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I also had zenkichi, sophie and joker on my demiurge team and on normal mode it took me 45 minutes to beat him because they had almost no sp and no sp healing items so I beat him using joker and wolf gun attacks alone as well as all my hp items and futaba’s small sp recoveries.
Before Strikers was released in English, I heard plenty of people on the internet, who I was under the impression had played it in Japanese, say don't expect much in terms of character development. After beating Strikers myself, I've come to the conclusion that those people are either liars or I was wrong to assume they had played the game. The first three Jails flesh out Ann, Yusuke, and Haru, respectively, with the Monarchs as their Foils and plenty of callbacks to the prequel. These characters whom I loved I now love even more seeing them grow. And thank god for Haru screentime. It was great.
I felt bad for Ann when Kamoshida was doing those things to her friend. For the craze for with Alice, and her control over desires, I instantly remembered Komoshida. You know it's pretty scary knowing the perp is right in your face as you are trying to take down their Palace/jail. We knew Kamoshida was the perp, yet he is still seen walking the hallways telling you not to talk to him, or you better get out of his way.
@@Joe_334 Honestly that's what made Kamoshida such a good villain. Not only was he deplorable and his actions irredeemable, but to everyone else, he was the cool gym teacher. Mishima said the principal and parents knew, but no one cared because he brought the clout to Shujin. Ann and Shiho deserved better
This is pretty much why I prefer Strikers’ story over Vanilla’s. Compared to the base game where Makoto and Futaba got the most attention, and it’s no coincidence that I’m not as fond of them as everyone else, everyone in Strikers get equal amounts of screentime (with the exception of Ryuji, Morgana, Futaba, and to some extent Makoto, and the screentime she gets doesn’t end up hogging everyone else’s spotlight). Obviously Sophia and Zenkichi are going to get the most development, but I’m glad that mostly everyone else’s roles were not wasted.
@@chickennugget6684 (Spoilers) I feel like Zenkichi was somewhat weaker than Dojima in terms of the whole “my wife is dead and my relationship is fractured” aspect of his character. However, I personally think that his overall personality does wonders, and the fact that there’s *finally* an adult Persona User on the party’s side (hasn’t been one since Persona 2: Eternal Punishment) is quite refreshing. (Edit) Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, but Zenkichi’s fury mechanic was fun for me personally. Overall, while I’m still going to remain loyal to best DILF, I say that Zenkichi is a fun character.
I like the bond system for this game. Since you maxed out the confidants in the last game and the game says the bond can't grow stronger, it only makes sense that the bond process in this game is just spending time with your friends in general rather than a full-blown social link feature (although what was said in the video is true as well. It would be hard to have a confidant system in the game with how the story is structured)
I was so confused and kept looking for Akechi since they all kept mentioning his name in this video... only to realize that you named your Joker Goro goddammit 😂
I think the original did perfect. Persona 5 Strikers seems like it’s perfect because you had a whole game to get to know the characters, than they did a road trip game which makes perfect sense honestly.
PSA: the game doesn't explain this, but if you keep fusing the same persona into different personas you get a crap load of pp and it keeps accumulating bonus stats to the point you can get millions of pp per fusion and 99 stats for all attributes as bonus. So no need to rebuy personas for points or grinding incenses for joker. Any persona you fuse that you like u can register and keep the fusion chain going. You know you are doing it right when Lavenza mentions accumulated power eventually in your fusions.
it bothers me to no end how the game doesn't explain this. once you get how it works, it's really simple, and nothing an on screen tip couldn't explain
@@daniellins4114If you fuse 2 personas together you get another one. If you fuse that one you will get a small stat boost. The longer the fusion chain goes the higher the boost becomes. you can make a fusion loop and keep doing it until the boost is so big that it maxes the persona's stats instantly. Also if you do this you wil also get persona points for every fusion. You can do this with a very low level fusion loop and get milions of persona points in 10 minutes.
i also like how it utilizes the baton pass system as a natural way to get the player to switch characters throughout the battle and not just stick with one all the time, its really satisfying for one character to suggest using their skill so you switch to them and then another wanting to do a follow up and since each character fights a little differnt it helps keep things interesting
I love the battle theme for this game but just being able to randomly cycle through each past theme is amazing. I wish the main games did this without having to change costumes
Haru is my favorite character to play in this game, especially after getting super armor from Master Arts. Honestly, playing a character I don't love and enjoying it gives me a new-found appreciation for them, and this is no exception.
Sophia's play style was actually my favorite. The sound effects and boosted damage from her command inputs were immensely satisfying for me, and learning them isn't too hard when you just have to get the timing down.
I wonder, have you played fire emblem three hopes? Theres a couple characters with boosts to their effectts and attacks if timer properly. Tho people dont seem to like them
I'm glad that with the newer "Warriors-styled," spin-offs by Koei Tecmo they seem to be pulling in a ton of gameplay elements from their home series in order to keep the combat fresh and give it extra depth. I think this is most evident when comparing the original Hyrule Warriors to Age of Calamity, wherein the original felt like mindless button-mashing, added elements from Breath of the Wild like the flurry rush, Sheikah Slate, and elemental rods bring a level of depth and strategy that manages to stave off the normal Warriors fatigue that I would get with these games. Strikers does this and more by not only bringing in a ton of elements from the original game like Personas, All-Out-Attacks, Showtimes, etc. but also by directly continuing the story as a sequel. It really does feel like if they pushed the concept a little farther, it could almost feel like a mainline game. One with a more ARPG setup, but still.
apparently the style of the game is based on what P5 was originally pitched as, a road trip encountering palaces so they may have already had many of the story beats ready before even making the game.
18:30 I felt the same way about this with regaining hp and sp. I found a lot of the time whenever I’d get to a check point I’d leave the jail to heal and go right back in. I feel like if u can save and go to the velvet room at check points u should be able to just heal at them too to save time.
@@cringeybydefault4151 That can be easily remedied by having an option in the menu that will heal and respawn the enemies. Right now, just going back out and coming back in to do this breaks the pacing of the game.
I really enjoy Strikers. Unlike Persona 5 or Royal, I did take more breaks as I didnt want to wear myself out as the combat system can get much sometimes if you play for longgg periods of time non-stop. While I do miss a lot of the characters and the social systems, I found the writing and combat to be great enough to help this burns. My next hope for Persona overall is some remasters/remakes for Playstation alongside more news about future titles/content and given they've promised it for this year's 25th anniversary, I can say I am so excited! Thank you for the amazing video and stay amazing!
@@bigdingus9333 I agree 100%. I feel like with those games, a remake would be amazing. Seeing a truly update version of the original 2 games would be dream worthy x
I finished P5R about 10 days before Strikers so it was perfect,helped with my withdrawal. Just finished Strikers and I feel a little empty RN, but the whole Persona Journey has been great. I'm so jealous about the new fanbase that will know the persona franchise through strikers, I wished I had first played strikers because all of the reference to the original P5, and then get playing the original to know the main story, how they met, the references they made, that would have been awesome. Loved the game, love the franchise, loved the video.
I played original P5 and now am just about to finish strikers. I remember the dread that came over me upon my realisation that I was about to be saying goodbye to some awesome characters and wouldn’t get to experience being a phantom thief or doing random stuff with the gang anymore. I was sad any time I thought about persona 5 for about 3 months, than this game came out, and I played it. I didn’t think I’d get reattached to the characters and I didn’t think I’d care for the new characters, but I did... I’m sad it’s over and I have more than 80 hours in Strikers. Why do Persona games do this to us? Lol
You should definitely play persona 4 golden then. I played both p5 and strikers, and found p4 insanely more enjoyable, not taking away the two other games' fantastic qualities of course.
Fusion loop from Jack-o-latern and Pixie back to Jack-o-latern is honestly the best way to rack up Persona Points (PP). That and working up to 99 stats. 🙃
I have similar opinions of the party members, and yeah, I barely used Sophia, but I had her in the party a lot. She's easily the best healer. Also I really like how Zenkichi is different from all other Persona users in the modern games. His being an adult lets them talk about so much more than just another high school student, and I hope we get more adult Persona users in the future. btw the "thiefs challenge" quests are insanely annoying because they are so tedious. One mistake, and you gotta head to the nearest checkpoint, leave, start the quest once more, and try to make it half way through the dungeon flawlessly again.
