There’s a sense of community created with the members of the Phantom Thieves (your party and friends) who all feel like outcasts in society or from their own families. There are no punches pulled and it is impressive to see certain sensitive subjects dealt with such care here. You get to see how success and failure change certain characters you thought you knew well and how things like suicide and abuse change others. Not only are things taken a step further thematically here, but the way the story and overarching narrative come together really impressed me. While the plot in previous entries has been mature, the overall feel has sort of evened things out. Given how this is a singleplayer experience and the story plays a major part in the experience, I’m not going to spoil anything. After Persona Q, it is great to see Igor back. You serve as an inmate in a prison with Caroline and Justine serving as wardens with Igor calling the shots.
This is even reflected into the Velvet Room that is a place that exists between dreams and reality. You’re actually serving probation in a new city and in a new high school after a tiff with the law previously. You play as a high school student, but there’s a twist. Safe to say, the busy streets of Tokyo through the likes of Akihabara and Shibuya are super fun to explore with the strikingly gorgeous art style displayed here. Many are unlocked through story segments and side activities. Instead of being restricted to a more rural setting like in Persona 4, you have the big city of Tokyo and various districts within at your disposal. The developers at Atlus have outdone themselves in every way with this JRPG masterpiece. I’ve put in more than 130 hours across one main play-through and a bit of messing around with previous saves, and none of that was even remotely not amazing. Being the sixth main numbered entry in the Persona series, not only is Persona 5 accessible to newcomers but there’s so much to love for fans of both mainline Persona and mainline Shin Megami Tensei games here. Having skipped the last home console generation aside from the lovely Catherine, Atlus is back with Persona 5 on both PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3.
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