For the game industry, "Persona 5" is definitely a palace-level work that is out of the circle, which makes the phrase "P5 the first in the world" a famous stalk in the game circle, so that the Internet has since added a bunch of derivative emojis of "so-and-so is the first in the world", so that the four words "the first in the world" have replaced the title of God, and have become the number one synonym for players who are willing to laugh at themselves for their beloved works.
And this kind of masterpiece obviously can't become Atlas's New Year's goods to meet players frequently, even if the gameplay of P5S and P5T and other derivative works is launched, it is just to quench the thirst of Wangmei, as an orthodox sequel, P6 is still far away, and it is difficult to find a spiritual meal replacement comparable to P5 during this period, so for the mobile game "Persona 5: Phantom of the Night" (P5X for short) launched by Perfect World, my expectations cannot be described in a few simple words. Of course, I know that in addition to the old players who follow from the P5 biography, there are also many players who have not played P5 but come here, is P5X suitable for new players to enter the pit?Can it become a meal replacement game for old players before the P6 is released? After a few days of trial play, I hope that through my summary and introduction, I can help you find the answer.
For new players: What is the charm of being the best in the world, experience the mystery from your fingertips
P5X is a spin-off of Persona 5's mobile game, which inherits the basic style of P5's biography and makes certain adjustments according to the operational needs of the mobile game. As a turn-based RPG game, P5X does not have the ravages of ordinary players, what it can give you is a traditional but innovative gameplay, a story with both romance and connotation, music that lingers for three days, and an elegant, cool and eclectic art design. You will play as a psychic thief who travels between reality and another world, and embark on a heart-wrenching adventure.
In terms of combat gameplay, the P5X inherits the traditional turn-based mode of the Persona series, which can be easily understood and picked up by anyone. However, the ONE MORE system adds more variables and fun to the original monotonous stake turn-output battle, and the so-called ONE MORE is a mechanism that pursues the right to continuous action with attribute restraint as the core. All attack skills in the game will have attributes, if the restraint attribute hits the enemy, or if you are lucky enough to hit a critical hit, not only will you deal more damage and the enemy will break the defense and fall to the ground, but the attacker will immediately get an extra chance to act.
For balance reasons, the same attacker cannot hit ONE MORE against the same enemy in a row, but it is possible to switch hands to have teammates relay other stat outputs after ONE MORE is successful. If you succeed in knocking all enemies to the ground, you will have the opportunity to launch a general attack that will deal massive damage to all enemies. It's important to note that most of the attack skills don't come from the character itself, but are activated through a personality mask. The Personality Mask can be understood as a stand-in messenger representing the character's own personality in the story, and you can think of it as a collectible pet similar to a Pokémon, with each personality mask having its own innate resistance and growth space. Players can obtain masks through battles or draw cards, and gradually develop their combat effectiveness by feeding resources.
Of course, if that's all there is, then P5X is just an ordinary RPG game, and the close connection between combat resources and daily cultivation is the biggest feature it inherits from the P5 biography. As the leader of the Monster Thieves Group, you are always an ordinary high school student who can't do without the rules and regulations of campus life in reality, even when you don't need to fight, you must arrange your daily actions reasonably, study can not be wasted, family life needs to be taken care of by yourself, you can participate in various activities to improve your personality charm index, you can also earn living expenses through part-time work, or experience some light-hearted games, or deal with NPCs from all walks of life to cultivate relationships, and even wander around the street to pick up garbage may also be surprised.
The significance of all this is that everything you do in your daily life may provide you with resources and assistance for your battles in another world, and improving the relationship with other characters is not just to open a harem for girls, but to make them a collaborator to conclude a fateful agreement with you, such as strengthening the relationship with the guide Merope, she will open up various upgrade functions related to the personality mask, or improve the relationship with the glasses girl Tomoko Nomo, she will introduce you to more part-time jobs and leisure places. In other words, relationships are a kind of tech tree in the game, giving you powerful accessibility features and maybe even a dramatic change in the story.
This intrinsic connection between combat and daily life is the biggest feature that P5X has inherited from this biography, and the nurturing characteristics of simultaneous evolution of emotions and technology allow you to actively find ways to level up in the ever-changing rhythm and never get tired of it. As long as you don't hate the slightly slow pace of turn-based play, as long as you don't dislike the story style that pays homage to youth, and as long as you crave to play an immersive RPG, then P5X is definitely worth trying. Why P5 can win the reputation of breaking the circle of the world, P5X, as a low-threshold free mobile game, is definitely the best way for players who are inconvenient to experience P5 for various reasons.