Imo they were all pretty easy. Only one I failed once was the Osaka one. If you think some enemies might spot you, just shoot them from the distance. Since if you innitiate the fight, it doesn't count as you being spottet. Only annoying part is, if you have to go somewhere where it has searchlights, namely Osaka, but luckiely it gives 2 ways you can get to the demanded point, one avoids the searchlights, not sure anymore about the other jails, but like mentioned Osaka was the only one I failed once, while I felt the others were pretty much free.
yees the most tedious quest and after you have done it the checkpoint to back felt so far away, I could be wrong but you could save in between checkpoints during the challenge so if you fail just reload from the last checkpoint
Healing items are pretty broken in this game, as long as you buy enough each time you leave the dungeons, you can just spam recovery items at any time by pausing, I beat the final optional boss by spamming persona skills, recovering sp and hp to max with items and repeating as I had no need to conserve items any more
I would just say cooking is busted in this game, like the Leblanc curry is available during the Sendai Jail. All of its ingredients are all in Sendai so you can easily spam it until you get 99. This make going through Jail in one go kind of easy but dear god if it isn’t necessary for mercilessly mode.
I've already played and beaten this so spoilers don't bother me but man, I feel like talking about Alice and the Trauma Cell is a bit more than a "minor spoiler".
So about The level requirement on personas this is actually in p3 and p5 It's just that all Persona's can be made without lvl up persona's but if your persona is to high You can get different results. You usually dont see this in normal gameplay only if you do things like protagonists persona only And have a look at the list of fusions.
lol I just deleted my post regarding this topic after seeing it was already addressed but I just wanted to say I'm very confident that this is a thing in Persona 4 and Persona 4 Golden as well. Maybe it's just that Strikers makes it much more apparent and people just assumed that this was a new thing because this is the first time this aspect is in your face.
I agree that a lot of the flaws in Strikers are pretty minor, and it's still a pretty solid follow up. I was also partly worried that the combat would get a bit mindless after a while, which is par for the course if the past few crossover Warriors games are anything to base it on, but somehow it didn't quite feel that way, probably because it was broken up with a healthy amount of story content. Excellent video!
As someone who adores and plays kh as much as I do this game was made for me. I loved p5 and p5r,but an action rpg style that felt similar enough to kh allowed me to pick up on the combat very quickly and enjoyed every second of it.
Anyone saying this game isn't at least "moderately difficult" hasn't tried NG+ on Merciless yet. Holy fuck does Merciless go hard in this game. I expected NG+ to be a hot meme that I effortlessly stomp through with endgame-level personas like in P5R. I was wrong. I was very, VERY wrong.
The best way to earn persona points is to make a fusion loop and continually use the same persona. Rozalin has an excellent video on how to use accumulated power and make any persona have 99 stats
Great vid as always, I recommend anyone that wants more of the game to start a game plus in merciless mode, the gameplay and the fusion mechanics start to make a lot more sense once on game +
_I'm not gonna lie, I beat the game and didn't notice until my Merciless mode run that Joker's affinities are shown above the skill select when holding R._
@@esdeathsenpai5128 yes i want all of them to come back too. And I have a feeling they'll all come back because knowing Atlas I don't think persona 5 is done yet.
My favorite part of the game was when I was playing as Wolf and then Tony Stark drew his laser sword, because I immediately thought “Zenkichi and this guy sword fighting would be boss asf to watch as a cinematic”
I finished the game a few days after it’s release when I bought it, and it’s actually really good. I don’t usually play hack and slash gameplay but the gameplay was actually really good and I enjoyed going through the story with these characters and I’m so glad I didn’t spoil anything.
What i love about this game is there is a character for everyone. Haru and ryuji are for people who love tanks, makoto and mona are god for people who love fast and agile characters, ann and sophie for people who like range, Yusuke and Wolf for people who like taking enemys out with one swing. And if none of those suit you, joker is a super basic character which is so nice for example: you fight shadow alice. You’ve never used ann and you want to fight alice with her since shes weak to fire. You can just be joker and mash sp attacks then once you learn his gun special just keep using that. The game is very ballanced and i found myself constantly switching parties to get a good team comp
SPOILERS, DICUSSING ZENKICHI ARC: I personally really like Zenkichi in how he differs from Dojima, particularly because of how it affects their family. Nanako is a lot younger, so her concern is more personal in that she believes her father doesn't love her because she doesn't understand exactly what he really does or what he wants to do with regards to her mother. Akane however is old enough to fully understand the exact reasons her father is rendered useless in finding out her mother's killer, and she resents both Zenkichi and the police because of that. I think that's a really interesting angle to approach that type of story from.
It feels like a bizarre combination of Nanako from P4 plus Futaba's palace from P5. I can't believe they pulled it off while still making it feel fresh, but I'm so glad they did.
I guess I'm in the minority when it comes to difficulty then. I started the game on hard immediately. I've only just beat the first jail, but I've already learned that if you get hit once by an enemy skill and get knocked down, theres a good chance your battle ends right then and there.
@@sarethdarva well, p5s is the first of its kind that I've played, so I'm learning from square 1. I actually found the boss fight a bit easier than the 1 vs 1,000 bit before that, as I beat it first try, though 2 squadmates were down and all I had was a half dead Ryuji and an sp drained Sophia. I will say however that the 1 vs 1000 bit was much more satisfying, simply because once I got it down, I felt like fricken Neo.
I agree. I think the combat is a moderate-high difficulty. It's most likely that the loudest voices are a vocal minority that's very talented at this particular genre. There's no way most people find this game easy.
The biggest issues of Persona 5 are addressed here. That being that the Phantom Thieves don't feel as close as the Investigation Team and that the villains are too evil.
Persona 5 strikers is best described as A sequel to Persona 5, it references events from og p5 its emotional music is Godlike and its message about finding your path during life hits home for me, i reccomend it 10/10 its honestly another masterpiece and i might prefer it over Persona 5 Story wise because its so good.
It’s technically a sequel to Royal considering that’ll be the canon version moving forward, but it’s true they didn’t account for that when developing this game so it makes sense.
@@Eudaimonia7564 , I myself and other huge fans of Persona thinks that there should be sequels after Strikers because Strikers seems to be more like a direct sequel to Persona 5 than Persona 5 Royals.
@@Eudaimonia7564 yep 100% true. Exactly like P4 arena where they don't mention a thing that happen in P4G. Atlus has 0 excuse to make an alternate timeline considering every persona game so far are canon
I still really wish Yoshizawa was in this game. Don’t get me wrong, it’s still a great game, the story works fine without her, but it’s still incredibly sad to me that she missed her chance to become “one of the girls,” so to speak, so I’m afraid she will always end up feeling like an outsider.
*Yeah* I was actually surprised by that. Granted she has her own life goals that she's achieving so I can get not showing up, but not a single mention whatsoever? Just feels weird.
@@izzy1356 It's because this game and Royal had the same development time, basically, and developing with a game in mind that hadn't come out yet could get messy. It's incredibly disappointing, but totally understandable, especially since the two games were being made in completely different studios.
This game was written while P5R was in development, so it makes sense. But in universe I'm pretty sure she doesn't even agree with the PT's methods, it'd make sense that she wouldn't wanna work with them outside of the one time she really had to and that's not even mentioning that she has her own goals to achieve.
@@skunthundler While you're not wrong, I do think it's important to remember that not only was the *Kasumi* who said that (if you know, you know), but also, she spent a lot of time with the Phantom Thieves since then, including their new year's party, so it's not unreasonable to think that she would want to come along on their fun summer road trip.
@@eclecticspaghetti My memory's a bit hazy, but weren't her thoughts and actions still pretty much Sumire? Wasn't she just actualized into believing that she was Kasumi?
