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Persona 5 - PlayStation 3 Standard Edition
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- The 5th numbered game in the series, created by renowned developers! The core development team of the recent Persona titles unites again for this upcoming game.
- A deep and engaging storyline - The thrilling story of a team of defiant teenagers, growing through every trial they face, begins now. Each case will take you one step closer to the truth veiled in darkness...What awaits our heroes: glory or ruin?
- Unique and interesting dungeons with various tricks and traps await - Overcome various obstacles with graceful Phantom Thief action. The simple-to-learn, but hard-to-master controls will be enjoyed by newcomers and veteran Persona players alike.
- Language - A stable of talented voice actors have provided English voice-overs while ATLUS’ celebrated localization team offers an English script that provides a faithful and engaging play experience.
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Product information
ASIN | B01GKHJP4I |
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Release date | April 4, 2017 |
Customer Reviews |
4.7 out of 5 stars |
Best Sellers Rank | #44,779 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games) #685 in PlayStation 3 Games |
Product Dimensions | 0.6 x 5.4 x 6.7 inches; 2.88 ounces |
Type of item | Video Game |
Language | English |
Rated | Mature |
Item model number | PS-00154-5 |
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
Item Weight | 2.88 ounces |
Manufacturer | Atlus |
Date First Available | June 7, 2016 |
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Persona 5 marks the return of the award-winning franchise on home consoles since the PS2 generation, and is the first numbered Persona game in over eight years! With fast-paced Japanese role-playing game mechanics, exciting action sequences, vibrantly stylized characters, enemies, and environments, and elegant anime-style cut-scenes, Persona 5 is unlike any of its predecessors!
Persona 5 is a game about the internal and external conflicts of a group of troubled high school students – the protagonist and a collection of compatriots he meets in the game’s story – who live dual lives as Phantom Thieves. They have the typically ordinary day-to-day of a Tokyo high schooler – attending class, after school activities and part-time jobs. But they also undertake fantastical adventures by using otherworldly powers to enter the hearts of people. Their power comes from the Persona, the Jungian concept of the “self;” the game’s heroes realize that society forces people to wear masks to protect their inner vulnerabilities, and by literally ripping off their protective mask and confronting their inner selves do the heroes awaken their inner power, and use it to strive to help those in need. Ultimately, the group of Phantom Thieves seeks to change their day-to-day world to match their perception and see through the masks modern-day society wears.
Long-time Persona series director Katsura Hashino is overseeing the project, while legendary character designer Shigenori Soejima is working closely to create character designs that ooze rebellious style and attitude. The game will also be backed with a soundtrack featuring the fresh sounds of acid jazz composed by the gifted Shoji Meguro. This dream team will bring both depth and style into the mix.
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Customers like the character relationships in the game. They say the cast is compelling and memorable. They also appreciate the art style, saying it's freaking awesome. Customers also like the quality of the game, saying the animations are short and punchy. They like the storyline, saying its immersive and gripping. Customers are also satisfied with value, entertainment value, and performance. However, some customers have reported issues with the load time.
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Customers find the entertainment value of the video game software awesome, immensely fun, and intriguing. They say the game is fun to execute, with fun combat. They also say it's the best RPG in a long time, and the most immersive anime game they've ever played. Customers also mention that the palaces are really fun and the experience is beautiful.
"...Confidants in ways that feel slightly forced, but logical and great fun to discover..." Read more
"...But I think the Palaces are really fun. They've added cool puzzles and obstacles that you have to complete and they just seem really well-designed...." Read more
"...of sheer detail and thought that has gone into making this game so fun to play and just so amazingly complete, which is rare for video games these..." Read more
"...Seriously, like 99.99999% of reviews will tell you that the game is amazing...." Read more
Customers like the storyline of the video game. They say it's immersive, well written, and executed. They also say the main story starts strong, gets boring around the middle, and picks up. Customers also mention the game is very story rich, with interesting game mechanics and puzzles.
