A great blend of Persona and the Musou genre.
Almost exactly four years ago, I got the chance to review one of the most stylish-looking JRPGs in a long while:
Persona 5. Imagine my great delight when, without prompting, my editor dropped a PSN review code into my DMs, saying “I would imagine you’d be into this”. The code was for
Persona 5 Strikers, and he was right: I very much was into this.
Picking up immediately after the events of the original
Persona 5 so not Persona 5 Royal Strikers puts you at the start of Joker and his friends’ summer holidays, as they plan a road trip to celebrate both the school break AND having just saved the entire world from an apocalyptic threat. Sadly it’s not to be, as a new mystery begins to unfold in Shibuya: more and more people are becoming unhealthily obsessed with the pop idol Alice Hiiragi, even to the point of ruining their relationships or going into debt to buy as much of her merchandise as possible. The Phantom Thi
School s out. 9 February 2021 Persona 5 Strikers is a full-on sequel that tells an engrossing new story, even if its combat doesn t quite have the same wow factor.
Persona 5 Strikers was born in a fit of consternation. Back when the spin-off was announced, with many fans holding out hope for a Switch port of P-Studio s excellent 2016 JRPG, the news that this would be another of Omega Force s seemingly endless musou reskins was met with a slightly disappointed shrug. It felt like an odd fit - these are games that, to put it mildly, aren t known for their storytelling. Here s the good news: Persona 5 Strikers retains most of the elements you know and love from Persona 5, but with a combat system lifted from another series.