One of my annoyances was wondering where Morgana's awakened persona was. At the end of Persona 5, Morgana's persona, Zorro, had awakened into Mercurius and the same was applied to the MC as he had Satanael at the end of Persona 5 but it's mysteriously gone as well.
The Metaverse collapsed after the defeat of... Yaldabaoth... Or whatever. The PTs couldn't even become PTs anymore, so it stands to reason their personas reset as well.
@allen harper ok, if you swallow that shit explanation, then another problem emerges: If metaverse collapsed and such, why phantoms kept original personas? Why not something new? Or another suits? Another problem - persona upgrade came from character bond and growth. Sooo they regressed to state when they first met each other? There is no way to get out of this thing, devs just fucked and used easiest "explanation" they could conjure out of their asses.
I've been a fan of Persona 5 and i've been wanting the original P5 to be playable on switch for the longest time but with the arrival of strikers, i got more than what i bargained for. I love how easy (technically speaking) it is to understand the combat system yet how nuanced it is to grasp the finer details of timing your combat execution. But the best part? The music and the roadtrip. It feels good to be not just be restricted to Tokyo but we get to join them and experience what is it like to be at at places like Sendai etc. Also, shoutout to the story writer for injecting humourous punchline at the right timing to elevate the dialogue cos if not it would have fallen flat to some of the more serious undertone at some point in the game.
Koei tecmo has done incredibly good job with working along side the makers of these franchises to create games that respect the original but still retain the fast paced musou action rpg games...Age of Calamity is a good example of paying respects to Breath of the Wild but still going it's own direction. ..
So I got the game a few days ago and honestly it's been a blast. Sure they remove certain things but they include others that compensate and match better with the style of gameplay. The soundtrack amazing and the remixed ver of the old songs are heavenly. Zenkichi became my favorite character of all the Persona series, he's can be a goof and serious and his arc with the PT is just awesome. Definitely a must own!!
I admittedly loved strikers way more than p5. It was a nice balanced game. I'm on my 3rd playthrough attempting merciless and I'm still having a lot of fun
Seriously, my only complaint is that Morgana, Ryuji, and Futaba did not get as much development time as the rest of the party. Morgana and Ryuji especially were massively robbed important screentime
Morgana and Futaba I understand because Persona 5 was essentially home to their respective storylines. I’m disappointed that Ryuji wasn’t given more prominence in the Akira Arc, especially with how his backstory plays out which felt like a missed opportunity to really touch on Ryuji’s past and be something Sophie could learn from regarding the nature of how a spawn isn’t hereditarily linked to their creator with their own sense of freewill.
I quite liked the "Have a persona of a certain level to make an alternate fusion path" system. It rewards the players who find a persona they like (Bicorn comes to mind but the revamped Arsene is there too) and assists a player who gets weird combos in an Accident. "Oh shit, what am I gonna do with this sudden high level Pixie? Oh, there's an altefnate fusion that lets me transfer this fusion's strength over to a higher level persona than Pixie's usual path." And with the accumulated power system, this game encourages a lot of fusing.
When I first heard about this I didn't even look at it because I thought it'd be a shitty slapped together spin off, I wasn't expecting a whole sequel and one I enjoyed the gameplay of more
I loved this game so damn much. It's one of the few I games I went full completionist on. Zenkichi and Sophia won me over practically instantly. Also nuclear gun Makoto just destroys everything. Also THE MUSIC IS FIRE!
From when he was talking about needing the early Persona's at a super high level, yes you can do what he said about summoning your strongest Persona (in reality it's the Persona thats had the most levels and points into it but yes the higher level it was initially the better, for example a Yoshitsune would give you about 300,000 Persona Points, but maxing it's level and raising it's stats, I could now get 1,200,000 Persona points from it). But I also think most of those Personas are supposed to be summoned after beating the game and going into NG+ as every enemy you run into will basically be level 99 past the second jail. Merciless also definitely answers his disappointment to the games difficulty, as every enemy will be extremely powerful, and even a good chunk of the basic enemys can easily put you down. Their resistance also change, in the sense that their existing ones typically get buffed into nulls or absorbs, and new resistances are added all together. It is very easy to die In Merciless mode, especially if you don't have the right bond skills and equipment. The only real way you can even cheese the system is by abusing Freeze, and using a technical physical build of some kind and the best way to do that is 2 end game personas those being Yoshitsune and Lucifer. As Freeze is incredibly broken simply because of how the fighting in the game works. Pair this with a special boss drop (The Grand Crystal) and Joker can super easily abuse the Freeze mechanic. Outside of that, Merciless is exceptionally challenging while also not being impossible to complete and feeling unfair, most of the times you die in that mode, it's because you failed to dodge an enemies move or simply didn't have the team and affinities prepared to fight them. The game also hands out stat buffing items all the time to help your party members become stronger which is also very useful. It also required me to use basically every party member, while also always keeping Zenkichi on the squad at all times, his buffs and debuffs as well as his passive skill were invaluable in Merciless. But overall with the rest of the video, I agreed with him. I loved how this game felt like a true sequel and not just a spinoff for the sake of money.
I love that they got to use what they were originally planning for persona five that the phantom thieves, were originally going to travel the world and the combat of a map type thing
I’ve never been a fan of hack & slash games. But being a massive fan of the Persona/SMT games and beating almost all of them at least once, I wanted to try this game. I just got the platinum for Metaphor: Refantazio then went back and finished the platinum for Persona 4 Golden so now I have the Persona itch. Thanks for this video it definitely opened my eyes to this game and am going to purchase it. Especially since it’s on sale for $18 on PS currently.
Frankly, I was almost ready to Hate this game when I first got the announcement. But lo and behold, Atlus surpassed my expectations yet again and gave us another great installment.
Thankfully by now people get it's not just a Musou game. I played the japanese game when it came out and NOONE believed me. Particularly here on youtube.
@@stoppilfering268 Glad to hear you like it despite "that". I have to admit it's a bit similar to Musou on the surface but to me it doesn't feel the same at all because of the focus on elemental combos and Persona attacks that reduce the button mashing considerably. There's also no taking over enemy strongholds or anything like that. Long story short, to me the only similarity is that there's lots of enemies on screen at once. I consider it a full on sequel in a way. Excuse my rambling. Have a great day!
@@stoppilfering268 I beat it about a week and some change ago and I gotta say playing through it, the resemblance to a Musou game came really hard to make the more I played over my 51 hour playthrough. It actually felt like a Persona ARPG. There aren't really huge maps or tons of enemies. Granted there are lots of mobs but they are more like clusters of small groups than huge battles. There's an emphasis on verticality and platforming and overall more clever and detailed level design than a traditional Musou game.
So you are telling me that I could change Joker's persona midbattle? I finished the game today and I thought you could only do this outside of battles lmao.
I love this game and I’ve always hated dynasty warriors. Always thought it was boring asf. But this game is great and the combat doesn’t get boring. I love how it blends persona into everything and is a p5 sequel
In a way it feels less like a warrior game, and more like a test for a new Raidou game. Which if you don't know, Atlus made other action RPGs back in the PS2 era within a different Shin Megami Tensei spin-off series called Devil Summoners. Raidou Kuzunoha even showed up as a cameo in the persona 5 manga, so its possible this could be a test for a new Raidou game. Would be pretty cool.
I freaking loved this game, but I have to admit being a new fan who started royal made it weird when Sumire was just kind of… not there. If you have the patience for it, you’ll probably like it better if you play it after vanilla P5 but before royal
The new fusion system is honestly pretty good it'll take like an hour or so fusing and fusing and fusing to make some good ones but once you get a few all 99 stat personas it becomes easy sailing, by merging the same persona over and over again, the results I mean, like you make a jack frost and merge that into something else and merge that and so on, they accumulate power, that power raises their stats, until eventually you are just making personas with 99s all around, there are guides with loop fusions of early personas, and from there you can just merge up until you have what you need, by doing this you also end up with a crap ton of pp to upgrade whatever you to whichever level you need I have like 50million from doing this alone, and once done you never need to repeat the process since by recording the 99s into the compendium they also keep their accumulated power for further fusions.
