Is this game good?

[Dylan]

Was going to buy P5 becuase it is on sale and I love P4 then thought about buying this game. it looks like an action game like DMC does it play like DMC and is it worth buying?

[Reaper]

This is a sequel to P5 so you'd need to buy and play Royal first. Also, yes. It plays like DMC but with personas thrown into the mix.

[Bankai9212]

Correction it plays like a dynasty warriors game with persona 5 based mechanics.

[VBro96]

I love it. My only issue is personal. I don't like action games that allow you to pause gameplay at any time just to heal. This game is all about it, and there isn't a quicker way to search for a specific effect in your items. I have to pause the awesome gameplay for about 20 seconds to find a single cure item or something. The items are great for the turn based Royal but they brought that into this action game and it annoys me.
Love the game though. Play Royal first. I can't say its like DMC though. Its like dynasty warriors

[Douchebag Extraordinaire]

Definitely worth it, especially if you love the characters and the settings. It feels like a natural step in terms of gameplay, a lot of the Persona mechanics are still there such as elemental effectiveness, all out attacks, persona collecting, stats, etc.

Every character plays differently in the game and have a combat "theme" that drastically changes the feel of characters. For example, Haru hits hard and heavy, so her attacks are slower, but once she starts attacking, she has so much momentum that each combo finisher basically ends up with her using spin to win style attacks plus she has the ability to have infinite ammo on her grenade launcher while Ann has longer reach and her fire based attacks add a ton of DoT. Being able to choose any character in your team (can be changed any time outside of battle) really adds a lot of variety to the battles.

There are some combat mechanics that have similar feel to DMC like some delay attack combos and some aerials but it's not as fancy since it focuses more on playing as a team and the RPG stuff with the Personas. It's more streamlined but not dumbed down, so stuff like buffs and debuffs (CC in higher difficulties) are still important but it's not as grindy as the mainline stuff.

[Alt0153]

if you havent bought p5 or p5r first do that

[Coffee]

Originally posted by chad:

Was going to buy P5 becuase it is on sale and I love P4 then thought about buying this game. it looks like an action game like DMC does it play like DMC and is it worth buying?

It's pretty great, finish royal first tho because not only will there be many references and callbacks, it also pretty much spoils the entire game frequently

[fuggles2k]

It's nothing like persona actual and personally I find the gameplay to be trash. Social side has been neutered, there's no time management, you heal by leaving a dungeon and then going immediately back in.

It's quite clever how they have got the persona mechanics into the game, but god grief is it a tedious experience. I may finish it as I like persona but it's clearly going to be a slog of holding forward and mashing x.

[Firehawk]

Originally posted by Reaper:

This is a sequel to P5 so you'd need to buy and play Royal first. Also, yes. It plays like DMC but with personas thrown into the mix.

No. This isn't a sequel. It's a fan disk or a spin-off, but definitely not a sequel. It's also ♥♥♥♥ for multiple reasons, including, but not limited to the drastically changed gameplay, gutted velvet room stuff, missing characters like Akechi, unfixed engine bugs that make the game unplayable unless you look for third party tools, unresponsive keyboard and the list goes on. So no, this game is not good.

[OkaMeow]

I like it. To me its a good game. Had alot of playtime and combat was pretty fun. People are mostly nitpicking.

[Vali Riversong]

Originally posted by Firehawk:

Originally posted by Reaper:

This is a sequel to P5 so you'd need to buy and play Royal first. Also, yes. It plays like DMC but with personas thrown into the mix.

No. This isn't a sequel. It's a fan disk or a spin-off, but definitely not a sequel. It's also ♥♥♥♥ for multiple reasons, including, but not limited to the drastically changed gameplay, gutted velvet room stuff, missing characters like Akechi, unfixed engine bugs that make the game unplayable unless you look for third party tools, unresponsive keyboard and the list goes on. So no, this game is not good.

It's a sequel to standard Persona 5, not Royal. This and Royal were in development at the same time so they didn't have the Royal plot to work on.

[Firehawk]

Originally posted by Vali Riversong:

Originally posted by Firehawk:

No. This isn't a sequel. It's a fan disk or a spin-off, but definitely not a sequel. It's also ♥♥♥♥ for multiple reasons, including, but not limited to the drastically changed gameplay, gutted velvet room stuff, missing characters like Akechi, unfixed engine bugs that make the game unplayable unless you look for third party tools, unresponsive keyboard and the list goes on. So no, this game is not good.

It's a sequel to standard Persona 5, not Royal. This and Royal were in development at the same time so they didn't have the Royal plot to work on.

