Royal clarity in the global version?
Its one the biggest reason I'm not 99-100% hyped tbh, they should've waited until Royal's JPN launch for explicite inclusion instead of having the fandom figure out whether or not vanilla or Royal are truly canon to P5S.
Yeah it is pretty ridiculous that royal and scramble didn't work together despite being developed at the same time.
This and Age of Calamity are going to be my first Musou games probably. I'm more excited about this than AoC because it seems closer to actual P5 gameplay. The turn-based battles worked in P5, but if this takes the other trappings of Persona like social links and combines it with an action-based battle system, I feel like it could be really fun for me
Does this game have the wandering around day-to-day gameplay and social links?
Does this game have the wandering around day-to-day gameplay and social links?
I'm perpetually in a state of P5 withdrawal, but I don't have the time for a Persona 5 Royal playthrough currently -- P5:S is the perfect compromise!
Seems to be more like a semi-canon state where there's a couple of things that sorta acknowledge it, but is mostly ignored in the story.
Heh, I remember being really excited for this at the beginning of the year. Then the pandemic hit, news regarding the Western release dried up, and I kind of forgot it even existed. Still looking forward to playing it when it comes out, and early 2021 is probably a good spot for it since it gives me some more time to finish up some of these late 2020 games.