I saw the boss refight requests, as just a way to refight the bosses if you wanted to since the requests are repeatable and dont give anything vital even on your first go
As long as you are totally up to date on your compendium completion, there is never a fusion in the game that doesn't use personas at their default level.
To be honest I really liked using Sophia. She was always on my team along with Ryuji, then the last slot was between Makoto, Haru, or Zenkichi. But I really liked Strikers! I would Recommend it to other people after playing P5 or P5R!
same i always had her as my primary healer, although that was mainly due to her being the new character, but i did like that a well timed button press can make her elemental attack hit three times instead of 1
DJ_ Skelex, I only used characters that weren’t Zenkichi, Sophie, and Joker in missions where it forces to me play as characters outside of my main party rooster, so you’re not the only person here that likes Sophie, Zenkichi, Joker, and Ryuji the most out of the entire Persona 5 Strikers cast.
Just on the persona fusion bit depending on the level of the earlier obtained persona it would alter what you make with fusion I believe it was essentially something like say there is 10 persona in the fool arcana if you get arsene to the ninth most level it would replace whatever was previously in the ninth slot and then that one would become the 10th slot not exactly how it works but something in that ballpark
Am I missing something? The Ai of partners is abismall. I remember during the ALice boss fight she did the wheel attack, and my party were keep suiciding on her. This was driving me nuts. Took me several hours to finish the boss practicaly solo. I remember there were setting for behavior, but there was no on field command for it. Also bosses have like x3 more health then they need to.
This was a genuinely emotionally breaking game for me. I actually just started playing other games because the story and character affected me so much. I dove into Persona 4 as a result. I recommend the Fusion loop, as I was able to get a 99 all Arsene. It was hilarious.
For fusion level requirements, it should be noted that until Bugs (level 53, a trash mob in one of the endgame dungeons) and Cerberus (the second bonus boss Persona) all Personas can actually be fused with base-level components, and levelling up is only required if you want to use lower-level Personas from the same Arcana. However, Bugs and many endgame Personas are ridiculous PP sinks that just serve to highligh the fact that the system is not properly balanced in the least. What hurts this system more in my eyes is the small Compendium. While inevitable with the genre change, you may often find yourself lacking a Persona with the appropriate affinities for your current challenge, which is important because you need to keep SP usage in check and the Persona-specific combo finishers are not customizable. This isn't a problem in mainline, where an inherited ability is just as useful as an innate one, but in Strikers having a Fire-on-paper Persona using Bufu finishers and no actual Fire Persona in sight can cause you to hold on to your old ones a tad too long, while seeing two Nuke Personas appear one after the other is very disappointing. And also, while on the subject of overlevelling low-level Personas, when I first saw Arsene's move list not deplete around level 8 I thought they were actually going to acknowledge the Wild Card's first Persona in gameplay properly. But no, he still has regular Exp. scaling (making levelling him up unmanageable) and his stats suck. I really would like them to follow up on this, so that whenever P6 comes around the starter can stay relevant-but-not-oppressive throughout. I think the roots for this idea are solid: one Persona cannot develop a skill set wide enough to do everything you need, and the starter affinities are nothing to write home about. Just have some special rules that allow it to stay levelled but not snowball (e.g. make it take as much Exp. to level as the Protag, but cap any empowerment mechanic to not exceed Protag level) and you can make a fully functional, well cycling Wild Card while giving their iconic main Persona proper exposure.
I only really have one issue with the the writing and it first occurs really early on. The "Ryuji doesn’t know what an AI is joke" made me worried about the writing, while the game eventually proved me wrong, I had put off strikers because I was worried they would butcher a lot of the characters. I was afraid everyone was going to lean Cartoonishly hard into thier shtick for the main game, and while there are moments where does happen a little here and there it's not irritating or annoying.
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This video came out today, why is this comment 2 days old
@@Swanlord1 yeah let's hope that they'll get around to making it.
Ai-chan
I also had zenkichi, sophie and joker on my demiurge team and on normal mode it took me 45 minutes to beat him because they had almost no sp and no sp healing items so I beat him using joker and wolf gun attacks alone as well as all my hp items and futaba’s small sp recoveries.
Nam how do you define a spinoff
Before Strikers was released in English, I heard plenty of people on the internet, who I was under the impression had played it in Japanese, say don't expect much in terms of character development. After beating Strikers myself, I've come to the conclusion that those people are either liars or I was wrong to assume they had played the game. The first three Jails flesh out Ann, Yusuke, and Haru, respectively, with the Monarchs as their Foils and plenty of callbacks to the prequel. These characters whom I loved I now love even more seeing them grow. And thank god for Haru screentime. It was great.
My favorite part. Especially those 3 since they didn't get too much development past their arcs
There were so many great Yusuke and Haru moments, as an art boi enjoyer I was very pleased with Strikers
I felt bad for Ann when Kamoshida was doing those things to her friend. For the craze for with Alice, and her control over desires, I instantly remembered Komoshida. You know it's pretty scary knowing the perp is right in your face as you are trying to take down their Palace/jail. We knew Kamoshida was the perp, yet he is still seen walking the hallways telling you not to talk to him, or you better get out of his way.
@@Joe_334 Honestly that's what made Kamoshida such a good villain. Not only was he deplorable and his actions irredeemable, but to everyone else, he was the cool gym teacher. Mishima said the principal and parents knew, but no one cared because he brought the clout to Shujin.
Ann and Shiho deserved better
This is pretty much why I prefer Strikers’ story over Vanilla’s. Compared to the base game where Makoto and Futaba got the most attention, and it’s no coincidence that I’m not as fond of them as everyone else, everyone in Strikers get equal amounts of screentime (with the exception of Ryuji, Morgana, Futaba, and to some extent Makoto, and the screentime she gets doesn’t end up hogging everyone else’s spotlight). Obviously Sophia and Zenkichi are going to get the most development, but I’m glad that mostly everyone else’s roles were not wasted.
I love how Zenkichi wasn’t a carbon copy of Akechi
he’s _extremely_ similar to Dojima though..
also relegated to comic relief, poor zenkichi..
i mean the only thing they're related in is justice ajd even that's a stretch
@@chickennugget6684 (Spoilers)
I feel like Zenkichi was somewhat weaker than Dojima in terms of the whole “my wife is dead and my relationship is fractured” aspect of his character. However, I personally think that his overall personality does wonders, and the fact that there’s *finally* an adult Persona User on the party’s side (hasn’t been one since Persona 2: Eternal Punishment) is quite refreshing.
(Edit) Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, but Zenkichi’s fury mechanic was fun for me personally. Overall, while I’m still going to remain loyal to best DILF, I say that Zenkichi is a fun character.
With his looks I was expecting some “AHA IM SHIDO’S BROTHER” bull shit
...Except your comment makes no sense AT ALL, he doesn't got anything to do with Akechi.
I like the bond system for this game. Since you maxed out the confidants in the last game and the game says the bond can't grow stronger, it only makes sense that the bond process in this game is just spending time with your friends in general rather than a full-blown social link feature (although what was said in the video is true as well. It would be hard to have a confidant system in the game with how the story is structured)
me when no tier 2 personas :(
Water and bonds is a piss take though
I was so confused and kept looking for Akechi since they all kept mentioning his name in this video... only to realize that you named your Joker Goro goddammit 😂
It kinda baffles me how Persona has never done a cross country adventure with its characters until now
@@sarethdarva Cool fact. Thank you!
I think the original did perfect. Persona 5 Strikers seems like it’s perfect because you had a whole game to get to know the characters, than they did a road trip game which makes perfect sense honestly.
@@callmepsycho3132 I agree
Personally, I think it’d be difficult to do a road trip game, as it may be hard to naturally implement slinks.
Persona 6 should do world travel
PSA: the game doesn't explain this, but if you keep fusing the same persona into different personas you get a crap load of pp and it keeps accumulating bonus stats to the point you can get millions of pp per fusion and 99 stats for all attributes as bonus. So no need to rebuy personas for points or grinding incenses for joker. Any persona you fuse that you like u can register and keep the fusion chain going. You know you are doing it right when Lavenza mentions accumulated power eventually in your fusions.
