Persona 5 Royal
Live as a Tokyo student and Phantom Thief, building relationships that support your heists while exploiting enemy weaknesses to gain additional attacks inside distorted mental worlds.
- AI score · out of 10
- 9.3 / 10
About this game
Persona 5 Royal follows a Tokyo student who also operates as a Phantom Thief. School life and after-school activities sit alongside infiltrations into Palaces, otherworldly spaces reflecting corrupt people's distorted perceptions. Steal their treasures to make them reform, while deciding which relationships and everyday activities to pursue. Bonds with confidants provide practical benefits for your thief activities. In combat, hitting weaknesses can knock enemies down and produce an additional attack, making the choice of target and attack relevant to maintaining your advantage. Optional requests lead into Mementos, whose layout changes between visits. Royal adds characters and story material to Persona 5, while selectable difficulty and safe rooms offer ways to approach its battles and save your progress.
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A promising fit for players who want relationships to matter alongside tactical combat choices.
Confidant benefits connect everyday encounters to the heist side, potentially making social investment feel purposeful. Weakness-triggered extra attacks offer a separate decision loop, while school activities and optional dungeon requests ask for interest in more than battles alone.
Strengths
- Relationship benefits could give character encounters a practical role in progression.
- Weakness-triggered additional attacks reward attention to combat choices.
Weaknesses
- Players mainly interested in fighting may find the school-life portions a diversion from their preferred activity.
Who it is for: Players who enjoy character relationships, alternating daily-life activities and dungeon objectives, and choosing attacks around enemy weaknesses.
View scoring basis
| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension Alternating school activities, Palace objectives and optional requests could provide variety, provided the player enjoys switching between those interests. | Reviewed | 9.3 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension The relationship bonuses and weakness system give social choices and combat decisions distinct ways to influence the heist experience. | Reviewed | 9.3 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Placing ordinary student life beside worlds shaped by distorted perceptions could make the Phantom Thief identity feel meaningfully separate. | Reviewed | 9.5 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Difficulty selection without a different story and designated save rooms give story-focused players concrete ways to manage their approach. | Reviewed | 8.8 / 10 | Not provided |
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Core information
- Release date
- Oct 21, 2022
- Platforms
- Nintendo Switch
- Content kind
- Game
- Release state
- Released
- Region
- Worldwide
- Official website
- Not provided
- Offline minimum players
- Not provided
- Offline maximum players
- Not provided
- Online minimum players
- Not provided
- Online maximum players
- Not provided
- Categories
- Role-Playing · Primary genre
- Tags
- Third PersonRomanceTurn-based CombatLevel ProgressionStory-drivenSchool LifeSupernaturalBranching ChoicesMain Story 100 Hours or More
- Supported game languages
- Not provided
- Requires base game
- Not provided
- Standalone
- Not provided
- Age ratings
- Not provided
- Play modes
- Single player
- Perspectives
- Third person
Release editions
- Windows PCWorldwideOct 21, 2022
- PlayStation 5WorldwideOct 21, 2022
- Nintendo SwitchWorldwideOct 21, 2022
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Sources
- www.nintendo.comSource revision: 1
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