Who doesn’t love an Atlus announcement during an Xbox Showcase? Persona 5 Tactica was, unsurprisingly, revealed during Microsoft’s briefing earlier today – but as we observed earlier in the day, it looks like PlayStation confirmation is embargoed for the time being. We’ve contacted the company and will update when we get word back, but we’re not holding our breath for the next 24 hours.
Nevertheless, the game’s due out on 17th November, 2023. “Ignite a fire in your heart in Persona 5 Tactica, an all-new strategy RPG adventure with the Phantom Thieves of Hearts,” the official blurb reads. This one has adopted a chibi look and appears to be partially inspired by popular strategy RPGs, like Disgaea and Fire Emblem. It could be a winner, but even our resident Push Square Persona nut Robert Ramsey mentioned he’s a bit tired of all the Persona 5 titles now.
How do you feel about this latest spin-off?
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Well it showed gameplay so it couldn't possibly be an Xbox exclusive
Not bad by any means but not great either. Also feel like Atlus needs to stop milking Persona 5 at this point (They should have stopped after Royal tbh)
They wouldn't release such a niche title only on the lowest selling console in Japan, this will also definitely be coming to the switch and will sell best on that.
I'm not the biggest Persona fan, but I kinda do like strategy RPGs quite a lot. That said, I don't think I'd bother with this one.
I'd honestly like to give Disgaea a proper try one day, though!
Not sure how I feel about this. Not a big fan of strategy games (outside of Disgaea and SD Gundam Generation games) and I am getting burnt out by P5 contents.
My gripes aside, this will get a PS5/Switch release no doubt. Not throwing any shades on Xbox but for a niche game like this, Sega would be crazy to only sell this game on that platform considering how it's doing in Japan.
Looks horrible, I love it.
Excited for this one, super gald to see it at the showcase!
The marketing by MS and Atlus is working though, people already believe these games are exclusive to Xbox, as can be seen on social media.
There is not way in hell this game is not releasing at least on Switch. It's a Chibi tactical RPG, they'll sell 3 copies on Xbox.
Wow. What baller move for Xbox to pretend to own Persona so their fans can pretend to care about it.
I will stick with persona 5 royal.come on atlus persona 6.word up son
I’m a big enough Persona fan to play it regardless, but ehhh…
If they were going to do this art style + magical setting, I wish they’d just made a Persona Q successor with characters from the 3 games. Strikers actually moved the characters forward a bit, but I don’t see that happening here. And why are they still treating Royal as non-canon?
Neat-o but I'll likely wait on this
@Sil_Am but when they see that they are also on PS, are they really going to go out and buy a Xbox still? Especially if the already own PS or Switch
@AndyKazama don't think they will.
Though, I just saw that the Refantasy anouncement already has 13K likes on Twitter.
I don't think many will stick around for 72 hour to find if it's coming to PlayStation.
@turntSNACO
Likely because it was a relatively small subset of the playerbase that got to experience that story. Even if you bought the version, chances are that you would not see the final semester content unless you played following a guide. If they are going to make sequels and spinoffs, its safer to assume the players picking it up experienced, at best, the base "good" ending.
Personally, I'm not only playing this game, I'm buying it, even if its on Game Pass.
Now if they only released Persona Q and Persona Q 2 for PS4/5, Switch and XBox.
@turntSNACO From Persona Central “For those who have enjoyed the main game, an additional downloadable content episode will be released! This DLC introduces a highly anticipated character available exclusively in the DLC. Not only will players experience a new story, but they can also enjoy thrilling battles with new rules!”
I’m guessing their highly anticipated character is someone from a Persona game, probably from the P5 universe. I would hope it would be Kasumi. But who knows? If they are going to keep building on P5 it gets increasingly weird to ignore her storyline.
Love SRPGs and Love persona. All in all one of my most anticipated games of the year.
But probably will buy for Switch.
@koffing Good catch (watch it be Akechi though, lol)
@Tharsman Yeah, that could be their thinking. Still, Sumi’s on the cover of the game and everyone who played Royal knows she’s a persona-user at least. Obviously her [spoiler] being different might be a surprise, but I don’t think that’s a big enough deal to not include her. They could allude to Joker helping her out without laying out the full story of the final semester.
@turntSNACO shhh! Don’t jinx it! (Totally going to be Akechi or a tie-in to a different Atlus property)
I wasn't expecting a tactics/strategy style spinoff, huh. Maybe I'll give this a whirl after I beat Persona 5 Royal and Strikers?
@get2sammyb Same here regarding Disgaea, I enjoyed the anime alot! So maybe I could make an exception for the games.
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