Yeah I found out about this from Rozalin fusion guide and I now have millions of points. Also, what a gorgeous profile picture! I’ll subscribe to you!
it bothers me to no end how the game doesn't explain this. once you get how it works, it's really simple, and nothing an on screen tip couldn't explain
Wait, hang on, how does this thing work exactly?!
@@daniellins4114If you fuse 2 personas together you get another one. If you fuse that one you will get a small stat boost. The longer the fusion chain goes the higher the boost becomes. you can make a fusion loop and keep doing it until the boost is so big that it maxes the persona's stats instantly. Also if you do this you wil also get persona points for every fusion. You can do this with a very low level fusion loop and get milions of persona points in 10 minutes.
@@manvelmsurian9712 I need to remember this when I replay the game. Like the TH-camr I found collecting Personas in this tedious and grindy.
i also like how it utilizes the baton pass system as a natural way to get the player to switch characters throughout the battle and not just stick with one all the time, its really satisfying for one character to suggest using their skill so you switch to them and then another wanting to do a follow up and since each character fights a little differnt it helps keep things interesting
Best part of this game is random battle music
I love the battle theme for this game but just being able to randomly cycle through each past theme is amazing. I wish the main games did this without having to change costumes
Yep, I'm used to hear Persona 2 Enteral Punishment Battle music
Jus found that out. So good.. although wish I knew that after I beat the game haha
Still have to pay $10 if you didnt buy the digital deluxe, which isnt worth it
@@toooydoeur yeah definitely not worth $10, probably $5 at most but it's still fun.
Granted its only been 2 months but, p5s has to be my favorite game of this year
2 months? The games been out for like 2 weeks
@@rickw9291 i ment of the year. Like its only march, maybe something better may come along later in the year
i mean, it's technically a 2020 game, but i see what you mean
same....
...unless sega will release royal on pc
It’s such a fun game and seeing the Scooby gang together again is the best part
Haru is my favorite character to play in this game, especially after getting super armor from Master Arts. Honestly, playing a character I don't love and enjoying it gives me a new-found appreciation for them, and this is no exception.
Me too Haru has a lot of fun moves that that grendade launcher nice
"Hey Goro." Sophia said, not at you, but at Pancakes behind you holding a gun
How would the pancakes hold the trigger? Wait nevermind Loki is holding the gun.
Sophia's play style was actually my favorite. The sound effects and boosted damage from her command inputs were immensely satisfying for me, and learning them isn't too hard when you just have to get the timing down.
Plus she is a great healer almost as good a morganna
Maybe a little bit better than Morganna freemen since she knows bless moves which early on you don’t have any personas that know bless
I wonder, have you played fire emblem three hopes? Theres a couple characters with boosts to their effectts and attacks if timer properly. Tho people dont seem to like them
I'm glad that with the newer "Warriors-styled," spin-offs by Koei Tecmo they seem to be pulling in a ton of gameplay elements from their home series in order to keep the combat fresh and give it extra depth. I think this is most evident when comparing the original Hyrule Warriors to Age of Calamity, wherein the original felt like mindless button-mashing, added elements from Breath of the Wild like the flurry rush, Sheikah Slate, and elemental rods bring a level of depth and strategy that manages to stave off the normal Warriors fatigue that I would get with these games. Strikers does this and more by not only bringing in a ton of elements from the original game like Personas, All-Out-Attacks, Showtimes, etc. but also by directly continuing the story as a sequel. It really does feel like if they pushed the concept a little farther, it could almost feel like a mainline game. One with a more ARPG setup, but still.
apparently the style of the game is based on what P5 was originally pitched as, a road trip encountering palaces so they may have already had many of the story beats ready before even making the game.
18:30 I felt the same way about this with regaining hp and sp. I found a lot of the time whenever I’d get to a check point I’d leave the jail to heal and go right back in. I feel like if u can save and go to the velvet room at check points u should be able to just heal at them too to save time.
Maybe they did it that way to make it more challenging like”yeah you can heal at any checkpoints but all the enemies will respawm tho”
@@cringeybydefault4151 That can be easily remedied by having an option in the menu that will heal and respawn the enemies.
Right now, just going back out and coming back in to do this breaks the pacing of the game.
I really enjoy Strikers. Unlike Persona 5 or Royal, I did take more breaks as I didnt want to wear myself out as the combat system can get much sometimes if you play for longgg periods of time non-stop. While I do miss a lot of the characters and the social systems, I found the writing and combat to be great enough to help this burns. My next hope for Persona overall is some remasters/remakes for Playstation alongside more news about future titles/content and given they've promised it for this year's 25th anniversary, I can say I am so excited! Thank you for the amazing video and stay amazing!
I PRAY for 1 and 2 to get remakes. I’ve been scrounging for days on getting persona 2 but got nothing
@@bigdingus9333 I agree 100%. I feel like with those games, a remake would be amazing. Seeing a truly update version of the original 2 games would be dream worthy x
@@lillybareham1257 I wish they'd atleast update the battle system in 1 and 2 because they're honestly really easy
Wait, 2021 is their 25th anniversary as well? Is this gonna be the Year of the Anniversaries?
@@acedetective9542 Well if they do Persona 1 & 2 ports, they will most likely be full on remakes so I see the battle system getting updated
I finished P5R about 10 days before Strikers so it was perfect,helped with my withdrawal. Just finished Strikers and I feel a little empty RN, but the whole Persona Journey has been great. I'm so jealous about the new fanbase that will know the persona franchise through strikers, I wished I had first played strikers because all of the reference to the original P5, and then get playing the original to know the main story, how they met, the references they made, that would have been awesome. Loved the game, love the franchise, loved the video.
Play it again fam!!! Shiiiiiddddd Im gonna too once Im done today! I love this series so much!!!
I played original P5 and now am just about to finish strikers. I remember the dread that came over me upon my realisation that I was about to be saying goodbye to some awesome characters and wouldn’t get to experience being a phantom thief or doing random stuff with the gang anymore. I was sad any time I thought about persona 5 for about 3 months, than this game came out, and I played it. I didn’t think I’d get reattached to the characters and I didn’t think I’d care for the new characters, but I did... I’m sad it’s over and I have more than 80 hours in Strikers. Why do Persona games do this to us? Lol
You should definitely play persona 4 golden then. I played both p5 and strikers, and found p4 insanely more enjoyable, not taking away the two other games' fantastic qualities of course.
@@toshirobozdogan2207 Same, P4 just has much better characters
@@toshirobozdogan2207 thanks!
I never even knew sophie’s attacks needed to be timed when she caught the yoyo’s
it's one of master arts i guess
by default her attacks get more powerful when you just press the special button
It tells you that the first time you control her tho
Sophia and Zenkichi are both my favorites awakenings in this whole series
Glad I'm not the only one. I was playing it thinking "oh shit wait is she about to awaken her persona?!"
I actually really liked zenkichi nice to see an adult helping them and a cop no less
Fusion loop from Jack-o-latern and Pixie back to Jack-o-latern is honestly the best way to rack up Persona Points (PP). That and working up to 99 stats. 🙃
Can we just mention that Zenkichi and Sophie had AMAZING awakenings
I have similar opinions of the party members, and yeah, I barely used Sophia, but I had her in the party a lot. She's easily the best healer.
Also I really like how Zenkichi is different from all other Persona users in the modern games. His being an adult lets them talk about so much more than just another high school student, and I hope we get more adult Persona users in the future.
btw the "thiefs challenge" quests are insanely annoying because they are so tedious. One mistake, and you gotta head to the nearest checkpoint, leave, start the quest once more, and try to make it half way through the dungeon flawlessly again.
