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Persona 5 Royal PC secrets reveal unused JRPG game elements
A Persona 5 Royal PC port is finally upon us, giving even more players the chance to experience the Atlus JRPG game for the first time, and others the opportunity to play it on the go via the Steam Deck. The Persona 5 Royal PC port also comes with the opportunity for us to find out even more about the backend of the game, and one YouTuber and modder has been showcasing some of the secrets they’ve already found.
Persona 5 is still a masterpiece – and it’s a must-play for those newly able to get it on PC, Xbox, and Switch
If you’re a fan of Japanese RPGs but somehow aren’t a PlayStation user – which does appear to be a contradiction of terms, admittedly – this week marks a momentous occasion. Persona 5 Royal, the enhanced re-release of a 2016 game of the year contender, is finally on non-PlayStation platforms.
At this stage, Persona 5 is already six years old. It is, by any definition, old news. Even the Royal update is three. Elements of the game also haven’t aged well – especially a few story elements and tonal choices that felt pretty archaic and out-of-date back when the game originally released, leave alone six years hence. But the thing is, it’s still brilliant. Persona 5 is still one of the best and most important Japanese RPGs of the last decade.
Part of the reason behind this is that Persona takes an interesting path compared to the biggest-name JRPGs. Its most obvious peer is Final Fantasy, the series that acts as patriarch to the entire genre – which I suppose makes Dragon Quest the matriarch. Whereas Final Fantasy has spent the last decade or so analyzing and trying to emulate the successes of Western RPGs like The Witcher, Skyrim, and even Mass Effect, Persona 5 is unabashed in what it is – a full fat, highly traditional, anime AF role-playing game.
Here’s when new games are coming to Xbox Game Pass in October, including Persona 5 Royal
It’s the middle of the month, which means it’s time for another batch of Game Pass games to be detailed. For a start, today sees the day one release of A Plague Tale: Requiem, the followup to everyone’s favourite Middle Ages ratventure. There are similarly big games to come before the end of the month, however, including Persona 5 Royal.
Game Pass rounds off October with Frog Detective 3, Signalis, Persona 5, and more
The line-up of October Game Pass games has just been revealed! Released via an official blog post on the official Xbox website, you can download a variety of exciting (and Halloween appropriate in some cases) games as early as right this minute, including a few really big hitters you’ll want to download while you have the chance.
The first game is A Plague Tale: Requiem, which you can download right now on Game Pass for both PC and Xbox Series X/S. We released our review for this game just yesterday, giving it a very positive review and noting that developers Asobo “should be proud of what it achieved in this game, as depressing and engrossing as it is.”
If you’re looking for something that packs a bit more of a horrific tone — we are in the Halloween season after all — we’ve got both The Amnesia Collection and Amnesia: Rebirth coming to console and PC starting October 20. A legendary series that kicked off the first person horror age that kicked life back into a dwindling genre back in 2010, it’s well worth a playthrough if you’ve not played it yet.
Coming Soon to Xbox Game Pass: Persona 5 Royal, Gunfire Reborn, Phantom Abyss, and More
Persona 5 Royal on Steam Deck is a match made in heaven
Is it just me, or did Persona 5 never feel quite at home on the PlayStation 4? Sure, it looked gorgeous on a big TV, its bright colours popping all over your living room, but it always felt bit wrong to me. I think it’s all about pacing. Persona 5’s blend of turn-based combat and life sim elements hardly moves at a breakneck speed. There’s a lot of reading. A lot of listening to your pals chat about their hopes and fears. A lot of pressing one button to progress a line of dialogue onto the next. Shoving that on your 65″ 4K TV always seemed a bit overkill.
Basically, I never got into Persona 5 when it first launched on PS4. I played about three hours of it and then binned it off in favour of something else. In 2020, during a moment of first-lockdown madness, I bought Persona 5 Royal for full price, thinking maybe my issue with the original release was that there wasn’t enough of it, but surprisingly discovered it still wasn’t for me. At this point, I’d invested £100 into my “Do I like Persona 5?” experiment and was quickly realising the result was a pretty firm “No, mate, you don’t”. So when I sat down with the PC version of the game on the Steam Deck to test it out, I figured I’d play it for a few hours and then never touch it again. I was wrong. I was so very wrong.
Persona 5 Royal finally hits PC this week and here’s why it’s still the JRPG king
I finished the original Persona 5 roughly four years ago, and it immediately earned my most coveted award: Edders Really Liked This A Lot, Perhaps More Than Anything Else. Since its updated and expanded Royal version dropped on PlayStation some years later, I’ve been afraid to make my return. You’d think I’d be itching to delve back into what’s essentially the definitive version of the Phantom Thieves’ adventure, and yet it’s precisely because it blew me away the first time that I’ve been reluctant to go back.
Now? Now I feel silly. After playing the early portions of Persona 5: Royal, which finds itself coming to practically every remaining platform this week, including PC, my goodness me, it’s wonderful to be back in Shibuya with the gang. Already it’s the Persona 5 I adored, with new cutscenes and pacing adjustments to make it – somehow – even better. Have you never played Persona before? Good! Let me twist your arm. Gi-give, no – give it here!
Japanese dating show Love Wagon has surprising parallels with Yakuza and Persona
If there’s one thing that brings stability to my life, it’s the escapism of reality TV. Below Deck: Mediterranean had me covered last winter (alongside its Sailing Yacht spin-off), as I watched super yacht crew toil to meet the demands of the wealthy and unhinged. Then Love Island stepped up to fill a large portion of my summer with curated chaos. One guy confessed “I licked her tit or whatever,” in a shock revelation to his betrothed.
What’s on the reality TV menu for winter? Ainori Love Wagon: Asian Journey, baby. It’s on Netflix and I’m convinced it shares great parallels with some of my favourite RPGs of all time.
Persona 3 and 4 finally hit all modern platforms in January
The classic handheld JRPGs emerge from a long period of limited availability