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• • Release •: September 15, 2016 • WW: April 4, 2017, Mode(s) Persona 5 is a developed by for and. Persona 5 is chronologically the sixth installment in the series, which is part of the larger franchise. Published by Atlus in Japan and North America and by in Europe and Australia, the game was released first in Japan in September 2016, and worldwide in April 2017. Persona 5 takes place in, and follows the player-named protagonist after his transfer to the fictional Shujin Academy after being put on probation for an assault of which he was falsely accused.

During the course of a school year, he and other students awaken to their Persona powers, become masked vigilantes dubbed the 'Phantom Thieves of Hearts', and explore the supernatural Metaverse realm to steal ill intent from the hearts of adults. As with previous titles in the series, the party does battle with supernatural enemies using manifestations of their psyche called Personas. The game incorporates role-playing elements and alongside scenarios. Preparatory work began around the same time as the development of, with full development beginning after the release of in 2011. Returning prominent staff from previous games included director and producer Katsura Hashino, character designer, and composer. The game's themes revolved around attaining freedom from the limitations of modern society; the story was strongly inspired by, and the party's initial Personas were based around the theme of outlaws and rebels. First announced in 2013, the game was delayed from its original late 2014 release date so its quality could be further improved.

Media adaptations and video game spin-offs have been developed. The game went on to sell over two million copies worldwide, making it the best-selling entry in the Megami Tensei franchise. Persona 5 was met with critical acclaim, with many calling it one of the greatest role-playing games of all time. See also: Persona 5 is a game where the player takes on the role of a high school student who lives out a single year while attending high school in: the game is governed by a day-night cycle and weather systems that determine general behavior similar to a. The year is punctuated by both scripted and random events — the protagonist attends school, can go to part-time jobs within Tokyo, and pursue leisure activities or create items for use in other areas of the game.

These various activities raise character attributes, which in turn grant passive effects during battle. When in the real world, the main protagonist can develop character relationships dubbed Confidant; an evolution of the Social Link system from and.

With this system, the main protagonist can converse with and improve his relationship with other characters he meets, with some leading to possible romances. Each relationship is symbolized by one of the, and each Confidant link grants different boosts to the character: all party members character eventually learn Baton Pass, which allows the player to change to another character after a critical hit while granting a temporary stat boost, while others improve Negotiation abilities, XP gain, or give access to new items and equipment. The protagonist conducts two alternating lives: a normal life involving going to school (top), and quests into the otherworldly Palaces to fight Shadows (bottom) Alongside the normal school life is of two different dungeon types within a realm called the Metaverse: story-specific dungeons called Palaces and randomly-generated Mementos dungeons both populated by Shadows, manifestations of suppressed psyches. Within Mementos dungeons, the party can fulfill requests from non-playable characters (NPCs) received from a Confidant links.

While navigating, the party uses stealth to avoid the sight of enemy Shadows, and some areas hold puzzles that can be solved using an insight ability dubbed 'Third Eye', which highlights interactable objects and enemy strength, When exploring story-centered Palaces, an 'Alertness Meter' is present, where the party being spotted or fleeing combat results in security being raised. If security becomes too high, the party is forced to leave the Palace.

The Alertness level can be lowered by launching surprise attacks on and eliminating enemies. As with previous entries in the series, the game uses a combat system: battles can be initiated when the party runs into an enemy, or they can launch a surprise attack and gain an advantage in battle. In battle, the party has access to long-range and short-range weapons, in addition to being able to summon Personas.

Personas, the manifestations of the main characters' inner psyche, are summoned through the mask each character wears. Beginning with an initial Persona, the party uses elemental, physical and magical attacks: most enemies have a particular weakness. If a character strikes an enemy's weak point, they are awarded an additional turn and knock down the enemy.

When all enemies are knocked down, a 'Hold Up' session is triggered. During Hold Up, the party can launch a devastating All-Out Attack, demand money or items, or enter Negotiation. Negotiation allows the protagonist to win the selected Shadow over to their side to become a new Persona: they can only be persuaded if the protagonist is of the right level and has sufficient room in their roster.

If a party member is knocked out, they can be captured by the enemy Shadows, and will be unable to return to the party if the resultant Negotiation fails. Similar to previous entries, party members can be knocked out, and if the main character is knocked out, the player immediately loses. New Personas are gained from battle through successful Negotiation, and different Persona types are represented through different arcana linked to Confidant links.

Personas can in be combined, or 'fused,' and further manipulated within the Velvet Room, a realm the protagonist visits as part of his journey through the story where he can also accept side quests. Within the Velvet Room, Personas can be fused with 'Guillotine' fusion processes, with the resultant Persona inheriting skills and stats from its parents. The more skills a Persona has, the more are passed on to the fused Persona. How powerful Personas are through fusion depends on how advanced its associated Confidant link is. In addition, Personas can be sacrificed in various ways, also styled after styles of capital punishment: 'Hanging' grants a sacrificed Persona's experience points to another chosen Persona, and 'Electric Chair' sacrifices one to create a high-end item. A Persona can also be sent into 'Solitary Confinement', where they undergo intensive training and gain additional skills quicker than normal.

The number of days a Persona must remain to gain strength lessens based on its arcana strength. Minor multiplayer elements are incorporated into the game through the 'Thieves Guild' network. Similar to the 'Vox Populi' system from Persona 4 Golden, players can use the in-game SNS app to communicate both with in-game characters and other players via. Players can send messages to each other about what activities they have performed, in addition to affecting the Alertness meter in the player's favor and aiding in battle when a party member is taken hostage. Synopsis [ ] Setting and characters [ ]. • ^ Campbell, Kyle (June 20, 2016).. From the original on June 23, 2016.