Imo they were all pretty easy. Only one I failed once was the Osaka one. If you think some enemies might spot you, just shoot them from the distance. Since if you innitiate the fight, it doesn't count as you being spottet. Only annoying part is, if you have to go somewhere where it has searchlights, namely Osaka, but luckiely it gives 2 ways you can get to the demanded point, one avoids the searchlights, not sure anymore about the other jails, but like mentioned Osaka was the only one I failed once, while I felt the others were pretty much free.
yees the most tedious quest and after you have done it the checkpoint to back felt so far away, I could be wrong but you could save in between checkpoints during the challenge so if you fail just reload from the last checkpoint
They weren’t that hard at all or just save at every checkpoint and reload the save instead of starting all the way over
Healing items are pretty broken in this game, as long as you buy enough each time you leave the dungeons, you can just spam recovery items at any time by pausing, I beat the final optional boss by spamming persona skills, recovering sp and hp to max with items and repeating as I had no need to conserve items any more
I would just say cooking is busted in this game, like the Leblanc curry is available during the Sendai Jail. All of its ingredients are all in Sendai so you can easily spam it until you get 99. This make going through Jail in one go kind of easy but dear god if it isn’t necessary for mercilessly mode.
Crab hot pot is op.
I only needed to reseve to this on merciles tho because of those stupid orbs in the final boss.
Yeah he wasn’t that bad not as bad as I thought he would be
I've already played and beaten this so spoilers don't bother me but man, I feel like talking about Alice and the Trauma Cell is a bit more than a "minor spoiler".
Yes it is because first dungeon is the tutorial dungeon
It's like telling people about the calling card of kamoshida
@@Honest-King KAMOSHIDA GETS A CALLING CARD?!
For legal reasons this is a joke.
@@SkotKozB5 wait kamoshida is bad guy?
Also joke
@@EN-mh4og There’s a character named Kamoshida in the game?
Also also a joke.
I hate all 3 of you
12:17Sophia fixes this issue on her own. Her gun pulls all enemies.
You can even spam the attack to lock all enemies in one spot.
So about The level requirement on personas this is actually in p3 and p5 It's just that all Persona's can be made without lvl up persona's but if your persona is to high You can get different results. You usually dont see this in normal gameplay only if you do things like protagonists persona only And have a look at the list of fusions.
Thank you for that correction! I genuinely had no idea that this was a thing.
It’s also on SMT and first personas too iirc
lol I just deleted my post regarding this topic after seeing it was already addressed but I just wanted to say I'm very confident that this is a thing in Persona 4 and Persona 4 Golden as well. Maybe it's just that Strikers makes it much more apparent and people just assumed that this was a new thing because this is the first time this aspect is in your face.
I agree that a lot of the flaws in Strikers are pretty minor, and it's still a pretty solid follow up. I was also partly worried that the combat would get a bit mindless after a while, which is par for the course if the past few crossover Warriors games are anything to base it on, but somehow it didn't quite feel that way, probably because it was broken up with a healthy amount of story content. Excellent video!
As someone who adores and plays kh as much as I do this game was made for me. I loved p5 and p5r,but an action rpg style that felt similar enough to kh allowed me to pick up on the combat very quickly and enjoyed every second of it.
Glad i wasnt the only one. My favorite thing to do was the spin attack on a lamp post like the Saw move with Flowmotion
Anyone saying this game isn't at least "moderately difficult" hasn't tried NG+ on Merciless yet. Holy fuck does Merciless go hard in this game. I expected NG+ to be a hot meme that I effortlessly stomp through with endgame-level personas like in P5R. I was wrong. I was very, VERY wrong.
Those dire shadows on merciless? Showed me that my mother indeed raised a bitch
Alice on Normal/Hard: Feast your eyes!
Alice on Merciless: Feast your eyes... on the pavement
@@esdeathsenpai5128 bro on my first run he take me 4 fucking days on hard 💀
@@af1199 The bosses in this game have zero chill
@@esdeathsenpai5128 right 💀😭
The best way to earn persona points is to make a fusion loop and continually use the same persona. Rozalin has an excellent video on how to use accumulated power and make any persona have 99 stats
Great vid as always, I recommend anyone that wants more of the game to start a game plus in merciless mode, the gameplay and the fusion mechanics start to make a lot more sense once on game +
It was so worth the wait for it to come out in the West.
there are phantom thieves outside my jail
@@cumekira70 lemme guess you tried to romance the twins?
@@onyourleft9273 never have and never will
_I'm not gonna lie, I beat the game and didn't notice until my Merciless mode run that Joker's affinities are shown above the skill select when holding R._
Another fantastic review from a fantastic TH-camr!
Freewebes
This video was very informative.I'm hoping that one day they'll do another enhanced version like what they did for Royal for strikers.
Sumire and Akechi for Royal Strikers? Possibly Maruki too? Shut up and take my money!
@@esdeathsenpai5128 yes i want all of them to come back too. And I have a feeling they'll all come back because knowing Atlas I don't think persona 5 is done yet.
Digital Devil Saga!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHH
Seriously though it is a great Duology. I beat both and I love both of those games to death. Great Vids!
Tip for people who play this: Try Sophia. Her bless damage is INSANE
My favorite part of the game was when I was playing as Wolf and then Tony Stark drew his laser sword, because I immediately thought “Zenkichi and this guy sword fighting would be boss asf to watch as a cinematic”
“I’ve been waiting for this”
This would have been so much better if your profile picture was Akihiko Sanada from persona 3
@FuckOuttaHere LMAO
Great Video! And looking forward to the digital devil saga video!
One thing...
Why does life will change play when you go to take on the monarch?
Sophia *is* a robot ai challenging them
I finished the game a few days after it’s release when I bought it, and it’s actually really good. I don’t usually play hack and slash gameplay but the gameplay was actually really good and I enjoyed going through the story with these characters and I’m so glad I didn’t spoil anything.
I actually just beat strikers last night and I super enjoyed it! I'm not big on turnbased RPGs, so I actually prefered the combat
What i love about this game is there is a character for everyone. Haru and ryuji are for people who love tanks, makoto and mona are god for people who love fast and agile characters, ann and sophie for people who like range, Yusuke and Wolf for people who like taking enemys out with one swing. And if none of those suit you, joker is a super basic character which is so nice for example: you fight shadow alice. You’ve never used ann and you want to fight alice with her since shes weak to fire. You can just be joker and mash sp attacks then once you learn his gun special just keep using that. The game is very ballanced and i found myself constantly switching parties to get a good team comp
SPOILERS, DICUSSING ZENKICHI ARC:
I personally really like Zenkichi in how he differs from Dojima, particularly because of how it affects their family. Nanako is a lot younger, so her concern is more personal in that she believes her father doesn't love her because she doesn't understand exactly what he really does or what he wants to do with regards to her mother.
Akane however is old enough to fully understand the exact reasons her father is rendered useless in finding out her mother's killer, and she resents both Zenkichi and the police because of that. I think that's a really interesting angle to approach that type of story from.
It feels like a bizarre combination of Nanako from P4 plus Futaba's palace from P5. I can't believe they pulled it off while still making it feel fresh, but I'm so glad they did.
Dojima I thought was gonna do this in p4g when his daughter was taken but its feels like they made up for that in this story to me...which I loved!!!
I guess I'm in the minority when it comes to difficulty then. I started the game on hard immediately. I've only just beat the first jail, but I've already learned that if you get hit once by an enemy skill and get knocked down, theres a good chance your battle ends right then and there.
@@sarethdarva well, p5s is the first of its kind that I've played, so I'm learning from square 1. I actually found the boss fight a bit easier than the
1 vs 1,000 bit before that, as I beat it first try, though 2 squadmates were down and all I had was a half dead Ryuji and an sp drained Sophia. I will say however that the 1 vs 1000 bit was much more satisfying, simply because once I got it down, I felt like fricken Neo.
I agree. I think the combat is a moderate-high difficulty. It's most likely that the loudest voices are a vocal minority that's very talented at this particular genre. There's no way most people find this game easy.
The biggest issues of Persona 5 are addressed here. That being that the Phantom Thieves don't feel as close as the Investigation Team and that the villains are too evil.
@@sarethdarva, Royal didn't. No.
Persona 5 strikers is best described as A sequel to Persona 5, it references events from og p5 its emotional music is Godlike and its message about finding your path during life hits home for me, i reccomend it 10/10 its honestly another masterpiece and i might prefer it over Persona 5 Story wise because its so good.