"...Sick! On top of that, there are now two more magical elements, and the elements Bless and Curse are no longer composed solely of low-accuracy one-hit..." Read more
"...But I think the Palaces are really fun. They've added cool puzzles and obstacles that you have to complete and they just seem really well-designed...." Read more
"...that has gone into making this game so fun to play and just so amazingly complete, which is rare for video games these days...." Read more
"...Not only the dungeons, but the fights have been given life as well!!..." Read more
Customers like the character relationships in the game. They mention that the cast is compelling and memorable, the dialogue between characters is localized, and the game is great for Persona fans. They also say the gameplay is an improvement over Persona 4, and there are lots of different personas to acquire and use.
"...Persona 3 and 4 were astonishingly good at characters, to the point where even if I disliked a character, it was just because they were the type of..." Read more
"...I love how stylish everything in this game is. The characters seem great too...." Read more
"...And it is, there characters are incredibly refreshing and I love the dynamic certain characters have with one another...." Read more
"...The characters are interesting and fun...." Read more
Customers find the art style awesome and fun to look at. They also say the game looks great, runs great, and the loading times are pretty fast. Customers also say that the animated segments look great and seem well-designed. They say the art and music are also amazing.
"...But, I haven't ran into any performance issues at all! The game looks great, runs great, and the loading times are pretty fast, too...." Read more
"...The art style is freaking awesome, really pops out and is fun to look at regardless if you're in battle or just hanging out with friends...." Read more
"...The animated segments look great. A bunch of callbacks and references to previous games.The bad: The story is weak...." Read more
"...It's the best version of the Persona series possible. Everything is stylish, slick, and fun...." Read more
Customers like the quality of the video game. They mention that the gameplay is great, the animations are short and punchy, and that it's the correct version of the game. Some say that the PS3 edition is perfect and a fine edition for the new and old.
"...The game doesn't like to waste your time in battles, making animations short and punchy. The characters are seriously the best in the series...." Read more
"...I'll say the gameplay is much better and more easily understood than Pokemon, but one's relationship with their personas is severely lacking...." Read more
"Persona 5 is a wonderful game. From it's animation & art, to it's gameplay, to it's story...." Read more
"Great animation, but the game is a bit slow going and not a lot of action yet. But I’ve just started playing...." Read more
Customers find the value of the video game software to be amazing and worth every dollar. They also say the price and quality balance the item overall.
"...This game is worth every penny I spent!!!Also warning, be prepared for funky tunes and music getting stuck in your head!!!" Read more
"...If you have a PS3 and PS4, I recommend the PS3 version because it's cheaper, and the PS4 version has restrictions built in preventing game capture,..." Read more
"...and this one doesn't comes with the booklet but the price and quality balances the item overall...." Read more
"...I’m in love with this game and have been playing nonstop and it’s worth getting. BUY IT" Read more
Customers are satisfied with the performance of the video game. They mention that it runs perfectly on the PS3 version, with the exception of framerate problems typical on the PlayStation 3.
"...The game looks great, runs great, and the loading times are pretty fast, too...." Read more
"...Works very well on PS3 apart from a bit of framerate problems typical on the PS3 and some screen tearing." Read more
"...I'm 20 hours in on the ps3 version and it runs perfectly. It's also a great game to boot!" Read more
"Works great and game is amazing." Read more
Customers find the load time of the video game software to be painfully slow, with somewhat lengthy loading times. They also say the story is weak and the pacing is horrible.
