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TapTap released a new trailer for Persona 5: The Phantom X, but what exactly is this game?

July 10, 2023 • lyndonguitar • Category: Review

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Persona 5: The Phantom X is a Mobile and PC spin-off of the mainline Persona game, Persona 5.

Main Features

🟩Anime-inspired art style and smooth cel-shaded graphics

🟩Combat system includes traditional JRPG turn-based mechanics

🟩Characters can summon powerful Persona beings with unique abilities

🟩Balance between daily life activities like going to school, and battling monsters in the Metaverse

Story and Setting

🟩Introduces a new protagonist and new roster of characters

🟩Set in Japan, allowing players to explore the protagonist’s high school life and the supernatural realm called the Metaverse

🟩Own standalone story, doesn’t require you to have played other Persona games

Gameplay model

🟩Free-to-play with live service and gacha elements.

🟩The animations, skins, and weapons are all part of the gacha system

🟩Personas can still be acquired from normal gameplay and are different from gacha-obtained Personas

🟩Characters from other Persona series can appear as Cognitive Manifestations, basically a handwave explanation of how these characters can appear in this game.

Original link
Originally posted on TapTap.

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