To veteran players: It's still familiar and original, but the details need to be re-adapted
Since the launch of P5X, I, like many veteran players, have been expecting it but cautiously waiting and seeing. I'm worried about whether this will be a skin-changing mobile game that sells dog meat on the head of a sheep, and whether it will ruin the folk reputation of the P5 brand because of its poor quality. But after a few days of trying it out, my worries were gone. While Perfect World was directly responsible for the development of the P5X, it was not only officially authorized by Sega, but Atlas was also fully supervised and deeply involved in it. The quality assurance of the cooperation of the three major manufacturers can be seen from the audiovisual level of the P5X.
P5The iconic red and black tones and exquisite UI design, as well as high-quality music tracks, are now all retained in P5X, and the design of the new characters is personally handled by veteran artist Seijima Viceshima, from the new protagonist WONDER to the new members of the strange thief group such as Tomoko Nomo, Arai Soyu, and Li Yaoling, and then to the scheduled new COOP collaborators such as Mihisa Katayama and Merope, from the vertical painting to the close-up of the appearance, the original character style of P5 has been maintained. On this basis, Perfect World also specially produced a new OP animation with a quality comparable to this biography, and at the same time hired the familiar LYN to sing a new theme song, and the screen resolution was also unexpectedly high. In the environment where there are few excellent works in IP adaptation of mobile games in recent years, the P5X production team can come up with production specifications close to the console level, which is not only full of sincerity, but also may also have an important positive effect on changing the original negative impression of the player group on the adaptation of mobile games.
Secondly, in terms of the combat system, P5X retains the core of the game's attribute restraint, and it is not difficult for old fans to get started, but there are a few changes that are worth noting.
First, P5X adds something similar to Octopath Traveler Some enemies must hit a certain number of times before they fall to the ground, which means that if there are no multiple masks of the corresponding attributes in the team, it may take a few rounds to break the defense;Second, although the hand-changing function of this pass has been retained, it has been changed to give priority to the automatic attack against enemies who have not fallen to the ground, and players who like to stack various buffs first and then concentrate on output in this pass are now unable to quickly organize such an offensive by changing hands in P5X.
Finally, more importantly, this work comprehensively deepens the width of character training, from characters to weapons to personality masks, from levels to values to exclusive characteristics, all need to invest special resources to classify and upgrade, and the effects of mask skills are also more diversified, no longer only the difference between attack power levels and attack times, but with complex values and additional effects, players must make more consideration in the selection and matching of skills.
Because the protagonist WONDER can only bring a maximum of 3 masks to the battlefield at present, unlike JOKER, who has 12 masks in hand in the later part of this biography, can fight the world alone, so these changes obviously increase the difficulty of the battle.
The statement of high emotional intelligence is that it puts forward higher requirements for the thickness of the lineup of the monster thief group, and masks with different uses and attributes need to be fully reserved, so as to make up a group of teams suitable for the needs of the battle situation at any time;
But even so, I think the current P5X gacha environment is still relatively friendly, the benefits of pre-registered players are already very rich, fifty consecutive draws can choose a five-star character, I personally recommend Molgana, in this biography is the main nurse of it, now in P5X can also greatly improve the safety factor of the team. Although the main story will set up a limit on the level of the protagonist, you can also get experience points very quickly by consuming more action power to receive multiple rewards in the dungeon, or just take this opportunity to complete side quests, and there is no feeling of forcing krypton gold to draw cards in order to advance the development of the story.
Of course, the gacha system also makes me depressed, that is, it will have a serious spoiler effect on its own, although the production team has been very kind to post hints that may affect the story experience, but watching future teammates appear in advance in the form of consciousness incarnation, it still makes me a little crying and laughing. For example, at the beginning of the story, the protagonist met his mother's best friend Yoshiyo Toyama, and I thought the screenwriter had a lot of ideas at the time, in order to make this ten jumps more exciting, he actually specially added a middle-aged wife who still has charm. As a result, I opened the card pool and found that Auntie, you are actually a member of the strange thief group, and you also have an exclusive young image, which made me lose a future surprise in advance.
In fact, compared with the combat system, the changes in P5X's daily development require more re-adaptation to old players. The traditional gameplay of the Persona series, which operates on a limited schedule, is now changed to a shift in the amount of energy you can do in P5X. The calendar no longer sets specific dates, as in this biography, but instead uses yesterday, today, and tomorrow. The main maze has no strategy deadline, and switching back and forth between reality and the other world does not require the consumption of action days. With items such as coffee, you can quickly replenish your mobility without waiting for a refresh. This new cultivation system is indeed closer to the common design of mobile games, and it lacks the strategic sense of P5 that pinched your fingers to calculate the days and calculate the benefits.