"...are the lack of 1080p output (Only 720p), and a few somewhat lengthy loading times. Aside from that, Persona 5 has stolen my heart." Read more
"...A lot of the game is good, but the weak story and horrible pacing left me bored once the initial part of the game was over...." Read more
"...The only downside is longer load times, which aren't bad anyway." Read more
"Great animation, but the game is a bit slow going and not a lot of action yet. But I’ve just started playing...." Read more
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As the set-up of this game was detailed before release by Katsura Hashino, the director/co-writer of Persona 3, 4, and 5, it sounded like Persona 5 was taking on a more caper-like tone, downplaying the heavy slice-of-life that Persona 3 and 4 are known for. This is accurate, as Persona 5 feels less like a bunch of teens attempting to lead a normal life in between fighting monsters, and more like a bunch of very determined young men and women dropping everything to fight for good with their new power. Make no mistake, Persona 5 is very much still a Persona game, and so it's still much, much more meandering and slower-paced than the average JRPG, but the strokes are less broad than those of its predecessors, and I welcome the slight change of pace. The most exciting part of Persona 5's release is seeing how many new fans are being introduced to the series, and the tighter focus on being a vigilante superhero is surely part of the reason this is the most accessible Persona game yet. Seeing all of the new young folks falling in love with this game because it's so radically different and more mature compared to the multitude of generic otaku fantasies out there is proof to me that Persona is still the best, even if the previous two games are closer to my heart.
One example of this tighter focus I'm talking about is the Social Links, which have been renamed "Confidants" in this game. In Persona 3 and 4, Social Links were often as simple as hanging out with a friend and occasionally having "deep talk", but while Social Links did have game-play benefits, Confidants are even more complex and rewarding. Entire game-play (combat and time-management) mechanics are locked behind Confidants in ways that feel slightly forced, but logical and great fun to discover (hanging out with a shogi player allows you to figure out how to switch party members mid-battle, for example). A part of me wants to say that making each Social Link beneficial in a unique way can undermine the idea that the player should follow Social Links solely based on how much they like the character behind it, but I'm probably just a curmudgeon. Get off my lawn.
One area which I can definitively say is better than it's ever been is combat. The combat UI is masterful in how expedient it is. No other turn-based RPG feels this slick. The brilliant "One More!" system is still here, and it's still electrifying in a way that no other JRPG is. I do miss the three types of physical attacks from 3, but while 4 had only one, this game has two - and the other is guns! Sick! On top of that, there are now two more magical elements, and the elements Bless and Curse are no longer composed solely of low-accuracy one-hit-kill skills (which never worked on bosses anyway). If your top priority in a Persona game is the combat, rest assured that Persona 5's combat is superlative among JRPGs. (However, the battles themselves don't feel as challenging as they did in 3 and 4... noobs are still getting their butts kicked, but for series veterans, the challenge is downplayed and that's disappointing.)
My top priority in a Persona game is the story, and while I never expected Persona 5 to touch me as deeply as 4 and *especially* 3 did, there are even still things that got in the way of my enjoyment of the story. For the record, none of my problems are with the premise. From the very beginning and all the way to the end, Persona 5 is a story about not being afraid to stand up against a system that's fine-tuned to beat people into submission, and even if this can be described in other words as "rebellious teen-agers", which is nothing new, I had full confidence that Hashino and his team were capable of writing a story of this tone that was still nuanced and mature. And you know what? They did! Persona 5 is a game about a bunch of horny Japanese teens fighting yellow-eyed specters of the adults they hate with Pokemon borne from their emotions and rebelling against society with the literal power of friendship - and it has a talking cat in it - and it still manages to be more intelligent and mature than the vast majority of video games. Ever since it spun off from the Megami Tensei franchise in 1996, Persona (if you can't tell by the title) has been influenced by Jungian psychology, which portrays people as being basically formed from archetypes, and being interconnected through the "collective unconscious" - which is literally name-dropped in the game - so maybe this psychological angle is something that Persona 5 borrowed rather than earned, but it's still great at portraying a society controlled by corruption at every level, even the personal. If you want a really cool take on the "rebellious teen-agers" story, look at this game.
Like I said though, I had problems with the execution of the story. The game begins with a cold open, which sets up a whodunit that you'll have your eyes and ears peeled for through the story, but the pay-off is not much compared to the time you spent looking out for it in the many, many hours up to this point. In a way, it sorta has the opposite problem of Persona 4. Persona 4 was also built on a whodunit, which I felt was handled very poorly, but when the culprit is revealed to be the villain they are, they become very compelling. Persona 5's whodunit is barely even a "mystery" in how simple it is, and when the lid is blown, for a minute the game actually seems to be making fun of poorly-executed mysteries, which is funny in a twisted way, but it doesn't change the fact that the game pretends it's a real mystery for a very long time. Then, when the culprit is figured out, they kinda drop the ball. Actually, they're more interesting after this point, but they were mind-numbingly dull before, and their character as a villain is pretty half-baked. I would've preferred for it to not be the open secret that it ends up being.