Fair enough, though it's not a sequel, it's a spin-off. Not only that, it's also a watered up crap missing most of the fun stuff Persona 5 had, while giving unbearable stuttering on high-end rigs because the game runs like ♥♥♥♥ (♥♥♥♥ YOU DENUVO). I very much regret every buying this piece of crap.

[Vali Riversong]

Originally posted by Firehawk:

Originally posted by Vali Riversong:

It's a sequel to standard Persona 5, not Royal. This and Royal were in development at the same time so they didn't have the Royal plot to work on.

Fair enough, though it's not a sequel, it's a spin-off. Not only that, it's also a watered up crap missing most of the fun stuff Persona 5 had, while giving unbearable stuttering on high-end rigs because the game runs like ♥♥♥♥ (♥♥♥♥ YOU DENUVO). I very much regret every buying this piece of crap.

It's a spin off but it's also a sequel as it's a canonical continuation of the story. It can be both. As for the gameplay I thought it was very fun and enjoyable.

[Firehawk]

Originally posted by Vali Riversong:

Originally posted by Firehawk:

Fair enough, though it's not a sequel, it's a spin-off. Not only that, it's also a watered up crap missing most of the fun stuff Persona 5 had, while giving unbearable stuttering on high-end rigs because the game runs like ♥♥♥♥ (♥♥♥♥ YOU DENUVO). I very much regret every buying this piece of crap.

It's a spin off but it's also a sequel as it's a canonical continuation of the story. It can be both. As for the gameplay I thought it was very fun and enjoyable.

It can't be canonical because that would assume Royal isn't, since P5R had a third semester with a storyline that continues after Christmas and is built on the events at the end of the second, with important events and storylines (one of which is a romance where the girl confesses her feelings). Since this makes Royal the canon ending, it means Strikes can't be a sequel because it ignores all of those events. Which means Strikes can only be a spinoff at most, and not a very good one.

As for the gameplay, it's honestly a chore. In P5(R) you actually had to think over your strategy and make use of the game mechanics to proceed, especially with the bosses, but here? Button mashing is more than enough if you're not planning on doing a Merciless difficulty playthrough (and that's just masochism on anyone's part who wants to do it).

[Vali Riversong]

Originally posted by Firehawk:

Originally posted by Vali Riversong:

It's a spin off but it's also a sequel as it's a canonical continuation of the story. It can be both. As for the gameplay I thought it was very fun and enjoyable.

It can't be canonical because that would assume Royal isn't, since P5R had a third semester with a storyline that continues after Christmas and is built on the events at the end of the second, with important events and storylines (one of which is a romance where the girl confesses her feelings). Since this makes Royal the canon ending, it means Strikes can't be a sequel because it ignores all of those events. Which means Strikes can only be a spinoff at most, and not a very good one.

As for the gameplay, it's honestly a chore. In P5(R) you actually had to think over your strategy and make use of the game mechanics to proceed, especially with the bosses, but here? Button mashing is more than enough if you're not planning on doing a Merciless difficulty playthrough (and that's just masochism on anyone's part who wants to do it).

5 and Royal are separate timelines in a sense, since both Strikers and Tactica are canonical, with Strikers canonical to 5 and Tactica to Royal. Every entry in the Persona series is canonical, from the dancing games, to the different versions, to even FeMC's existance(her timeline canonically exists as seen in Q2, but her route isn't the canon used in the canon of 3)

[Firehawk]

Originally posted by Vali Riversong:

Originally posted by Firehawk:

It can't be canonical because that would assume Royal isn't, since P5R had a third semester with a storyline that continues after Christmas and is built on the events at the end of the second, with important events and storylines (one of which is a romance where the girl confesses her feelings). Since this makes Royal the canon ending, it means Strikes can't be a sequel because it ignores all of those events. Which means Strikes can only be a spinoff at most, and not a very good one.

As for the gameplay, it's honestly a chore. In P5(R) you actually had to think over your strategy and make use of the game mechanics to proceed, especially with the bosses, but here? Button mashing is more than enough if you're not planning on doing a Merciless difficulty playthrough (and that's just masochism on anyone's part who wants to do it).

5 and Royal are separate timelines in a sense, since both Strikers and Tactica are canonical, with Strikers canonical to 5 and Tactica to Royal. Every entry in the Persona series is canonical, from the dancing games, to the different versions, to even FeMC's existance(her timeline canonically exists as seen in Q2, but her route isn't the canon used in the canon of 3)

That's... a really confusing setting. "Everything is canon" is just ridiculous, because it makes continuity impossible for future games.