Of course, it is not difficult to understand the reason for this change, and the gameplay with a limited schedule is indeed not suitable for the operation needs of service-based mobile games. But from another point of view, I believe that when you played P5 for the first time, you must have had an awkward feeling, why I can't review my homework when I come back from watching a movie, why I can't date girls after eating a hamburger, why I haven't done anything but was forced to go to bed by my own cat, this is too unreal. Now that P5X has changed to a more free mode of action, coupled with more map facilities and dungeons than this one, we can try more things in our daily lives, so I don't think there is a need to rush to conclusions about the P5X development system, and I believe you will find a fun place.
To P5 loyal fans: under a different sky, the same youthful feelings
If you want to talk about the plot of P5X,I was really taken aback when I first tried it.,The opening animation is exactly the same as this biography.,JOKER escaped from the casino alone under the cover of his partners.,And experienced the same teaching battle.,But the new protagonist WONDER suddenly appeared and challenged JOKER.,After a fight, JOKER was injured and knelt on the ground.,WONDER actually took out a pistol at this time to learn a certain muffin gentleman to give JOKER a shot.,Just when I thought the screenwriter was going to eat the book, WONDER was woken up by the alarm clock.,It turns out that it's all just a dream of Nanke. 。
Scriptedly, P5X chose a route that was the same as P5. We all know that all the bosses in this biography represent the distorted desires of human beings, but the background of P5X's story is that everyone in society is gradually falling into a state of no desire, students don't want to consider their own aspirations for further education, and people are just indifferent onlookers when they jump off the building to commit suicide, but the protagonist WONDER is still because he still has the courage to roar when he sees injustice, so he was chosen to become a monster thief to save the world. Reminiscent of Japan, which is gradually entering a low-desire society, where young people are unwilling to work, get married, have children, and have a high suicide rate, I have to say that P5X's choice of story themes has been eye-catching, and I am very much looking forward to the next development
As the story progresses, we can see that there are many intriguing subtle settings in various aspects of the P5X. VISIT THE LOUBLAN CAFÉ, WHERE THERE IS NO ONE IN THE SHOP, BUT THE PROTAGONIST HAS AN OUT-OF-BODY RELATIONSHIP WITH JOKER, TAKEMI MIAO AND ISOHISA IWAI APPEAR IN THE OLD PLACE, BUT THEY NEVER SEEM TO HAVE WORKED WITH JOKER, AND THE CHAOTIC DUNGEON WHERE THEY TRAVEL TO THE MAZE OF THIS BILE TO MEET OTHER MEMBERS OF THE MONSTER THIEF GROUP, AND WHAT UNEXPECTED CHANGES WILL OCCUR TO THE FAMILIAR STORY IS ALSO A HIGHLIGHT OF THE SUBSEQUENT VERSION. Combined with the opening plot, I believe it is not difficult for you to guess the truth.,That's right,P5X and P5 are actually parallel world relationships.,In the world where WONDER is located, there has never been a JOKER monster thief group.,The mascot that accompanies the protagonist has also changed from a cat to an owl.,But there is a possibility of meeting each other across the world line.。
Hearing this, you may think that since P5X belongs to a parallel world line, no matter how exciting the plot is, it will only become a black history that cannot be incorporated into the main universe of the series in the future. However, if we think about it, it is not difficult to find another fact, from the network function that comes with this biography, the support in the name of "monster thieves from different worldlines", to the new characters of P5R and the interplay of P5S, it can be seen that P5 has been paving the way for a parallel world view from the beginning. Understand this, you will understand that the letter X in the title of this work has another meaning, it is not just a simple initial, but also symbolizes the intersection of different world lines.
So at the intersection of X, what interesting things will happen in the future? Will there be a wonderful cooperation between the two monster thieves through time and space? This suspense is not only worthy of P5 old fans to P5X to find out, but also reflects the most fundamental connotation of P5's world view—— No matter the second or third dimension, no matter which world line you are in, it is precisely because there are always people who are willing to stand up against injustice, so human beings will never lack heroes worthy of praise, we may not be able to meet under the same sky, but we all have the same pure heart, this willingness to be an unsung hero The spirit of the thief can belong to JOKER, it can belong to WONDER, and it can also belong to you and me in front of every mobile phone screen in the three-dimensional world.
Game name: Persona: Phantom of the Night
Overall rating: 8/10
Platforms: iOS, Android, PC
Recommended for: Fans of the Persona series and players who like JRPGs
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