Speaking of characters, for the first time in a Persona game, I actually disliked some of the main characters in this game. Persona 3 and 4 were astonishingly good at characters, to the point where even if I disliked a character, it was just because they were the type of person I don't get along with in real life. The main casts of both games felt like real kids, kids that I might have been friends with if I had spent more time in high school getting out instead of playing video games. In Persona 5, an alarming number of the Phantom Thieves felt utterly dispensable to me, which is a crying shame. This is perhaps the biggest blight on this game's complexion to me.
One last issue I had, sadly, is the localization. I want to make it perfectly clear that I have nothing but respect for everyone at Atlus USA for taking on such massive projects as they do, and delaying the North American version of this game fully aware of the Internet backlash they'd incur. I'm certain they care about delivering a quality product and take pride in what they do, which makes me all the more uneasy to say that I didn't like this game's translation. I don't speak Japanese, but I do speak English, and people in this game kinda don't talk like people do. It's like everybody in this game has one inflexible way of saying something, which definitely feels like a translation from Japanese that wanted to be "accurate" without taking the liberties that a good translation actually MUST take in order to translate the spirit - not just the words - of the original. Persona 3 and 4 have great localizations, and while those were done many years ago, it's still sad that I look at a couple of PS2 games and then look at Persona 5 and see it as a step backwards. I think Atlus USA were scared of taking liberties because anime fans seem to actually prefer these kinds of stilted, so-called "accurate" translations. For my money, it makes people sound like robots. Persona 3, in contrast, made the actual robot character sound too human!
I've spent a long time talking about problems I had with Persona 5, but it's because I care. I'm long-winded when it comes to things I love, and I love Persona. Like I said much earlier, new fans of the series are being made with this game, and I think that's wonderful. Persona 3 and 4 are not perfect either (... okay, Persona 3 is), but they are extremely tough acts to follow, and Persona 5 is a worthy successor for a new generation. I recommend it to anyone looking for an RPG of truly epic length and ambition.
At first, I was afraid of getting this game for PS3 because I haven't played a PS3 game in years. But, I haven't ran into any performance issues at all! The game looks great, runs great, and the loading times are pretty fast, too.
The dungeons -- or "Palaces" as they're called here -- are really fun. Honestly, I thought clearing the dungeons in Persona 4 were a pain sometimes because you basically just grinded on every floor until you reach the boss. But I think the Palaces are really fun. They've added cool puzzles and obstacles that you have to complete and they just seem really well-designed. Well, I've only completed the first Palace so far, but I assume the other Palaces are just as good.
The art style and music are also amazing. I love how stylish everything in this game is. The characters seem great too.
I recommend this game to anyone (especially JRPG fans), even if you've never played a Persona game before. This game is amazing.
Honestly, if you like video games, try this one out. Even if you're a call of duty, realistic graphics only player, or even if you're a casual mobile video game player - give it a chance. We haven't had anything like this in a long time and it's worth giving a gander even if you don't normally go for turned based rpgs. It's a real experience, one that doesn't come along in gaming very often.
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The PS3 version of the game seems well optimized, though it's locked at 30 FPS so take that for what it is ATLUS being ATLUS. I have heard that the PS4 version is in 1080p instead of 720p but from around 10 feet from a 43" 1080p LG smart TV it looks fantastic.
From the moment I heard the opening theme "Wake Up Get Up" I had a smile on my face for the entire time that I played it.
The name change of the Social Link system to the Confidant system seemed unnecessary when I first heard about it but after playing it for a short time I think that Confidant fits the theme and setting of the game and it's protagonist.