![]() 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. It gives you some gear to help you get started, but you’ll definitely find better equipment after playing for a few hours, rendering this bonus effectively useless once you play long enough.Combat is what really won me over. The same can be said about the All-Out Attack Pack. These are things you’ll most likely only check out once or twice before forgetting about them, so don’t factor these into your decision too much unless you really want them. The digital art book and soundtrack are nice to have as well, but these are much smaller perks in comparison to the Legacy BGM Pack and the early access. The same goes for the Legacy BGM Pack because music is a large part of the Persona series and there are some pretty rocking tracks included for Strikers. The deluxe edition is only $10 more than the standard version of the game and you can start playing it four whole days early, which should be pretty enticing for most Persona fans. So, with all that laid out, should you buy the deluxe edition of Persona 5 Strikers? As per usual, the answer comes down to how much you want the additional downloadable content and how badly you want to play the game.
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