It’s technically a sequel to Royal considering that’ll be the canon version moving forward, but it’s true they didn’t account for that when developing this game so it makes sense.
@@Eudaimonia7564 , I myself and other huge fans of Persona thinks that there should be sequels after Strikers because Strikers seems to be more like a direct sequel to Persona 5 than Persona 5 Royals.
@@Eudaimonia7564 yep 100% true. Exactly like P4 arena where they don't mention a thing that happen in P4G. Atlus has 0 excuse to make an alternate timeline considering every persona game so far are canon
@@RoronoaZoro-ur6hr YES YES YES PLEASE. I would love that
What about the music my man? It just SLAPS!
I still really wish Yoshizawa was in this game. Don’t get me wrong, it’s still a great game, the story works fine without her, but it’s still incredibly sad to me that she missed her chance to become “one of the girls,” so to speak, so I’m afraid she will always end up feeling like an outsider.
*Yeah* I was actually surprised by that.
Granted she has her own life goals that she's achieving so I can get not showing up, but not a single mention whatsoever? Just feels weird.
@@izzy1356 It's because this game and Royal had the same development time, basically, and developing with a game in mind that hadn't come out yet could get messy. It's incredibly disappointing, but totally understandable, especially since the two games were being made in completely different studios.
This game was written while P5R was in development, so it makes sense. But in universe I'm pretty sure she doesn't even agree with the PT's methods, it'd make sense that she wouldn't wanna work with them outside of the one time she really had to and that's not even mentioning that she has her own goals to achieve.
@@skunthundler While you're not wrong, I do think it's important to remember that not only was the *Kasumi* who said that (if you know, you know), but also, she spent a lot of time with the Phantom Thieves since then, including their new year's party, so it's not unreasonable to think that she would want to come along on their fun summer road trip.
@@eclecticspaghetti My memory's a bit hazy, but weren't her thoughts and actions still pretty much Sumire? Wasn't she just actualized into believing that she was Kasumi?
One of my annoyances was wondering where Morgana's awakened persona was. At the end of Persona 5, Morgana's persona, Zorro, had awakened into Mercurius and the same was applied to the MC as he had Satanael at the end of Persona 5 but it's mysteriously gone as well.
Lavenza explained that the first or second time you talked to her.
The Metaverse collapsed after the defeat of... Yaldabaoth... Or whatever. The PTs couldn't even become PTs anymore, so it stands to reason their personas reset as well.
@allen harper ok, if you swallow that shit explanation, then another problem emerges: If metaverse collapsed and such, why phantoms kept original personas? Why not something new? Or another suits?
Another problem - persona upgrade came from character bond and growth. Sooo they regressed to state when they first met each other?
There is no way to get out of this thing, devs just fucked and used easiest "explanation" they could conjure out of their asses.
@@Kairax Ok... How 'bout this. They used the Personas everyone was most familiar with. I dunno man, I'm not a metaverse mechanic lol.
Great video as usual Nam! Loved it!
Persona 5 Scramble actually drove me to buy a PS4 and P5R lol
Good!
P5s “drove” you to buy the ps4. P5s is a game all about driving across the country. Heh
@@klankson757 my favorite place in Japan, PS4.
TY! and for not whining for it to be on switch😒..I bought a ps4 pro just to play p5R after playing p4g on steam....Im ALL IN!!!!
I've been a fan of Persona 5 and i've been wanting the original P5 to be playable on switch for the longest time but with the arrival of strikers, i got more than what i bargained for. I love how easy (technically speaking) it is to understand the combat system yet how nuanced it is to grasp the finer details of timing your combat execution. But the best part? The music and the roadtrip. It feels good to be not just be restricted to Tokyo but we get to join them and experience what is it like to be at at places like Sendai etc. Also, shoutout to the story writer for injecting humourous punchline at the right timing to elevate the dialogue cos if not it would have fallen flat to some of the more serious undertone at some point in the game.
I really love the character of Zenkichi. He digs in really well and I wish he honestly was a part of P5R.
I know he became my favorite character I wish you could play as. Him in p5r
The spin off sequel
Of the first game, which means it is not canon.
I think Zenkichi is the most interesting character! I never found myself playing as Sophie a lot.
actually the best way to get persona points is to do a fusion loop to make max stat personas
Koei tecmo has done incredibly good job with working along side the makers of these franchises to create games that respect the original but still retain the fast paced musou action rpg games...Age of Calamity is a good example of paying respects to Breath of the Wild but still going it's own direction. ..
Now just give me Persona 5 for PC that I can finally play this game as well!
So I got the game a few days ago and honestly it's been a blast. Sure they remove certain things but they include others that compensate and match better with the style of gameplay. The soundtrack amazing and the remixed ver of the old songs are heavenly. Zenkichi became my favorite character of all the Persona series, he's can be a goof and serious and his arc with the PT is just awesome. Definitely a must own!!
I admittedly loved strikers way more than p5. It was a nice balanced game. I'm on my 3rd playthrough attempting merciless and I'm still having a lot of fun
mom wake up Nam made a new video.
Seriously, my only complaint is that Morgana, Ryuji, and Futaba did not get as much development time as the rest of the party. Morgana and Ryuji especially were massively robbed important screentime
Morgana and Futaba I understand because Persona 5 was essentially home to their respective storylines. I’m disappointed that Ryuji wasn’t given more prominence in the Akira Arc, especially with how his backstory plays out which felt like a missed opportunity to really touch on Ryuji’s past and be something Sophie could learn from regarding the nature of how a spawn isn’t hereditarily linked to their creator with their own sense of freewill.
Only thing that bugged me is like, where the hell is Igor?
he's busy preparing for persona 6 duh
Difficult to include a character when it's JP VA is dead.
14:00 damn almost convinced me Akechi was in this game
I quite liked the "Have a persona of a certain level to make an alternate fusion path" system. It rewards the players who find a persona they like (Bicorn comes to mind but the revamped Arsene is there too) and assists a player who gets weird combos in an Accident. "Oh shit, what am I gonna do with this sudden high level Pixie? Oh, there's an altefnate fusion that lets me transfer this fusion's strength over to a higher level persona than Pixie's usual path." And with the accumulated power system, this game encourages a lot of fusing.
When I first heard about this I didn't even look at it because I thought it'd be a shitty slapped together spin off, I wasn't expecting a whole sequel and one I enjoyed the gameplay of more
I couldn't agree more, Strikers is way more than a spin off it's a sequel with different gameplay
I'm just glad my Bufu Boi got to eat food! :D #FeedYusuke
Great work as always!
I loved this game so damn much. It's one of the few I games I went full completionist on. Zenkichi and Sophia won me over practically instantly. Also nuclear gun Makoto just destroys everything. Also THE MUSIC IS FIRE!
Just beat the main game and now just watched your video. This game is fun and I’m glad I played it.
From when he was talking about needing the early Persona's at a super high level, yes you can do what he said about summoning your strongest Persona (in reality it's the Persona thats had the most levels and points into it but yes the higher level it was initially the better, for example a Yoshitsune would give you about 300,000 Persona Points, but maxing it's level and raising it's stats, I could now get 1,200,000 Persona points from it).
But I also think most of those Personas are supposed to be summoned after beating the game and going into NG+ as every enemy you run into will basically be level 99 past the second jail.
Merciless also definitely answers his disappointment to the games difficulty, as every enemy will be extremely powerful, and even a good chunk of the basic enemys can easily put you down. Their resistance also change, in the sense that their existing ones typically get buffed into nulls or absorbs, and new resistances are added all together. It is very easy to die In Merciless mode, especially if you don't have the right bond skills and equipment.
The only real way you can even cheese the system is by abusing Freeze, and using a technical physical build of some kind and the best way to do that is 2 end game personas those being Yoshitsune and Lucifer. As Freeze is incredibly broken simply because of how the fighting in the game works. Pair this with a special boss drop (The Grand Crystal) and Joker can super easily abuse the Freeze mechanic.