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I've been teaching myself some Japanese for a bit and although I haven't learned very much, I am still loving it. My motivation for learning Japanese is career/entertainment oriented. I love video games, and there are many titles that are never ported over to North America or the PAL region, so the only options to play them are to get someone else to translate the entire game for you, or just do the translating yourself. I'm going for the latter.

I'd like to ultimate work in the gaming industry, possibly in journalism (writing about games, reviews, previews, and the like). Obviously I'm not going to learn all that I need to read over night. I've gotten down all hiragana and am starting on katakana (I'm starting to learn some kanji as well). I don't know enough grammar to structure anything beyond 'Hello,' 'Nice to meet you,' and 'ビデオガームがすきます。' What I'd like help with is this: what common words are used in games, what sort of ideas I should be familiar with, what key grammar points should I absolutely learn, are there any simple games I could try to help build my Japanese, and any other points that might be vital to my success. I should probably also mention that the specific type of games I am interested in are RPGs, the ones with rather in depth story lines.

So if you have no idea what video games usually are like, I can deal with vocabulary and grammar usually associated with fairy tales and medieval chivalry stories. Stuff like that is somewhat close to RPGs. Hi JackiJinx! Video games are good motivation for learning Japanese They were one of the things that initially got me interested in Japanese, so I can definitely see where you are coming from. I will warn you though, that it will require a lot of time and effort, especially for RPGs.

The text found in RPGs is loaded with kanji and vocabulary you don't hear everyday (which you know, I'm sure) - you will need to give reading high priority in your studies if you want to be able to understand these kinds of games. Especially the kanji.! That's probably what you should focus on the most. As for vocabulary, I found these handy lists of video game vocabulary: and.

I found these through a quick search on Google (I knew they had to exist!) so if you look around you might find some more! As for simple games, if you can I'd try getting a copy of something geared towards kids like Pokemon in Japanese. I can't remember if they even use kanji or not - but once you have all of the hiragana and katakana down it'll make for good reading practice and will get you used to playing through a video game in Japanese. I hope this helps Feel free to ask any more questions - I recently played all the way through my first RPG in Japanese (FF4) and made it out alive Oh, and one more thing: I like video games = テレビゲームがすきです。. It's hard to really target your learning, especially in this regard.

The thing about RPGs is that they draw from a much wider pool than most other things do. You'll be swapping around between casually talking about the weather, to giving keigo-filled speaches to the king, to reading magic incantions and ancient scrolls written in mock old Japanese, to learning about battle strategies and political maneuverings, to listening to knights/samurai speaking in a different kind of mock old Japanese, to having to deal with that one old guy who speaks some bizzare made-up dialect, to. Well, absolutely whatever else. Your knowledge just needs to be pretty broad (and people think video games rot our brains!). So, read a lot. And start playing games in Japanese.

Nothing will prepare you for playing Japanese RPGs like actually just playing Japanese RPGs. Jump into some of the lighter ones (as long as they're still entertaining) and get a feel for things. Don't worry about missing a little (or a lot). One problem with video games as opposed to certain other mediums is that they invariable do not have furigana, so unless you actually want to sit there and manually search for every unfamiliar character you find, you're just going to have to take a deep breath and let a lot of it go. You'll learn a lot anyway.

Consider playing games you already know and enjoy, so that you're not stressing about not understanding, and already know what to do. Focus on what you do understand rather than what you don't. As a beginner, this will mostly be inter-character dialogue, and not a lot of the plot-related exposition. I'm near the end of FF9 myself, actually. That game's cutscene/gameplay ratio is ridiculously skewed to the former! But I'm not complaining; that's why I picked it. I have mentioned Barry Farber's approach before on the forum, but maybe you'll find it useful for videogames.

He suggests going through a newspaper in your target language. Pick a story and read it. Highlight anything you don't understand with a big highlighter pen. Then use dictionaries, friends, phrasebooks, grammar books - anything - to translate these bits, and put them on flashcards, and use those flashcards to learn it all. Eventually you'll be highlighting less and less and understanding more and more.

I think you could easily adapt this to Japanese videogames. Just pick a game that uses lots of dialogue box text instead of cut-scenes, and use SRS flashcard software such as Anki. It will be laborious at first, but gradually the process will speed up. And the advantage of this method is that it takes care of word frequency: If there are words that come up again and again in videogames you will learn them more quickly because you'll be using them all the time.

Ganbatte kudasai! Tons and tons of games for the SNES use full blown kanji, particularly RPGs. If you're first starting out, though, you might try something like Zelda 3, which uses plenty of kanji but is light enough on text not to be so overwhelming. Still, to do just about anything you're going to have to draw a line between enjoyment and comprehension-- if you try to learn everything, your progress will be so slow that you'll cease enjoying the game. If you speed through and ignore much, you won't learn. What I've been doing is writing down every word I don't understand into a text file, which at some point down will be added to my anki study deck-- there's no huge concern about memorizing it (or even reviewing it) at the time I encounter it, so that keeps the enjoyment level up.

Still, it is certainly not easy. And for fun: Though I'm hardly well versed in old titles, Rockman 4 is one of the few Famicom (NES) titles that I've seen that uses kanji in regular game text. I personally could not give you much direction for your studies but I did find a neat tool on itunes for use with the iPhone and iPod Touch if your interested. The tool is called 'Kotoba!' And it is a 'multilingual dictionary based on Jim Breen's JMdict' (that's what the splash screen for the app states). You may be able to use it when u get stuck on something you don't know, I know since I found it I've just started randomly looking words up.

Using the traditional Chinese keyboard you can even try to enter the kanji characters (have to turn it on from iPod settings).