Outside of that, Merciless is exceptionally challenging while also not being impossible to complete and feeling unfair, most of the times you die in that mode, it's because you failed to dodge an enemies move or simply didn't have the team and affinities prepared to fight them. The game also hands out stat buffing items all the time to help your party members become stronger which is also very useful.
It also required me to use basically every party member, while also always keeping Zenkichi on the squad at all times, his buffs and debuffs as well as his passive skill were invaluable in Merciless.
But overall with the rest of the video, I agreed with him. I loved how this game felt like a true sequel and not just a spinoff for the sake of money.
I love that they got to use what they were originally planning for persona five that the phantom thieves, were originally going to travel the world and the combat of a map type thing
I’ve never been a fan of hack & slash games. But being a massive fan of the Persona/SMT games and beating almost all of them at least once, I wanted to try this game. I just got the platinum for Metaphor: Refantazio then went back and finished the platinum for Persona 4 Golden so now I have the Persona itch.
Thanks for this video it definitely opened my eyes to this game and am going to purchase it. Especially since it’s on sale for $18 on PS currently.
Frankly, I was almost ready to Hate this game when I first got the announcement. But lo and behold, Atlus surpassed my expectations yet again and gave us another great installment.
Thankfully by now people get it's not just a Musou game.
I played the japanese game when it came out and NOONE believed me.
Particularly here on youtube.
I dunno, to me it kinda just feels like Musou with extra steps. It’s still pretty fun though.
@@stoppilfering268 Glad to hear you like it despite "that". I have to admit it's a bit similar to Musou on the surface but to me it doesn't feel the same at all because of the focus on elemental combos and Persona attacks that reduce the button mashing considerably.
There's also no taking over enemy strongholds or anything like that.
Long story short, to me the only similarity is that there's lots of enemies on screen at once.
I consider it a full on sequel in a way.
Excuse my rambling.
Have a great day!
@@stoppilfering268 I beat it about a week and some change ago and I gotta say playing through it, the resemblance to a Musou game came really hard to make the more I played over my 51 hour playthrough.
It actually felt like a Persona ARPG. There aren't really huge maps or tons of enemies. Granted there are lots of mobs but they are more like clusters of small groups than huge battles. There's an emphasis on verticality and platforming and overall more clever and detailed level design than a traditional Musou game.
Good video. Watched it in the background while playing smash
So you are telling me that I could change Joker's persona midbattle? I finished the game today and I thought you could only do this outside of battles lmao.
I only started and I enjoyed it so far and boy I was surprised that it made it a sequel story wise
That was good analysis. Thank you.
"The Persona series is no stranger to spin-offs"
well, when you yourself are one you can't play incognito to the idea
I love this game and I’ve always hated dynasty warriors. Always thought it was boring asf. But this game is great and the combat doesn’t get boring. I love how it blends persona into everything and is a p5 sequel
In a way it feels less like a warrior game, and more like a test for a new Raidou game.
Which if you don't know, Atlus made other action RPGs back in the PS2 era within a different Shin Megami Tensei spin-off series called Devil Summoners. Raidou Kuzunoha even showed up as a cameo in the persona 5 manga, so its possible this could be a test for a new Raidou game. Would be pretty cool.
7:18 So the same story as Ryogi, Aigis, Teddy, and Morgana. Every one has to have THAT character.
I freaking loved this game, but I have to admit being a new fan who started royal made it weird when Sumire was just kind of… not there. If you have the patience for it, you’ll probably like it better if you play it after vanilla P5 but before royal
The best was to get persona points is by fusion loop's, this also lets you stack stat bonuses until you get a persona that has max stats
Can't wait until you get to Digital Devil Saga 1 and 2, those games are some of the best in the franchise.
The new fusion system is honestly pretty good it'll take like an hour or so fusing and fusing and fusing to make some good ones but once you get a few all 99 stat personas it becomes easy sailing, by merging the same persona over and over again, the results I mean, like you make a jack frost and merge that into something else and merge that and so on, they accumulate power, that power raises their stats, until eventually you are just making personas with 99s all around, there are guides with loop fusions of early personas, and from there you can just merge up until you have what you need, by doing this you also end up with a crap ton of pp to upgrade whatever you to whichever level you need I have like 50million from doing this alone, and once done you never need to repeat the process since by recording the 99s into the compendium they also keep their accumulated power for further fusions.
I saw the boss refight requests, as just a way to refight the bosses if you wanted to since the requests are repeatable and dont give anything vital even on your first go
As long as you are totally up to date on your compendium completion, there is never a fusion in the game that doesn't use personas at their default level.
dude i respect your opinion the requests are a little annoying but they can be fun
To be honest I really liked using Sophia. She was always on my team along with Ryuji, then the last slot was between Makoto, Haru, or Zenkichi. But I really liked Strikers! I would Recommend it to other people after playing P5 or P5R!
same i always had her as my primary healer, although that was mainly due to her being the new character, but i did like that a well timed button press can make her elemental attack hit three times instead of 1
DJ_ Skelex, I only used characters that weren’t Zenkichi, Sophie, and Joker in missions where it forces to me play as characters outside of my main party rooster, so you’re not the only person here that likes Sophie, Zenkichi, Joker, and Ryuji the most out of the entire Persona 5 Strikers cast.
Just on the persona fusion bit depending on the level of the earlier obtained persona it would alter what you make with fusion I believe it was essentially something like say there is 10 persona in the fool arcana if you get arsene to the ninth most level it would replace whatever was previously in the ninth slot and then that one would become the 10th slot not exactly how it works but something in that ballpark
Am I missing something?
The Ai of partners is abismall. I remember during the ALice boss fight she did the wheel attack, and my party were keep suiciding on her.
This was driving me nuts. Took me several hours to finish the boss practicaly solo.
I remember there were setting for behavior, but there was no on field command for it. Also bosses have like x3 more health then they need to.
I had bought this for the switch thinking it was just persoba 5 and found out its a sequel but I still love it
This was a genuinely emotionally breaking game for me.
I actually just started playing other games because the story and character affected me so much. I dove into Persona 4 as a result.
I recommend the Fusion loop, as I was able to get a 99 all Arsene. It was hilarious.
For fusion level requirements, it should be noted that until Bugs (level 53, a trash mob in one of the endgame dungeons) and Cerberus (the second bonus boss Persona) all Personas can actually be fused with base-level components, and levelling up is only required if you want to use lower-level Personas from the same Arcana. However, Bugs and many endgame Personas are ridiculous PP sinks that just serve to highligh the fact that the system is not properly balanced in the least.
What hurts this system more in my eyes is the small Compendium. While inevitable with the genre change, you may often find yourself lacking a Persona with the appropriate affinities for your current challenge, which is important because you need to keep SP usage in check and the Persona-specific combo finishers are not customizable. This isn't a problem in mainline, where an inherited ability is just as useful as an innate one, but in Strikers having a Fire-on-paper Persona using Bufu finishers and no actual Fire Persona in sight can cause you to hold on to your old ones a tad too long, while seeing two Nuke Personas appear one after the other is very disappointing.
And also, while on the subject of overlevelling low-level Personas, when I first saw Arsene's move list not deplete around level 8 I thought they were actually going to acknowledge the Wild Card's first Persona in gameplay properly. But no, he still has regular Exp. scaling (making levelling him up unmanageable) and his stats suck. I really would like them to follow up on this, so that whenever P6 comes around the starter can stay relevant-but-not-oppressive throughout. I think the roots for this idea are solid: one Persona cannot develop a skill set wide enough to do everything you need, and the starter affinities are nothing to write home about. Just have some special rules that allow it to stay levelled but not snowball (e.g. make it take as much Exp. to level as the Protag, but cap any empowerment mechanic to not exceed Protag level) and you can make a fully functional, well cycling Wild Card while giving their iconic main Persona proper exposure.
I only really have one issue with the the writing and it first occurs really early on. The "Ryuji doesn’t know what an AI is joke" made me worried about the writing, while the game eventually proved me wrong, I had put off strikers because I was worried they would butcher a lot of the characters.
I was afraid everyone was going to lean Cartoonishly hard into thier shtick for the main game, and while there are moments where does happen a little here and there it's not irritating or annoying.